Sentences with phrase «body of leading scientists»

Procrastinating politicians are in danger of turning next month's climate change talks in Copenhagen into little more than a talking shop, a body of leading scientists and engineers has warned.

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The lead researcher on artificial womb technology insists that scientists will never push the limits of viability to the point where women's bodies are functionally replaced by technology, and human gestation becomes mechanized.

Over recent decades, scientists have discovered that even very low levels of lead in the body can cause problems, causing doctors and researchers to agree: no level of lead is safe.

A group of the nation's leading cancer research scientists and their Cuban counterparts are exploring how to advance cancer therapy, diagnosis, and prevention, including the use of immunotherapy to harness the body's immune systems to attack and eliminate cancer cells.

His body had reached a unique team led by Elayne Pope, a forensic scientist at the University of West Florida in Pensacola.

A group of US scientists led by Lauren Stanton of the University of Wyoming have now extended this body of work to study raccoon intelligence.

Some scientists speculate that the placement of an IUD stimulates an immune response in the cervix, giving the body an opportunity to fight an existing HPV infection that could one day lead to cervical cancer.

For decades, a respected but beleaguered group of scientists had gathered increasing evidence that one particular bacterial infection — strep — led to the body pumping out antibodies that attacked the brain, causing OCD and tics.

A group of scientists believe that a previously unexplained isotopic ratio from deep within Earth may be a signal from material from the time before Earth collided with another planet - sized body, leading to the creation of the Moon.

Until recently, that rule led scientists to think only in terms of places just like home: temperate, rocky planets with bodies of liquid water on their surfaces.

Swansea University scientist, Professor Luca Börger has therefore been working with partners in Switzerland, France and the USA on a study led by PhD student Tina Cornioley looking at the body mass of the wandering albatross.

An international team, led by scientists at Oxford University and the Royal Ontario Museum, estimated the body mass of 426 dinosaur species based on the thickness of their leg bones.

«Scientists sequence genome of worm that can regrow body parts, seeking stem cell insights: Worm's genome could lead to better understanding of its regenerative prowess, advance stem cell biology.»

A weight - loss drug dampened the response to food cues in regions of the brain associated with attention and emotion, leading to decreases in caloric intake, weight and body mass index (BMI), a team led by scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) reported.

Research led by scientists at the Gladstone Institutes has identified the precise chain of molecular events in the human body that drives the death of most of the immune system's CD4 T cells as an HIV infection leads to AIDS.

Although scientists have long considered the brain systems that govern these two types of deficits as separate, a growing body of evidence suggests that they are actually deeply intertwined, says Patricia Kuhl, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Washington, Seattle, and lead author of the new study.

Damian Bailey, a physiologist at the University of South Wales, Pontypridd, in the United Kingdom and the project's lead scientist, hopes the risky experiment will yield new information about how the human body responds to low - oxygen conditions, and how similar mechanisms might drive cognitive decline with aging.

This, says NIST materials scientist Carl Simon, has led to a large and rapidly expanding collection of possible 3D scaffolds, ranging from relatively simple gels made of collagen, the body's natural structural matrix, to structured or unstructured arrangements of polymer fibers, hydrogels and many more.

In breakthrough research led by neuroscientist Olaf Blanke and his team at EPFL, Switzerland, the scientists show that phantom body pain can be reduced in paraplegics by creating a bodily illusion with the help of virtual reality.

Scientists led by George Weinstock, PhD, at Washington University's Genome Institute, sequenced the DNA of the viruses recovered from the body, finding that each individual had a distinct viral fingerprint.

Usually, such an impact would cause intense shock waves to ripple through the planetary body, but Galileo couldn't find any evidence of this, leading scientists to theorize that a watery ocean could have softened the blow.

The scientists developed a system that facilitates the separation and isolation of the pseudopodium (PD, or leading part of the cell) and the cell body (CB) compartments of chemotaxing cells for proteomic analysis using microporous filters.

According to new research led by scientists at The Salk Institute, the vitamin plays a critical role in helping to guide the embryonic heart to its final destination in the left side of the body of all vertebrates, including humans.

Now a team of scientists, led by Mary Jo LaDu in the department of pathology at the University of Chicago Medical Center, has shown that the apoE - containing fat transporters found in brain cells are very different from the apoE particles found elsewhere in the body and contain most of their cholesterol in a different form.

By analyzing the DNA in more than 3,000 tumors, scientists led by Li Ding, PhD, at The Genome Institute have identified 127 repeatedly mutated genes that likely drive the growth of a range of cancers in the body.

A new genetic discovery could help scientists understand exactly how one X chromosome in each cell of a female's body gets «silenced» — and perhaps lead to better treatment for X-linked diseases.

«More research should be done, but there is a growing body of evidence which suggests that women previously diagnosed with breast cancer should speak with their doctor about possibly limiting their consumption of alcohol,» says the lead researcher on the study, Marilyn L. Kwan, PhD, a staff scientist at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland.

In 1960, a Belgian scientist discovered that, in cases of chronic lead poisoning, garlic was able to detoxify the body and bring it back to health.

According to the leading scientists who do this shit for a living claim «after the age of 21 your body metabolism can decrease up to 10 % every decade.»

After much observation and measuring the body composition of my patients, along with consultation with some of the world's leading physicians and scientists in the field of neuroscience, I believe I have learned the answer to one of the most vexing health questions of the twenty first century.

As described in «Out of Sync,» an article in the current issue of The Scientist, eating at the wrong time can throw off the body's metabolic cycles, leading to weight gain and other problems.

Scientists have known that excessive steady state endurance exercise (different for everyone, but sometimes defined as greater than 60 minutes per session most days of the week) increases free radical production in the body, can degenerate joints, reduces immune function, causes muscle wasting, and can cause a pro-inflammatory response in the body that can potentially lead to chronic diseases.

Highlights of recent Broad MSU exhibitions include: Trevor Paglen: The Genres; the final installment of the exhibition series The Genres: Portraiture, Still, Life, Landscape, featuring works by social scientist, researcher, and writer Trevor Paglen; Moving Time: Video Art at 50, 1965 - 2015, one of the final exhibitions conceived by Founding Director Michael Rush exploring the development of video art from its earliest presentation, currently on view at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Material Effects, which brought together six leading artists from West Africa and the diaspora whose work examines the circulation and currency of objects and materials; and The Artist as Activist: Tayeba Begum Lipi and Mahbubur Rahman, the first major museum exhibition to bring together a comprehensive body of work by two of Bangladeshi's foremost contemporary artists.

It's written by five leading climate scientists, all of whom have long been reliable guides to a complicated and consequential body of science — John M. Wallace at the University of Washington, Isaac M. Held at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, David W. J. Thompson at Colorado State University, Kevin E. Trenberth at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and John E. Walsh at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

The broadest study yet of toxic chemicals that Americans absorb in their bodies showed a continuing decline in the clearest threats, like lead, pesticides and tobacco residues, but turned up numerous other findings that federal scientists and other experts called troublesome yesterday.

This demand leads to a watering down of the science, as the scientists work, through bodies like IPCC, to deliver what is demanded.

The answer is the entire body of work of the IPCC, along with the statement of the National Academies of Sciences of the leading countries in the world, the American Geophysical Union, the Bali Declaration from more than 200 of the world's leading climate scientists, and on and on.

«Warmer temperatures may also lead to decreases in maximum body sizes of marine fishes,» write the authors of the study, a team of scientists from the University of British Columbia.

Summary: The authors examined the 1992 climate change projections from the UN's International Panel on Climate Change, the world's leading body of climate scientists.

Our nation's leading climate scientists have told us it's dangerous folly, and all the recent Nobel peace laureates have urged us to set a different kind of example for the world... but given the amount of money on the other side, we've had to spend our bodies — and we'll probably have to spend them again.»

Scientists tracking the wellbeing of reindeers in the Arctic have uncovered a concerning trend, with warming temperatures in the region literally freezing access to food and leading to a 12 percent decrease in average body weight over just 16 years.