Sentences with phrase «in a laboratory environment of»

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An intelligent life form (Scientist), developed an environment in which he added various subtances and matter (laboratory), and added some energy (electricity) and wahlah, the building blocks of life were formed.

«The environment around this quasar is very unique in that it's producing this huge mass of water,» said Matt Bradford, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «It's another demonstration that water is pervasive throughout the universe, even at the very earliest times.»

Some football helmet manufacturers suggest that players who wear their helmets - especially new models - may be at lower risk of concussion than those who wear competitors» models or older helmets, basing their claims on how well the new or newer helmets absorb and lessen some of the impact forces that cause concussion in biomechanical studies performed in the controlled environment of the laboratory.

Laboratory studies reveal that the average duration of infant and maternal awakenings in the cosleeping environment are shorter on average than the awakenings mothers and babies experience when baby awakens in another room, and requires intervention before going back to sleep (see Mosko et al 1997).

The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) had speculated the outbreaks in August and September were the result of separate leaks from the Pirbright laboratory site, which has been linked to the disease.

The way in which the robot stores and releases energy is impressive, says Chris Melhuish, director of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory in the UK, who develops robots that scavenge energy from their environment.

Testing heritability is easier in laboratory conditions because all the animals are raised in the same environment and the researchers know the relatedness of all the lizards, Cox said.

In the study, which included a series of laboratory experiments, field surveys and mathematical modeling, the presence of various species of dragonfly larvae reduced the infections in frogs caused by parasitic flatworms called trematodes, said Val Beasley, professor and head of the department of veterinary and biomedical sciences, Penn State, who worked with Rohr and whose research group collaborated with Lucinda Johnson, senior research associate and director of the Center for Water and the Environment, University of Minnesota Duluth, to complete the field studIn the study, which included a series of laboratory experiments, field surveys and mathematical modeling, the presence of various species of dragonfly larvae reduced the infections in frogs caused by parasitic flatworms called trematodes, said Val Beasley, professor and head of the department of veterinary and biomedical sciences, Penn State, who worked with Rohr and whose research group collaborated with Lucinda Johnson, senior research associate and director of the Center for Water and the Environment, University of Minnesota Duluth, to complete the field studin frogs caused by parasitic flatworms called trematodes, said Val Beasley, professor and head of the department of veterinary and biomedical sciences, Penn State, who worked with Rohr and whose research group collaborated with Lucinda Johnson, senior research associate and director of the Center for Water and the Environment, University of Minnesota Duluth, to complete the field study.

When researcher Alberto Behar from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., joined an international Antarctic expedition last month on a trek to investigate Subglacial Lake Whillans, he brought with him a unique instrument designed and funded by NASA to help the researchers study one of the last unexplored aquatic environments on Earth.

«This study suggests that laboratory studies of microbial metabolite processing can help understand the role of these microbes in carbon cycling in the environment.

Further work will reveal how evolution in ocean microbes may affect the function of the ocean in removing carbon dioxide to the deep sea and whether or not laboratory findings can be translated into the natural ocean environment.

During the new study the scientists replicated the conditions of a freezing environment in the Permafrost Laboratory at the University of Sussex and monitored the freeze - thaw of six hard and soft limestone blocks during an experiment that simulated 27 years of natural freezing and thawing.

«We can test how far prebiotic chemistry has progressed in an environment that we know has the ingredients for life,» said lead investigator Elizabeth Turtle of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md..

Frank Gilliland, an environmental epidemiologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, became intrigued when laboratory studies suggested that certain pollutants in the environment might function as «obesogens,» contributing to weight gain by mimicking or disrupting the action of hormones, or having other effects.

Over the past decade, NASA has sent the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map the Moon; the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite to crash land near the south pole in search of water; the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory to plumb the Moon's gravity field; and the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to study its tenuous outer atmosphere.

The researchers induced two groups of mice — germ - free (GF) mice, which are raised in a sterile environment, and specific - pathogen - free mice raised under normal laboratory conditions — to develop forms of asthma or ulcerative colitis.

His laboratory discovered that some of the same RNA that is inside human cells are also present in saliva and can be used to detect diseases — a surprising finding, he said, because enzymes in saliva can degrade RNA, making the mouth «a hostile environment.»

Marine ecologist Daniel Kamykowski of North Carolina State University in Raleigh cautions that the study was conducted in a laboratory and not in the marine environment, but welcomes the findings nonetheless.

Researchers at the University of California San Diego, the University of Colorado - Boulder, the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory, are the first to identify similarities in the way in which Komodo dragons and humans and their pets share microbes within closed environments.

Researchers studying viruses in the environment are scrambling to stockpile tiny laboratory filters called Anodiscs after GE Healthcare announced it would stop making them at the end of the year.

«Regardless of whether you're in a closed or open environment, there's always a constant exchange of microbes between a host and their environment, and that constant exposure has impacts on health; for example it can lead to changes in a host's immune system that help the host stave off pathogens,» said Argonne's Jack Gilbert, an author of the study and the director of The Microbiome Center, a joint Argonne, University of Chicago and Marine Biological Laboratory program.

They also plan to evolve the chemistry behind the materials so that it may be possible for gels to better mimic more complex cellular environments beyond the control of stiffness alone, as well as investigate how dynamic changes in matrix properties — a hallmark of the stem cell niche — can be mimicked in the laboratory.

«This study, carried out using laboratory rats modeling stroke, demonstrated that ischemic stroke — in both its subacute and chronic stages — damages the BSCB in a variety of ways, creating a toxic environment in the spinal cord that can lead to further disability and exacerbate disease pathology,» said study lead author Dr. Svitlana Garbuzova - Davis, associate professor in USF's Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair.

A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has identified a novel microbial process that can break down toxic methylmercury in the environment, a fundamental scientific discovery that could potentially reduce mercury toxicity levels and support health and risk assessments.

Susan Euling, now employed as a biologist with the EPA's National Center for Environmental Assessment, found the Environmental Fellows Program to be the perfect way to combine her love of the environment with her laboratory training as a postdoc in developmental biology.

Thanks to the development of a simulation model for the breathing process of a person in a dusty work environment, researchers from the J.M Madariaga Official Laboratory (LOM) and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) have designed a method capable to experimentally determine the efficacy of a series of existing filters and masks in the market.

14 December 2016 Annual Hitachi Lectureship at AAAS Focus: General Purpose Artificial Intelligence: Transforming Business in the Future Featuring: Dr. Kazuo Yano, Corporate Officer and Corporate Chief Scientist, Director of the Hitachi Artificial - Intelligence Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., and discussant David Rejeski, Director, Technology, Innovation and the Environment Project, Environmental Law Institute.

Since the end of 2012, a new precision laboratory has been in operation on the campus of the Max Planck Institutes in Stuttgart; it provides an almost disturbance - free laboratory environment for highly sensitive experiments such as the mK scanning tunneling microscope.

One, which Venkat has named B. nealsonii (in honor of Kenneth Nealson, who was his supervisor at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory), possesses two protective coats, making it a tough spore capable of surviving in the ultradry environment of the assembly facility.

Also, it is rarely possible to reproduce in the laboratory the kinds of exposure that humans are likely to encounter or that are relevant to the environment in general.

«Overall, we found that the probability of worker [bee] survival in laboratory experiments declined three-fold in bees collected from urban environments, as compared to those collected in rural environments,» Frank says.

The researchers replicated real - life environments in the laboratory and found that the shape of the spaces and the flow of fluids through them affected bacterial growth and the formation of slimy surface layers called biofilms.

When projects on the scale of a nuclear power station or THORP are concerned, or the release of genetically modified organisms into the environment, to give another example, it is not possible to model them fully in the laboratory using traditional trial - and - error methodology.

Many of the skills that I had learnt in the laboratory could be transferred directly to an office environment.

Patrick Dickinson, who joined the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge as a PhD student, wanted to find out: «I was quite interested in how plants respond to their environment and was surprised that there was so much to be learned about how plants sense and respond to temperature.

Now, new chlorine - free pyrotechnics could pave the way for a generation of red flares and fireworks that are better for the environment and for people's health, says Jesse J. Sabatini at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, in Maryland.

In a new type of collaborative study, scientists combined data from 16 separate NASA and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) spacecraft to understand how a particle phenomenon in the magnetic environment around Earth occurIn a new type of collaborative study, scientists combined data from 16 separate NASA and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) spacecraft to understand how a particle phenomenon in the magnetic environment around Earth occurin the magnetic environment around Earth occurs.

Even in the simple, unchanging environment of a laboratory flask, bacteria never stop making small tweaks to improve their fitness.

Spawning, as well as larval and juvenile development, will often occur in different habitats, and little was known about what the impact of changes in those environments is having on fish development, according to Harvey Walsh, a fisheries biologist at NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center at the Narragansett Laboratory in Rhode Island.

In a recent publication it was shown that the research on clusters is now also possible with intense XUV pulses obtained in a laboratory - scale environment with a newly developed light source that makes use of the high - order harmonic generation procesIn a recent publication it was shown that the research on clusters is now also possible with intense XUV pulses obtained in a laboratory - scale environment with a newly developed light source that makes use of the high - order harmonic generation procesin a laboratory - scale environment with a newly developed light source that makes use of the high - order harmonic generation process.

I have taken the principals behind vital bodily functions, e.g. our sense of hearing, touch and the ability to detect light, and replicated them in a laboratory environment with natural, synthetic components.

«Thin film will be able to take the cost of electricity down to better compete with existing utility prices,» says Vasilis Fthenakis, senior scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory's National Photovoltaic Environment Research Center in Upton, N.Y., and a Columbia University professor of environmental engineering.

Moving the chemical complexity of the ocean to the laboratory represented a major advance that will enable many new studies to be performed,» said Kimberly Prather, Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of California, San Diego and director of the Center for Aerosol Impacts on Climate and the Environment, who led the team of more than 30 scientists involved in this project.

Since March, there have been constant threats of strikes in the environment protection laboratory, the radiochemical unit and the reactor control room.

«It's not a windfall by any means, but on the other hand, certainly we understand it's a pretty constrained budget environment so being able to see any increase at all is a positive thing,» says Thom Mason, director of DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

In the case of opiatemaking yeast, such rules might forbid developing strains to produce illicit drugs, such as heroin, and require scientists to build in genes that prevent the microbes from living outside of a controlled laboratory environmenIn the case of opiatemaking yeast, such rules might forbid developing strains to produce illicit drugs, such as heroin, and require scientists to build in genes that prevent the microbes from living outside of a controlled laboratory environmenin genes that prevent the microbes from living outside of a controlled laboratory environment.

To determine how group behavior might vary between ant colonies, a team of researchers led by Raphaël Boulay, an entomologist at the University of Tours in France, tested the insects in a controlled laboratory environment.

The structure of the new Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, «with numerous small groups, most of which are headed by young group leaders, will promote a very open, scientifically stimulating, and interactive environment similar to that found within Heidelberg's European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL),» Di Croce hopes.

Missy Cummings, a former Navy fighter pilot and director of Duke University's Humans and Autonomy Laboratory, defines «on the loop» as human supervisory control: «intermittent human operator interaction with a remote, automated system in order to manage a controlled process or task environment.»

«Until now, our understanding of how phytoplankton assimilate nutrients in an extremely nutrient - limited environment was based on lab cultures that poorly represented what happens in natural populations,» explained Michael Lomas of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, who co-led the study with Adam Martiny of University of California — Irvine, and Simon Levin and Juan Bonachela of Princeton University.