Talent and intelligence, not to mention tireless hard work,
got lab scientists through the door, but — this was the dirty secret — you needed luck.
Not exact matches
Not every
scientist gets to spend her days mixing concoctions in test tubes or digging up dinosaur bones; every
lab needs a senior manager to keep research teams on track and on budget.
Nobel Prizewinning
scientist Tim Hunt joked that men and women in the same
lab tend to fall in love, and that tends to
get in the way of their work.
NIH officials hope that the three initiatives will help young
scientists get their
labs up and running more quickly — a goal agency Director Elias Zerhouni calls his «number one priority.»
I never thought we would actually
get to do real
labs and talk with real
scientists.
Unlike the
lab, for instance, where
scientists get final say over the temperature, people at large in the world are typically at liberty to add a layer or two.
To
get a closer look at the interaction between the antibody and a fragment of the virus» envelope protein,
scientists in Pamela J. Bjorkman's
lab at Caltech determined the molecular structure formed as the two units interacted.
«Hopefully we'll be able to
get some insight by looking at these rocks into some of the global changes happening that maybe no longer permitted a lake to be present on the surface,» says Abigail Fraeman, a research
scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion
Lab.
To
get a sense of what the changing job market looks like from the ground, Science Careers surveyed dozens of
scientists who did their Ph.D. or postdoctoral research in Barrett's
lab.
In many ways, the staff
scientist position offers the opportunity to grow and learn while preserving the high points of research that can
get lost in the grind of leading a
lab.
The specific duties of staff
scientists — who can work in core facilities as well as in
labs in academia, non-profit research institutions, and government — generally include both doing independent research and helping others
get work done, though the specifics vary.
20 Still, do you ever
get the feeling that some
scientists are just taking out their stress on
lab rats?
Instead, some
scientists speculate that sunlight may transform the acid in wormwood into artemisinin, so they mimic that action in the
lab, using a photocatalytic reaction to
get the drug ready for anti-malarial action.
New
Scientist magazine reports that Jet Propulsion
Lab researcher Adrian Stoica told a meeting in England last month that gait analysis from satellites should make it possible to identify people by their walk and because of the angle of the satellite you have a better chance of
getting the image of the shadow than of the actual walk.
Soon after the resilin gene was found within the fruit fly genome in 2001,
scientists got to work trying to produce this super-rubber in the
lab.
For female
scientists, Lundblad alleges, the result has been a vicious cycle in which their
lab budgets are squeezed, resulting in a smaller
lab staff, decreasing productivity, and thus even greater difficulty in
getting funding and further lost productivity.
Then Chan grabbed a sample of water that another
scientist in the
lab had
gotten months earlier at Dodge Pond.
Many
scientists, Johnson observes,
get out of the
lab as soon as someone else is there to do experiments, and that, he says, is not a good idea.
You want to be in a successful
lab where you can
get good advice and work with other
scientists and trainees who will help you learn how to do good work.
To make sure experimenters can
get the most out of a major X-ray laser upgrade that will produce beams that are 10,000 times brighter and pulses up to a million times per second, the
lab has created a new position — head of experimental design at the Linac Coherent Light Source — and hired an X-ray
scientist to fill it.
U.S. (and international)
labs are full of senior
scientists that still go by the title «postdoc,» and
get paid proportionately.
Foreign
scientists will
get their first glimpse of the
lab when it hosts a global conference on climate and oceans later this month.
BIOMEDICAL
scientists face a bizarre situation when they
get their own
labs.
«Here we're cultivating an entire community of microbes to access enzymes that we couldn't
get from isolates,» said study principal investigator Steve Singer, senior
scientist in Berkeley
Lab's Biological Systems and Engineering Division and director of Microbial and Enzyme Discovery at JBEI.
As the
scientists write in their study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they hoped to
get a clearer picture of how the new mechanism evolved by tweaking the enzyme in the
lab.
In the modern era many university
scientists worry more about their research grant (s) and their
lab space assignment than they do about how to
get a difficult experiment to finally work, or whether alternative explanations for their recent results make more sense than a traditional interpretation.
I will take any help I can
get in protecting myself, by any entrepreneur - paraprofessional
scientist who tries to put together an (inadequate, underfunded)
lab facility which functions in any way for The Greater Good....
I do this radical thing known as seeing patients intervene with people and seeing what happens overtime, and then I
get my basic
scientists who are the
lab rats to analyze the blood to figure out the biochemistry and the physiology.
We were taken to the exact lavender fields where the lavender for their products
gets sourced, we went inside the
lab and chatted with the
scientists, we experienced essential oil and skincare tutorials from a woman who has been working for the brand for 20 + years (pictured here), and finally,
got to have dinner with the founder who talked about the heart + soul behind the company.
Instead of seeing guys with machine guns, research
labs, and a robot suit as the final bad guy, we
get ninjas, a mad
scientist, actual Japanese - American actor Brian Tee as Shredder, and mutant monster bad guys in the form of Bebop and Rocksteady, classic TMNT enemies.
Once they
get out of the maze, thanks to the leadership of Thomas (Dylan O'Brien), then there's just a «Hunger Games» /» Divergent» - style race to the center of operations for the evil and corrupt regime (sometimes involving a
lab with white - coated
scientists torturing people) to rescue characters we know, some who make it and some who don't, and also rescue the whole world.
We are aiming to
get 100,000 classifications — a classification is watching one video — during British Science Week, to help the Worm Watch
Lab scientists get through the vast amounts of data that needs to be analysed.
Things start out quite simply, with the premise being to
get your Bendies (
scientists) and their cart from one end of the
lab to the other.
Naturally, every afternoon, at 3 pm, the
scientists in Cavendish
Labs collected to
get their free tea, and it was here that an enormous amount of interchange of ideas took place.
The sooner the climate
scientists start walking past the statisticians frat room and start hanging out with the nerds in the
lab of the applied math dept. and share a beer with the fluid mechanics specialists in the aeronautical engineering dept. the sooner we'll
get some real progress with climate science.
In 1988, NASA
scientist Jim Hansen published one of the first major papers modeling how hot the Earth might
get, testifying on Capitol Hill and stirring debate in
labs and lecture halls.
If climate
scientists can do no better than wildly uncertain probabilities they need to
get back to the
lab until they can.
Based on the fact that water expands as it
gets warmer, NASA
scientists at the Jet Propulsion
Lab were able to test this hypothesis of «missing» warming hiding in the deep ocean.
«Come on
scientists,
get your
labs in order The climate - change sceptics are on the march.
In addition to the data from the radiometers, the Berkeley
Lab scientists will
get supplemental data by taking advantage of a separate, in - depth DOE climate study at the same location, which is using additional instruments and a balloon - borne sounding system to
get information on temperature, cloud cover, the density and types of aerosols or pollution particles, heat fluxes and other climate variables like precipitation.