Sentences with phrase «u.s. military research»

DARPA, the U.S. military research agency, liked the idea enough to give Doudna and Bondy - Denomy a grant to continue making Cas9 safer.

Not exact matches

The U.S., France and the U.K. launched military strikes Friday night on what the Pentagon said were three Syrian chlorine and sarin gas research facilities in response to a suspected chemical attack by Syrian leader Bashar al - Assad.

In his research, he learned about U.S. military software that measures sleep data to estimate fatigue and predict cognitive acuity.

Most of them are linked to something called Internet Research Agency, a clandestine organization that U.S. military intelligence now believes is «a state - funded organization that blogs and tweets on behalf of the Kremlin.»

«Monell (a research laboratory) tried to make a stink bomb for the U.S. military and they found it incredibly hard to come up with a cross-culturally repulsive smell,» Hayes says.

Conservative columnist Joey Pucciarelli discusses why the U.S. government must finish researching Trump's transgender military ban before senators try to block it.

► The secret to the success of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which «is supposed to make sure the U.S. military holds a technological edge over its enemies» and «has earned a reputation for using out - of - the - box thinking,» «is its cadre of program managers,» Mervis wrote in a feature in this week's issue of Science.

Goodman's papers have questioned the validity of the university committees that oversee animal research, encouraged U.S. allies to explore alternatives to animals in military medical training, and wounded the reputation of the world's largest accreditor of lab animal welfare.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

To that end, a company called AeroVironment, with funding from Darpa (the research wing of the U.S. military), unveiled its Nano Hummingbird in 2011.

Despite 50 years of research on high - power microwaves, the U.S. military has yet to produce a usable weapon

The study by members of UF's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences came after the U.S. Department of Defense asked for research to assess the future vulnerability of endangered and protected shorebirds on Panhandle military installations to rising sea levels and major storm surges.

In science news around the world, the European Commission proposes that the European Union consider funding military research, more investigations at Japanese universities cast doubts on claims for a leading hypertension drug, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials plan a culling of barred owls in the Pacific Northwest in hopes of saving the endangered northern spotted owl, and more.

The research team studied 171 million tweets from users associated with the U.S. military to determine if the opinions and emotions they express reflect visits to the doctor for influenza - like illnesses.

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) started investing in metamaterials way back in 2001, and while it doesn't like to reveal specific intentions, the agency would certainly be interested in cloaks that conceal soldiers and military equipment.

Materials provided by The U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP).

The move has outraged the broader community because the U.S. Military HIV Research Program plays a unique role in AIDS vaccine development.

MUSICA is part of a new program from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the branch of the U.S. military responsible for developing new technologies.

For ocean scientists who have worked with the U.S. military, today's news that Chinese forces seized an oceanographic glider launched by an unarmed U.S. Navy research ship working in the South China Sea has a familiar ring.

The research dates back to the spring of 2014, when WPI was named the lead institution on a $ 7.4 million, multi-university award from the U.S. Army that supported the development of new metallurgical methods and new lightweight alloys to help the military build more effective and durable vehicles and systems.

The U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP).

But U.S. officials have long held that the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea specifically allows military ships to conduct research cruises within a nation's EEZ (although civilian research cruises need to get permission from the host country).

► Today at ScienceInsider, Malakoff reported that budget legislation approved by the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday would cancel 7 % cuts to basic research conducted at universities for the U.S. military.

Between 2005 and 2010, military research spending in E.U. member states has dropped by 14 % to $ 9 billion annually — one - seventh of the U.S. defense R&D budget.

The National Science Foundation and the U.S. military are funding the research after recognizing that increased information flow — blogs, social networking sites, media - sharing technology — along with an accelerated proliferation of mobile technology is changing the way communication and possibly misinformation campaigns are conducted.

For soldiers and firefighters in buildings Funding for the project comes from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the military version of the MINT unit is more accurate.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, an arm of the U.S. Department of Defense, is exploring how to endow robots and other military equipment with the self - sufficiency to function independently amid the explosions and changing landscapes of a war zone.

Now a research team led by investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in collaboration with the U.S. Military HIV Research Program has demonstrated that the viral reservoir is established strikingly early after intrarectal simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection of rhesus monkeys and before detectable research team led by investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in collaboration with the U.S. Military HIV Research Program has demonstrated that the viral reservoir is established strikingly early after intrarectal simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection of rhesus monkeys and before detectable Research Program has demonstrated that the viral reservoir is established strikingly early after intrarectal simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection of rhesus monkeys and before detectable viremia.

Rotary - wing aircraft, such as Apache and Chinook helicopters, play vital combat and logistical roles across the U.S. military services, but new research in the Wildlife Society Bulletin reveals how vulnerable these aircraft are to wildlife strikes.

When President Barack Obama proposed a hefty 6.9 % cut to the U.S. military's basic research programs earlier this year, many academic science lobbyists winced.

There is broad agreement that first - rate scientists and engineers have helped make the U.S. military one of the most potent fighting forces in the world, notes the report from the U.S. National Academies» National Research Council and the National Academy of Engineering that was requested by the Department of Defense (DOD).

Proposed cuts to basic research conducted by universities for the U.S. military would be erased under budget legislation approved yesterday by the U.S. House of Representatives.

There is an organization called the Joint IED Defeat Organization in the Pentagon, in the U.S. Military, which oversees research into counter IED and in particular technology and technology - related research into counter IED and they are spending several billion dollars a year, at this point; and there is...

UNL engineers and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have designed a next - generation temperature sensor set to improve the measurement of oceanic dynamics that shape marine biology, climate patterns and military operations.

Physiological tremor can be a big problem in certain situations, such as combat, and Pathak's work (funded by the U.S. Army Research Laboratories) focused on developing actuators in military equipment and weapons to offset users» tremors.

The program, announced in December, offers supplemental funding for principal investigators (PIs) holding active research grants from the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) to support a U.S. military veteran Ph.D. student for up to 3 years.

However, U.S. sanctions against Russia, established in March 2014 after Russia's military intervention in Ukraine the previous month, have also impacted collaborative Arctic research efforts, albeit in relatively minor ways.

Nelson Michael of the U.S. Military HIV Research Program, which helped run the trial, is more optimistic: «We've shown that this 26 - year global effort has not been in vain.»

And the U.S. military's research arm announced it will fund efforts by several high - profile genetics labs to develop ways to reverse or limit the spread of an introduced gene if it should have unintended consequences on animals or an ecosystem.

Jim Thomas of the Ottawa - based ETC Group said the U.S. military's substantial funding of gene drive research «raises alarming question about this entire field,» and he called the technology «powerful and dangerous,» warning that it «could have disastrous impacts on peace, food security, and the environment.»

Researchers at the U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP) tested whether specific variants of immune response genes called HLA were associated with greater protection against the virus.

In the nation's 99th year of officially commemorating U.S. veterans, Southern Research employees pay tribute to the sacrifices made by brave military men and women to secure and preserve freedom.

This experimental vaccine regimen is based on the one tested in the U.S. Military HIV Research Program - led RV144 clinical trial in Thailand — the first study to demonstrate that a vaccine can protect people from HIV infection.

Researchers from the U.S. Military HIV Research Program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) have found that an experimental heroin vaccine induced antibodies that prevented the drug from crossing the blood - brain barrier in mice and rats.

In the RV144 vaccine trial, led by the U.S. Military HIV Research Program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, the efficacy at 3.5 - years was 31.2 %; however, a higher early effect (60 %) was seen at 12 months.

A recent study conducted by researchers from the U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP) and the Thai Red Cross has shown that the prevalence of transmitted drug resistance (TDR) has declined in... Read More

Zuscik, Mooney and Gill aim to collaborate with researchers in the Military and Veteran Microbiome: Consortium for Research and Educationat the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs to move this research intoResearch and Educationat the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs to move this research intoresearch into humans.

Shelly Krebs U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, USA

It was officiated by the Director of the U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP), COL Nelson Michael.

Since the late 1950s, when Southern Research began work on the High Temperature Materials Characterization Laboratory, it has assisted the U.S. Department of Defense in all branches of the military.