Sentences with phrase «fundamental advances»

But there are things we can do to improve our ability to make fundamental advances.

What other fundamental advances and cultural shifts will come our way?

Since the establishment of the EFRC program by the Department's Office of Science in 2009, the Energy Frontier Research Centers have produced over 7,500 peer - reviewed scientific publications and have helped lay the scientific groundwork for fundamental advances in solar energy, electrical energy storage, carbon capture and sequestration, materials and chemistry by design, biosciences and materials in extreme environments.

Over the last three years, he has produced fundamental advances in mature fields, deriving new layouts for binary trees, discovering a cache layout metric that generalizes Hilbert curves to unstructured grid and designing a new block-wise orthogonal transform that is a key component of his new ZFP compression technology.

Now researchers from Brown University's School of Engineering have made an important fundamental advance that could make such devices more practical.

«We are able to take fundamental advances in materials science and engineering and to realise wearable structures for use in sports training and rehabilitation applications.»

The development of advanced biomass - conversion technologies will require fundamental advances in bioengineering and biotechnology.

According to Jim Stone, president of Boston - based GeoVue, the software has made several fundamental advances since its introduction in 1993.

These carbon nanotube quantum light emitters may be important for optically - based quantum information processing and information security, while also being of significant interest for ultrasensitive sensing, metrology and imaging needs and as photon sources for fundamental advances in quantum optics studies.

Over the centuries, astronomers have used eclipses to make fundamental advances, such as discovering helium and confirming Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity (J. M. Pasachoff Nature Astron.

This has allowed «true discovery science,» producing fundamental advances in «understanding the molecular control of regeneration and how cells communicate to rebuild injured tissues,» Carmichael adds.

The centers selected from the current competition will help lay the scientific groundwork for fundamental advances in solar energy, biofuels, transportation, energy efficiency, electricity storage and transmission, carbon capture and sequestration, and nuclear energy.

There is a difference between the epochal, first - order innovations that take place only infrequently and at unpredictable times, and the myriad of subsequent second - order inventions, improvements, and perfections that could not have taken place without such a breakthrough, and that both accompany and follow the commercial maturation of those fundamental advances.

«The discovery of the novel progenitor represents a fundamental advance in this field and potentially to the liver regeneration field using cell therapy,» said the study's senior author, Valerie Gouon - Evans, PharmD, PhD, Assistant Professor, in the Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Black Family Stem Cell Institute, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

«This breakthrough is a fundamental advance for research in photonic chips and optical communications,» said Moritz Merklein, lead author from the University's School of Physics.

Each fundamental advance calls for reexamination and adaptation, which is why the patent system is, and must be, the subject of continuous improvement.

Researchers at NC State University have created several soft robot devices that make use of a fundamental advance in controlling soft robots.

A team of engineering researchers has made a fundamental advance in controlling so - called soft robots, using magnetic fields to remotely manipulate microparticle chains embedded in soft robotic devices.

«I would really love to say a year or two from now [that] we've made a fundamental advance in Alzheimer's,» he says.

«This discovery represents a fundamental advance in the development of CRISPR - Cas9 technology.

3/22/2007 UCSD Cancer Researcher Richard D. Kolodner Honored with Landon - AACR Prize for Basic Cancer Research Scientists whose discoveries have led to fundamental advances in the science and treatment of cancer are the recipients of two prestigious international prizes offered by the Kirk A. and Dorothy P. Landon Foundation and the American Association for C...

Engineering researchers have made a fundamental advance in controlling so - called soft robots, using magnetic fields to remotely manipulate microparticle chains embedded in soft robotic devices.