Sentences with phrase «famous researchers at»

Finally, I had an opportunity to work with famous researchers at a world - class university!

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The library contained fishery reports on the decline of sturgeon fishing in Lake Winnipeg from the 1890s, said Ayles, and served as invaluable intellectual capital for public researchers at the Freshwater Institute and world famous Experimental Lakes Area.

Researchers at A * STAR's Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) have discovered a new mechanism involving p53, the famous tumour suppressor, to fight against aggressive cancers.

Researchers were able to determine the genome of stomach bacteria that infected the famous Iceman at the time of his death, in the process giving us clues about ancient human migrations.

Interference, or «radio noise», even occurs at the wavelength of the famous 21 - centimetre atomic hydrogen line, which many SETI researchers believe another intelligence would logically chose for communication — if such intelligence existed (see «SETI: the search continues», New Scientist, 10 October).

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, used functional MRI to evaluate brain activity in 15 devout Christians and 15 nonbelievers as the volunteers assessed the truth or falsity of a series of statements, some of which were religious («angels exist») and others nonreligious («Alexander the Great was a very famous military ruler»).

Christine Moe, another Emory University researcher, has shown that norovirus more readily transmits via vomit than diarrhea, and that this «Ferrari of viruses,» famous for the speed at which it races through vacationers on cruise ships, is impervious to alcohol - based hand sanitizers and to power - washing the oysters that carry it.

Inspired by Richard Feynman's famous 1959 lecture «There's plenty of room at the bottom,» researchers are striving to build synthetic motors, machines, and robots at the micro - and nanoscale.

The most famous, oldest, and most commonly used immortal cell line, dubbed HeLa, originated in a tumor sample taken from an African - American woman, Henrietta Lacks, who is the subject of the recent book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.9 The tumor cells, harvested at Johns Hopkins Hospital, gave rise to the eponymous HeLa cell line which researchers have used continuously since her death in 1951 for numerous experiments, including Jonas Salk's development of the polio vaccine.

But a controversial new study from researchers on three continents suggests that the famous «VO2max» — the maximum amount of oxygen that you're able to deliver to your muscles during hard exercise — isn't really a maximum at all.

Researchers at Harvard Medical School conducted a now famous study (Stoll et al., 1999) that has changed the way millions look at fish oil.

They countered that the overly restrictive 200 mg upper safety limit for cholesterol intake, that wouldn't even allow a single egg, is only for people at risk for heart disease — to which the lead researcher replied, «[Most everyone is] at risk of vascular disease — the only ones who could eat [an] egg yolk regularly with impunity would be those who expect to die prematurely from nonvascular causes...» In other words, his famous «The only [people] who should eat eggs regularly are those [dying of] a terminal illness» — because at that point, who cares?

Perhaps the most profoundly famous and notoriously infamous study was conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

It showed that for losing weight in the short term, which the researchers put at six months, a low - carbohydrate diet, based on meat, fish and eggs — in short, a refined version of the famous Atkins Diet — led to the highest weight loss, with an average drop of 6.4 kilograms.

Kicking off with a closer look at the famous Reading Room at the New York Public Library on 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue — probably because it's the penultimate place to spend time as a researcher, student or book enthusiast.

Slicing through the world - famous Serengeti National Park, researchers say the road would threaten one of the Earth's last great migrations and place the whole ecosystem at risk.

Doctor Jefferson Tester, a famous geothermal energy proponent and researcher at Cornell University, has made it clear through various studies, research findings and collaborations with other professionals that this renewable energy technology already has parity with solar photovoltaic and wind systems.

Dr. John Gottman, the country's preeminent researcher on marriage, is famous for his Love Lab at the University of Washington in Seattle where he deciphers the mysteries of human relationships through scientific research.

Jon Kabat - Zinn, the most famous researcher of mindfulness meditation from the West, and the founder of the Mindfulness - Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, explains in following words: Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.