Sentences with phrase «chemical approach in»

Professor Laura Cipolla, from the Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences at the University of Milano - Bicocca, added: «Based on our background on the chemical modification of bio - and nanostructured materials, proteins, and carbohydrates, we designed a new chemical approach in order to force the organic component polycaprolactone to stay together in a stable way with the inorganic component silica.»

The research team found that when a particular mitochondrial fission protein (GTPase dynamin - related protein - 1 — Drp1) was blocked using either gene - therapy or a chemical approach in experimental models of PD in mice, it reduced both cell death and the deficits in dopamine release — effectively reversing the PD process.

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«It takes an interesting approach to capturing the lithium theme by investing in a range of companies, from household - electronics producers to chemicals companies,» he said.

A source close to Djalali revealed that in 2014 he was approached by agents of the Iranian military intelligence that asked him to collect information on Western chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear sites, as well as on critical infrastructures and counter-terrorism operational plans.

Bolstered by her success in renegotiating leases, Nicholas has approached vendors ranging from IT consultants to chemical suppliers, asking how they might work together to cut costs.

This approach assumes that if all communities take the NIMBY attitude, government agencies will not be able to find any backyard in which to dump toxic chemicals and nuclear waste, and the system will become plugged.

Maybe... A more fatalist approach would tell us that we are all indeed robots, subject to chemical reactions, electrical impulses, physical law, in such a detailed and profound way that we are actually able to perceive ourselves as having free thought — making choices and decisions, having feelings, reacting to input.

Concentrations of X and Y do not smoothly approach their equilibrium values (as do concentrations of all chemicals involved in ordinary reactions) but rather these concentrations oscillate around the condition of equilibrium.

In the vast majority of cases that have been studied, mixtures of chemicals change in composition, as time proceeds, in such a way as to approach a condition of chemical equilibriuIn the vast majority of cases that have been studied, mixtures of chemicals change in composition, as time proceeds, in such a way as to approach a condition of chemical equilibriuin composition, as time proceeds, in such a way as to approach a condition of chemical equilibriuin such a way as to approach a condition of chemical equilibrium.

What lawmakers don't acknowledge in these approaches is that chemical dependency is a medical illness, as the American Medical Association defined it in a 1956 statement.

Considerations that are connected with recent progress in understanding self - organizing chemical and physical systems lead me to propose a criterion for application of the category of actual entity that retains many of the distinctive features of the philosophy of organism while dealing with some of the objections raised against that system, and including aspects of the Buchler - Wallack approach.

These approaches «do not tie the hand of growers against using all man - made chemical products in the vineyard,» notes Rebecca Sweet, who works for Oregon's LIVE.

HACCP is the preventive approach from the physical, chemical, biological hazards in production process and it is also used to ensure the food safe.

While there are specific Federal regulations that manufacturers must meet with regard to the chemicals used in raw materials, our approach has always been to not just meet, but to exceed, those regulations.

Canada, Europe, and several other states (most recently Maine) are taking, or considering taking, a more thoughtful, precautionary approach regarding chemicals in everyday products, especially for children.

«The Dangote Group approached us to indicate their interest to invest in refining crude, such that petrol - chemicals, fertiliser and fuel will be produced, about three years ago.

Cuomo previously nudged federal environmental officials to take a stronger approach on contaminates in drinking water, including PFOAs, following the discovery of high levels of the chemical in the drinking water of upstate New York communities.

Britain will watch Russia's approach to the fledgling Syrian chemical weapons deal «very carefully» in the coming days, William Hague has warned.

The team's setup combines a roll - to - roll approach — a common industrial approach for continuous processing of thin foils — with the common graphene - fabrication technique of chemical vapor deposition, to manufacture high - quality graphene in large quantities and at a high rate.

There are approaching 100,000 different human - made chemical compounds in use around the world today, and many of them harm humans and wildlife

This new approach will enable the design of higher performing gas separation membranes,» says Norman Su, a graduate student in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at UC Berkeley and a user at the Molecular Foundry.

To offer some examples of how various institutions are trying to impart these lessons and skills to their students and trainees, a number of faculty members and university safety officers described their approaches at this year's spring meeting of the ACS in San Diego, California, Jyllian Kemsley reported last month at Chemical & Engineering News.

The UMD and UMB team, led by research associate Eunkyoung Kim, used a discovery - driven approach based on the assumptions that chemical biomarkers relating to oxidative stress could be found in blood, and that they could be measured by common electrochemical instruments.

Professor Jha said: «This is a significant step for the 3Rs approach and our model can reduce the total number of fish required, potentially replace the in vivo studies and offer the refinement that live fish are not exposed to potentially toxic chemicals.

This approach greatly simplifies manufacturing, and also makes batteries that are flexible and resistant to damage, says Chiang, who is senior author of a paper in the Journal of Power Sources analyzing the tradeoffs involved in choosing between solid and flow - type batteries, depending on their particular applications and chemical components.

One of the 12 audience members was Ben Chao, a chemical engineer with a Ph.D. — not at all qualified to make a judgment on Scott's abilities in the area of «Approaches to Developing Serum - Free Media Formulations for Mammalian Cells in Culture.»

«This approach will allow the on - demand production of chemicals and drugs that are in short supply, hard to make at big facilities, and allow customization to tailor them to the application,» Cronin says.

Think of combining crystallography and chemical analyses to the study of DNA, which led to the discovery of the double helix, or even of bringing the American blues tradition to young art students in the British port of Liverpool, who combined it with their native approach to harmonies and created the Beatles.

An easier alternative to the homemade approach is to use something well - known in an innovative way — a new assay based on a long - established and widely used chemical, for instance.

The yield of plutonium from this «electro - refining» is 10 times that of the chemical approach used in Europe, says William Hannum, research manager of the project.

The approach is limited because it only works in liquid reactions that start with polar chemicals and end with a nonpolar product, he says, but it's another tool that chemists could use to cut down on polluting waste.

«The approach should prove especially useful where it is not possible, or practical, to repair the material once it has been put to use,» writes University of Delaware chemical engineer Richard Wool in a commentary in Nature.

In 1953 the director of Central Intelligence, Allen W. Dulles, officially approved MKULTRA, - which sought chemical, biological, and radiological approaches to interrogation and behavior modification.

The researchers present their approach in the journal Chemical Communications.

The new approach could be a boon for incorporating various types of circuitry into textiles, says Barry DeCristofano, a chemical engineer and electrical textiles expert at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development, and Engineering Center in Massachusetts.

Such a tiered approach, they note, is already at the heart of the European Union's REACH program for testing toxic chemicals, which could serve as a model for nanomaterials toxicity testing in the United States.

In a bid to progress beyond the shotgun approach to fighting cancer — blasting malignant cells with toxic chemicals or radiation, which kills surrounding healthy cells in the process — researchers at the Harvard - MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) are using nanotechnology to develop seek - and - destroy models to zero in on and dismantle tumors without damaging nearby normal tissuIn a bid to progress beyond the shotgun approach to fighting cancer — blasting malignant cells with toxic chemicals or radiation, which kills surrounding healthy cells in the process — researchers at the Harvard - MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) are using nanotechnology to develop seek - and - destroy models to zero in on and dismantle tumors without damaging nearby normal tissuin the process — researchers at the Harvard - MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) are using nanotechnology to develop seek - and - destroy models to zero in on and dismantle tumors without damaging nearby normal tissuin on and dismantle tumors without damaging nearby normal tissue.

Dr Crispin Halsall, fellow guest editor said: «Scientists working in the field of Chemical research believe this approach will be fundamental in the future to resolving some of the biggest controversies in chemical risk assessmentChemical research believe this approach will be fundamental in the future to resolving some of the biggest controversies in chemical risk assessmentchemical risk assessment.»

This approach, published in the journal ACS Chemical Biology, could help address the world's growing problem of antibiotic - resistant «super bugs.»

The approach, called metabolomic analysis, provides a «chemical snapshot» that pictures in great detail what is going on within cells at a specific stage.

«This nanoformulation approach allows us to make vaccines against new diseases in only seven days, allowing the potential to deal with sudden outbreaks or make rapid modifications and improvements,» says Daniel Anderson, an associate professor in MIT's Department of Chemical Engineering and a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES).

Described in a study published in the journal Nature Communications, this novel approach uses high - speed atomic force microscopy (AFM) combined with a CRISPR - based chemical barcoding technique to map DNA nearly as accurately as DNA sequencing while processing large sections of the genome at a much faster rate.

Rather than ordinary spot - testing approaches, which look for unnatural ratios between biological constituents in a single sample or for direct chemical evidence of known doping agents, the passport allows investigators to see the big picture — any deviations from the rider's test - established norm that might result from doping, even if the specific drug or tactic remains unknown.

University of Wisconsin - Madison engineers have developed a new approach to structuring the catalysts used in essential reactions in the chemical and energy fields.

One approach is to give patients specific antibodies that target the homing devices (essentially chemical receptors) in white blood cells, rendering the tumor cells immunologically visible.

«Had this approach been in place 50 years ago it would probably have prevented the development of chemicals that are recognized as likely endocrine disruptors,» the report said.

But Walter Nelson, director of helium sourcing and supply chain at Air Products and Chemicals Inc., in Allentown, Pennsylvania, testified that such an approach would be equivalent to Congress requiring one carmaker to let a rival use its factories so it wouldn't have to build its own.

Understanding human behavior and culture is something the researchers value as much as analyzing the chemical and geological environment and Tankersley says that without this holistic approach much of research is left unsolved or misguided, in his opinion.

This new approach, unveiled in this month's Nature Biotechnology, might be used to produce steroids — natural substances that can fight cancer and inflammation and are a key ingredient in some contraceptives — at a lower cost than traditional chemical synthesis.

Another approach to making tempered glass is chemical tempering, in which various chemicals exchange ions on the surface of the glass in order to create compression.