The tools used by the commercial industry to detect our thoughts and brain states are very different, and somewhat limited, compared with those
used in the research lab.
For community college students, working
in a research lab means that «instead of flipping burgers to make ends meet, you become part of the culture of research,» Friend says.
Some of those jobs involve doing serious
science in research labs and other facilities, where technicians often play important roles.
Weeks
later in another research lab, I will be scanned for brain function: what goes on in my brain when I experience fear or religious faith or when I make decisions.
While in the research lab, students are encouraged to form their own questions and work independently to develop problem - solving and critical thinking skills through self - learning.
This service provides a cost - effective, popular solution to a common problem
encountered in research labs, particularly for short - term, limited - volume storage capacity or for emergency storage.
From being an expensive
curiosity in research labs and on satellites in the 1980s, solar power or PV has become a major challenger to conventional electricity generation technologies.
«Plants have, for a long time, provided us with valuable products like food, biofuels, construction materials and the oxygen we breathe,» notes plant biologist turned chemical engineer Juan Pablo Giraldo, a postdoctoral fellow
in the research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who did the work.
At PENN - PORT, Varamini worked
in the research lab of physiology professor Joseph A. Baur, studying the molecular mechanisms of aging in transgenic mice.
By making the sample physically larger, it can be imaged with very high resolution using ordinary microscopes commonly
found in research labs.
The company has 130 employees
in research labs in Chicago, Palo Alto, and the south of France, about half of whom have agreed to be tracked throughout the day by a combination of technologies, including Web cameras and badges that emit radio signals.
providing assistance to professors and graduate
students in research labs by running statistics, performing experiments, and lab clean up
Meanwhile, top executives spend most of their time in internal meetings poring over numbers rather than listening to
employees in research labs, offices, and factories.
Growing up in South Florida, Perlstein started working
in a research lab as a junior in high school and never really stopped.
While MNU tries to decipher the aliens» advanced weapons technology (leading to one disturbing scene
set in a research lab that Dr. Mengele would have loved), affable but clueless Wikus yearns to surmount claims of nepotism.
Dr. Livezey worked full -
time in a research lab and part - time at a veterinary practice after he graduated college, and then was accepted to the University of Pennsylvania's Veterinary School.
As Mitra's findings suggest, the secret might not
lie in research labs, or even traditional classrooms, but in giving kids some technology, an intriguing challenge and then leaving them alone to figure things out.
The group's guidance follows calls for various bans on use of the technology known as CRISPR - Cas9, which has quickly become the preferred method of gene
editing in research labs because of its ease of use compared with older techniques.
Entrepreneurs coming from a research lab may find that material and procedures used
freely in a research lab have restrictions for use in a «for - profit» company.
Until now, large touch surfaces have been expensive and irregularly shaped, or flexible touch surfaces have been largely available
only in research labs.
Ursula Vielkind finds translating every bit as intellectually stimulating as the 25 years she has
spent in research labs around the world.
Looking for a
placement in a research lab at the end of that year, I got in touch with This, whom I heard of thanks to his book Les Secrets de la Casserole and his TV programme Toque à la Loup.
Suggestions included taking graduate courses as an undergraduate, working as a technician or an
assistant in a research lab, entering a master's program, or pursuing the opportunity to participate in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program, which provides preparation for graduate courses; reading science papers; and taking the GRE.
Scientists are studying it
now in the research lab of New Zealand's national museum in Wellington where it will likely end up as a preserved specimen.
It is difficult to say whether it is easier to find a permanent job in a typical academic career at a university or
in a research lab such as CERN.
Some have a formal process for placing undergraduate
majors in research labs, but the best approach, usually, is to find a professor whose work you're interested in and approach her or him directly.
English - proficient foreign - national science trainees in their first 2 years of graduate school are likely to be offered a teaching assistantship instead of a research assistantship, because their lack of experience and training tends to limit their
effectiveness in the research lab and because the amount of service required for a teaching assistantship (typically 20 hours / week or fewer... often much fewer) is less than for a research assistantship.
«One thing we've seen in design courses is that students greatly benefit from access to more experienced peers — say,
postdocs in a research lab — who can guide them through their work,» Holland says.
It's widely used
in research labs across many disciplines, but samples for analysis typically have to be cleaned, carefully prepared, and in the case of rocks, cut into thin, flat samples.
Cells from her malignancy were cultured and used to start a cell line, called HeLa, which lives on to this
day in research labs around the world.