Sentences with phrase «by pioneering researchers»

Particle physics and cosmology make up the big topics of interest for many young scientists at the 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, with lectures by the pioneering researchers who won Nobel Prizes for their work in the cosmic microwave background radiation, neutrino mass, and the accelerating expansion of the universe.
Given the limitations of nutrition research, and the absence of it in pregnant populations, some of the most useful dietary information was amassed and analyzed by a pioneering researcher / clinician named Weston A. Price.

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Using techniques pioneered by savanna elephant researchers, the couple learned to recognize individuals by characteristics such as tusk shape, gait and ear markings.
In keeping with his pioneering spirit, Harvard University researchers have re-created the images by storing data in living bacteria.
But meanwhile, new findings by a handful of pioneering researchers indicate that the fate of an embryo may be determined by biological events that affect the development of an egg months before fertilization.
Drilling into the crater left by the dino - devastating Chicxulub impact in Mexico, researchers uncovered the fossilized remains of pioneering microbes.
While building a shape - shifting liquid metal T - 1000 Terminator may still be far on the horizon, the pioneering work by researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, is setting the foundation for moving beyond solid state electronics towards flexible and dynamically reconfigurable soft circuit systems.
Researchers with the group pioneered methods of breeding peregrines in captivity and releasing them into the wild; such techniques have since been adopted widely by biologists trying to bring other wildlife species back from the brink of extinction.
This year, however, a report from researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute revealed that Hwang was indeed a pioneer — albeit by unwittingly exploiting an altogether different approach to creating embryonic stem cells.
This week in Science, researchers led by genome sequencing pioneer Craig Venter report engineering a bacterium to have the smallest genome — and the fewest genes — of any freely living organism, smaller than the flower's by a factor of 282,000.
A group of pioneering researchers is breaking all the rules by using natural selection to breed a robot
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 team of Korean researchers, affiliated with Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has recently pioneered in developing a new simple nanowire manufacturing technique that uses self - catalytic growth process assisted by thermal decomposition of natural gas.
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.
A team of Korean researchers, affiliated with UNIST has recently pioneered in developing a new simple nanowire manufacturing technique that uses self - catalytic growth process assisted by thermal decomposition of natural gas.
This name is endorsed by the discoverers of the virus and other researchers that pioneered MERS - CoV studies, by the World Health Organization and by the Saudi Ministry of Health.
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.
Jim Ottaviani, a nuclear physicist by training, tries to settle both scores in Dignifying Science, a volume of illustrated essays depicting key events in the lives of six pioneering female researchers.
In a separate study, published October 25 in Science, other researchers led by CRISPR pioneer...
In a separate study, published October 25 in Science, other researchers led by CRISPR pioneer Feng Zhang re-engineered a gene editor called CRISPR / Cas13 to correct the same typos in RNA instead of DNA.
In clinical trials, the pioneering diagnostic — developed by researchers at University College London (UCL) and the Western Eye Hospital — allowed doctors to see individual nerve cell death in the back of the eye.
The pioneering study, conducted by researchers from the world - leading Sheffield Institute of Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), found that the C9orf72 protein, which is encoded by the C9ORF72 gene, functions in the autophagy pathway — something which is defective in patients with the most common inherited form of ALS and FTD.
Boston Globe reporter Felicia Gans writes that a number of MIT researchers have been honored «by the Breakthrough Prize organization, which honors scientists worldwide for their pioneering research.»
The procedure was pioneered by Shoukhrat Mitalipov, a researcher at Oregon Health and Science University who focuses on early embryo development and stem cell biology.
Novel technology pioneered by Stanford researchers ties brain circuits to alertness (Stanford news release)
To see how the waves propagate along the metasurface, the researchers used a state - of the - art infrared nanoimaging technique that was pioneered by the nanoptics group at nanoGUNE.
Serendipitously, I was recruited by Simon John, a pioneering glaucoma researcher at the Jackson Laboratory.
Pioneering Gene Therapy by UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland Researchers Demonstrates Gene Therapy Can Eliminate Life - Long Need for Transfusions in Patients with Incurable Blood Disorder
Linking the differentiation process with organ - on - a-chip technology pioneered by his team, the researchers went on to engineer the first in vitro model of the human glomerulus, demonstrating effective and selective filtration of blood proteins and podocyte toxicity induced by a chemotherapy drug in vitro.
February 3, 2017 Outstanding Investigator Award honors UChicago cancer researcher University of Chicago cancer specialist Thomas Gajewski, MD, PhD, a pioneer in the field of cancer immunotherapy, has been awarded an Outstanding Investigator Award by the National Cancer Institute, a branch of the National Institutes of Health.
A fascinating and informative interview with William J. Rea, M.D., a pioneer and the leading researcher and clinician in the field of environmental medicine and chemical sensitivity, which is the treatment of illness caused by food and environmental factors as wide - ranging as such as pesticides, air and water pollution, solvents and formaldehyde, gas stoves, fragrances, and electromagnetic fields.
Established in 1973 by Dr. Jonathan V. Wright, well - known pioneer in natural medicine, researcher, author and speaker, Tahoma Clinic has provided evidence - based natural treatments to thousands of patients in the Puget Sound area and across the nation.
Developed by pioneering nutritional researcher Peter Gillham, Natural Calm is the best - selling magnesium supplement on the market according to health food supermarket scanner reports (SPINs data, 2006).
Environmental Illness A fascinating and informative interview from the John R. Lee, M.D. Medical Letter with William J. Rea, M.D., a pioneer and the leading researcher and clinician in the field of environmental medicine and chemical sensitivity, which is the treatment of illness caused by food and environmental factors as wide - ranging as such as pesticides, air and water pollution, solvents and formaldehyde, gas stoves, fragrances, and electromagnetic fields.
That was followed by 2004's «Kinsey,» with Liam Neeson as the pioneering sex researcher Alfred Kinsey.
The program is called the Talent Development Institute (T.D.I.) and involves about 240 students participating in 10 enrichment groups - or clusters, a term coined by gifted education researcher, Joseph Renzulli, who pioneered the enrichment cluster model.
Under the reforms, communities gain unprecedented power over local schools» curricula, significant portions of the school day go to arts instruction and community service, and teachers are required to incorporate hands - on, exploratory teaching techniques pioneered by researchers such as HGSE professors Eleanor Duckworth and Howard Gardner.
DentaShield ® was developed at the Indiana University School of Dentistry by a team of researchers led by Dr. George Stookey, a pioneer in fluoride research and preventative dentistry for both animals and humans.
Displaying these forward - thinking pioneers is certainly an important step, but by opening up the resources to future researchers, Hammer Museum goes beyond this to offer a vital longer - term corrective to previous art historical neglect of this fascinating body of expression.
Roger Revelle, one of the pioneering researchers in the study of the human influence on the atmosphere, carbon cycle and climate, gave a prescient lecture on carbon dioxide, climate and the oceans in 1980 that was recorded by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and now surfaces via the Web site Climate Science TV.
A pioneering mission to measure the Earth's forests from space, conceived by an international team of researchers led by the University of Sheffield, has moved a step closer to launch following the signing of a contract to...
The idea to approximate past carbon dioxide levels using boron, an element released by erupting volcanoes and used in household soap, was pioneered over the last decade by the paper's coauthor Gary Hemming, a researcher at Lamont - Doherty and Queens College.
A team of researchers led by Northwestern Engineering professor and fuel cell pioneer Sossina Haile has created a new protonic ceramic fuel cell (PCFC) offering both exceptional power densities and long - term stability at optimal temperatures, a discovery that heightens the viability of incorporating fuel cells into a sustainable energy future....
This type of work was pioneered in 1998 by Michael Mann, a climate researcher then at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and his co-authors4.
Written by cofounder of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) Kirk Strosahl and pioneering behavioral health researcher Patricia Robinson, the mindfulness exercises in this book will help you strengthen the parts of your brain that support vitality and a sense of being fully present in the here and now.
Written by one of the pioneering researchers into the effectiveness of ACT for the treatment of depression, this book is a much - needed professional resource for the tens of thousand of therapists who are becoming ever more interested in ACT.
In a study co-authored by pioneering attachment researchers Mario Mikulincer and Phil Shaver, they found that in small - group settings (e.g., the workplace environment), avoidant attachment was associated with a «self - reliant» leadership style (a reluctance to rely on others for help / support and desire for less collaborative, more independent work).
It was developed by Christopher Germer, PhD, a leader in the integration of mindfulness and psychotherapy and Kristin Neff, PhD, a pioneering researcher in the field of self - compassion.
Part 2 of a workshop by pioneering self - compassion researcher Kristin Neff, given July 2, 2013, at the first annual Greater Good Science...
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