Sentences with phrase «international consortium»

Unappreciated global spread of multiple antimicrobial resistant typhoid mapped by international consortium

Institute research findings, generated through its own research programmes and through its leading role in international consortia, are being used to develop new diagnostics and treatments for human disease.

The Data Centre will link with international consortia and work closely with NBIS that leads the Swedish technical work with these consortia.

For many, the fact that the St. Louis - based company was even working on the rice genome came as a big surprise, as does Monsanto's intent to make the data available to a publicly funded international consortium.

In Mozambique, U.S. firms are leading the way in building broad international consortia to develop and market that country's enormous offshore natural gas reserves.

Yet when the Cochrane Collaboration, a highly regarded international consortium of medical experts, examined the evidence (pdf), they could find only two small (albeit randomized and controlled) studies supporting the use of warfarin for patients at risk of developing clots.

He also actively participates in several major international consortium, such as International Warfarin Pharmacogenetic Consortium, International Clopidogrel Pharmacogenetic Consortium, Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium and worked with a group of experts to develop clinical use of HLA - B * 5801 and allopurinol.

University of Leicester co-leads international consortium to undertake diagnostics of the future

PIRE seeks to catalyse a higher level of international engagement in the U.S. science and engineering community and SFI strongly supports the involvement of researchers from the Republic of Ireland in such international consortia.

This new international consortium, consisting of 15 partners from 13 different countries, will support planning and implementation of Arctic research cruises by better coordinating the existing icebreaker fleet, allowing researchers to compete for fully - funded ship time, and collaborating with commercial vessels to increase Arctic data collection.

The trust indicators were developed by the Trust Project, an «international consortium of news organizations collaborating to use transparency to build a more trustworthy and trusted press,» launched today and primarily funded by Google and Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist.

On being offered this distinction, Chapman said: «This work in FELs imaging has grown greatly in the number of people and organizations involved, with international consortiums and centers popping up around it — but I find myself reminded that it all very much depends on the foundations that I and the teams at Lawrence Livermore started building more than a decade ago.»

CELPHEDIA with the partners of PHENOMIN (ICS, TAAM, CIPHE), the National Infrastructure for Mouse Phenogenomics, is committed in international consortia, such as IMPC «International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium» whose goal is to create the functional encyclopedia of the mouse genome by achieving inactivation mutants of every mouse gene and by performing their exhaustive phenotyping for all major physiological functions.

Observatories and other advanced research facilities are mostly supported by public resources, large international consortia and private foundations.

An international consortium comprising European renewable energy companies, Australian government agencies, and local contractor Otoc has come together to finance and develop a $ 40 million solar power project at Sandfire Resources» DeGrussa copper mine.

Up until 2006, Canada was part of an international consortium of census databases that allowed researchers to make direct cross-country comparisons over time.

CSIRO is part of an international consortium to sequence the entire genome of sugarcane.

Ms Baird's constituency has been hit by 1,600 job losses when the Corus steel plant in Redcar being mothballed earlier this year after an international consortium pulled out of a contract.

Mapping out the complex tomato genome took an international consortium five years to accomplish, but today we can read the genomes of 150 different tomatoes in one year.

BOSTON — For bee researchers like May Berenbaum, 2006 was the year an international consortium of researchers published the first full sequence of the honeybee genome, offering a unique and long - sought glimpse at the biological quirks of an insect that shares a productive history with humans.

The most forward - thinking of the new undersea habitats may be a vessel called SeaOrbiter, currently funded by an international consortium.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, and in the Netherlands have discovered how a group of three closely related fungal pathogens have evolved into a lethal threat to the world's bananas, whilst an international consortium led by scientists from Wageningen UR (University & Research Centre) has unravelled the DNA of the fungus that causes black Sigatoka disease in bananas.

Working within a European project called ECLIPSE, the international consortium of researchers considered short - lived substances that not only affect warming but are also air pollutants, or are transformed into air pollutants once in the atmosphere.

«This country has given enormous advantages to the international consortia, ranging from full tax exemption to diplomatic status: it's time that Chile participates in a more active way,» says Mónica Rubio, director of the astronomy program of the Chilean funding agency CONICYT.

Although it might seem crazy that gut bacteria could affect neurons, evidence for that has been steadily accumulating, so much so that an international consortium is devoted to understanding which microbes protect against or promote MS.

The most prominent vehicle that this group is working on is MIDD, a Mars rover developed in Weingarten in an international consortium under contract to the European Space Agency.

Top was a desire to boost China's participation in the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), which is being developed by an international consortium.

Specifically, he is leading an international consortium based in Brazil called the Walk Again Project.

In other words, humans have «become important agents of disturbance in the Amazon Basin,» as an international consortium of scientists wrote in a review of the state of the science on the world's largest rainforest published in Nature on January 19.

An international consortium led by David Altshuler of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Peter Donnelly of Oxford University in the U.K., announced the draft's completion today at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics in Salt Lake City, Utah; the map was also published in the 27 October Nature.

While the Perlegen HapMap differs somewhat from the HapMap created by the international consortium map, says Cox, both should point gene hunters to similar DNA regions — though that hasn't been put to a rigorous test.

That's exactly what an international consortium of scientists have done, creating a truly green solar cell — and one that can be made from something as common as grass clippings.

In fall 2013, this international consortium identified 11 more genes that increase the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, bringing the total number of genes associated with the more common late - onset form of the disease to 21.

Top on the list are leadership skills, whether for conflict management, handling finances, or negotiating intellectual property rights in an international consortium, these are highly rated assets that can help researchers advance to senior roles.

FANTOM is in fact an international consortium that brings together several dozens of laboratories worldwide and has recently published a paper providing an exhaustive map of these specificities.

Some doubt, however, that such a feat would ever be possible — the Hinxton Group, an international consortium of scientists that discusses stem - cell ethics and challenges, concluded that it would be difficult to get eggs from male XY cells and sperm from female XX cells.

An international consortium of specialists in early dinosaurs, led by Max Langer from the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, and including experts from Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Great Britain, and Spain has now re-evaluated the data provided by Baron et al. in support of their claim.

«The University of Bergen is a part of an international consortium that has applied for EU funding to examine the environmental impact.

A comparative analysis of genomes by the international consortium also revealed that the organisation of the coffee tree genome is best preserved in the Asteridae (the family to which potatoes and tomatoes belong) and is very close to that of the ancestral species from which all true Dicotyledons (or Eudicotyledons) descended through evolution.

Boeke's team has since edited the yeast's entire genome — streamlining it and adding molecular labels to ease future work — before farming out the synthesis of the 16 rewritten chromosomes to an international consortium of geneticists and yeast biologists.

«For instance, the benefits of the new UK10K haplotype reference panel are already being realised in analyses of international consortia as well as the 0.5 M people UK BioBank study.»

An international consortium led by researchers from the University of Tübingen and Harvard Medical School analyzed ancient human genomes from a ~ 7,000 - year - old early farmer from the LBK culture from Stuttgart in Southern Germany, a ~ 8,000 - year - old hunter - gatherer from the Loschbour rock shelter in Luxembourg, and seven ~ 8,000 - year - old hunter - gatherers from Motala in Sweden.