Sentences with phrase «already scientists at»

Already scientists at Human Genome Sciences in Rockville, Maryland — a biotech company affiliated with Venter's research institute — have begun working on a more effective vaccine against Haemophilus.

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Jason Crusan, director of advanced exploration systems at NASA, says the space agency already uses virtual reality technology in astronaut training and spacecraft simulations, so it was logical to extend that successful model to inspire and educate the next generation of space explorers and scientists.

The Global Opportunity Network contributed with its presence at the ECCA 2015 conference to assure scientists, civil society and business participants that many opportunities and solutions are already there, waiting to be explored, measured, implemented and scaled up.

Already at that time, the firm had invested in Synthego, a genetic engineering startup that provides scientists with genetic material used in their CRISPR research, and Color Genomics, a company whose genetics services help its customers understand their risk for the most common hereditary cancers.

(Though Gingerich doesn't mention it, the general censure of books defending heliocentrism had been lifted already in 1758, at the urging, it seems, of the Jesuit scientist Rudjer Boskovic.)

It is physical scientists looking at what economic growth has already done to the planet who raise this question.

«When kids are born, they're already little scientists exploring the world,» said the filmmaker Estela Renner via a video conference from Brazil before a recent screening of her new documentary The Beginning of Life (streaming on Netflix) at the World Bank in Washington, D.C.

He was enthusiastic about connecting scientists - in - training with the cancer community; in fact, he was already discussing this idea with another group at our university.

He argues the prize punishes collaboration by rewarding at most three scientists for each discovery and concentrates already limited scientific funding into fields favored by laureates.

The huntingtin gene is essential for embryonic development, and scientists have already shown that if mouse embryos don't have it at conception, they die in utero.

Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, has already bought seats on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo for two of its scientists at $ 200,000 a pop, allowing them to carry out trial experiments in microgravity.

Led by scientists from ZSL (Zoological Society of London) and published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, the study highlights how African wild dogs — already classified as Endangered by the IUCN Red List — raise fewer pups at high temperatures.

The latest results come at a time when scientists are already reconsidering what was happening to ocean oxygen levels during this crucial period.

At the time, scientists already had developed remotely operated vehicles that could roam the seafloor, and placed instruments on the ocean's bottom that could record uninterrupted measurements for years.

Rather than design them from scratch, some scientists have been experimenting with the idea of enlisting an army of sophisticated nanobots already at our disposal: the thousands of species of bacteria swarming inside our bodies right now.

By contrast, the use of genome editing is soaring — and its most famous tool, CRISPR — Cas9, has already gained traction in industry, agriculture and medicine, notes George Church, a genome scientist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, who works with CRISPR.

«They're either the high achievers who don't need much help, or students who are already failing out of their classes,» says Allison Calhoun - Brown, a political scientist who oversees advising at Georgia State University (GSU) in Atlanta.

Group leaders, mid-career scientists arriving at Janelia Farm already equipped with impressive records of accomplishment, will supervise as up to six additional people — postdocs, grad students, and permanent scientific staff members — and hold initial appointments that will be reviewed and can be renewed after 6 years and then at 5 - year intervals.

In an age already rife with misinformation and scientific illiteracy, that difference should be acknowledged by scientists and journalists alike and at every opportunity.

Estimates show that by 2050 the world population will be more than 9 billion and this growth will occur primarily in areas of the world already experiencing food scarcity and water availability issues, as Steven Leath, plant scientist and president of Iowa State University, noted in a lecture last year at AAAS.

Scientists already knew that Jupiter sported an aurora in its northern hemisphere — one that is permanent, large enough to swallow Earth, and hundreds of times brighter than the ephemeral glows our planet hosts at each pole.

Several programs have been initiated to help promote young investigators, such as the Avenir program at INSERM, which provides young scientists who already have a permanent position with fully equipped space within their host department and funding toward research expenses and salaries for nonpermanent staff for up to 5 years.

Qingdong Zheng, a materials scientist at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, suggests that such biolasers could find uses in new types of sensors or in light - based therapeutics, in which light is used, for example, to kill cancer cells by triggering drugs into action that have already been administered.

Steinman and his team's approach is «novel for a couple of reasons,» says Ben Booth, a climate scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter, U.K.. Although it's already widely accepted in the community that the Pacific Ocean plays a large role, this paper gives a much longer time context, he says, highlighting the role of both oceans over many decades.

Part of the difference is that at the time of Apollo, scientists did not appreciate how much alien matter was already underfoot.

But Raoni Rajão, a social scientist at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, says that much of the work called for by the bid request is already being done by INPE, so hiring a contractor to replicate it is «basically a waste of money.»

Since climate change is already leading to higher average temperatures overall, the finding that extremes are also more likely was not surprising, said Sophie Lewis, a climate scientist at the University of Melbourne and the climate system science center and the lead author on the paper.

UF / IFAS scientists at the Vero Beach lab are already busy with an extensive research program on the mosquito species that transmit Zika, Rey said.

Walter Schaffer, a training research official at NIH, says his office is aware of the physician - scientist shortfall and that NIH has already expanded support for physicians doing basic research.

«It is often easier to find a French postdoc, or foreign students [who] have already been in France for several years,» says Pierre Chauvin, a scientist with an INSERM position who has used his Avenir award to launch a team looking at the social factors that affect health and people's use of medical care.

We already knew that greyhounds, Rottweilers and Irish wolfhounds are at increased risk of developing bone cancer and our results explain much of the increased risk,» said Emma Ivansson, scientist at SciLifeLab and Uppsala University.

Demographics indicate that the «baby boomers» of the 1940s, who are now in their 60s and hold many of the highest posts at departments and institutes, will soon retire, leaving lots of openings for young scientists who might by then have already been forced to leave the field.

This sentence jumped out at me: «By that time an American scientist had already succeeded in growing a piece of fish fillet in a lab.»

While the government should seriously question its policy on training even more scientists for an already tight job market, a push is needed — at the grass roots level — to highlight today's career opportunities and exchange good practice.

«In the Southwest, water availability for irrigation is already a concern,» says first author Elodie Blanc, a research scientist at MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.

Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said that the study provides further evidence for what many climate scientists already suspected.

«It's really frustrating to talk about $ 1 - billion concepts» as if researchers hadn't already considered that, says Britney Schmidt, a planetary scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta who worked on the Clipper idea.

He has some reason to be optimistic, as the new definition has already been adopted by Planet Science Research Discoveries, an educational website founded by scientists at the University of Hawaii.

The finding tapped into a mystery that has long captivated scientists and the public alike — «why some people can live to 120 with no disease, and others are already in bad shape at age 70,» says molecular

According to the folks at the council, applications, both from young scientists and from companies, have already started piling in, even though they have yet to advertise or even put out a formal press release.

One Dartmouth scientist, epidemiologist Margaret Karagas, had already found that babies whose mothers relied on water from wells drilled in New Hampshire's arsenic - rich bedrock — with contamination measured at levels as high as 1 ppm (1,000 ppb)-- were disproportionately likely to have low birth weight and might also be more vulnerable to childhood infections.

But the researchers already have ideas for making the algorithm much simpler and faster, said the other half of the team, Haris Aziz, a 35 - year - old computer scientist at the University of New South Wales and Data61, a data research group in Australia.

Francesco Foroni, research scientist at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste, already demonstrated this phenomenon a few years ago in a study published in Psychological Science (2009).

And now we're beginning to work with senior scientists who are already communicating with the public, and who can take part in master classes so that we can get even better at communicating.

«Scientists were not interested in figuring out what kind of device had detonated, because they already knew that,» says analytical chemist Michael Kristo, a nuclear forensics expert at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

Tomatoes are already an ideal model species for plant research, but scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) just made them even more useful by cutting the time required to modify their genes by six weeks.

For now, that rate lies frustratingly right between the two clashing measurements scientists already had, at 70 km / s per megaparsec.

The US already has 500 visting scientists at CERN and if even more arrive, an American drawl will begin to dominate conversations in every corridor, and every Nobel acceptance speech.

Nof, a cave diver himself, was already working at Florida State at the time of the 1991 accident and was fascinated by the mystery, both as a diver and a scientist.

Vaccine research will also benefit immediately from the discovery, since scientists can already now test the effectiveness of different vaccine candidates at preventing PfEMP1 from binding ECPR.