Sentences with phrase «sampling system scientist»

Not exact matches

Scientists could seek to understand the subtle pressure of light that causes asteroids to change their spin, and could retrieve samples for dating and chemical analysis that would offer a clearer picture of Solar System material than do meteorites, which, although they are pieces of asteroids, are altered during their fall through Earth's atmosphere.

This sample of a primitive asteroid will help scientists understand the formation of our solar system more than 4.5 billion years ago.

In blood samples taken from subjects in Mexico and Brazil, the scientists found antibodies — proteins produced by the immune system — that block the virus from initiating an infection.

Instead of choosing between holistic analysis of bulk samples and reductionist glimpses of individual components, scientists will be able to combine both approaches to yield comprehensive maps of entire biological systems.

To identify the relevant mutations the scientists analyzed the blood samples of 1,858 men from three independent cohorts in Europe and North America: the Swiss arm of the European Randomized Study for Prostate Cancer Screening, the large American Screening trial, Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO), Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (University Health Network) and Mount Sinai Hospital (Sinai Health System) in Toronto.

Scientists from Los Alamos, Argonne National Laboratory and National Security Technologies LLC generated shock waves in cerium samples using the state - of - the - art IMPact system for ULtrafast Synchrotron Experiments (IMPULSE), which was developed specifically for use at the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Argonne.

To achieve the necessary high resolution, the scientists combined this device with a precise rotor system that could spin the sample over long periods of time.

The Caltech team says that its system could eventually allow scientists to analyze thousands of different proteins in a matter of milliseconds using much smaller samples than before.

If they can obtain the satellite, Polar Broadband Systems hopes to have it in place by the next Antarctic summer — in time for Russian scientists» return to Lake Vostok to collect the first sample of water from an Antarctic subglacial lake.

Air Force officers would work the bridge, while civilian scientists sampled the rings of Saturn as the ship made its grand tour of the solar system.

«We can think about follow - up missions across the outer solar system, Mars sample return, even missions to Venus or Mercury,» says planetary scientist Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, who was also an independent consultant for SpaceX between 2010 and 2012.

In the event that a user does not have their own samples for this training, they could use the system's database, which will include results left with open access by other scientists.

Scientists captured the tiny samples using «manta trawl,» a net system resembling a manta ray, which is towed behind the boat.

To better study circulating tumor cells, the researchers collaborated with physician - scientists and industry engineers to develop a microfluidics system that separates these large cells into a concentrated sample.

Brookhaven Lab scientists (from left) Ivan Bozovic, Xi He, Jie Wu, and Anthony Bollinger with the atomic layer - by - layer molecular beam epitaxy system used to synthesize the superconducting cuprate samples.

Using flourescence imaging, the scientists tested calcium response (an important nervous system ion implicated in the symptoms of bipolar disorder) in olfactory nerve cell samples from 17 bipolar patients (10 currently taking medication, 7 medication - free) with those of matched controls.

The samples will tell scientists more about how the solar system formed, how planets grew and evolved, and perhaps how life took hold on Earth.

Scientists with climate expertise have considered not just the narrow sampling of the scientific literature that Crichton cites but many hundreds of additional papers in order to understand the full complexity of the climate system.