Sentences with phrase «in unusual»

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- By looking at the molecular aftermath of concussion in an unusual way, a team of researchers at Brown University and the Lifespan health system has developed a candidate panel of blood biomarkers that can accurately signal mild traumatic brain injury within hours using standard, widely available lab arrays.

Now, new research by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory shows that the catalyst attacks its target pollutant in an unusual way, providing insight into how to make the best catalytic converters.

Hirano, Egli and colleagues have shown that in unusual cases, stem cell clones derived from MR eggs can show substantial drift towards the donors mtDNA haplotype after low level mtDNA carryover during the MR procedure.

The Finalists are also creating technologies that revolutionize electronics and energy storage; developing the science of social and information networks; exploring novel methods to grow, analyze and manipulate nanomaterials; and engineering metamaterials (materials that have properties not found in nature) that interact with electromagnetic and sound waves in unusual ways.

In an unusual turn of events, a nutrition paper has come back to life a year after being pulled from its original publication.

Andrea Alù (The University of Texas at Austin)-- Electrical engineer Dr. Alù has made seminal contributions to the theory and engineering of metamaterials and introduced new concepts to create metamaterials that mold electromagnetic waves, light and sound in unusual ways.

In an unusual evolutionary twist, local stick spiders have come up with an almost identical repertoire of color morphs in multiple locations.

Finally, Voigtsberger and Dörner report that one variant of the He3 molecule behaves in an unusual way: normal helium atoms consist of two protons and two neutrons.

Analyses of primate visual pigments show that our color vision evolved in an unusual way and that the brain is more adaptable than generally thought

We are not quite sure what the consequences of this will be but it's clear that we are in unusual times.

Previous work had shown that several proteins involved in blood clotting were present in unusual levels in patients with septic shock.

But, as was the case in drought - stricken California, the naturally wild whims of Pacific Ocean winds conspired with a touch of global warming to bask the Evergreen State in unusual wintertime warmth.

We also know the painters used Egyptian blue in an unusual way to broaden their spectrum of hues.»

To those readers who have noticed my address, you must admit that I am located in an unusual spot for a biotechnology consultant.

Jucker is hunting for them in an unusual source of human brain tissue that has nothing to do with CJD.

At the 3 - hour - long Senate hearing — which, in an unusual move, was jointly held by an appropriations subcommittee and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions — topics ranged from financing the effort to the need for a greater sense of urgency, public health and scientific issues, and personal experiences.

Last year, Smithsonian scientists discovered a trap - jaw system in an unusual group of spiders that live in South America and New Zealand.

On 17 October, in an unusual move, the U.S. government halted federal funding for risky studies on MERS, SARS, or influenza that tweak these viruses to make them more pathogenic or transmissible by respiration in mammals.

In another unusual twist, Karch has found the strain to be eae - negative.

Biotechnologists only expect to find such bacteria in unusual environments, such as the hot geysers of Iceland or the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park in the US.

The study notes that the muscular power used while holding the arms in unusual positions may contribute to some of the extra energy cost.

You won't see any extraterrestrials, but many strange illusions arise from taking colors out of place and putting them in an unusual context.

Niyogi joined Fink's lab and found himself in an unusual situation: As a graduate student in a group of about 20, he was surrounded by postdocs, because he was focused on Arabidopsis and all the other graduate students worked with yeast.

This may manifest itself in unusual or unexplainable behavior.

Bruhns has organised her assessment in an unusual but effective way.

«People who «hear voices» can detect hidden speech in unusual sounds.»

The past few years, many postdocs at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) have obtained a permanent position in an unusual way: by suing their employer.

«Ocean eddies almost always head to the west, but by pairing up they can move to the east and travel ten times as fast as a normal eddy, so they carry water in unusual directions across the ocean.

Philippa Marrack of the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, Colorado, says the data are «convincing», but warns that the particular strains of inbred mice might process tryptophan in an unusual way.

Bernevig, with help from postdoctoral researchers Jian Li and Zhijun Wang, realized that the observed pattern made sense if the electrons in these unusual materials were sinking into the bulk of the crystal.

In an unusual attempt at scientific self - examination, psychology researchers are scrutinizing the reproducibility of work in their field.

Hexagonal boron nitride, stacked layers of boron and nitrogen atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, has recently been found to bend electromagnetic energy in unusual and potentially useful ways.

Our planet was once dominated by methane - producing microorganisms, resulting in an unusual combination of methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which would not have arisen naturally.

Consumers are warned to be on the lookout for signs of flood damage such as discolored carpeting, rust in the undercarriage, dirt in unusual places, musty odors and fogged - up headlamps, according to New Jersey Business.

The researchers provided some French journalists with advance access to the paper, but, in an unusual move, barred them from showing it to other scientists and asking for comment.

And yet Tissot and his co-authors, UChicago's Nicolas Dauphas and Lawrence Grossman, have found evidence of curium in an unusual ceramic inclusion they called «Curious Marie,» taken from a carbonaceous meteorite.

The double bonds in these trans fats — and thus, their kinks — occur in unusual positions.

A team of researchers from Arizona State University (ASU) has developed a new way to prevent ice buildup on surfaces like airplane wings, finding inspiration in an unusual source: the poison dart frog.

Second, their diet consists largely of flying insects that are captured in an unusual way; they use their white tail spots and tail - flicking behavior to flush prey hidden in vegetation.

But these animals were raised in unusual environments where they frequently interacted with humans, so they may be too singular to extrapolate their talents to their brethren.

Kealoha Pisciotta, one of a half dozen plaintiffs suing to stop the project, finds herself in the unusual position of having friends on both sides of the debate.

They ultimately collected in unusual places to form clearly visible patches — similar to people with Dowling - Degos disease.

At the Imperial College Boat Club, the men's rowing eight are about to take to the water in an unusual boat.

Now we can take a material and encapsulate it in a droplet in an unusual shape for a very long time.

In an unusual collaboration, this year the team brought along an ancient DNA expert to sample for ancient pathogens.

All had been buried in shrouds and were lying in unusual positions as though they had been dumped hurriedly.

A lone physicist on the same team is convinced that his colleagues are wrong, and in an unusual move Physical Review Letters intends next month to publish both contradictory views.

As light travels through the fishnet, the alternating layers act as circuits that bend light in unusual ways.

A potential therapy for Parkinson's disease may lie in an unusual location: the carotid body, a small organ in the neck.

For one thing, they explain changes seen in an unusual object discovered in 1974, thought to be a binary pulsar, in which two neutron stars (one of them a pulsar) orbit closely around one another.