Sentences with phrase «for biological applications»

«I was only remotely aware of using EM for biological applications.»

The possibility to carry out all operations, also when fully immersed in liquid render the technology ideal for biological applications at the single cell level.

For work on optical tweezers for biological applications which use focused laser light to trap and manipulate virus particles, living cells and other biological entities whilst allowing them to maintain viability.

«Lens - free fluorescent microscope: FlatScope may be the world's tiniest, lightest microscope for biological applications and beyond.»

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Made of a polymer that has already been approved by the FDA for applications such as biodegradable sutures, InVivo's implant seems to undermine the biological ripple effect that leads to apoptosis, essentially by leading the body to believe that the damage is not that bad, which tones down the immune response and helps the healthier neural tissue survive and heal.

Secondly, the Bill proposes to remove the need for IVF providers to take into account the child's need for a father when considering an IVF application, and to confer legal parenthood on people who have no biological relationship to a child born as a result of IVF.

National strategies have been implemented to accelerate research and its application in areas including biological control, crop rotations and polycultures.This has resulted in major changes in some of the goals of Cuban plant breeding and a search for more appropriate methods of participatory plant breeding.

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«That is really the greatest challenge, because many scientists can come up with new materials for certain applications,... but if they don't know how these materials are going to be placed in the body and interact with the cells, interact with biological fluids and so on, they have no appreciation of the total problem,» Peppas says.

Such membranes should be useful for desalination, biological separation, and other applications.

Arrays of silicon nanotubes have many potential applications, including for solar - energy harvesting, photonics, and biological processes such as drug delivery.

Another long - term goal of the Lipomi lab is to produce electronic polymers whose properties — extreme elasticity, biodegradability, and self - repair — are inspired by biological tissue for applications in implantable biomedical devices and prosthetics.

The applications for biological engineering, then, are limited only by our collective imagination.

This new biological platform will significantly increase the number of applications for biological circuits.

«The ease of fabrication, light weight and excellent performance of our e-whiskers should have a wide range of applications for advanced robotics, human - machine user interfaces, and biological applications.»

The MIRT program offers several international research opportunities for students interested in the biological sciences and its applications.

This multiple wave scattering hinders most applications of optical imaging for deep biological samples.

The sorting of individual cells is necessary for many biological applications, including the isolation of specific cell types from cell suspensions.

However, the clinical application of TEG to treat insomnia is still in the immature status, because the TEG is primarily used for industrial purpose and very little is known about its applicability and toxicity to the biological systems.

The task of how to automatically track the movement of biological particles such as viruses, cell vesicles or cell receptors is of key importance in biomedical applications for the quantitative analysis of intracellular dynamic processes.

As part of an international research team, Jeff Donatelli, Peter Zwart and Kanupriya Pande of the Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) contributed key algorithms which helped achieve a goal first proposed more than 40 years ago — using angular correlations of X-ray snapshots from non-crystalline molecules to determine the 3D structure of important biological objects.

During the webinar, our expert panel of researchers will discuss: • Strategies and technologies for successful cancer biomarker discovery through robust detection and analysis of miRNAs in biofluids • Research into analytic and biological variables that impact miRNA measurements in serum and plasma from the clinical pathologist's point of view • The novel application of miRNAs in serum as biomarkers of aging and chronic disease • The answers to questions submitted by the live, online viewers.

Their natural characteristics make them uniquely suited for research and clinical applications, including as biomarkers both for diseases and for intrinsic biological activity.

«These novel luminescent nanoparticles, called upconversion nanoparticles, have become promising candidates for a whole variety of ultra-high tech applications such as biological sensing, biomedical imaging and 3D volumetric displays,» says lead author Dr Tim Zhao, from the University of Adelaide's School of Physical Sciences and Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS).

In addition to being able to detect NMR in far smaller samples than conventional machines, our technique does not require the application of microwave fields that might disrupt biological samples» said Hollenberg, who is Deputy Director of the Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T) and Thomas Baker Chair at the University of Melbourne.

The research team is now exploring additional biological applications for the new system and is working to extend the method to other microscope modalities, such as confocal microscopy.

The new material responded to electrical signals, bringing motion to these artificial muscles, so named because biological muscles similarly move in response to electrical signals (though Wang's materials are not intended for medical applications).

Initially I didn't think that this topic was «big» enough for Science, but I was always excited by the practical applications of this work and the general biological implications.

The National Science Foundation (NSF), for example, also handles reviews of bioinformatics proposals with similar considerations; but some applicants are still somewhat hesitant: «I was very uneasy about my application, because there was no true biological hypothesis,» says Dean Adams, a postdoctoral fellow at Iowa State University.

One field of application for biological resources is materials — such as natural fiber reinforced plastics (NFRP).

There are alternatives to centrifugation such as microfluidic technology, which has been widely studied for various applications in biological and chemical analysis, point - of - care testing and diagnostics, and clinical analysis.

LIG can be written into target materials in patterns and used as a supercapacitor, an electrocatalyst for fuel cells, radio - frequency identification (RFID) antennas and biological sensors, among other potential applications.

Along with the research's applications for fundamental physics of magnetic, atomic, quantum and surface phenomena, Dr Streed is also working as part of Griffith's Institute for Glycomics to adapt these sorts of quantum technologies for medical and biological research.

This study opens up new potentials for tailoring the properties of biological materials to enhance their properties for use in novel applications.

So when Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, a developmental biologist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, California, heard from NIH earlier this year that his was among the top - ranked applications, he was thrilled — but there was a catch.

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This property means that these liquid crystals hold potential for biomedical applications, where their changing internal patterns could signal the presence of specific proteins or other biological macromolecules.

This includes many natural and synthetic materials used for a range of applications from biological adhesives to synthetic silk.

Biotechnology was defined in the international Convention on Biological Diversity as «any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific uBiological Diversity as «any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific ubiological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use.»

Their results, published this week in Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing, report that these nanoscale polymers, which are biocompatible, could have a wide range of biological applications such as for drug delivery scaffolds or miniature implantable sensors.

Nanometre - scale gold particles are intensively investigated for applications as catalysts, sensors, drug delivery devices and biological contrast agents and as components in photonics and molecular electronics.

Contact: 508-289-7139; [email protected] WOODS HOLE, Mass. — Using a simple «mirror trick» and not - so - simple computational analysis, scientists affiliated with the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have considerably improved the speed, efficiency, and resolution of a light - sheet microscope, with broad applications for enhanced imaging of live cells and embryos.

Although DNA origami originally produced nanoarchitectures of purely aesthetic interest, refinements of the technique have opened the door to a range of exciting applications including molecular cages for the encapsulation of molecules, enzyme immobilization and catalysis, chemical and biological sensing tools, drug delivery mechanisms, and molecular computing devices.

We will next consider the methods available to analyze biological networks, demonstrate the application of these principles to selected problems in biology and medicine, and discuss the implications of biological network theory as a construct for characterizing human disease and defining novel therapies.

Nanofabrication is essential for exploiting the unique properties of nanoparticles in applications such as biological sensors and devices for converting sunlight to electricity.

The Institute: brings together a wide range of scientists, including physicists, engineers, chemists, biologists as well as HMS clinicians to address fundamental questions about the behavior and functioning of biological systems; allows biologists, engineers, and clinicians to potentially use such knowledge to foster applications and new technologies; and provides a way for the tool - developers (physicists, engineers, computer scientists) to work with the tool - users (biologists, chemists, clinicians) in the early stages of scientific inquiry and encourage scientific collaboration at the innovation stage of tool development.

Thus, neural derivatives of disease - specific human pluripotent stem cells constitute a relevant biological resource for exploring the impact of adult - onset HD mutations of the HTT gene on the division of neural progenitors, with potential applications in HD drug discovery targeting HTT - dynein - p150Glued complex interactions.

The I - Stem Institute integrates three different activities: basic biological research, a technological research for development and application, and a biological and technological resource centre.

The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) is now accepting applications for its Tutorial, «Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics,» to be held August 8 - 12, 2016.

Ocean Observing Systems: Acoustical Observations and Applications: Passive and active acoustic methods can be employed for long - term, sustained observations of physical, chemical, and biological processes with Global and Regional Ocean Observing Systems.