Sentences with phrase «laboratory studies how»

To test the homing beacon — or «Alphamer» — against live strep bacteria, Mullis enlisted the help of Victor Nizet, MD, professor of pediatrics and pharmacy at UC San Diego, whose laboratory studies how pathogens interact with the human immune system.

Professor James J. McKenna's Mother - Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory studies how sleeping environments reflect and respond to family needs — in particular how they affect mothers, breastfeeding, and infants» physiological and psychological well - being and development.

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I study dental laboratory technitian (I think this is how you say it in english) and also love to cook, so definitly I will do this great cupcakes.

Rick became a Master Composter of Tompkins County, NY in 2008 and spent a year after his graduate studies working and studying on a large certified organic farm in Argentina where he developed a new perspective on how laboratory studies translate to on - farm research and application.

«For around 30 years, researchers have studied how having children affects a marriage, and the results are conclusive: the relationship between spouses suffers once kids come along,» writes psychology professor Matthew D. Johnson, director of the Marriage and Family Studies Laboratory at Binghamton University in New York.

Some football helmet manufacturers suggest that players who wear their helmets - especially new models - may be at lower risk of concussion than those who wear competitors» models or older helmets, basing their claims on how well the new or newer helmets absorb and lessen some of the impact forces that cause concussion in biomechanical studies performed in the controlled environment of the laboratory.

«We were looking at two questions: how could we identify the oil on shore, now four years after the spill, and how the oil from the spill was weathering over time,» explained Christoph Aeppli, Senior Research Scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine, and lead author of the study reported in Environmental Science & Technology.

In a breakthrough study that could improve how people learn and retain information, the researchers significantly boosted the memory and mental performance of laboratory mice through electrical stimulation.

The ability to make and study cubic ice in the laboratory could improve computer models of how clouds interact with sunlight and the atmosphere — two keys to understanding climate change, said Barbara Wyslouzil, project leader and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at The Ohio State University.

Swansea University (Wales, UK) Laboratory for Animal Movement has been developing new technologies to study animal behaviours and use accelerometers to quantify how much an animal moves in the three dimensions.

«It is now time to evaluate how to make the most of satellite and in situ data to help us understand ocean acidification, and to establish where remotely sensed data can make the best contribution,» Peter Land, lead author of the new study and researcher at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, said in a press release accompanying the new study.

«We can't see individual continents or people in this portrait of Earth, but this pale blue dot is a succinct summary of who we were on July 19,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Cassini's picture reminds us how tiny our home planet is in the vastness of space, and also testifies to the ingenuity of the citizens of this tiny planet to send a robotic spacecraft so far away from home to study Saturn and take a look - back photo of Earth.»

The laboratory and animal study also shows how the agent, called SapC - DOPS, targets tumor cells and blood vessels.

«With a long, intricate dance around the Saturn system, Cassini aims to study the Saturn system from as many angles as possible,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Beyond showing us the beauty of the Ringed Planet, data like these also improve our understanding of the history of the faint rings around Saturn and the way disks around planets form — clues to how our own solar system formed around the sun.»

The team also compared the animals» responses to the therapy's effects in laboratory cell samples and found that in vitro studies did not predict how well the viral therapy and immune response would fight tumor cells in vivo.

They offer a unique natural laboratory for studying how coral reefs respond to frequent ocean heat waves.

Ornithologist Eduardo Inigo - Elias, senior research associate with the conservation science program at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, talks about the challenges of studying migratory birds and how improved relations between the U.S. and Cuba will help his field

The study, published in the scientific journal Nature describes how the research team found and identified these antibodies in her blood and then duplicated them by cloning the antibodies in the laboratory.

Cassini has revealed massive churning storms that rage for decades, rings that may be the best laboratory for studying how planets form and details of some of Saturn's more than 60 moons.

«That is a real eye - opener from this study,» says Bill Chadwick, a volcanologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Newport, Ore. «What they found tells us a lot about how submarine eruptions behave differently than those on land.»

This makes it a perfect laboratory to study how many planets form in such a crowded environment, and whether they form mostly around more massive or less massive stars.»

Mary Carskadon, Ph.D., director of the Bradley Hospital Sleep Research Laboratory, commented on Orzech's study, «We have long been examining the sleep cycles of teenagers and how we might be able to help adolescents — especially high school students — be better rested and more functional in a period of their lives where sleep seems to be a luxury.»

This makes it a perfect laboratory to study how many planets form in such a crowded environment.

«We've come to recognize that Ceres has a lot of characteristics that are intriguing for those looking at how life starts,» says Andy Rivkin, a planetary astronomer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., who was not involved in the study.

«We are beginning to see that melanocytes integrate signals from several receptors to modulate pigment production, which will help us build a more complete model of how pigmentation is regulated,» said Christopher A. Natale, a graduate student in the Ridky Laboratory, and first author of the study.

«Studies are underway to reveal how seizures affect various types of memory and to explore the associated molecular signaling and morphological alterations,» says author Angela Carter, a predoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Anne Anderson at the Baylor College of Medicine.

Inspired by human forgetfulness — how our brains discard unnecessary data to make room for new information — scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, in collaboration with Brookhaven National Laboratory and three universities, conducted a recent study that combined supercomputer simulation and X-ray characterization of a material that gradually «forgets.»

Westerlund 1 is a unique natural laboratory for the study of extreme stellar physics, helping astronomers to find out how the most massive stars in the Milky Way live and die.

For the new study, presented last week at the Biology of Genomes meeting here, molecular biologist Marco Osterwalder of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, and colleagues harnessed a powerful new gene - editing technique called CRISPR to figure out exactly how some of these candidate enhancers work.

The report in PNAS said laboratory studies of how the virus evolves in response to exposure to neutralizing antibodies suggest that the MERS virus won't easily shape - shift to evade antibody treatments, as some viruses do.

Their approach is to combine the study of cells isolated from TB - infected patients with micro-engineering in 3D in the laboratory to investigate how TB damages the lungs.

The first study of the development of such «germ cells» from humans could help scientists to learn how to create them in the laboratory instead.

By examining how Earth cools itself back down after a period of natural warming, a study by scientists at Duke University and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirms that global temperature does not rise or fall chaotically in the long run.

Now a new study by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that cool roofs can also save water by reducing how much is needed for urban irrigation.

Scientists at the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, are studying the genetics of these organisms to find out how regenerative mechanisms might be activated in humans.

Sandia leads a number of other hydrogen research efforts, including the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project co-led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a maritime fuel cell demonstration, a development project focused on hydrogen - powered forklifts and a recent study of how many California gas stations can safely store and dispense hydrogen.

Because the mouse is so well studied, its sequence will speed the understanding of how our own genes work, says mouse geneticist Barbara Knowles, director of research at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine.

The laboratory of Marcos Malumbres, who is head of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre's (CNIO) Cell Division & Cancer Group, working alongside Isabel Fariñas» team from the University of Valencia, shows, in a study published today in the journal Nature Communications, how in mice the elimination of the Cdh1 protein — a sub-unit of the APC / C complex, involved in the control of cell division — prevents cellular proliferation of rapidly dividing cells.

Hoping to gain insight into how to build such a device, she spent two years at the Laboratory of Physiological Acoustics in France, studying alongside René - Guy Busnel, an expert in bioacoustics, especially dolphin whistles and human whistle - based languages.

In a new type of collaborative study, scientists combined data from 16 separate NASA and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) spacecraft to understand how a particle phenomenon in the magnetic environment around Earth occurs.

«Knowing how these bacteria protect themselves, what the mechanisms of self - resistance of the bacteria are, is important because they could transfer that resistance to other bacteria,» said Tingting Huang, a research associate in the Shen laboratory who was first author of the study with Ryan M. Peterson of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

The study used a well - known line of pancreatic cancer cells (AsPC - 1) in the laboratory and assessed how well this grew when treated with either the chemotherapy drug gemcitabine or different levels of commercially available chokeberry extract alone, and when treated with a combination of gemcitabine and chokeberry extract.

HAARP, near Gakona, Alaska, comprises radio transmitters and antennas that are used to heat up the ionosphere — the uppermost region of the atmosphere — creating a laboratory in the sky for scientists.The facility has been used to produce an artificial aurora and to study how charged particles behave in the ionosphere, at a total cost of more than $ 250 million to build and operate.

In a laboratory study in Oxford, researchers have shown how it might be possible to reverse blindness using gene therapy to reprogram cells at the back of the eye to become light sensitive.

The scientists hope to gain more insight into this by exploring how past changes in seawater pH have impacted these organisms, but also through further field and laboratory studies testing the effect of ocean acidification on these calcifiers.

«One type was studies where you collect corals from a high - variability site and a low - variability site and see how they do under controlled laboratory conditions,» says Rivest.

«Just sequencing the gut flora gives you an inventory of the bacteria, but does not tell you how they are perceived by the host immune system,» said co-author Dr. Kenneth Simpson, professor of small animal medicine at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine whose laboratory characterized the E. coli identified in the study.

Laboratory studies of magnetic flux leakage turned out to be crucial for repairing broken gas pipelines (see «How to Fix Our Most Vexing Problems, From Mosquitoes to Potholes to Missing Corpses»).

The laboratory where this discovery was made is now planning to study mice presenting with defective MOCOS expression in order to analyze how the enzyme and its regulators influence the development of the nervous system.

The researchers used both laboratory and field studies to investigate how differing coral larval densities and habitat complexity influenced larval survival, settlement and post-settlement success.