Sentences with phrase «how life science research»

«It is amazing to see how life science research has evolved in the Stockholm - Uppsala region and how nice different disciplines have been put together by SciLifeLab» said Janet Thornton, EMBL UK, who was one of the days keynote speakers.

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From a 2013 television episode on the Oprah Winfrey Network to ongoing social science research, the experts have been actively documenting the challenges that fatherless daughters face growing up, and how their experiences differ from girls who grow up with a dad in their lives.

With events from some of the country's leading social scientists, the Festival celebrates the very best of British social science research and how it influences our social, economic and political lives - both now and in the future.

Ruth Müller, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Research Policy Institute at Lund University in Sweden, who focused her Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape influences the working practices of postdocs in the life sciences, notes that while the study acknowledges the diversity of the European system, it uses just one European country — Germany — in its quantitativeresearch fellow at the Research Policy Institute at Lund University in Sweden, who focused her Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape influences the working practices of postdocs in the life sciences, notes that while the study acknowledges the diversity of the European system, it uses just one European country — Germany — in its quantitativeResearch Policy Institute at Lund University in Sweden, who focused her Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape influences the working practices of postdocs in the life sciences, notes that while the study acknowledges the diversity of the European system, it uses just one European country — Germany — in its quantitative survey.

Drawn to the meeting's focus on science policy, attendees are learning how to bolster the scientific integrity policies of their respective institutions, to clearly outline the real life impacts of their research and to challenge public policy shifts that blunt scientific communication and hamper international talent exchanges.

Scholnick's lab's relationship with local fishermen is just one example of how science and basic research can touch people's everyday lives, a message Scholnick wishes to convey beyond the scientific community.

Especially in the life sciences, there is a need for people who know how a computer can help investigators set out a research strategy and avoid needless lab experiments.

Our Global Science Scorecard ranks nations as to how productive they are in science — not only on the quality and quantity of basic research but also on their ability to project that research into the real world, where it can affect people'sScience Scorecard ranks nations as to how productive they are in science — not only on the quality and quantity of basic research but also on their ability to project that research into the real world, where it can affect people'sscience — not only on the quality and quantity of basic research but also on their ability to project that research into the real world, where it can affect people's lives.

While many life scientists react to the growing complexity of the field by focusing narrowly, tenOever is an example of how doing creative science means finding new connections outside your original research niche, says Maniatis, who is now the incoming chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Any company that has significant diagnostic information and genomic capabilities, if they want to go for the gold ring, they try to figure out how to make it useful to the health industry rather than just producing research tools,» says David Galas, a professor at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Washington, and the vice president and chief science officer for biological and life sciences at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio.

«Given that 50 percent of the world's population currently lives in cities, and that percentage is projected to increase to 70 percent by year 2050, there is a pressing need to understand how cities and landscapes are affected by heat waves,» said Lei Zhao, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

► In this week's Science Careers - produced Working Life article, Rachel Yoho describes how participating in school science fairs helped her find her path into a research Science Careers - produced Working Life article, Rachel Yoho describes how participating in school science fairs helped her find her path into a research science fairs helped her find her path into a research career.

The new research, published online today in Science, is consistent with the idea that these so - called free radicals are a cause of aging, but additional work is needed to clarify how the protein actually extends lives.

«Although there are advantages to living in cities, such as the access to food, they seem to be outweighed by the disadvantages, such as stress — at least in terms of how quickly the cells of the great tits age,» says biologist Pablo Salmón who conducts research in the field of evolutionary ecology at the Faculty of Science, Lund University.

Professor Ian Owens, Director of Science at the Natural History Museum, says this research is a great example of how natural history collections support high - impact scientific research that addresses challenging questions such as the diversity of life.

A University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science - led research team analyzed the sediments of mesophotic coral reefs, deep reef communities living 30 - 150 meters below sea level, to understand how habitat diversity at these deeper depths may be recorded in the sedimentary record.

A research team led by graduate student researcher Shannon Hagerty and Paul Dijkstra, biological sciences associate research professor, measured two key characteristics of soil microbes that determine their role in the soil carbon cycle: how efficiently they use carbon to grow and how long they live.

10.30 - 11.00 Stackebradt, Erko (Professor, Leibnitz Institute, DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures; Coordinator, MIRRI - Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure, Braunschweig, Germany): Scientists and (their) microbial resources: responsibilities revisited 11.00 - 11.30 Balázs, Ervin (Member of HAS, Professor, Director - general, Centre for Agricultural Reserch, Hungarian Academy of Science, Martonvárár, Hungary): Microbes serving agri - food industry 11.30 - 12.00 Coffee break 12.00 - 12.30 Nagy, Károly (Professor, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary): How science supports management of emerging infections 12.30 - 13.00 Rajnavölgyi, Éva (Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary): Human life in invisible company - The significance of preventive vaccScience, Martonvárár, Hungary): Microbes serving agri - food industry 11.30 - 12.00 Coffee break 12.00 - 12.30 Nagy, Károly (Professor, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary): How science supports management of emerging infections 12.30 - 13.00 Rajnavölgyi, Éva (Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary): Human life in invisible company - The significance of preventive vaccscience supports management of emerging infections 12.30 - 13.00 Rajnavölgyi, Éva (Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary): Human life in invisible company - The significance of preventive vaccination

Even today, the general public, and many scientists, are not aware of decades of research in evolutionary science, molecular biology and genome sequencing which provide alternative answers to how novel organisms have originated in the long history of life on earth.

In research published in this week's issue of the journal Science, a team from Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research used common baker's yeast as a living test tube to show how just a small amount of a Parkinson's - related neuronal protein called alpha - synuclein (aSyn) can convince neighboring proteins to abandon their normal shape and form these deadly cresearch published in this week's issue of the journal Science, a team from Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research used common baker's yeast as a living test tube to show how just a small amount of a Parkinson's - related neuronal protein called alpha - synuclein (aSyn) can convince neighboring proteins to abandon their normal shape and form these deadly cResearch used common baker's yeast as a living test tube to show how just a small amount of a Parkinson's - related neuronal protein called alpha - synuclein (aSyn) can convince neighboring proteins to abandon their normal shape and form these deadly clusters.

«This research highlights how interconnected the behavior is between prokaryotes and eukaryotes, between mammalian organisms and the microbes that live inside them,» says lead co-author Eran Elinav, an immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, in a press release.

The BioVacSafe project will draw on the latest life science research findings to profile how individuals respond to the different components of vaccines at the cellular, genetic and molecular level.

More than 100 scientists, animal welfare officers, representatives of advocacy groups and stakeholders from different countries met for a 2 - day conference in San Francisco to discuss how to improve transparency and to increase the public understanding of the essential contributions that animal research makes to modern life science and biomedical research.

Not only should we use science to improve people's lives, but we should bring them into the research process so that they can understand and appreciate how it all works.

; instead, what is needed are better teaching, improved students, less memorization and more learning to increase understanding, instruction about problem solving, instruction to counter the false Hollywood message that science and research are entertainments, teaching children and adults how scientific research is very important in the daily life of all people, etc..

But emerging nutrition science research, as well as data collected from people in their 90s and beyond, shows what, when, and how we eat has a profound influence on how long we live.

Over the course of 27 years at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Kurt Fischer established an internationally known research program that explored how neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychology illuminate cognitive and emotional development and learning throughout our lives.

Today we live in an increasingly global world requiring educators not only to teach children about math and science, but also how to be citizens of the world, according to Peter Senge, Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) research member and MIT senior lecturer.

Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

Page Keeley and Joyce Tugel will be leading this exciting expedition for K - 12 teachers and leaders, Science or STEM education specialists, scientists and engineers, university faculty, and anyone interested in learning more about Panama's rich biodiversity, geology, engineering of the Panama Canal, technology tools of indigenous peiple (Embera Tribe) that how they live sustainably, rainforest ecology, and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Station's work.

At first, it may seem like an unlikely pairing, but in his highly informative new book, The Science of Happily Ever After, Ty Tashiro, PhD, presents tips for how to best go about choosing a mate — wisdom generated from examining lots of true - life stories and scientific research in the fields of sociology and psychology.

For a fascinating narrative dive into research on the interface between wildfire and communities, read Paul Tullis's long 2013 feature in The New York Times Magazine: «Into the Wildfire: What Science is Learning About Fire and How to Live With It.»

Re # 513 (John Mashey): I'm all for social science research (with or without quotation marks), but it seems very likely to me that some of these posters are bright 12 year olds playing games, some are paid provocateurs, and some wouldn't tell you the truth to save their lives (and maybe a couple are sincere and don't know how to use an index or search engine).

«There's a lot of social - science research showing how much better people do in disasters, how much longer they live, when they have good social networks and connections....

Our research team has spent the past two decades examining the chemical composition of the longest - lived animal that doesn't live in a colony known to science — the ocean quahog clam — to find out how the climate of the North Atlantic ocean has changed in relation to the atmosphere.

It is hard to imagine someone who has spent their life in research and teaching of the hard physical sciences could fail to see how unsuitable such a model was.

A few examples: Kathryn Stanchi has explored a number of these topics in depth, such as her influential article that explores social science research on persuasion as applied to how legal advocates should present a court with negative information about their client orposition.21 She and Linda Berger have recently published a textbook combiningtheir interests in science and persuasion, setting themselves the ambitious goal of «unit [ing] persuasion science with rhetorical theory and the real - life practice of persuasion.»

Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes and How to Correct Them: Lessons from the Life - Changing Science of Behavioral Economics by Gary Belsky and Thomas Gilovich A personal finance guide and an introduction to a new psychological field, this revised edition of the 1999 classic brings updated research and new insights into behavior during a rough economic downturn.

I frequently write about how psychological research (relationships and otherwise) relates to my own life and the world around me on my blog, Science Gnome, and will be contributing some of those thoughts here.

See the research and articles at http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/) So, given that there are just not all that many options to choose from in deciding upon a child custody arrangement, and given that those options overwhelmingly will be constrained or even dictated by fairly obvious facts about the parties» circumstances such as work and school schedules, or how far apart they live from each other, and similar considerations, one really has to query what all the painstaking attention to detail and «science» (or pretext to science) is all about if, when all is said and done, the decision will boil down to the application of a default personal preference, and pragmatic ways of arranging custody and visitation schedules to accomplish this while avoiding liability for placing children into situations in which detriment too obviously or easily can be proved to be the direct result of the arrangement.