Sentences with phrase «early step toward»

The hope is that Dr. Taylor's research is an early step toward being able to grow a fully functional human heart in the laboratory, which would revolutionize the field of organ transplantation if achieved.

Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have described a way of making graphene that preserves the material's conductive properties, an early step toward graphene — silicon electronics

His company, Liftport, has just raised over $ 62,000 on Kickstarter to build robot climbers on a skyward cable — an early step toward his eventual goal of putting a space elevator on the moon.

Though hundreds of genes involved in face shape remain to be identified, the findings represent an early step toward facial reconstruction with DNA.

The accelerators provide access to business mentors, technical and design experts, development tools and key resources to help entrepreneurs take the early steps toward turning their ideas into businesses.

Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say they have preliminary evidence in laboratory - grown, human airway cells that a condensed form of cigarette smoke triggers so - called «epigenetic» changes in the cells consistent with the earliest steps toward lung cancer development.

The study is one of the early steps toward a major goal of Dr. Elhanan Borenstein, the lead scientist on the project.

«Early steps toward personalized fitness: Interval training may benefit men more than women.»

Oregon's efforts to support innovation and school improvement have focused on proficiency - based learning models and early steps toward creating multiple measures data dashboards.

Not exact matches

What struck me from his early story was that he took the first steps toward founding RE / MAX while still on active duty in the U.S. Air Force in the 1970s.

That hasn't bothered Rose, who is quick to admit the D - Wave Two is just a very, very early step on the road toward the true potential of quantum computing.

That's why Colorado's Office of Economic Development and International Trade has taken an innovative step toward helping the entrepreneurial talent in the state's rural areas get access to early - stage funding.

One might find at least a tiny echo of this inadequate notion of reform in his initial impulse to rebuild Christ's Church by attending to ecclesiastical masonry — an episode in the early steps of his pilgrimage toward Christ that makes me think of present - day temptations to live the New Evangelization by getting top - drawer management consultants to advise the Church on messaging.

Once early embryos become something less than incipient human life, once they are treated in vitro as a means toward the end of pregnancy, once they are cryopreserved in thousands of vats across the country, ESCR with «excess» embryos may be predictably the next step.

In the progressive revelation view, we see humanity at its lowest in the early chapters of Genesis, and then as God calls Abraham, then Israel, then Judges, then Prophets, and then Kings, each successive step gets us higher up the ladder of truth until we ultimately arrive at Jesus, who then encourages us to keep learning and moving upward toward truth.

In the same way that responsive parenting in early childhood creates a kind of mental space where a child's first tentative steps toward intellectual learning can take place, so do the right kind of messages from teachers in school create a mental space that allows a student to engage in more advanced and demanding academic learning.

In particular, many mothers quit breastfeeding on return to work, so addressing this issue early may be an important step toward prolonging breastfeeding.

Some parents dislike when a child sucks his thumb or uses a pacifier as an infant, but in early infancy we see this as a important step toward self - soothing.

The Senate took a major step early Wednesday toward expanding gambling by approving a new satellite casino in East Windsor that would be built by two Native American tribes.

Mr. Cuomo took some steps toward formulating a position as early as June 2011, when he charged an aide with developing a statewide gambling plan.

NJ Gov. Chris Christie is preparing to take his first concrete steps toward a presidential bid by setting up a leadership political action committee as early as this month that could help pay for travel and provide a fund - raising vehicle for would - be donors.

The RNC voted nearly unanimously Friday to condense the 2016 presidential nominating calendar, and they took steps toward moving the date of the next Republican National Convention from late August to June, the earliest either party has held their convention in nearly 70 years.

Cuomo said that by offering Clark an early shot at parole the state has «taken one more step toward a more just, more fair and more compassionate New York for all.»

New York State's push toward a $ 15 minimum wage takes a planned step forward on New Year's Eve Day when a bill signed earlier this year by Gov. Andrew Cuomo takes effect.

On Monday, the governor took an important step toward addressing that problem by announcing a 30 - day budget amendment to fund voting reforms, including early voting across the state.

Shorter spines seen on some ancient specimens could have functioned somewhat like teeth and might have been an early evolutionary step toward tooth development, Briggs proposes.

A team of researchers has taken a major step toward one of the hottest goals in cancer research: a blood test that can detect tumors early.

«This study takes an important step» toward resolving why horses shed digits during their early evolution, says Karen Sears, an evolutionary biologist at UCLA.

The inside surface of Jebel Irhoud braincases, which were long and low, has a distinctive shape that perhaps represents an early evolutionary step toward later humans» rounded skullcaps, suggests paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer.

«Our discovery provides a vital first step toward a pharmaceutical intervention at an early point that can limit the toxin's fatal attack on the human body.»

Earlier this year, Horvath and his colleagues took a step toward answering this question.

No matter the outcome, bioinformatician Caporaso calls the paper an «early step» toward new forensic technologies based on advanced DNA sequencing.

Kana's multimodal neuroimaging - based classification is a step toward a possible biomarker for autism and possibly diagnosing autism at an early age, perhaps as early as 6 months, when the brain is very plastic and intervention might be more effective.

Courchesne emphasized that this was a first step toward a possible means of diagnosing autism much earlier than current methodologies, one that would greatly boost the efficacy of intervention and remedial treatments.

The bill is an early bipartisan step toward reforming how the Army Corps of Engineers manages sediment scooped up while dredging for the shipping sector.

ACT announced last November that they had cloned early - stage human embryos in a step toward therapeutic cloning (which seeks to treat diseases by using genetic material from a patient's own cells) but the company believes that reproductive cloning is too risky and unwarranted at this time.

«Important steps toward developing a blood test to catch pancreatic cancer early.»

The method also represents an early but important step toward building fully functional replacements for injured or diseased tissue that can be designed from CAT scan data using computer - aided design (CAD), printed in 3D at the push of a button, and used by surgeons to repair or replace damaged tissue.

This study is the first step toward understanding the early effects of mild TBI on cognition.

Knowing there is a problem is often the first step in addressing some of the issues noted earlier (and toward beginning to find solutions).

Children take their first critical steps toward learning to read and write very early in life.

And the early charter school laws in states such as Wisconsin, Hawaii, Kansas and Rhode Island all required charter schools to take positive steps toward promoting diversity.

Establishing a high - quality UPK program is a critical first step toward creating equity in access to early education and ensuring that all children begin kindergarten with an equal opportunity to succeed.

In recognition of the need for more and especially better clinical preparation, researchers are now arguing for a shift away from the typical student teaching experience as a distinct and final step in completing preparation and toward integrating clinical components into the preparation experience early and throughout the program.30 A number of programs across the country have made this shift, including by incorporating residency models into their teacher preparation programs, 31 but this kind of program design is still relatively uncommon.

By having your dog checked out by your vet on a regular basis, you can take some steps toward preventing Kennel Cough, or at least catch the illness in its early stages.

Freshly launched into Early Access, T.M.R.A (we'll use that a bit for the sake of my sanity) is a step toward the fierce and frantic from Camex Games, the same folk who brought us the turn based tactical RPG Heroes Tactics.

I think it's time Zelda took a step back toward the aggressive, mysterious worlds of its early incarnations.

For Dove, the difficulty of rendering forms in darkness proved a useful step in the early - modern march toward abstraction.

This early success could be the first step toward developing a means of disposing of the more than 2.7 million tons of plastic containing BPA that is produced each year.

The bill is an early bipartisan step toward reforming how the Army Corps of Engineers manages sediment scooped up while dredging for the shipping sector.