Sentences with phrase «past lab studies»

Past lab studies have shown the compounds to be active against oxidation, inflammation, and cancer.

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Jens Ludwig, an economist at the University of Chicago who oversees a research group there called the Crime Lab, has for the past few years been studying, along with some colleagues, a counseling program called Becoming A Man, or BAM, which operates inside 49 Chicago schools, mostly high schools in low - income neighborhoods.

Together with her team of postdoctoral and PhD students Helen has been conducting studies of parent - infant sleep in the lab, the community and in local hospitals for the past 20 years.

The way electric eels have been described by biologists in the past has been fairly primitive, says Jason Gallant, a biologist who heads the Michigan State University Electric Fish Lab in East Lansing who was not involved in the study.

«We used the fossil record to show, in a concrete, convincing way, that what is happening in the modern oceans is really different from what has happened in the past,» said study co-author Noel Heim, a postdoctoral researcher in Payne's lab.

A PETA study conducted earlier this year found that there has been a 73 % rise in the use of these animals in U.S. labs over the past 15 years, obviating the need for other types of animals.»

For the past 20 years, Zlotnick's lab has conducted research to stop viral infections by studying the physics of viruses, focusing on how capsids are formed.

The researchers gathered speed and size data from past lab and field studies.

«Past studies have suggested that foreign degree holders get many advantages — higher salaries, easier access to promotions, bigger lab space — compared to their domestic counterparts,» said Han.

Other authors on the PNAS «atlas» study include past or present members of the Ansari lab, members of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and researchers at the Morgridge Institute for Research.

Eight past studies looked at whether the sweetener causes cancer in lab animals, says veterinary pathologist James Swenberg of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

«We can make these features in a computer, but we couldn't make them happen in a lab,» said Aurnou, a UCLA professor of earth, planetary and space sciences, who has spent the past decade studying computer models of swirling winds.

Scientists often study working memory in the lab by training subjects to make a response based on information from a few seconds in the past.

«Past studies have shown that having low antioxidant levels and increased reactive oxygen species — chemical products that bind to body cells and cause damage — is related to more severe PAD,» said Matthew Muller, postdoctoral fellow in Larry Sinoway's lab at Penn State College of Medicine, and lead author of the study.

Teachers and school leaders could facilitate this opportunity by: a) setting aside specific time for students to engage in this form of design - based education, for instance, by establishing design and innovation labs; b) infusing in the curriculum opportunities for students to establish links to this activity; c) structuring opportunities to inspire students to study and solve a problem, for instance showcasing current and past students» exemplary projects; d) providing opportunities for students to present their projects to an authentic audience of peers and members of the community; and e) not telling students what projects to work on by staying hands - off.

Over the past year alone, he initiated collaborations with art institutions such as The Lab, the site of this spring's conversation series Experience It, and established curricular connections between the curating program and CCA's graduate programs in design and visual and critical studies.

In a new study, a team led by researchers from the tree - ring lab at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory has found that white spruce trees on the edge of the tundra in Alaska's far north have thrived in the past 100 years, and especially the last 50, in the face of sharp Arctic warming.

In the study, Brian Wansink, the director of the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University, and his brother Craig Wansink, a professor of religious studies at Virginia Wesleyan College, charted the growth in portion size in depictions of the Last Supper over the past millennium.