Sentences with phrase «for microscopic studies»

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Attuned and standardized all laboratory equipment at a new outlet of the medical laboratory, ensuring set - up of separate workstations for microscopic studies, blood work, chemical analysis and bacterial studies.

Your veterinarian might also extract cells from the via needle for a microscopic study.

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He studied remains of two organisms — a microscopic algae and the waxy coating of mangrove leaves — for clues to the amount of past rainfall.

A study by Isabel Schmidt, for instance, an ecologist at the University of Brasília, examined what time of year different species release their nearly microscopic seeds in order to identify which species are most impacted by harvesting.

Biological oceanographer Kendra Daly of the University of South Florida heard a talk by Delaney and excitedly told him that his concept would finally allow researchers to study the ephemeral changes that were so difficult to capture from a ship: a storm churning up the waters below, for instance, or the springtime bloom of microscopic marine plants.

But Volvox is more than just a microscopic curiosity; it's a model for the study of how multicellular organisms evolved.

But Jacob Taylor, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland, says it provides experimental data for «a quiet revolution» in statistical physics, the study of how heat flows both in microscopic systems and on the scale of everyday life.

Because they have no internal resistance to flow, ultracold helium - 4 or helium - 3 slips through microscopic holes, flows effortlessly uphill, and flouts efforts to contain for study.

Attendees at the astrobiology meeting in Arizona showcased an assortment of high - tech devices for next - generation exploration, ranging from microfluidic «life analyzers» and integrated nucleic acid extractors for studying «Martian metagenomics» to exquisitely sensitive, miniaturized organic chemistry labs for spotting tantalizing carbon compounds and minerals at microscopic scales.

For example, he is using data from AFLOWlib to study why some alloys can form metallic glass — a peculiar form of metal with a disordered microscopic structure that gives it special electric and magnetic properties.

Jun - Yuan Chen of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology and his colleagues collected and studied samples of Vernanimalcula guizhouena, a microscopic animal that probably moved along the seafloor sucking in bacteria for food.

By joining forces with Professor Wim Versées at the VIB research center for structural biology, the scientists were able to figure out the three - dimensional structure of Skywalker, making it possible to study the protein in microscopic detail.

This week, in a presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and in a paper in Brain Structure and Function, scientists present the first microscopic study of neurons in the cerebral cortex of the African elephant.

Lars Berglund, a professor at Wallenberg Wood Science Center at KTH, says that while optically transparent wood has been developed for microscopic samples in the study of wood anatomy, the KTH project introduces a way to use the material on a large scale.

The underlying method was developed in 1902 by Richard Zsigmondy and Henry Siedentopf to enhance the microscopic resolution for studying colloidal gold (1).

Louis's Robert Ricklefs first studied this relationship in the early 1990s, using data from microscopic examination of avian blood samples for the presence of parasites, primarily those that cause malaria.

The data reported were based on one patient and, despite 67 years of subsequent studies that failed to establish scientific support for this theory, we are still faced with reluctance to treat men with testosterone supplementation for fear of giving them prostate cancer or fueling prostate cancer already present at a subclinical or microscopic level.