Sentences with phrase «engineering studies using»

Panoskaltsis - Mortari, an author on one of the other recent lung - engineering studies using a similar matrix, and her group presented data at a conference last month showing that iPS cells can differentiate into a key type of lung cell when grown on decellularized matrices.

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Chiwewe became a student again to fast - track his environmental studies, then aimed to figure out a way to use his unique experience in software engineering and artificial intelligence to help build a solution.
A new study using lab - engineered microtumors allowed doctors to better predict if a cancer drug treatment will work in a patient.
The designer has no formal fashion education — he studied architecture and civil engineering — but used the skills he learned from his seamstress mother to obtain an internship at Fendi alongside Kanye West in 2006.
A large scientific study from 2013 found no «significant hazards directly connected with the use of genetically engineered crops.»
Stephen Salter, an emeritus professor of engineering design at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, has studied how to harness wave energy since the 1970s, and in 2003 began looking into using this energy to cool the seas.
«Before my graduate studies, I used to volunteer with various organizations (engineering society, air cadets, etc).
No scientist has proven all of the principles that he uses to study, as well as all of the related principles required in order to prove the first, and no engineer has done the same with all of the equations she uses to design.
Participants» reactions were captured using a novel wireless electrocardiograph (ECG) monitor developed for the study by University of Rochester engineers Zeljko Ignjatovic and Wendi Heinzelman.
New York uses personal service contracts for numerous areas and Cuomo's cuts will affect technology, engineering, health care, accounting, research, and environmental studies.
In a recent study, we found that use of this engineered sugarcane could yield more than 2,500 liters of bio-jet fuel per acre of land.
For students and mid-career professionals interested in commode - related careers, McHale recommends studying fluid dynamics and mechanical engineering, learning software used for industrial design such as Pro / Engineer CAD, and having a basic understanding of the science of ceramics.
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In lab tests, prototype multilayer lenses have shown they can release ciprofloxacin (an antibiotic often used to treat eye and other infections) for up to 100 days, according to a study published in the July issue of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science by researchers from Children's Hospital Boston, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary's (MEEI) ophthalmology department, Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (M.I.T.) chemical engineering department.
Chemicals used to process the wood work for various tree species and don't pose any significant pollution concerns, says study coauthor Teng Li, a mechanical engineer at the University of Maryland in College Park.
«We use biological nanoparticles — a plant virus — to deliver a pesticide,» said Paul Chariou, a PhD student in biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve and author of a study on the process published in the journal ACS Nano.
Using a combination of engineering and scientific knowledge gained from field studies, as well as interaction with communities in developing countries, some researchers in our department are developing methods to effectively communicate information about best practices to the farmers, as well as methods to train them by example.
«By taking the brain signals generated when Bill attempts to move, and using them to control the stimulation of his arm and hand, he was able to perform personal functions that were important to him,» said Bolu Ajiboye, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and lead study author.
Now, a new study shows how porous substances can act as thermoelectric materials — pointing the way for engineering the use of such materials in thermoelectric devices of the future.
A study released last month in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres used three different models to run the same SSCE scenario in which sea - salt engineering was used in the low - latitude oceans to keep top - of - atmosphere radiative forcing at the 2020 level for 50 years and was then abruptly turned off for 20 years.
A brand new science for studying this networked phenomenon, and in effect it's kind of a reverse engineering the World Wide Web that we know and the kinds of networks that we see on that to try to figure out how they took shape and maybe from that we can learn what principles involve and how networks do grow and you might be able to use that sort of thing to be able to develop a better system s for example being able to create more efficient networks and that could be very valuable in industry, there may be a lot of practical applications, involving protecting privacy, for example, and stopping people from stealing identities; and you should, you know, should be of just an interesting phenomenon.
A second study, out of MIT, used principles of computer engineering to design a molecular logic circuit that senses six different biomarkers, seeking out a chemical pattern unique to one type of cancer.
The study will also help engineers improve the operation of refrigeration vortex tubes, which are often used in the cooling of cutting tools during machining, various electronic components, hot melts, gas samples and heat seals.
Researchers will conduct their first studies using the facility's seven available beamlines, but engineers plan to add 25 additional beamlines over the next 5 years.
In this study, published in the October 31 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Sudhir Yadav PhD, a neuroimmunology post-doctoral fellow in the laboratories of Drs. Kouichi Ito, associate professor of neurology, and Suhayl Dhib - Jalbut, professor and chair of neurology, tested mice that were engineered to have a pre-disposition for MS. Because mice would not normally develop MS, researchers used MS - associated risk genes from real patients to genetically engineer mice for this study.
«This study is the first to show that we can successfully manipulate genome engineering using small molecules.
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.
Most animal studies of the disease are conducted with laboratory mice that have been genetically engineered and bred to model ALS, but for this research, investigators used rats with ALS because they more accurately portray the disease's variable course in humans.
«We had been studying the area of land that would be available to grow crops for energy and we were curious to discover the most efficient use of these crops,» explains environmental engineer Elliott Campbell of the University of California, Merced, who led the study.
Using genetically engineered mice created for their studies, the team identified a set of biomarkers of kidney damage — a hallmark of the disorder — and demonstrated that antioxidant therapy protected kidney function in the mice.
The study, which includes computational modeling contributions from Temple University researchers, employs nanoconfinement engineering and strain engineering (a strategy in semiconductor manufacturing used to boost device performance).
Samuel Schorr, a mechanical engineer at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who studies haptics in virtual reality, praises the work for comparing different types of devices using different types of tasks.
«That's one of the big goals: to engineer these cells from patients and then use them to study those patients» diseases.»
Bioprocess engineer Rafael Garcia of ARS and biochemical engineer Zhiyou Wen of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg are designing a study to grow EPA - and DHA - producing microbes using low - cost by - products of other processes, such as glycerol from biodiesel production and rendered animal protein from slaughterhouses.
Study co-author David Rosenberg, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at USU, says if refuge managers implement the model's recommendations, they could nearly double the area of productive wetland habitat using existing resources.
Using this technique for tissue engineering, he says, has been studied for decades.
Now, a research group in Singapore has used computer simulations to further probe the behaviors of skyrmions, gaining insight that can help scientists and engineers better study the quasi-particles in experiments.
The study's second most promising climate engineering strategy, after carbon sequestration, was carbon capture and storage, particularly when the technique is used near where fuels are being refined.
«The new physics implemented here could potentially outcompete the plasmonic technologies currently in use for sensing,» said Boubacar Kanté, electrical engineering professor at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and senior author of the study.
Marc Baldo, the electrical engineer who led the study, said that concentrators could be used to bolster solar cells almost anywhere the sun shines.
A study developed by researchers of the Institute for Plant Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMCP), a joint center of the Universitat Politècnica de València and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), in collaboration with the Unit for Plant Genomics Research of Evry, France (URGV, in French) has discovered a new way of improving the longevity of plant seeds using genetic engineering.
Using a combination of human or specially engineered mouse cells in vitro and in vivo animal models, study senior investigator Judy Lieberman, MD, PhD; study lead investigator Farokh Dotiwala, PhD, with a team lead by the Brazilian parasitologist Ricardo Gazzinelli, DSc, DVM, found that when an immune killer cell, such as a T - cell or natural killer (NK) cell, encounters a cell infected with any of three intracellular parasites (Trypanosoma cruzi, Toxoplasma gondii or Leishmania major), it releases three proteins that together kill both the parasite and the infected cell:
Bacteria in tap water can multiply when a faucet isn't used for a few days, such as when a house is vacant over a week's vacation, a new study from University of Illinois engineers found.
To better understand how changes in diet, lifestyle, and exposure to modern medicine affect primates» guts, a team of researchers led by University of Minnesota computer science and engineering professor Dan Knights, veterinary medicine professor Tim Johnson, and veterinary medicine Ph.D. student Jonathan Clayton, used DNA sequencing to study the gut microbes of multiple non-human primates species in the wild and in captivity as a model for studying the effects of emigration and lifestyle changes.
Two types of vaccines were used for the study: one constructed with genetically engineered DNA molecules that teach immune system cells to recognize premalignant cells expressing HPV16 E7 proteins, and one that is a non-infectious, engineered virus that targets and kills precancerous cells marked by HPV16 and HPV18 E6 and E7 proteins.
«Our analysis provides a framework for understanding how such policies would benefit China's water use in the future,» said study co-author Denise Mauzerall, professor of environmental engineering and international affairs.
We found that performing MRI before biopsy and using that information to alter biopsy pathways would be a strategy that would add health benefits to the patient population in a cost effective manner,» said Vikas Gulani, MD, PhD, study advisor and associate professor of radiology, urology, and biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and member of both the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and Case Center for Imaging Research.
«This paper implements a simplified version of invisibility using well - designed but relatively simple materials,» says Steven Cummer, an electrical engineer at Duke University, who was not involved in the study.
«It is estimated that the average household in the North Dakota Bakken region uses about 80 to 160 gallons of water a day,» said Corrie Clark, an environmental systems engineer in Argonne's Environmental Science Division and co-author of a new study published in Environmental Science & Technology.
«Most of the other techniques used in the petroleum field provide the «average» values of sample parameters,» said study author Wei - Shan Chiang, a postdoctoral researcher in chemical and biomolecular engineering at UD who does work onsite at NIST Center for Neutron Research and at Aramco Services Company.
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