Sentences with phrase «engineering research into»

This index is designed to orient clinicians and relevant stakeholders involved in the implementation and management of dementia care across the current capabilities, applications, and limitations of IATs and to facilitate the translation of medical engineering research into clinical practice.

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Raskin also reported that not one story coming out of the six - week conference dealt with UNESCO's battle against illiteracy, its development of alternative energy sources, its educational programs for scientists and engineers, its basic research into food production, and scores of other accomplishments during 1980.

At the moment there's the need for more proven Vertical Farms, knowledge & research, experts, investments, innovative business plans, engineering solutions and architecture that integrates food productions into new and existing infrastructure.

Better electrical engineers create more efficient power lines or light bulbs or heating elements etc, which reduce energy consumption across the board, which takes unnecessary electricity money and diverts it into more pure research, which gives bio and biotech more money to work with, which produces more bio and biotech work.

By turning cell biology into an engineering discipline, CCC aims to develop new chemicals and materials for medical and consumer applications, while at the same time training a more diverse research and manufacturing workforce.

The paper will provide a human rights framework and case examples to support Coalition members» advocacy against travel restrictions that are imposed on scientists, engineers, and health professionals (e.g., scientists being prohibited from traveling abroad to participate in meetings; bans on nationals from specific countries traveling into a country to attend conferences or pursue research; etc.) The Project Leader will develop the project plan, invite co-authors to contribute, and coordinate with the Secretariat regarding editing and dissemination.

Our lipidcane research also includes genetically engineering the plant to make it photosynthesize more efficiently, which translates into more growth.

The paper is highly critical of regulations that limit research into genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, life forms that have had their DNA altered through engineering.

Rogers is an alum of Bell Labs (now Nokia Bell Labs), which in its heyday was renowned for turning scientific research into engineering applications with a broad societal impact.

As Hockfield moves into her role as AAAS president, she often makes the point that the challenges facing the world as the population grows to more than 9 billion by 2050 — including the need for improved access to sufficient food, clean water, sustainable energy and health care — can only be met through fundamental scientific and engineering research, accompanied by the translation of that research into market - ready applications.

However, fast and cheap rarely succeeds, especially in introducing research results into society, says Boy, who advocates for STEAM education — science, technology, engineering, and math — with art and creativity.

Similar research by other scientists confirms the potential of engineered bacteria to deliver medical packages directly into living cells.

The nation began ramping up its investments into biomedical research around 2000, notes Chwee Teck Lim, an entrepreneur and provost's chair professor in the departments of biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

«A food manufacturer could easily incorporate this into its production process,» says Didar, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and member of the McMaster Institute for Infectious Disease Research.

These genies aren't magical; they are research tools known as gene drives — clever bits of engineered DNA designed to propel themselves into the DNA of a pesky or troubled organism.

It directs NSF to put 70 % of its $ 6 billion research account into four of its six research directorates — biology, computing, engineering, and math and physical sciences.

Another key concern is the possible orientation of research towards human enhancement, going beyond disease prevention into the engineering of «desirable» genetic characteristics.

The new research, which studied the immortalization process using genome - engineered cells in culture and also tracked skin cells as they progressed from a mole into a malignant melanoma, suggests that telomerase plays a more complex role in cancer.

The Meyerhoff Scholars Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), has become the gold standard for providing a path into academic research for groups — African - Americans, Hispanics, and disadvantaged white students — now underrepresented in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields.

The project — which crosses the boundaries of neuroscience, mechanical engineering and computer science — builds on years of research into insect vision at the University.

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.

However, because the light coming into the sensor has to pass through several layers of metal before reaching the silicon, which is a weak light absorber, the sensor detects only about 25 percent of the light that makes up the image, says Sargent, who is also a professor of electrical and computer engineering and Canada research chair in Nanotechnology at the University of Toronto.

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the National Research Council announced yesterday that they are assembling an expert committee of academic and industry engineers to take a technical look into the causes of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil spill.

Earlier research at Rice by chemist and chemical engineer Matteo Pasquali, a co-author on the new paper, used an acid dissolution process to keep the nanotubes separated until they could be spun into fibers.

Conventionally, feedlot managers would divert this liquid into huge, smelly ponds or lagoons — some 10 - feet deep or more, explains Bryan L. Woodbury, an agricultural engineer with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Nebraska.

We will do basic research into how we can measure and evaluate these mechanisms from an engineering perspective.

The roadmap outlines future research directions toward the goal of enhancing human radioresistance, including upregulation of endogenous repair and radioprotective mechanisms, possible leeways into gene therapy in order to enhance radioresistance via the translation of exogenous and engineered DNA repair and radioprotective mechanisms, the substitution of organic molecules with fortified isoforms, the coordination of regenerative and ablative technologies, and methods of slowing metabolic activity while preserving cognitive function.

«Understanding this highly sensitive and very delicate mechanism provides a fascinating insight into how these insects use their ears to locate potential mates and might also inspire other areas of research, such as engineering or micro-robotics.»

In addition to allowing growth of organoids within the engineered hydrogel in a tissue culture incubator, the research team demonstrated that the hydrogel could act like glue, allowing organoids to stick in place and contribute to wound healing when transplanted into an injured mouse intestine.

It provides insights into how science and engineering research and development are tied to economic and workforce development, as well as STEM education, in the U.S. and abroad.»

Jose Camberos, research aerospace engineer and lead of design space exploration at the Multidisciplinary Science & Technology Center of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright - Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, said that the work will hopefully give the field better insight into where the design of airplanes iresearch aerospace engineer and lead of design space exploration at the Multidisciplinary Science & Technology Center of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright - Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, said that the work will hopefully give the field better insight into where the design of airplanes iResearch Laboratory at Wright - Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, said that the work will hopefully give the field better insight into where the design of airplanes is going.

«More tomatoes, faster: Accelerating tomato engineering: Improved procedure will accelerate research into breeding more productive crops..»

In one of the most elaborate feats of synthetic biology to date, a research team has engineered yeast with a medley of plant, bacterial, and rodent genes to turn sugar into thebaine, the key opiate precursor to morphine and other powerful painkilling drugs that have been harvested for thousands of years from poppy plants.

This study is part of an ongoing series of studies into the costs and benefits of natural gas funded by the George Mitchell Foundation; Mitchell (now deceased) was the petroleum engineer and gas magnate who first popularized hydraulically fracturing shale to release natural gas but also donated some of his fortune to sustainability research.

A research team has come up with a way of genetically engineering the DNA of mammalian cells to carry out complex computations, in effect turning the cells into biocomputers.

But 2 years ago, a team led by Peter Schultz, a chemist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, engineered the genes of an Escherichia coli bacterium to incorporate a 21st amino acid into its proteins.

All this information will feed into the Delta Plan, which will be written over the next 2.5 years by a Dutch — Bangladeshi consortium of government departments, research organizations and engineering consultants.

A research team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering reports now in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that it has accomplished the first step toward this goal by converting the CRISPR / Cas9 genome engineering system into a genome surveillance tool.

Cellectis, the French genome engineering specialist, and VIB together conduct research into new approaches to cure haemophilia.

Anand hopes his brain model could be incorporated into the Microphysiological Systems program, a platform the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is developing by using engineered human tissue to mimic human physiological systems.

The MPC Fellowship Program is administered by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Fellowship office and is geared towards early career PhD Scientists and Engineers, enabling their pursuit of independent research into astrophysical, computational, data - processing, and / or data - communication topics that are broadly applicable to the field of Near Earth Object and Minor Planet science.

«There is potential that the nanoparticles could be formulated into a cream, however that needs to be studied in detail,» said Nathan Gianneschi, head of the research team and professor of materials science and engineering at UCSD.

Caribou Biosciences, a developer of technology - based solutions for cellular engineering, today announced that it entered into a collaboration agreement with Novartis under which the two companies will utilize Caribou's proprietary CRISPR - Cas9 platform to research new CRISPR - based drug target screening and validation technologies.

In a world - wide first, Chinese scientists cloned two monkeys by transplanting donor cells into eggs, they said on Wednesday, a feat that could lead to genetically engineered primates for drug testing, gene editing and brain research.

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As our project now is completing genome sequences and beginning to assess the mutations we will engineer into living band - tailed pigeons we face our biggest obstacle — establishing a research flock of pigeons for the purpose of recreating the passenger pigeons.

«This appears to be a very broadly applicable approach for loading a diversity of different compounds into a diversity of different cells,» says Mark Prausnitz, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Georgia Tech, who was not part of the research team.

For a rich source of stem cells to be engineered into new blood vessels or skin tissue, clinicians may one day look no further than the hair on their patients» heads, according to new research published earlier this month by University at Buffalo engineers.

Selected through a merit - based process, these scientists and engineers will have access to world - class science expertise and capabilities at ORNL, including Titan, the nation's most powerful supercomputer; the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, DOE's largest advanced manufacturing research center; and the Spallation Neutron Source, offering atomic - level insight into advanced materials.

Research in his Laboratory of Stem Cell Bioengineering (LSCB) is at the interface of stem cell biology and biomolecular engineering to gain fundamental insight into how protein components of niches control the fate of adult stem cells.