Sentences with phrase «in biomedical»

Fred Hutch's undergraduate research programs are designed to provide authentic research experiences and mentorship for students interested in biomedical research.

If you want to understand what Jacob Brubert's Ph.D. in biomedical engineering was all about, you just need to watch him and his friends dance.

«The new electron microscopy methodology is a major breakthrough in biomedical sciences as it has enabled the discovery of the atomic structure of a whole new set of proteins» says Zuber.

It may also be useful in biomedical electronics and optical logic, in which light replaces electrical signals to transmit information.

Ng stresses that in the biomedical sciences in particular, researchers with interdisciplinary postgraduate training are in high demand.

We should be investing more in biomedical research,» says Jennifer Zeitzer, director of legislative relations for the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.

These deficits in social grooming are not only found in chimpanzees that were kept singly caged for decades in a biomedical laboratory, before being re-socialised, but also in individuals, who, after being orphaned, grew up in social groups in a zoo.

Persuading large numbers of people from minority groups that have been ignored or even mistreated historically in biomedical studies to share their medical records and genetic data with researchers may be a tall order.

The team's invention will further advance the applications of tactile sensors, which are already increasingly utilised for monitoring critical parameters in biomedical applications, especially for those that may come in contact with human skin or where human movement is highly versatile.

You're in luck: There's widespread interest in the biomedical research community in drawing clinicians into scientific research.

The Pasteur Foundation promotes exchanges between the Institut Pasteur and American scientists pursuing research in biomedical disciplines such as microbiology, immunology, and neuroscience.

But in biomedical labs, Dolly hinted at a future in which cells could be reprogrammed to an embryo - like state and used to treat human diseases.

The use of computers in biomedical science has grown explosively over the last decade, with researchers relying on the machines to do everything from browse the technical literature to model the complex folding of proteins.

Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)-- which is funding this initiative jointly with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute — says that having the genomes of three of the most important mammals in biomedical research in hand «will greatly speed the unraveling of the genetics and physiology» of human disease.

Innovations in Biomedical Computational Science and Technology Initiative (SBIR) Innovations in Biomedical Computational Science and Technology Initiative (STTR) These programs apply to all NIH institutes and fund basic research in biomedical computing, as well as development of informatics tools for the health sciences.

By the end of this year, study leaders aim to sharply increase that number and ensure that at least 50 % of volunteers are from groups underrepresented in biomedical research.

Science Robotics will report on the development of the next generation of micro - and nanorobots as well as their potential applications including in the biomedical field.

The discovery could help scientists understand how social, cultural, and environmental factors interact with genetics to create differences in health outcomes between different ethnic populations, the authors say, and provides a counterpoint to long - standing efforts in the biomedical research community to replace imprecise racial and ethnic categorization with genetic tests to determine ancestry.

A review of p - values in the biomedical literature from 1990 to 2015 shows that these widely misunderstood statistics are being used increasingly, instead of better metrics of effect size or uncertainty.

Singapore is a small country, and having benefited greatly from government scholarships in all my local and overseas studies, I would be honoured to return and contribute to the drive for excellence in biomedical research.

Biomedical Engineering (BME), Research to Aid Persons with Disabilities (RAPD), and Biophotonics Programs This program supports research that applies engineering principles to problems in biomedical science while contributing to the body of knowledge in engineering.

Innovations in Biomedical Computational Science and Technology (R01) Innovations in Biomedical Computational Science and Technology (R21) These funding programs emerged in 1999 from an NIH working group that recommended a special initiative in biomedical information science and technology.

«Misleading p - values showing up more often in biomedical journal articles.»

It funds a combination of training in biomedical disciplines and supervised research experiences to build skills in the health sciences.

The research has important implications for the fundamental understanding of translation in living systems, as well as intriguing potential in the biomedical arena.

But the biggest factor appears to be the increasing use of mice and rats in biomedical research.

The Budget invests in biomedical research — like the BRAIN initiative, which is developing tools and technologies to offer new insight into diseases like Alzheimer's, and Precision Medicine, which can improve health outcomes and better treat diseases.

As a world leader in biomedical research, UK research has an important part to play in tackling this crisis.

A United States federal panel of scientists and security experts has identified 11 microorganisms that it wants designated as Tier 1 select agents, a new category of biological agents that would be subject to higher security standards than other pathogens and toxins used in biomedical research.

They are the most likely to oppose advances in biomedical research and related fields.

The new assays detect only the most common malaria parasite, P. falciparum, and while they can use very small blood samples collected «in the field,» the analysis itself needs to be done in a biomedical laboratory.

Working in biomedical engineering requires calm and a propensity for planning, Fahmy says.

I began with an undergraduate mechanical engineering degree at the University of Waterloo, after which I went to the United States and completed a master's degree in biomedical engineering.

Advances in biomedical and pharmacological research have continued to benefit humanity by producing drugs that either alleviate symptoms of disease or provide a cure.

D. track should have a good honors degree in biomedical science or biomedical engineering.

Despite loving research, I felt I would have more of an impact on underrepresented minorities by encouraging them to pursue careers in the biomedical sciences and health professions, rather than discovering a cure for cancer.

One way, Tilghman said, would be for NIH to shift funding from R01 research grants, which currently support the majority of graduate students in biomedical sciences, to NIH training grants, which are peer - reviewed by NIH for their training - related virtues.

The NIH has not funded new research involving chimps since December 2011, when the Institute of Medicine, a nonprofit that advises the government on health policy, issued a report establishing strict criteria for the use of chimps in biomedical and behavioral research.

«We are using the repeatability and accuracy of robots to achieve new capabilities that have numerous applications in biomedical areas such as dermatology.»

He received his Ph.D. in biomedical signal processing from UBC and is using this training to develop a direct brain - computer interface.

«The only time when it's going to be possible to make hard decisions that would... have a long - term, beneficial effect on all the players in the biomedical workforce is... during tough times,» Tilghman said.

The young founders of Google or Facebook may have found incredible riches shortly after starting their businesses, but that isn't the norm in the biomedical arena.

I was born in Winston - Salem, North Carolina, received my high school diploma from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham, a B.S. in biology (with minor in Spanish) from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, and my Ph.D. in biomedical sciences from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee.

The absence of women on the list has drawn attention on social media, with some researchers wondering if the result reflected a bias in Semantic Scholar's ranking algorithm, or is another expression of long - documented differences in gender representation in the biomedical sciences and scientific publishing.

Increasingly, especially in the biomedical field, universities are hiring established researchers, even at the «entry» (assistant professor) level.

«In the United States, since World War II when this basic system was created, research has been a kind of Ponzi scheme in the sense that when the government provides grants, the institution leverages the indirect costs to expand research... and no institution has the resources to support the size of the faculty they have, especially in the biomedical sciences.»

National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Harold Varmus would seem to have everything he needs to create a world - class graduate school in biomedical science — about 1150 tenured and tenure - track researchers, the country's largest clinical research center, and scores of experts in the hot new discipline of bioinformatics.

The invasion of commerce in biomedical research has meant that lawyers may haggle for months about conditions before a single test tube is shipped.

«Computational predictions are already key in biomedical research, they allow us to better target our bench experiments and to be faster and more innovative when searching for solutions to medical questions,» he states.

These materials are used primarily in the biomedical area as diagnostic tools in membranes, coatings, microcapsules, implants for applications of short or long - range and systems of controlled drug release.