Sentences with phrase «using life lab»

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He earned degrees in cell biology and tissue engineering and eventually got a job in a lab run by Vladimir Mironov, who was investigating the use of bioprinting — 3 - D printing using living cells — to generate replacement organs.

Edmonton - based Fluid Life started some 35 years ago as a modest lab that tested used oil to diagnose the health of large industrial equipment.

The timeline to commercial use can vary — this year's picks, for example, range from technologies that are currently on the market to ones that are still in the lab and just barely making headlines — but two things have to be certain: The technology must be «fundamentally new,» and it needs to make a huge difference in the way we live for years to come.

About ChipCare ChipCare is a Toronto - based company producing life - saving diagnostics for infectious and non-communicable diseases in remote health settings with a mobile, simple - to - use & lab quality blood - testing platform.

We put an offer down on a place which used to be an old meth lab that we have since transformed into a place of hospitality and co-liberation and the beautiful things that get released in people's lives.

Look, I know these were probably cooked up in a marketing lab by people who unironically use the words «synergy» and «brand awareness» in their day - to - day lives, but they feel so horrible and contrived.

Here users can instantly access our proprietary Bracket Simulator, create winning betting systems using a College Basketball edition of our Bet Labs software, track live odds and betting trends data and also peruse updated Futures from four offshore sportsbooks.

We can not use randomized controlled experiments with people but do so with animals, demonstrating, for example in Michael Meaney's lab, that affectionate touch in early life is critical for epigenetic controls of anxiety in mammals.

I am mesmerized by the art of it,» she reports in the unemotional, sparsely punctuated, and deceptively bland first person present tense that Wang uses throughout the book, as if the protagonist were recording her life as a series of observations in a lab notebook.

«People used to think that once your epigenetic code was laid down in early development, that was it for life,» says Moshe Szyf, a pharmacologist with a bustling lab at McGill University in Montreal.

Vaccines developed using proteins rather than live viruses can help protect animals and subsequently humans from insect - borne viruses, according to Alan Young, chief scientific officer for Medgene Labs, an animal health company that develops therapeutics and diagnostics, including vaccines.

Until recently, I didn't think anything I had learned in the lab could be used in the rest of my life.

«The strategy our lab is using to fight SMA is to «repress the repressor,»» said Chris Lorson, a researcher in the Bond Life Sciences Center and professor in the MU Department of Veterinary Pathobiology.

Then, Lorin Milescu's students used live - imaging techniques and software developed in their lab to demonstrate that the Gr28bD protein can, through temperature differences, modulate the brain activity of fruit flies.

In a new study, Murphy, a molecular biologist at Princeton University, showed that long - lived bodily, or somatic, cells in Caenorhabditis elegans, a one - millimeter nematode commonly used as a model for aging studies in labs, activate genetic pathways completely separate from those found in long - lived egg, or oocyte, cells.

The lawmakers» statements at the Berkeley hearing make clear that they could use a good deal more education about the realities of life in the nation's university labs.

«We hope that, using our method, chemists will not have to try out so much in the lab,» Segler adds, «and that as a result, and using fewer resources, they will be able to produce the compounds which make our high standard of living possible.»

And looking at systems like that, it's just inspiring to us and we say, well, life had a chance to work with certain materials — shells and bones and some magnetic materials — but really hasn't worked with a lot of materials that we would like to use ourselves that we consider more technologically important materials So, in my lab at M.I.T. we give organisms [the] opportunity to work with those materials and try to use them to build devices in a more environmentally friendly way.

Now researchers in California and Virginia have identified symbiotic bacteria living on amphibians» skins that protects them from the deadly fungal disease, and later this summer the scientists will collect some of the microbial samples, culture them in the lab, and use the product to inoculate some frogs in California's Sierra Nevada to see if the approach stops chytrid in the wild.

«The cornfield is not used often, and it is only for white - collar crimes,» explains Catherine Smith of Linden Lab, the San Francisco — based company that created and maintains the Second Life site.

To better determine the role of specific chemoattractants in type III hypersensitivity, lead author Yoshishige Miyabe, MD, PhD, a research fellow in Luster's lab, used multiphoton intravital microscopy — an imaging technology pioneered for studies of immune cell movements in living animals by CIID investigator and co-author Thorsten Mempel, MD, PhD — to follow in real time the development of IC - induced arthritis in a mouse model of rheumatoid arthritis.

Back in the old lab days I used e-mail mostly to sort out my social life, but now I am faced with an onslaught of demanding requests every day.

The Living Lab Bus joint project, coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and launched at the beginning of 2016, uses the Finnish electric buses acquired by Helsinki Region Transport as concrete development and testing platforms for businesses to validate their solutions in a real use environment.

The Well Living Lab occupies a scientific sweet spot — more controlled than the real offices used for field studies and more realistic than many laboratories.

In addition to the office space, the lab currently contains a single studio apartment, which the researchers will use to learn how to design living spaces that improve sleep quantity and quality in night - shift workers, and whether changes in these workers» circadian cycles influence their microbiota.

I think about that scene when I hear the way many of my environmentalist friends talk about genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, an ill - fitting term that has come to stand for plants, animals and other living things whose genes have been directly manipulated in the lab using the techniques of modern biotechnology.

Second Life, the creation of Linden Lab in San Francisco, provides its active - user base of one million with a real - time experience on their personal computer, in which they use digital characters called avatars to wander around castles, deserted islands and other fantastic 3 - D environments.

Using transgenic fruit flies, he and his colleagues in the Curtsinger lab demonstrated that the production of a protein called hsp70 in response to brief heat stress extends the insects» subsequent life span at normal temperatures (see «Survivor!»).

This is the first time these pathways have been studied in live mosquitoes with dengue virus, although similar studies have been conducted under controlled conditions using cells cultured in the lab.

The study, conducted at Yan's lab in the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, suggests that lake and highway authorities consider adjusting road salt use protocols to protect aquatic life such as the water flea, by taking the nutritional status of the lakes into account.

They tested these hypotheses using experiments on live clams in the lab.

Cells from her malignancy were cultured and used to start a cell line, called HeLa, which lives on to this day in research labs around the world.

The research team carried out a variety of tests, both in the field (where they failed to find evidence of carbon dioxide or methane — a gas used by all living things — in the soil) and then back in the lab at McGill in Montreal.

The UCE technique used in high - tech labs allowed scientists to move beyond years of speculation and place the Archelosauria group in its rightful place on the reptile tree of life.

The results suggest that standard compliance testing of ambient waters, stormwater, and agricultural runoff and sediments using lab - grown H. azteca populations may not accurately reflect the health of resident H. azteca and the environments in which they live.

I joined Dr. Kay Holekamp's lab, which focuses on the ontogenetic development, physiological substrates, and evolution of mammalian behavior, using the free - living spotted hyena as a model species.

Second, the lab is studying how early life stress impacts both the transcriptome in stress - related brain regions using deep - sequencing methods and the addictive potential of the prescription opioid oxycodone using the drug self - administration paradigm, in male and female rats.

These do - it - yourself explorers are taking experiments from the lab table to their living room tables using only rudimentary equipment and innate curiosity.

One of the open secrets of the life sciences used to be that 99 % of all bacterial species couldn't be cultured in the lab - but all of a sudden and with a comparatively simple technological advance, that has changed.

Now available in the Early Edition of PNAS: Tom Williams (University of Bristol, UK) in collaboration with, among others, the Ettema - lab reports on using integrative modeling of gene and genome evolution to root the archaeal tree of life and to resolve the metabolism of the earliest archaeal cells.

Wiley Spectra Lab is an expert spectral data system that uses empirical spectral data and advanced software to help chemists, toxicologists, and life scientists confidently identify chemical substances.

I looked each video (very well made) and also realize they use broader simpler but still concise enough terminology, that»S really great to increase reach and be more «approachable» because sometimes regular everyday people on the street don't know all or have heard the mumbo jumbo jargon in biogerontology (they will think you are a pompous alien nerd - stuck up who thinks he knows more because he was like a lab rat in his lab books studying aging; on top of that they will more Resentful towards you for Daring to Question their Life beliefs on Life and Death by your» 2 - cents worth knowledge (couldn't give a f...)»

Tom Williams (University of Bristol, UK) in collaboration with, among others, the Ettema - lab reports on using integrative modeling of gene and genome evolution to root the archaeal tree of life and to resolve the metabolism of the earliest archaeal cells.

In a Buck Institute study, Gordon Lithgow, Ph.D., found that Thioflavin T (aka ThT or Basic Yellow 1), a dye used in labs to detect damaged proteins in Alzheimer's, extended life span in healthy nematode worms by more than 50 percent and slowed Alzheimer's in worms bred to mimic aspects of the disease.

Now, using the Vinogradov lab's method, the team made the first direct measurement of fine oxygen concentration gradients in live bone marrow.

One focus in the lab is to use this platform to create living materials in situ within the gastrointestinal tract using genetically engineered non-pathogenic bacteria, and use the engineered material to mediate interactions with the host.

March 11, 2015 Ci3's Game Changer Chicago Design Lab awarded $ 1 Million MacArthur Foundation Grant The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is again lending its support to the innovative use of gameplay and design to engage youth in lessons of health and life.

The lab creates widely used software and databases, performs applied analyses of genome sequences, and partners with diverse research teams on projects at the intersection of the computational and life sciences.

You and your doctor can use the results from these tests along with the Cyrex Lab tests to develop a course of action to improve the underlying immune dysfunction and create a better quality of life.

Life Extension is an excellent resource so is Maxam Labs, who use fermentation to heal.