Sentences with phrase «additional discoveries of»

Not that a principled moral objection shouldn't be enough, but, for those sitting on the fence, the additional discoveries of alternative sources of embryonic - type stem cells should be decisive.
The additional discovery of Freon - 40 around Comet 67P / C - G strengthens the links between the pre-biological chemistry of distant protostars and our own Solar System.»
Although astronomers detected methane on Titan as early as 1944, it was only the additional discovery of nitrogen 36 years later that generated the immense interest in this cold and distant moon [see «Titan,» by Tobias Owen; Scientific American, February 1982].

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The recent discovery of additional missing fingerprints has not affected the total number of people affected by the breach.
The consensus in the scientific community was that the universe was always just sort of there until additional discoveries led to the Big Bang theory of creation which implicitly (if not explicitly) acknolwedges a beginning.
An additional 16,000 pages were made available since Jan. 27, with another 70,000 documents still being readied as part of the discovery process.
LIGO has since made two additional detections of gravitational waves and the discovery has led to the development and establishment of global collaborations on next generation underground, space - and land - based detectors across the globe.
These newest discoveries are so early that they won't enter the therapeutic arsenal without a wealth of additional research.
In addition to the discovery of Brookesia micra, now the tiniest chameleon ever discovered, the researchers also announced the discovery of three additional tiny chameleon species.
But years have passed since the discovery of the Denisovans, and the only tangible evidence of them is still that pinky nub and three additional molars from the same cave.
But the real dearth — the lack of clear pathways into careers that could enable today's generation of gifted young Americans to become the researchers who make tomorrow's great discoveries — is convincing more and more of the nation's best students not to seek careers in fields such as law, finance, medicine and other fields that offer much better short - and long - term career prospects instead of dedicating an average of seven years to PhD study plus an additional five years or more of postdoctoral training now considered necessary to compete for an academic career in many scientific fields.
Since the discovery, they and other astronomers have found 16 additional worlds in this part of the Solar System.
He followed up a few months later with additional prizes for Stephen Hawking and the teams of experimental physicists behind the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN.
He also helped identify several of the additional brown dwarf candidates while the first discovery was being confirmed.
«Our findings point to two potential impacts from additional research — analyzing the diversity and composition of the microbiome to predict response to immunotherapy and modulating the gut microbiome to enhance treatment,» said Wargo, senior researcher on the project and co-leader of the Melanoma Moon Shot ™, part of MD Anderson's Moon Shots Program ™ to reduce cancer deaths by accelerating development of therapies from scientific discoveries.
The discovery inspired Hill, an associate professor of anthropology at Iowa State University, to learn more about when the animal was in Iowa and search for additional specimens.
Pat Druckenmiller, curator of Earth sciences at the University of Alaska Museum of the North, is leading a collaborative project with Denali National Park over the next several years to explore additional areas and make new discoveries.
The NYGC and its founding member institutions are conducting additional studies involving Watson to help accelerate the discovery of potentially actionable sequence variants in various types of cancer, including an ongoing study that involves DNA and RNA from a larger cohort of glioblastoma patients, and a study of 200 patients with different types of cancer.
She identified that specific killing of myeloid cells represents an additional mechanism of suppression mediated by Tr1 cells, and she contributed to the definition of a new protocol for Tr1 cell induction using IL - 10 gene transfer and in the discovery of the biomarkers of Tr1 cells.
«The discovery of exomoons is very important since some of these moons could provide additional habitats (niches) for life.»
Selection of SNMMI Fellows will be based on documented excellence in volunteer service to the society and at least one of the additional three areas: excellence in scientific discovery and innovation; educational efforts in nuclear medicine and molecular imaging; or clinical practice of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging.
Its comprehensive strategy includes funding for an epidemiology study; a well - characterized cohort recruitment; pathogenesis discovery research; and a Mechanism of Illness grant program that will fund additional research.
Principal investigator, Dr. Scott Hyman, professor of physics at Sweet Briar College, said the discovery came after analyzing some additional observations from 2002 provided by researchers at Northwestern University.
While this debris likely represents a significant fraction of known plastic waste, the new discovery marks an additional source of plastic to deep - sea ecosystems.
Furthermore, we report the discovery of an additional non-transiting planet with a minimum mass of 19.96 +3.08 - 3.61 MEarth and an orbital period of ~ 34 days in the gap between Kepler - 20f (P ~ 11 days) and Kepler - 20d (P ~ 78 days).
Following the announcement of the discovery of Proxima b, the Red Dots campaign aims at detecting additional small planetary sized companions to Proxima Centauri.
Additional discoveries will no doubt accompany the development of these capabilities, which will in turn inspire new astronomers and astrophysicists.
The discovery eventually led to the uncovering by others of two additional signaling pathways in mammalian cells that, together with Ire1, help maintain equilibrium in the face of stress, averting a host of diseases.
The discovery of planets orbiting other star systems, including similar binary systems (Gamma Cephei), raises the possibility that additional planets may exist in the Alpha Centauri system.
Christophe Quéva, chief scientific officer, commented «The building of a custom designed R&D facility demonstrates our commitment to our cancer immunology research programs and will enable us to recruit additional qualified scientists needed in both our drug discovery and development.»
The discovery should speed the search for additional genes that increase susceptibility to autism and enhance understanding of this complex disorder.
An additional impetus has been the discovery since 1995 of hundreds of extrasolar planets around other normal stars.
«I feel most fortunate to have been a part of this journey, to be able to witness it, to be able to work in this field and to allow it to stimulate additional moments of discovery for me,» he said.
Identifying additional components of the alt - EJ pathway and understanding the crosstalk that exists between alt - EJ and other pathways could lead to the discovery of new potential synthetic lethal interactions and as such new potential drug target for cancer treatment (Figure 2B).
While accounting for only a small fraction of all prostate cancer cases, the discovery may provide important clues about how this common cancer develops and help to identify a subset of men who might benefit from additional or earlier screening.
Additional unprocessed images gathered during Cassini's plunge are available online, along with hundreds of thousands collected by the probe during the more than 13 years it has spend studying Saturn and its moons — observations which resulted in the publication of more than 3,000 studies and such discoveries as liquid methane seas at Titan and hydrothermal activity on Enceladus.
On January 26, 2012, scientists working on NASA's Kepler Mission team announced the discovery of 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets, as well as additional planetary candidates.
Our results also suggest that such a strategy is rich in the potential of identifying lineage specific reagents and provides additional evidence for the utility of stem cells in screening and discovery paradigms.
Importantly, this approach is adaptable for use in a Chemistry, Manufacture and Control drug screening protocol and may have applications in identifying lineage specific reagents, thus providing additional evidence for the utility of stem cells in screening and discovery paradigms.
«This landmark study is producing impressive insights into the biology of this type of cancer,» said NIH Director Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D. «It will significantly empower the cancer research community to make additional discoveries that will help us treat women with this deadly disease.
Following the gene discovery announced in September, deCODE scientists have discovered common versions of two additional genes that significantly predispose individuals to obesity.
They provide researchers with access to additional skills, medicinal chemistry, pharmacokinetics, and evaluations of drug - like properties, which helps them determine whether their discoveries could lead to viable drugs to treat diseases.
The discovery of EPAC as an additional intracellular cAMP receptor [29], the finding that cAMP - induced PKA (but not EPAC) signaling is coupled to the p38 MAPK pathway in some cell types [30], and the observation that SB202190 partially, but not completely, inhibited 8 - Br - cAMP - stimulated Oct4 activity (Figure 4D) led us to ask whether all of the 8 - Br - cAMP response was mediated through PKA / p38 MAPK.
In these analyses, we identify and subsequently analyze a set of 107 autosomal genes with a false discovery rate (FDR) of < 30 %; in total, this larger set of genes harbor de novo loss of function (LoF) mutations in 5 % of cases, and numerous de novo missense and inherited LoF mutations in additional cases.
Despite the fact that this rover and MER mission have produced success the likes of which has never before been seen in planetary exploration and that Opportunity is continuing to boldly go where no rover has gone before, still making discoveries and setting new records, the impact of the additional cuts likely will reduce MER's ops staff.
While two other teams of astronomers have confirmed the presence of so - called «dark flow» of galaxy clusters up to 200 million light years, the discovery team has been working with additional astronomers to verify that the flow continues through to the horizon of the visible universe (Amanda Gefter, New Scientist, January 22, 2009; Mersini - Houghton and Holman, 2008; and Kashlinsky et al, 2008a and 2008b).
(The New York Times) Rare Copy of Declaration of Independence Found in England (CBS This Morning) A Hidden Declaration (The Harvard Gazette) Coverage of Professor Danielle Allen's groundbreaking discovery of an additional, rare copy of the Declaration of Independence.
In the next few years millions of additional books will be published and submitted to Amazon, who despite themselves will make a ton of money, but at the further expense of book discovery and the quality of product.
Presumably the $ 10 additional fee is their service fee (ie, profit), but knowing what I know about the 50 - word «reviews» coming out of Kirkus Discoveries (that's $ 7 a word, in case you're calculating), I wonder if that publisher is coming to the same conclusion their authors are coming to — that paying $ 350 for a bad review kind of... sucks.
«We look forward to uncovering additional evidence in the discovery phase of this litigation,» said Berman in a press release about the motion today.
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