Sentences with phrase «university pioneering the techniques»

A recent study carried out by the researchers at Newcastle University pioneering the techniques estimated that 2473 women in the UK, and 12,423 women in the US, aged between 15 and 44 years, are at risk of passing on potentially lethal mitochondrial DNA to their children.

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Harald Haas, a professor of mobile communications at the University of Edinburgh, is pioneering the idea, which uses a time - worn technique to deliver internet access via LED light bulbs.

The approach was based on a technique pioneered at Cambridge University by data scientists who claimed it could reveal more about a person than even their parents or romantic partners knew.

Academics have also savoured the encounter, with Dr Alban Webb of the University of Sussex writing: «The refrain of «Did you threaten to overrule him» subsequently came to denote a high watermark in the style of persistent, robust, but cordial interviewing technique pioneered by Robin Day and others 40 year earlier.»

The research was carried out by a team at Newcastle University, UK, that has been pioneering one of the replacement techniques since 2000.

But imaging neuroscientist Karl Friston of University College London, who helped pioneer the VBM technique, says gray matter shrinkage is not necessarily a bad thing.

If you just bend it a bit, light spills out,» says David Payne of the University of Southampton, UK, who pioneered many of the fibre - optic techniques used today.

Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, art historians at the University of York have now brought St Stephen's Chapel and the Commons chamber back to life by pioneering a technique combining traditional archival research with digital reconstruction.

Jockers developed his techniques at Stanford University in California, where he worked with literature researcher Franco Moretti, who pioneered the use of automated large - scale analyses of digitised texts, a process he calls «distant reading».

ONE OF the biggest stumbling blocks to the efficient recycling of plastics could soon become a thing of the past thanks to a new fingerprinting technique being pioneered by researchers at the University of Southampton.

A novel technique to use the body's natural sodium (salt) content to provide a more detailed picture of tissue health and disease is to be pioneered by MRI experts at The University of Nottingham.

«It's a fascinating paper,» says Sandy Dasgupta, a chemist at the University of Texas, Arlington, who pioneered an environmentally friendly, ice - based version of a commonly used technique for separating the compounds in complex mixtures, called ice chromatography.

More specifically, tisagenlecleucel is a type of chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR - T) therapy, a technique pioneered by immunologist Carl June and colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania.

Karl Deisseroth, an optogenetics pioneer at Stanford University, has used the technique with animals to learn more about the nature of the disordered brain circuitry in Parkinson's.

The new technique, pioneered by Wilson and fellow researchers at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, saves time by using antibodies produced by so - called B cells (white blood cells that produce and then ferry them to infection sites to battle invading germs) in response to vaccines instead of to actual infections.

«This is a very important step toward determining what the heating mechanisms are,» says Eric Priest, an applied mathematician at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland and pioneer of the observing technique used in the new observation.

University of Illinois chemist Martin Burke, a pioneer of a technique that constructs complex molecules from simple chemical «building blocks,» led a group that found that thousands of compounds in a class of molecules called polyenes — many of which have great potential as drugs — can be built simply and economically from a scant one dozen different building blocks.

One popular device is a portable interactive teaching technique pioneered two decades ago by Harvard University physicist Eric Mazur.

Now, researchers from the University of Chicago have pioneered a new technique to simplify the study of protein networks and identify the importance of individual protein interactions.

Karl Deisseroth, a Stanford University professor who worked with Boyden to pioneer the technique, was also honored with one of the life sciences prizes.

And the University of Arizona, a pioneer in the field, received a $ 1 million gift to boost practitioner training in natural and spiritual healing techniques.

«ECPR is a form of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, a technique that we have used for decades at the University of Michigan and around the world,» says study co-lead Robert Bartlett, M.D., professor emeritus of surgery at Michigan Medicine and pioneer of this life - saving therapy.

Several recent studies have shown that cells can be returned to pluripotent state using «defined factors» (specific proteins that control which genes are active in a cell), a technique pioneered by Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, a professor at Kyoto University in Japan.

Experts from the University of Exeter have developed a pioneering new technique that uses nanoengineering......

In the new study, a team led by Harvard University's George Church — one of the pioneers of the CRISPR technique — used gene editing to remove all the copies of porcine endogenous retroviruses (or PERVs) from their pig cells» DNA.

It is encouraging to see pioneers like Dr. Jim Gordon, of the Center for Mind - Body Medicine and Georgetown University in Washington, DC, promote this transformation of health care, as we move away from a central focus on drugs and surgery at the core with self - care and CAM techniques at the periphery to a central focus on self - care, with prevention and wellness as a focus and thus less need for drugs and surgery.

As a highly respected senior Alexander Technique educator, Betsy Polatin pioneered a four - year Alexander curriculum for the acting conservatory program at Boston University's College of Fine Arts, where she is a Master Lecturer.

In the 1990s, William L. Sanders, a statistician at the University of Tennessee, pioneered the technique with student test scores — and managed to persuade the Hamilton County School Board to work with him in taking a closer look at the results.

In the 1990s, William L. Sanders, a statistician at the University of Tennessee, pioneered the technique with student test scores.

Purdue University and the University of Minnesota pioneered the laser lithotripsy technique in veterinary medicine and have been using it successfully for the past several years.

As a highly respected senior Alexander Technique educator, Betsy Polatin pioneered a four - year Alexander curriculum for the acting conservatory program at Boston University's College of Fine Arts, where she is a Master Lecturer.

A team of Renewable Energy experts from the University of Exeter has pioneered a new technique to produce hydrogen from sunlight to create a clean, cheap and widely - available fuel.

However welcome the recent announcement that a team of scientists based at Newcastle University, has grown a section of human liver using stem cells from umbilical cords, rather than from the more controversial source of embryonic stem cells, and whatever the eventual promise or potential of harvesting organs for transplantation from genetically modified pigs, the benefits of either of these two pioneering techniques to currently dying / suffering patients, remain both elusive and distant.

As a highly respected senior Alexander Technique educator, Betsy Polatin pioneered a four - year Alexander curriculum for the acting conservatory program at Boston University's College of Fine Arts, where she is a Master Lecturer.

As a highly respected senior Alexander Technique educator, Betsy Polatin pioneered a four - year Alexander curriculum for the acting conservatory program at Boston University's College of Fine Arts, where she is a Master Lecturer.