Sentences with phrase «life laboratory at»

Dr. Tove Fall, lead study researcher at the Department of Medical Sciences and the Science for Life Laboratory at Uppsala University commented, «We knew already that obesity and cardiovascular disease often occur together... in this study we found that individuals with gene variants that lead to increased body - mass index also had an increased risk of heart failure and diabetes.»

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In 1991, the first websites in North America went online at the school's National Accelerator Laboratory, paving the way for the Internet Age we live in today.

The Myo armband is changing an amputee's life by giving him control over a prosthetic hand with researchers at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

Psychologically it may be an enormous relief to him to enter a world of warmth and fantasy after the cold, disciplined life of the laboratory where feelings count not at all.

In the first months of life, «an infant's social, emotional and intellectual skills are slowly maturing,» says James McKenna, PhD, a professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame and director of the Mother - Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory.

According to Professor James McKenna, director of the mother baby sleep laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, «co-sleeping is a safe and even potentially life saving option, as long as parents provide a safe sleeping environment (see box).»

Just take a look at this mug, right out of the laboratory: It has the caffeine molecule printed on its side and is the perfect gift for the chemist or coffee lover in your life.

Summer employment at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts, gives students the opportunity to complement their studies with hands - on experience in a real - life research environment.

Experts say the experiment, described here this week at the biennial meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, is also one of the first laboratory demonstrations that newly evolved life quickly invades distinct habitats.

In addition, neither condition emerges in the first years of life, but rather both appear years or even decades later, says senior author Dr. Arturas Petronis, head of the Krembil Family Epigenetics Laboratory in the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).

«While our study found that some stress - related effects on circadian rhythms are short - lived, others are long - lasting,» said William Carlezon, PhD, chief of the Division of Basic Neuroscience and director of the Behavioral Genetics Laboratory at McLean Hospital and senior author of the study.

Rapamycin, an antibiotic and immunosuppressant approved for use about 15 years ago, has drawn extensive interest for its apparent ability — at least in laboratory animal tests — to emulate the ability of dietary restriction in helping animals to live both longer and healthier.

Donald Yeomans, who calculates the orbits for near - Earth objects at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, says that comets flung out from that belt pummeled our planet shortly after its formation and could have left behind water, possibly creating the conditions that allowed Earth to become a cradle for life.

But even today, scientists «are fired after 5 years at the CNRS» — the French national research agency — «so the research organizations or universities won't be obliged to give them an open - ended contract, which very much complicates their lives and the lives of the laboratories,» says Guillaume Bossis, a CNRS biologist at the Institute of Molecular Genetics of Montpellier.

Second Life: Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory restarted the probe's thrusters in November 2007, sending it on a new mission to survey comet Hartley 2.

His Russian dolls live in a laboratory at the university, where they stand in as a miniaturized version of the Earth.

«Ribbed mussels live in estuarine habitats and can filter bacteria, microalgae, nutrients and contaminants from the water,» said Julie Rose, a research ecologist at the Milford Laboratory, part of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center, and co-author of the study.

«Previous studies of the impacts of drought on flowers and bees have looked at individual species, often in the laboratory, but we used an experiment with rain shelters to examine the effects on real communities of plant species living in chalk grassland,» said Dr Ellen Fry from the University of Manchester, who set up the experiment.

His laboratories at the Institute for Biochemistry II (IBC II) and at the Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS) recently participated in another groundbreaking study of a neurodegenerative disease, ALS.

Curiosity's onboard laboratory, the Sample Analysis at Mars, heated up several samples of Martian soil and found nitric oxide, suggesting that ancient Mars had the basic ingredients to support life.

The first looked at the 20 - year life of a big psychology laboratory at Northeastern University.

Scientists who start their corporate lives in the research laboratory don't have to spend their entire careers at the bench

Bruce Tabashnik and Yves Carrière in the department of entomology at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences together with visiting scholar Thierry Brévault from the Center for Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD) in France scrutinized the available field and laboratory data to test predictions about resistance.

Her laboratory is located at the Science for Life Laboratory in laboratory is located at the Science for Life Laboratory in Laboratory in Stockholm.

«Recent reports of lapses in biosafety practices involving Federal laboratories» — the mistaken shipment of live anthrax samples by a lab at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta; the accidental contamination of benign poultry flu samples with the deadly H5N1 bird flu at the CDC; and the discovery of old vials of smallpox on the NIH campus in Maryland — «have served to remind us of the importance of constant vigilance over our implementation of biosafety standards,» the notice states.

Inside a dim laboratory at Oregon State University, a glass tank full of living corals glows like a slice of sky during the grand finale of a fireworks display.

Judy King, director of human resources at the International Life Sciences Institute, says she needs «people - people» — a trait often lacking in scientists who prefer working in a laboratory.

Working in Morrison's Neurotrauma and Repair Laboratory at Columbia Engineering, the team developed a blast injury model using a shock tube and custom - designed sample receiver to simulate a primary blast event and applied it to an isolated, living model of the BBB that consisted of brain endothelial cells.

Physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago, Illinois, announced this week that the Holometer, a device designed to test whether we live in a giant hologram, has started taking data.

At the US government's Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, researchers are generating neutrons with a particle accelerator and using them to transmute long - lived radioactive elements.

Health: Combined Optical and Magnetic Resonance Microscope - «Studying cells in real time» Dr. Robert Wind, Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA helped develop a combined microscope that can study live cells at the same time with two completely different microscopic techniques.

This is probably because they live in a dirtier environment to us, says Peer Bork, whose team unravelled the detox genes at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg.

Paul Schaffer, associate laboratory director of the life sciences division of Canada's particle physics laboratory TRIUMF (TRI-University Meson Facility), which uses particle accelerators to create radioactive materials for medicine, explains in a public lecture that will be broadcast live here on this webpage Wednesday, December 2 at 7 P.M. Eastern time.

If they don't find work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, they can make a good living in private industry.»

«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 published our findings in a report called «Establishing Adequate Living Conditions for Research Associates at Brookhaven National Laboratory.»

These technologies offer a powerful set of tools for biological analysis at the molecular and single - cell level in the life sciences, pharmaceutical, and clinical laboratory industries.

Indeed, a paper by co-author John Sutherland — a chemist at the Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Cambridge, U.K. — suggests that all the basic chemicals for life can be cooked up in a water - filled impact crater.

«I live all those issues every day,» says Martha Elena Ibarra, a molecular biology Ph.D. student at the Cinvestav laboratory in Irapuato, Mexico.

After a research postdoc at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, Kortyna realized that he wanted «more balance in his life.»

Physicist Katherine Freese of the University of Michigan will present a public lecture tonight at 7 P.M. Eastern time that will be broadcast live on this Web page, which will follow the hunt for these unseen entities via experiments in laboratories, satellites and colliders around the world.

At the end of the spectrum, technology stands to engineering in the same relationship as engineering stands to science: it lives in the pool created by the efforts of academic research engineering departments and the research laboratories of government and industry.

The new work, by James Mitchell at the Harvard School of Public Health and colleagues, suggests that holding back calories causes cells to produce hydrogen sulfide, which somehow makes tissues more resilient and prolongs the life of laboratory organisms.

«The primary purpose of [Bioteach] is to simply provide a focal point of freely accessible reference and educational resources that have a life science angle,» says Dr. Dave Ng (pictured at left), founder of the site and leader of the Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory (AMBL) at UBC.

Paul led a normal life as an experimental physicist at a national laboratory until, in semi-retirement, he had an opportunity to embark on an entrepreneurial adventure.

Hamilton, a doctoral student in the Mood and Cognition Laboratory of Lauren Alloy at Temple University, hypothesized that life stressors, especially those related to adolescents» interpersonal relationships and that adolescents themselves contribute to (such as a fight with a family member or friend), would facilitate these vulnerabilities and, ultimately, increase teens» risk of depression.

«The extreme optimism of some advocates of LIFE is unsupportable,» says Robert McCrory, director of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester in New York state, who is not a member of the NRC committee.

In July, nearly two dozen government laboratories were locked down after more than 80 employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta were potentially exposed to live anthrax bacteria.

Because high stress levels can cut into life - span and reproduction, at least in laboratory animals, Wasser says the results — which he emphasizes are preliminary — raise some questions about the efficacy of federal regulations designed to protect the owl.

Dr. Wedell is a member of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet and the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, and has been a driving force behind the establishment of a clinical genomics platform at the Science for Life Laboratory in Stockholm.