Sentences with phrase «develop tests for»

Some PARCC states are working with other consortia to develop tests for those students, and other states are working to develop their own assessments.

For more individualized learning, game and quiz apps such as Socrative allow teachers to develop tests for students.

«It must also be universal, meaning that it should be possible to develop tests for any desired germ using the same principle.»

The alliance will employ Illumina's platform for high - multiplex single - nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping to develop tests for gene variants deCODE has previously shown to have impact on the risk of a growing number of common diseases with major public health impact.

Hoping to cash in on personalized cancer therapy, a new company called Foundation Medicine — founded in part by genome guru Eric Lander of the Broad Institute — plans to develop tests for genetic glitches in tumors that make them vulnerable to specific drugs, reports the United Kingdom's Times Online.

This knowledge could help to develop tests for detecting the condition in horses, which can be tricky to diagnose.

Researchers are even working to develop tests for breast cancer and organ transplant rejection based on the bouquet of a patient's breath.

The key, he says, will be getting our scientific process to the point at which we can detect a disease, develop a test for it, and create a cure in a short amount of time.

The simple phrase has directed Lynch his entire career, from when he started as a research scientist developing tests for the AIDS virus to today, as president of the IT firm CMIT Solutions in Doylestown.

However, a representative of the former makers of the kits, Hybrivet Systems, told the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle in 2007 that «we never developed the tests for dust.»

He has contributed to the study of the brain processing of form, symmetry, flicker, motion, color, and stereoscopic depth perception and has developed tests for the diagnosis of retinal and optic nerve diseases.

For now, the HapMap project does not mean new genetic tests for diseases are about to appear, but at least one company is considering whether to develop a test for genetic vulnerability to macular degeneration.

In research funded by Sparks charity, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity and Cancer Research UK, researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a test for blood and cerebrospinal fluid samples that looks for a specific panel of four pieces of short genetic code known as microRNAs, which are found in greater quantities in malignant germ cell tumours.

It was created to help researchers develop a test for Alzheimer's disease, as one of the first symptoms of this condition is getting lost, says Hugo Spiers of University College London.

To try to get a better handle on free - radical damage, Garret FitzGerald and his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia developed a test for urine levels of 8 - epi PGF - 2 -, a chemical formed after free radicals such as peroxide and superoxide attack the common lipid arachidonic acid.

The findings could help develop a test for bacterial infection in newborns, using a single drop of blood.

Next, Bars and his team are developing tests for two - time physics and investigating how to apply the theory to all the natural forces, including gravity.

Researchers at The Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have developed a test for urine, gathered during a routine procedure, to detect DNA mutations identified with urothelial cancers.

Saying current noninvasive approaches for detection of urothelial cancer are suboptimal, researchers wanted to develop a test for bladder and UTUC cancer that would allow it to be found sooner and cheaper than current methods using cytology, which is not particularly sensitive and does not do well in detecting low - grade bladder cancer or UTUC.

To pick another example, WADA has announced that it has developed a test for gene doping, in which athletes could inject themselves with specific genes to improve muscle - building or endurance — in spite of the fact that, to date, there has been no known successful use of gene - doping techniques.

Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine are working to develop a test for the Zika virus that they hope will provide accurate results for a wide range of time between when an individual is potentially exposed to when he or she is tested for the virus.

The award will enable me to generate sufficient preliminary data to apply for government funding with the goal of ultimately developing a test for the early detection of ovarian cancer.

The nonprofit organization originally developed the tests for the U.S. Department of Defense schools.

He identified and developed tests for thinking and other problem - solving skills addressing:

Some states and districts are talking about developing tests for all subjects, including choir and gym, just so they have something to measure.

Norwegian researchers recently developed a test for networking sites, called the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale, which likens inordinate amounts of time spent on the networking site to drug and alcohol abuse.

Not exact matches

However, after spending several years testing various technique with other experts and clients, I have developed five strategies for crafting emails that are sure to grab a prospect's attention:

George Reilly, an advisor and owner at Safe Harbor Financial Advisors based outside of Washington, D.C., developed a series of tests that he runs for his clients a few years prior to their retirement.

Simply building platforms for others to test their drugs on, Tehrani and his board soon realized, would have failed to capitalize on the expertise the firm was developing in the process.

Ford will then use what it learns from the test to develop APIs for businesses using the platform.

Maersk used KSI, a blockchain developed by Guardtime, a startup whose technology underpins the tech - savvy nation Estonia, for the test.

Theranos, a company founded by Stanford sophomore Elizabeth Holmes in the fall of 2003 (she dropped out a few months later) has generated a lot of buzz for developing a revolutionary approach to the blood test.

But BresoDX, a self - administered home test for sleep apnea, developed by Toronto - based company Bresotec, is likely to complete the study portion of the process in early 2016.

... It's the requirements [for the suit technology] we're trying to develop right now and that's what the current tests are helping with.»

For years, he'd been administering a test to help board members assess their decision - making skills, as part of a training program he'd developed for corporate directoFor years, he'd been administering a test to help board members assess their decision - making skills, as part of a training program he'd developed for corporate directofor corporate directors.

She visited juice bars around the country to sample flavors, and, with help from a woman she knew who had been juicing for many years, rented a test kitchen to develop new varieties.

If you're looking for a more scientific diagnosis, there's also a tried and true 40 - question diagnostic test developed by scientists that will give you a more official answer to that burning office question — Is he really a narcissist or just a garden - variety jerk?

To find out, they developed a series of five experiments in which they asked student volunteers to plan for a variety of daunting goals — from acing a tough test to nailing a dream job interview — by mapping out each action they'd need to complete to succeed.

We offer a space for developers and entrepreneurs to attend and organize events with speakers, mentors and other entrepreneurs; a «hack space» and device library to develop and test new ideas; and Google Launchpad, a two - week boot camp for early stage start - ups helping with subjects including user interface, product strategy & technology, marketing, business development and more.»

Its rather bold claim would have effectively prevented any laboratory from developing another, perhaps better and cheaper test, for the BRCA genes.

Still, the reclassification of costs for two 787 Dreamliner flight - test airplanes, tough decisions around 747 production (slow sales led to unsold aircraft), and higher costs on developing models weighed on operating performance.

The idea that people could take a simple, noninvasive test and have a better, if still imperfect, sense of their long - term risk for developing certain disorders had a natural appeal to Bergh.

At last year's Brainstorm Health conference in San Diego, Bergh found himself sitting at dinner with Othman Laraki, the cofounder and CEO of Color Genomics — a company that extracts the DNA from a customer's submitted saliva sample and then looks for a set number of gene mutations known to be associated with increased risk for developing certain hereditary cancers or heart conditions (depending on the test).

As a psychology student at Harvard, he developed the lie detector test but failed to win acceptance for it.

A spokesperson for Roots declined to comment, other than to say its Tmall presence is a «preliminary test to help determine whether we decide to develop this further.»

Systems of this kind have been in development for many years, however the rapid technological progress of enemy tank rounds, missiles and RPGs is leading the Army to more rapidly test and develop APS for its fleet of Abrams tanks.

For six years Anthony Levandowski worked on Google's self - driving car project, developing sensors, creating policies, and testing technology.

«The test the California courts have developed over the 20th Century for classifying workers isn't very helpful in addressing this 21st Century problem.»

But while there's not a whole lot of intellectual property involved in its offering, chief executive Kaplan says they have developed a technology platform to handle its interactions with customers and of course to provide a safe and private testing ground for its researchers.

It's a result of a $ 17.8 million contract the company signed with NASA in 2012 to develop and test expandable habitat technology for potential use in deep space.