Sentences with phrase «first researchers»

At first the researchers worked with only small laboratory rodents, mice and rats.

First the researchers chose a region known for its relatively constant winds.

First the researchers let the dolphins play in front of the mirror to get used to it.

She says first researchers should look for more variants that in combination could raise the risk higher and make the test more useful.

First a researcher for the Conservative Party machine, then a tour of duty in the bunker of No 10 for the last three Major years, followed by a few years advising Michael Howard and David Cameron.

At first the researchers detected 16 hidden species, a number «already considered spectacular,» says coauthor Robert Lücking of the Field Museum in Chicago.

First the researchers estimated how many clams lie entombed in the delta's massive shell ridges and islands.

In a world first researchers from the University's Institute of Translational Medicine, led by Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed, conducted a genome - wide association study (GWAS) to pinpoint the genes responsible for increasing the risk of a person developing adrenal suppression.

First the researchers tested whether birds responded differently to models of black widows with red hourglass markings than those without.

Researchers first researchers spotted dolphins putting sponges over their rostra in Shark Bay in 1984, not 1991.

First researchers took blood samples of 23 2 - year - old children (the age at which resistance to malaria typically develops); 12 were resistant to the disease, as evidenced by the small number of parasites in their blood.

In Common Core in the Districts: An Early Look at Early Implementers (2014), Education First researchers Katie Cristol and Brinton S. Ramsey, in collaboration with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, profile four «early implementer» school districts to examine factors that are key to successful implementations of standards - based reform: communications, leadership, curricular materials, professional development, and assessment and accountability.

The first researchers to link peak face recognition with an age are now studying so - called «super-recognizers» — people with a rare, superior ability to recognize a familiar face.

-- During the 1968 Games in Grenoble, McKay's first researcher, Dick Ebersol (now NBC Sports chairman), crouched behind McKay's desk and handed him index cards with information while McKay was on air.

As far as we know, we're the first researchers to examine singlehood and attachment (which is why our study was largely exploratory in nature).

In the 1980's, he was the first researcher to show the protective effect of exclusive breastfeeding against infant mortality, and one of the leaders of the creation of the World Health Child Growth Standards based on breastfed infants.

As Daniel Hannan — ERG's first researcher - observes in his latest book, the group was set up with a deliberately innocuous name, but its influence on the Conservative party since 1993 has been profound.

«We were among the first researchers in the world to use pupil measurements in the evaluation of dogs» emotional states.

Encased in ice for 4,000 years, a clump of prehistoric human hair gave up its secrets to the University of Copenhagen's Eske Willerslev, the first researcher to sequence an ancient human genome.

Asperger was among the first researchers to describe autism, and his decades of work with children later informed the concept of an autism «spectrum.»

But first researchers have to better understand exactly which microbes work to treat various conditions, and in what combinations.

But developmental biologist Fredrik Lanner of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm is the first researcher to publicly acknowledge editing genes in viable human embryos.

But developmental biologist Fredrik Lanner of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm is the first researcher to publicly acknowledge...

Canada also has a long tradition of involvement in stem cell research dating back to the early 1960s when J.E. Till and E.A. McCollough became the first researchers to demonstrate the existence of stem cells.

Professor Henry Snaith, senior author on the paper and leader of the photovoltaics group at Oxford, has been a pioneer in the development of perovskite solar cells and was one of the first researchers to recognise their potential as a low - cost, highly efficient material for this purpose.

«We are the first researchers to characterize the experiences of scientists at field sites, and our findings are troubling,» Clancy said.

Cosmologist Raphael Flauger of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who was among the first researchers to question the BICEP2 findings, concurs with that view.

Hendrik Poinar, professor of physical anthropology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, was one of the first researchers to dig into this trove of data.

Suess was among the first researchers to discover a cold - seep community.

He was among the first researchers to draw attention to the danger of asteroids and comets striking Earth, and he has spent the past two decades evaluating that risk and comparing it with other dangers in daily life.

Tulaczyk became the first researcher to visit Lake Whillans in November 2007.

In the 1990s, Prof. Vogel was among the first researchers to describe endocannabinoids, molecules that act like THC in the body.

There have been six island - forming eruptions in recorded history at this site, says Brad Scott, a volcanologist with the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences in New Zealand, and the first researcher to glimpse the baby island, and all of those islands eroded away eventually.

To discuss the growing concern Scientific American MIND consulted with Thomas Jefferson University neuroscientist George Brainard, who was among the first researchers to investigate how different wavelengths of light affect the release of melatonin, and Harvard University neuroscientist Anne - Marie Chang, who recently discovered that the effects of light - emitting devices on circadian systems extend beyond evening and into the following morning.

«This paper is important in that it advances our understanding of the relation of sleep to substance use problems to include not only problems sleeping, that is, trouble falling asleep and / or staying asleep, but also insufficient sleep, addressed here as hours of sleep,» added Tim Roehrs, director of research at the Sleep Disorders and Research Center at the Henry Ford Hospital, and one of the first researchers to identify sleep insufficiency as a clinical issue in the 1990s.

Aedin Cassidy, Sheila Bingham and John Cummings of the Medical Research Council's Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre in Cambridge are the first researchers to look for links between consumption of starch and cancer of the large bowel on an international scale.

Dr. Robert Timmerman, senior author of the study, Vice Chairman of Radiation Oncology, Director of the Annette Simmons Stereotactic Treatment Center, Professor of Radiation Oncology and Neurological Surgery, and Director of Clinical Research in Radiation Oncology, was one of the first researchers in the world to use stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR), also known as stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), for cancers in the body.

Rubie - Davies isn't the first researcher seeking ways to train teachers to be better Pygmalions.

«We appear to be the first researchers to have provided nationwide evidence on traffic accidents caused by minimally buzzed drivers,» he said.

He developed new techniques for transplant surgery, helped to make kidney transplantation viable and was one of the first researchers to try xenografts — in the 1960s he placed baboon kidneys in six patients.

«It is great to see that what we call the standard model of human evolution gets confirmation from entirely separate evidence,» says population geneticist Luca Cavalli - Sforza of Stanford University in California, the first researcher to trace human migrations with DNA.

But first researchers have to identify the most important proteins and sort out the discrepancies between the three groups.

Joseph Zito, the plaintiff's lawyer, says that his client, John Barthelow Classen, was the first researcher to connect vaccination schedules to immune disorders through animal studies.

But she didn't expect to see one in the flesh, let alone become the first researcher to hold one in her arms.

Johannes Kepler, the 17th - century astronomer and mathematician who was the first researcher to write about snowflake formation, died there in 1630 during a brief visit to the city.

Dr. Jerrold Olefsky is among the first researchers to show that insulin resistance is a primary cause of type II diabetes, a discovery that is key to the development of insulin - sensitizing drugs.

The Wrights were also some of the first researchers to test folic acid antagonists as cancer treatments.

† This is obviously a critical tool for future research: the Michael J. Fox Foundation has recently stepped up with a $ 2 million prize for the first researcher to create a PET tracer for visualizing AS aggregates in the brain).

First the researchers had to find an octopus that was easier to raise in a lab than most.