Sentences with phrase «called lead scientist»

In these lean, early days, Other Lab has only three full - time employees: Griffith, the mechanical engineer and so - called lead scientist; Jim McBride, a fellow MIT postdoc and the house physicist (who happens to be on vacation during my visit); and Jonathan (Jach) Bachrach, yet another MIT guy who is technically a software engineer but like the other two has a far broader purview.

With all due respect, someone who publicly calls a leading scientist «close minded» and «non-scientist», among numerous other outrageous and unsubstantiated accusations, has some nerve in describing Neven's very gentle, very respectful criticism «personalizing» the issue.

Not exact matches

«These findings provide the world with a wakeup call on forests,» Alessandro Baccini, WHRC scientist and lead author of the report, said in a statement.

GFI's innovation department has two primary areas of focus — firstly, encouraging scientists and entrepreneurs to join the plant - based and cultured meat industries, and secondly, supporting the ongoing success of existing companies in the industry.26 They have assembled a list of potential companies based on what they believe are promising ideas that have not been capitalized on, 27 and they have developed a list of more than 220 entrepreneurs and scientists, many of whom take part in monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFI.

«Our «GFIdeas» project brings together 205 potential entrepreneurs and scientists, 111 of whom collaborate regularly via a GFI - facilitated Slack team, and many of whom join monthly GFI - led video calls to meet, discuss, brainstorm, and share updates.»

The leading edge of astronomy and theoretical particle physics has called into question the fundamental scientific premise that Everything Can Be Explained, and more than a few scientists have murmured the word «God» out of the corners of their mouths.

«Our «GFIdeas» project brings together 205 potential entrepreneurs and scientists, 111 of whom collaborate regularly via a GFI - facilitated Slack team, and many of whom join monthly GFI - led video calls to meet, discuss, brainstorm, and share updates.»

Australia's leading agricultural scientists have called on the public and private sectors to establish a A$ 100m (US$ 76m) agriculture fund to future - proof Australian farmers against looming shocks like climate variability and disease outbreaks.

Thirty leading scientists and science educators including Sir David Attenborough, Professor Richard Dawkins and Professor Michael Reiss, and five national organisations have signed up to a new statement calling for the extension of teaching of evolution in school science and firmer statutory guidance against the promotion of creationism.

Political scientist Dr. Gerald Benjamin says there are some indications beyond the Mayer win that Republicans could be in trouble in November, pointing to a Long Island Assembly seat that flipped to a Democrat and two Assembly races in the Capital Region with Republican candidates leading, but too close to call.

In May 2003, the executive committee, led by Harold Varmus, Rick Klausner, and Elias Zerhouni, announced a call for ideas from scientists around the world.

AAAS leads intersociety letter expressing «grave concern» about congressional inquiry that unfoundedly called into question federal climate scientists» integrity [November 24, 2015]

Sergio Pastrana, executive director of the Cuban Academy of Sciences, called the symposium, plus a previous conference on neuroscience held in December 2015 and one on cancer immunotherapy in May 2016, opportunities for «scientists of both nations to get to know each other and create avenues that lead to more long - range exchanges.»

Scientists have discovered why a single mutated protein can lead to serious mental retardation in men with a common genetic disorder called fragile - X syndrome: The healthy protein is essential for establishing during childhood the adult pattern of connections between nerve cells in the brain.

A team of scientists, jointly led by Caltech postdoctoral scholar Vikram Ravi and Curtin University research fellow Ryan Shannon, has now observed the most luminous FRB to date, called FRB 150807.

Though this research focused on the form of the disease called Leber congenital amaurosis 2, or LCA2, the scientists and engineers involved in the study believe the technology holds promise for other forms of LCA as well as other inherited diseases that lead to severe vision loss or blindness.

A research team led by scientists from Brigham and Women's Hospital has developed a novel technology platform that enables the continuous and automated monitoring of so - called «organs - on - chips» — tiny devices that incorporate living cells to mimic the biology of bona fide human organs.

As controversy rages around the scientists who created mutant strains of the H5N1 avian influenza virus, leading flu researchers have called for a 60 - day voluntary pause on such work.

«Interestingly enough, the scientist who is lead primary investigator for the X-ray spectrometer for the space probe, they call it the PIXL, was his first graduate student from Macquarie University, before his KU times.

A team of scientists led by Dr. Martin Zeppenfeld from the Quantum Dynamics Division of Prof. Gerhard Rempe at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching has now made a virtue of necessity: the so - called optoelectrical Sisyphus technique, developed in the group, exploits the polarity of formaldehyde molecules, while reaching temperatures as low as 420 micro-Kelvin.

For example, calling those against vaccines «scientifically illiterate» — or, as CDC vaccine expert Stephen Cochi reportedly put it to one journalist, «junk scientists and charlatans» — may just lead to a further circling of the wagons.

«When Greg first spotted the worms gliding through a clam field in Monterey Bay, we jokingly called them purple socks,» said MBARI scientist Robert Vrijenhoek, a co-author of the study who led the deep - sea expeditions using remotely operated vehicles.

In their study, the scientists led by Prof. Markus Rüegg have investigated a specific type of muscular dystrophy, called congenital muscular dystrophy.

Scientists from leading universities, the National Academy of Sciences, and the White House are calling for faculty to move from traditional lecture - based teaching to active learning strategies.

A scientist at Health Canada has sued his boss, the Ottawa Citizen reports, claiming that his effort to modify the label of testosterone drugs led her to call him mentally unstable and give him poor performance reviews.

Scientists, led by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), UK, and University Twente, Netherlands, are calling for urgent cooperation, according to a comment published today (22 July 2015) in Nature.

«They call this comet encounter a once - in - a-lifetime event, but it's more like once - in - a-million years,» said CU - Boulder Associate Professor Nick Schneider, a LASP research associate and lead IUVS scientist for the mission.

«Our results call attention to the strong discrepancies between molecular and paleontological estimates of the divergence time between Neanderthals and modern humans,» said Aida Gómez - Robles, lead author of the paper and a postdoctoral scientist at the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology of The George Washington University.

3 Last year a team of scientists led by Kurt Zenz House, a doctoral candidate at Harvard University, proposed something they call engineered weathering, inspired by a natural process in which slightly acidic freshwater is neutralized by exposure to alkalizing minerals.

As Nature detailed last week, one Italian science agency recently sent out a call for stem cell grant proposals but specifically excluded human ES cell research, leading three Italian scientists to sue the government.

Recently, four leading biomedical scientists called for more thoughtful training in their field, including giving students a broader range of skills to prepare for diverse careers, for example in industry, communications, law, or policy (scim.ag / 1x2XzNq).

Long - term brain damage caused by stroke could be reduced by saving cells called pericytes that control blood flow in capillaries, reports a new study led by scientists from UCL (University College London).

«To know the origin and evolution of the moon is to know those of Earth,» says Tatsuaki Hashimoto of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the lead scientist for a proposed lunar rover called SELENE - 2.

In a new report appearing in the November 2016 issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology, scientists show that nicotine activates certain white blood cells, called neutrophils, which in turn release molecules that lead to increased inflammation.

LIFE will test an idea called transpermia, in which organisms «could be ejected off one planet in impacts, travel through space inside rocks, then be deposited on another world», says Bruce Betts, LIFE's lead scientist.

It was a busy first year for the AAAS - led Science and Human Rights Coalition and the «On - call» Scientists.

Some scientists, including Mike Rayner, the lead scientist on the team that generated the model, advocate a so - called fat tax that would make junk food harder to come by and subsidize healthy food in an effort to allow lower - income families to eat more healthfully.

«We see no evidence of Kyoto actually leading to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, much less of stimulating the fundamental technological change that will be required to achieve the 60 - 80 % reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that scientists tell us the world will need to achieve in order to prevent what the Framework Convention calls «dangerous interference with the atmosphere».»

Meléndez leads a European research network called European network to advance carotenoid research and applications in agro-food and health, whose main objective is to advance research and innovation in the area of carotenoids via interaction and cooperation between scientists, technicians, business and other interested parties.

A new study led by University of Pennsylvania and Technical University of Dresden scientists has identified an important regulator of this process, a protein called Del - 1.

Observations of the explosions of white dwarf stars in binary systems, so - called Type Ia supernovae, in the 1990s then led scientists to the conclusion that a third component, dark energy, made up 68 % of the cosmos, and is responsible for driving an acceleration in the expansion of the universe.

Now, an international team of scientists, backed by a project led by Josep Antoni Alcover, from the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA, CSIC - UIB), has discovered the bones of this bullfinch, called Pyrrhula crassa, in a cave located in a 12,000 - year - old volcano in the southeast of the island.

Recently, many scientists came to suspect that a protein called NF - κB, a master regulator of infection and inflammation, was at work; in 1996, several groups had found that it also inhibited cell death, which can lead to tumor formation.To find out whether suspicions about NF - κB were well - founded, molecular biologist Michael Karin of the University of California, San Diego, and his colleagues turned to a mouse model of colitis.

To investigate, a team led by Gerburg Wulf, MD, PhD, a physician scientist in the Hematology / Oncology Division at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, cultured breast cells called primary mammary epithelial cells (MECs) in the presence of EBV.

The surprise findings by a team of scientists at the University of Exeter has led to calls for urgent research into the implications of using «fire to fight fire» to combat disease.

A team of scientists across France, led by Christian Boucher at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique in Toulouse, sequenced the bacterium's chromosome of 3.7 million base pairs, as well as a ring of DNA called a plasmid that contained an additional 2.1 million base pairs.

In order to measure the proportions of the oxygen isotopes in the zircons, the team, led by scientist Alexander Nemchin, used a device called an ion microprobe.

The ability of scientists to convert human skin cells into other cell types, such as neurons, has the potential to enhance understanding of disease and lead to finding new ways to heal damaged tissues and organs, a field called regenerative medicine.

A multi-institutional international study led by scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has revealed new information about how molecules called long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA) interact with HIF - 1, a signaling pathway that is overexpressed in many cancers.

Scientists and officials are increasingly embracing so - called «high - risk» research in which a lot of research will fail but a few projects could lead to big gains.