Sentences with phrase «consortium of international scientists»

A consortium of international scientists examined the historical development of the Sumatran rhinos in Borneo.

He is the founder of New Harvest, a loosely knit consortium of international scientists who are investigating an innovative new way of satisfying the world's craving for meat.

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Researchers at the University of California, Davis, and in the Netherlands have discovered how a group of three closely related fungal pathogens have evolved into a lethal threat to the world's bananas, whilst an international consortium led by scientists from Wageningen UR (University & Research Centre) has unravelled the DNA of the fungus that causes black Sigatoka disease in bananas.

In other words, humans have «become important agents of disturbance in the Amazon Basin,» as an international consortium of scientists wrote in a review of the state of the science on the world's largest rainforest published in Nature on January 19.

Some doubt, however, that such a feat would ever be possible — the Hinxton Group, an international consortium of scientists that discusses stem - cell ethics and challenges, concluded that it would be difficult to get eggs from male XY cells and sperm from female XX cells.

The technique could also enable one person to provide both sperm and egg for an offspring — an act of «ultimate incest,» according to a report from the Hinxton Group, an international consortium of scientists and bioethicists whose members include such heavyweights as Ruth Faden, director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, and Peter J. Donovan, a professor of biochemistry at the University of California at Irvine.

The genome of our closest living relative — the chimpanzee — has been released by an international consortium of scientists.

An international consortium of scientists that was recently assembled to review the science on BPA for the German UmweltBundesAmt (that country's equivalent of the Environmental Protection Agency) determined that the research FDA used in its safety assessment was flawed because it failed to consider the chemical's effects on behavior and prostate development, according to a copy of the group's conclusions provided to ScientificAmerican.com.

«Now, using a genetic approach, researchers at the University of Leicester undertaking the study on behalf of an international consortium of scientists (the CADIoGRAM + C4D consortium) have shown that the association between shorter height and higher risk of coronary heart disease is a primary relationship and is not due to confounding factors.»

That target has been «applauded by the international community given China's emissions have been growing at rates of 5 % to 8 % over the past decade and a half,» says Canadell, who is also executive director of the Global Carbon Project, an international consortium of scientists studying the global carbon cycle.

The Tuberculosis Network Clinical Trials Group (TBNET), an international consortium of clinicians and scientists, documented the management of 380 patients with Multidrug - Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR - TB) at 23 different sites across Europe over five years.

Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL - EBI) and colleagues in the International Molecular Exchange (IMEx) consortium are rising to the challenge by offering researchers a freely available set of experimental interaction data that can be queried from a single interface.

An international consortium of more than 60 scientists from the United States, China and Europe has just published the genome sequence of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus), information that could dramatically accelerate watermelon breeding towards production of a more nutritious, tastier, and more resistant fruit.

Reykjavik, ICELAND, December 8, 2008 — deCODE genetics (Nasdaq: DCGN) today announced the discovery by an international consortium of scientists from deCODE and major European and US academic institutions of a single letter variation in the human genome (SNP) that is associated with increased fasting glucose levels and risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D).

Reykjavik, ICELAND, December 8, 2008 — deCODE genetics (Nasdaq: DCGN) today announced the discovery by an international consortium of scientists from deCODE and major European and US academic institutions of a single letter variation in the human genome (SNP) that is...

The project was initiated at the International Workshop to Reconcile Northern Permafrost Region Methane Budgets held in Seattle in March 2017, and it includes a broad consortium of more than 40 scientists.

Two Northern Illinois University biologists are key members of an international consortium of scientists that...

The designer features of Sc2.0 plus the international consortium of research scientists now working together to build the Sc2.0 genome will be described.

NEWMEDS - Novel Methods leading to New Medications in Depression and Schizophrenia - is an international consortium of scientists that has launched one of the largest ever research academic - industry collaboration projects to find new methods for the development of drugs for schizophrenia and depression.

The two keynoters Philip Diamond, Director General of SKA, and Rosie Bolton, SKA Regional Centre Project Scientist and Project Scientist for the international engineering consortium designing the high performance computers, took turns outlining radio astronomy history and SKA's ambition to build on that.

The use of genetic modification, done in the public sector by a consortium of international and Bangladeshi scientists, has nothing to do with Monsanto.