Sentences with phrase «in federal labs»

In contrast, the congressional subcommittee's reaction to unsafe conditions in federal labs, and its use of federal power to bring change, was unambiguous.

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) said in letter dated March 18 that it planned to revoke the lab's federal license and ban Holmes and Theranos's president, Sunny Balwani, from owning other labs for at least two years, the WSJ said.

Kaspersky Lab, the Russia - based cybersecurity company known for its Internet security software, was dealt a heavy blow today when the Department of Homeland Security issued a directive banning the firm's products from use in the federal government.

Many things under way at Other Lab relate to a DARPA project on programmable matter (DARPA being the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the famous federal government research laboratory in which far - fetched ideas are pursued until they become not - so - far - fetched.

Here's a potential next step: The federal government could establish a National Innovation Foundation (NIF) to replicate Bell Labs» winning model and catalyze public - private investment in transformative technologies.

In the spirit of Bell Labs, a new National Innovation Foundation could connect federal agencies and outside partners to take on big innovation challenges jointly.

Federal prosecutors also said they expect to begin handing over copies of all the documents and other material they seized to Cohen and his attorneys starting April 27, with plans to finish handing over most of the material by May 11, with the exception of several cellphones, which are locked and likely have to be decrypted by experts at the FBI crime lab in Quantico, Virginia.

In its announcement on Tuesday, the federal task force said it wants product safety and lab testing to be «a cornerstone» of the new regulated system.

As Canada prepares to become the largest jurisdiction in the world to legalize recreational marijuana, a federal task force has told Ottawa it should also require the product to be lab - tested, safe to consume and free of harmful contaminants such as bacteria, mould and dangerous pesticides.

Last month, Ryan Zagone, Director of Regulatory Relations at Ripple Labs, was elected to the Federal Reserve's Faster Payments Task Force Steering Committee where he will work with industry members to engage stakeholders in payments and advance the vision outlined in the Fed's January report.

Z Nation Lab has partnered with Govonomy in the USA to provide a platform for growth stage startups in India get access to Federal grants and contracts.

If approved, the funding would be on top of the $ 243 million the Rome Lab received in the latest federal spending bill.

Federal energy officials are weighing whether to greenlight the $ 600 million project, and, if approved, whether to put it at Brookhaven or the Jefferson National Lab in Newport News, Virginia.

A federal prison in Kentucky was a temporary home for thousands, including Sonny Rollins, Peter Lorre and William S. Burroughs as well as a lab for addiction treatments such as LSD

The news came a year after Attorney General Jeff Sessions disbanded the National Commission on Forensic Science, an Obama administration - era collaboration between the Justice Department and the National Institutes of Standards and Technology that brought together scientists, judicial players including prosecutors, defense lawyers, federal crime labs directors in an effort to improve forensic science.

Bellotti says his organization already has a mailing list of 350,000 names, which he'll use to pressure Congress to require federal agencies to provide more details about the studies they conduct — and to defund labs or programs engaging in what the group considers wasteful and unnecessary research.

It's clear that the federal government can act strongly when it chooses to take action, to ensure safety in government labs or to combat academic lab fraud.

The federal government has shown its power to raise lab - safety standards and protect the lives and well - being of lab workers in federal installations.

UCHC has frozen externally funded research in Das's lab, and it turned away US$ 890,000 in federal grants while the investigation was underway.

«[S] ome federal agencies do have specific requirements on safety,» it continues, «but it is not a general practice to require proposals to contain a) identification of hazards in the proposed research, b) strategies [for] how those hazards will be mitigated, and c) information regarding how lab workers will be trained on the project hazards.»

Given that federal law and regulations shape much of what happens in the labs that do government - funded research, such steps could, at least in theory, make a difference.

- The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE)'s short - term positions in research labs, federal agencies, non-profit organizations, and businesses in its Campus to Careers program

In the wake of a 2011 federal report concluding that chimp research is scientifically unnecessary, an animal rights group wants the NIH director to to ensure that chimps still in agency labs are retirIn the wake of a 2011 federal report concluding that chimp research is scientifically unnecessary, an animal rights group wants the NIH director to to ensure that chimps still in agency labs are retirin agency labs are retired

«Recent reports of lapses in biosafety practices involving Federal laboratories» — the mistaken shipment of live anthrax samples by a lab at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta; the accidental contamination of benign poultry flu samples with the deadly H5N1 bird flu at the CDC; and the discovery of old vials of smallpox on the NIH campus in Maryland — «have served to remind us of the importance of constant vigilance over our implementation of biosafety standards,» the notice states.

Ohio premed student claims same - sex groupings in physics lab violated federal gender equity law

Fast - forward from that first lightbulb moment with the video through a couple of years refining the idea, patent approval, and the formation of Marine Desalination Systems in 1999 to the procurement of federal funding in 2001, and Max is in St. Petersburg, Florida, with a lab in a refurbished 1927 art deco building where Sealtest once made cherry - vanilla ice cream.

One outside speaker, Arthur Bienenstock, a physics professor emeritus and special assistant to the president of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, for federal research policy, cited a proposal to change how universities are reimbursed for the cost of supporting federally funded research that would have resulted in scientists spending less time in the lab.

In collaboration with Ding, the lab of Olivier Voinnet at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich also reported in an accompanying paper the detection of viral siRNAs in cultured mouse embryonic stem cells infected by the Encephalomyocarditis viruIn collaboration with Ding, the lab of Olivier Voinnet at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich also reported in an accompanying paper the detection of viral siRNAs in cultured mouse embryonic stem cells infected by the Encephalomyocarditis viruin Zurich also reported in an accompanying paper the detection of viral siRNAs in cultured mouse embryonic stem cells infected by the Encephalomyocarditis viruin an accompanying paper the detection of viral siRNAs in cultured mouse embryonic stem cells infected by the Encephalomyocarditis viruin cultured mouse embryonic stem cells infected by the Encephalomyocarditis virus.

They will also talk about how federal investments are revolutionizing biotechnology, efforts to ensure that this field innovates responsibly, and how public - private partnerships will solidify the nation's leadership in the bioeconomy and speed innovations from the lab bench to the public.

In the United States, community labs have even developed relationships with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which has introduced members to local police and fire departments to maximize preparedness for security issues that could arise.

«In many, many labs, additional money has been pouring in because of the [federal] stimulus,» O'Connor sayIn many, many labs, additional money has been pouring in because of the [federal] stimulus,» O'Connor sayin because of the [federal] stimulus,» O'Connor says.

We expect a high degree of scientific integrity by scientists, whether they be in university labs or federal offices.

In times of very tight federal budgets, such as the present, this means that many labs, and even many well - established scientific careers, do not survive.

OTTAWA, CANADA — Last week federal Finance Minister Paul Martin announced a $ 268 million outlay for future equipment awards provided by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), a $ 1.3 billion entity created in 1997 to rejuvenate labs in universities and research hospitals.

Federal investigators collected 100 samples of tissue and feather remains from the engines, then sent them to the Smithsonian Institution's Feather Identification Lab in Washington, D.C.

His lab built ShakeAlert over the past six years in partnership with Caltech, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and the Southern California Earthquake Center.

Federal - government - run labs include one at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and one at the United States Army Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Maryland, a biological - warfare research center.

The 1 - million target doesn't distinguish between associate and bachelor's degrees, for example, nor does it mean that every student will become part of what is generally defined as the nation's scientific workforce — as a faculty member, for example, or working in a corporate research lab or federal research facility.

The research complements other work being done in Dr. Roberts» lab, including an ongoing study funded by the federal BRAIN Initiative research program to understand how the brain functions during vocal learning.

Andrew Hebbeler, assistant director for biological and chemical threats in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), explained at a meeting today of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) that the policy is a response to several recent biosafety lapses at federal labs involving mishandled samples of anthrax, H5N1, and smallpox.

A federal investigation into animal research labs at the University of Utah has flagged several infractions, but concludes that overall the labs are «in good order.»

The mandatory across - the - board federal cuts known as sequestration slashed $ 1.55 billion from NIH's budget this year and will result in belt - tightening at labs with ongoing grants as well as hundreds fewer new grants than in 2012.

Kilpatrick is a wildlife disease expert whose lab has been working with state and federal wildlife agencies and other partners to track the spread of white - nose syndrome, which was first discovered in New York state in 2006.

Let the big science and technology organizations in government — the federal labs, all the places that need technological people — become part of First the same way corporate sponsors do: by adopting high schools and supporting teams.

Although it's highly accurate, ND is rarely used to measure residual stress because there are only three federal research labs in the U.S. — LANL being one of them — that have the high - energy neutron source required for this analysis.

Specifically, «[s] he said that when students, faculty, or staff move from one university to another, the new university should be alerted if the person was found to have violated provisions of a 1972 federal law targeting gender discrimination in higher education, commonly known as Title IX,» «[b] ut legal experts say it could prove tricky to craft a congressional response that reaches down to the level of university labs,» Cornwall wrote.

And Einstein's lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and the patent office where he worked in Bern have both been re-created.

Durkee says that lab officials actually gave the employees 100 % of the federal rates for per diem allowance in the various locations.

The voluntary buyouts are intended to prepare the lab for a second round of automatic cuts that will occur in 2014 unless Congress agrees on another approach to reducing federal spending, say Oak Ridge Director Thom Mason.

The finds came as part of a sweep for select agents at NIH and other federal agencies launched after six vials of live smallpox dated 1954 were found in July in a cold storage room in an FDA lab on the NIH campus.