Sentences with phrase «key scientists working»

When they are tasked to find out who is killing key scientists working for the top robotic company in town (and the ones who created the Major), a can of worms is opened up for the Major when she starts to uncover details to her mysterious past.

Stephen Davies, a neuroscientist at the University of Colorado at Denver who studies nervous system regeneration using stem cells, is one of the key scientists working to overcome the obstacles in place.

It draws on our extensive interviews with key scientists working at the front - line of microbiome and epigenetic research with the aim of presenting complex science in a way that is easy - to - understand and accessible to all.

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But a paper published in the journal Nature in 2007, which we learned about from a BBC Earth story and is still making the rounds among scientists, suggests that the key to photosynthesis might work only due to a totally bizarre effect of quantum physics.

With the Daphnia genome in hand, scientists hope to put this key environmental indicator species to even better work

Conferences are also one of the standard ways of getting your work out to its target audience — and that's key to the kind of visibility and recognition that scientists need for their careers to grow, says Donna Dean, a retired senior adviser for the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) who now works as an executive consultant for the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) and a career consultant for the American Chemical Society (ACS).

Both scientists mentioned the ability to work in a multidisciplinary team as a key to succeeding in this kind of work.

Whether it is helping a teacher to troubleshoot a kit in the classroom, helping a fellow scientist to find an age - appropriate science activity to do with an eighth - grade classroom, or telling funders why our programs are worth funding, writing and communication skills are key to our work.

A key aspect of ResearchGate is that it's restricted to working scientists, a rule it enforces by requiring users to register via institutional e-mail addresses.

«Our work introduces a design scheme to mimic the key flight mechanisms of biological bats,» said Chung, who is also a research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which Caltech manages for NASA.

Working with human breast cancer cells and mouse models of breast cancer, scientists identified a new protein that plays a key role in reprogramming cancer cells to migrate and invade other organs.

Scientists are working hard to miniaturise the key steps in DNA analysis.

In addition to simple handling and high reproducibility, the possibility to conduct high throughput work is a key advantage of the new method *, according to the scientists.

scientists at work, grappling with key issues, and displaying the full range of emotions and motivations characteristic of any urgent endeavor.

For this study, scientists worked backwards to see whether they could use a ground - based coronagraph to get that key information on the CME's speed fast enough to lengthen the warning time.

«[I] t's worth savoring the present moment, brought to all of us by a rare amalgam of political risk - taking and courage, willingness to seek common ground and compromise, dedication to one's key principles while acknowledging the legitimacy of others», and countless days, weeks and months of plain old hard work,» said Richard Denison, a senior scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, in a blog post.

Scientists from The University of Manchester working with IBM Research have identified a key biological mechanism that for the first time explains why women with dense breast tissue are at greater risk of developing breast cancer.

A key skill that scientists in her improv courses often want to focus on is speaking compellingly about their work.

Scientists do not yet fully understand how antibiotics work on the molecular level, but they think that the drugs are effective in part by introducing reactive oxygen to bacterial cells, which damages key cellular structures.

A cure for hearing loss could be closer, now that a team of scientists has produced key ear cells in mice — and for the first time verified that the cells work just like natural ones.

Research led by scientists at the University of Birmingham shows more precisely how G protein - coupled receptors, which are the key target of a large number of drugs, work.

GRAPHENE - CA will establish a comprehensive scientific and technological roadmap, by taking advantage of the activities of an existing nanoICT graphene working group, contributions of selected industrial partners and key scientists such as the Nobel Laureates A.K. Geim, K. Novoselov, A. Fert and K. von Klitzing.

In recent years, S&T Fellows have helped to set up a digital library for Iraqi scientists, provided key data to support the Endangered Species Act, contributed to a federal task force on global climate change adaptation, and worked on recovery and reconstruction projects in Haiti just weeks after the country's devastating January 2010 earthquake.

The scientists who make up The Society have made many key discoveries, ranging from how our nervous system works, how our cells divide to the way in which reflexes alter human behaviour.

Welcome: Ferenc Friedler (vice president, National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Hungary) Part A. IPBES in the Sustainable Development Agenda Thomas Koetz (IPBES Secretariat): IPBES: key functions, structures and an overview of its work programme Ivar Baste (IPBES Bureau): IPBES in the broader international governance landscape followed by a panel discussion with the two speakers and Jacqueline McGlade (UNEP chief scientist).

The main goals of these groups will be to increase the interaction between different partners and transfer knowledge and key technologies within the network, acting as a resource for a specific topic for all members of NeuroStemcell.The groups are addressed to scientists (students, post-docs or senior scientists) who have a relevant experience on the matter and are / will be working full time on the topic under NeuroStemcell funding.

Through this work, scientists are gaining insight into a key chemical able to break down some major air pollutants.

Our meetings have cemented key relationships between scientists and conservationists, have steered agency funding priorities and created working groups and collaborations that are already producing tangible conservation outcomes.

Vaijayanti has been a part of the Strand team for close to a decade as a genomics scientist, working on key projects ranging from genomics products such as GeneSpring, pharma consulting, and collaborative research with academic groups in India and abroad.

A key part of a climate scientist's work is statistical in nature, and Mann's PhD Thesis was heavily statistical.

It centers on a scientist's investigation of a bizarre murder and resurrection in Haiti, while working for a pharmaceutical company that believes an herbal drug may be the key.

Building on our work to date, the Center's overarching objective for the next year is to maximize our reach and impact by: • Convening groups of scientists and communications experts 2 - 3 times to continue synthesizing the knowledge base, distilling key principles, and fueling the Center's knowledge translation enterprise.

In a recent speech on anti-poverty initiatives, British Prime Minister David Cameron cited the work of University of Virginia cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, who argues that expanding the knowledge base of disadvantaged students is key to improving their reading... [Read more...]

Those engaged in organising and sponsoring the exhibition have rightly recognised the extent to which numerous artists have in their current work interpreted what is a universal and unifying issue in bringing key artists from Britain and abroad into collaboration with architects and environmental scientists.

The Villach conference's activist scientists worked for several years persuading key U.S. officials to back the IPCC concept, but once the Panel was created in 1988, it was clear that by its «First Assessment,» scheduled for 1990, the IPCC would require an outside «coordinating committee.»

Finally it was the stories of the scientists themselves, the adventure of fieldwork and the excitement they conveyed to me of discovering how the world works, that gave us the key to making it interesting to kids.

«Phil Jones, the beleaguered British climate scientist at the center of the leaked e-mails controversy, is facing fresh claims that he sought to hide problems in key temperature data on which some of his work was based,» The Guardian reports this morning.

A key part of a climate scientist's work is statistical in nature, and Mann's PhD Thesis was heavily statistical.

Phil Jones, the beleaguered British climate scientist at the centre of the leaked emails controversy, is facing fresh claims that he sought to hide problems in key temperature data on which some of his work was based.

McKitrick is considered by many on the «skeptical» side of the debate to be an absolutely key player in the debate about climate change, and the veracity / viability climate scientists and the work they produce.

Dr. Wayne Walker, a WHRC scientist who worked on the project, explained, «Maps of key forest attributes like canopy height and carbon stock have not existed for the U.S. at this level of spatial detail and consistency.

Peer review tends to be by a small group of friends and close associates, and attempts by third parties to replicate their work are impossible, since climate scientists seldom release their key data to outsiders, even when, which is often the case, their work is publicly funded.

As part of the Early Weather Data research stream, scientists worked to digitise and extend some of southeastern Australia's key meteorological records held by the Bureau of Meteorology, National and State Archives and a range of pre-Federation observatories and historical societies.

Irish climate scientist Peter Thorne, who worked on the landmark 2015 study, also penned a rebuttal to the newspaper article, noting that at least seven key aspects of the story are a «misrepresentation of the processes that actually occurred.»

The inclusion of Berkeley scientists was perhaps to make the point that all the key institutions working on temperature series (the Australian Bureau, NASA, and also scientists at Berkeley) appreciated the need to adjust - up the temperatures at Amberley.

It's fascinating to think that scientists in 1977, working with calculation systems less sophisticated than a modern electronic car key fob, built spacecraft that are still functioning 40 years later, still sending back telemetry from (in Voyager 1's case) interstellar space.

The webinar will feature Mindy Scott, a Senior Research Scientist at Child Trends, who is a key member of our NRFC product development team; Derrick Dease, who has worked with fathers in rural Marlboro County, North Carolina through Man 2 Man since 2000; and Sean Brotherson, North Dakota State University and the National Extension Relationship and Marriage Education Network (NERMEN), who has worked with rural fatherhood initiatives for almost 20 years.