Sentences with phrase «lab conditions»

In one remarkable experiment, however, a group of children did learn to eat under lab conditions.

Thus a two and a half meter tube of pure CO2 in lab conditions is, loosely speaking, like «one atmosphere» of greenhouse effect.

It remains unclear whether the same quantum effects observed in tightly controlled lab conditions really do occur outdoors in our gardens.

Creating lab conditions to study this topic would be difficult, for a number of reasons.

The saved mice are perfectly healthy and live under best possible lab conditions and medical care.

In theory, silicon - based solar cells are capable of converting up to 30 percent of sunlight to electricity — although, in reality, the different kinds of loss mechanisms ensure that even under ideal lab conditions it does not exceed 25 %.

Bob Holmes reports that keeping E. coli in constant lab conditions over many generations does not result in a strain...

In the lab, such combinations turned as much as 20 percent of sunlight into electricity, although panels produced in a factory under less than ideal lab conditions only managed 13 percent at best — and Solyndra's averaged around 10 percent.

Over the following weeks, they observed how quickly each species was be able produce their leaves in these unseasonably warm lab conditions.

Now, in a study comparing mice raised in a «germ free» environment and mice raised under more typical lab conditions, scientists have identified yet another key role of the microbes that live within us: mediator of host gene expression through the epigenome, the chemical information that regulates which genes in cells are active.

«You can't replicate perfect lab conditions in the classroom,» says Code.

The problem, according to a team of 12 experts from five countries, stems from a «mismatch» between the structural complexity that nature selected over billions of years of evolution and the minimalist designs of synthetic nanomaterials, optimized for lab conditions.

«There's a school of thought that the reason enzymes work better in cells than in solution is because the concentration of enzymes surrounded by other biomolecules in cells is about 1,000 to 10,000 time more than in standard biochemistry lab conditions,» said Eric Ackerman, PNNL chief scientist and senior author of a related study that appears today in the journal Nanotechnology.

A recently published paper suggests that, in very specific lab conditions, this might also happen in Huntington's disease.

This fish, native to Zimbabwe, is the shortest - lived vertebrate that can be housed in captivity, with a natural life span of just four to six months under optimal lab conditions.

From then on there were the also the 0.9, 1.0, 1.2 lt turbo engines by most carmakers but since the emissions tests are now going to be based on real life conditions and not lab conditions, even those displacements apart from the diesel ones will prove to pollute more than what is claimed and as such, especially in the non-turbo small petrol engines the only way to meet the emissions is to upsize in order also to maintain and improve performance.

Since the sterilizing gene is blocked by an antibiotic called tetracycline, she added that mosquitoes might survive by being exposed to tetracycline outside of lab conditions and pass on their mutated genes to future generations.

Robots are getting better at dealing with the complexity of the real world, but they still need a helping hand when taking their first tentative steps outside of easily defined lab conditions.

This is a different way of thinking about solar cells, which are normally described in terms of how much energy they can produce in lab conditions, rather than in use in a specific environment.

Looking back, under constant lab conditions, says Evans, grown beta cells were simply stuck in the fetal stage.

A company called Ecovative combines what are basically mushroom roots with agricultural byproducts in controlled lab conditions.

As Jake Lanphere, a UC Riverside graduate student who co-authored the paper, which was published in the journal Environmental Engineering Science («Stability and Transport of Graphene Oxide Nanoparticles in Groundwater and Surface Water»), explained to Nanoclast in an email interview: «Other studies have looked at ideal lab conditions that do not necessarily reflect the conditions one might find in aquatic environments.

The stories you've read about Airblades are based on one study, conducted under lab conditions that might not reflect reality [see update below].

These devices, priced at thousands of dollars each, have also seen military use in Afghanistan and Iraq, even though they've been shown, under lab conditions, to be useless.

It's not the first time Roach has put herself in the frame, for Bonk she had sex with her husband under lab conditions.

It is difficult to draw definite conclusions, however, because some 350 coral species are thought to inhabit the reef — with only a handful being tested under lab conditions.

Currently, 0.3 % triclosan is the maximum amount permitted in consumer soaps in most countries and several studies under lab conditions have shown that soaps containing this amount tend to be no more effective at killing bacteria on hands than plain soap.

The lab conditions in Texas differed from conditions in the Berkeley basement.

STAR TURN The tardigrade species newly named Macrobiotus shonaicus (after the Shonai region of Japan where it was discovered) has a rare talent for growing under lab conditions.

Culturing bacteria is a tricky process as the bugs do not survive well in lab conditions.

In lab conditions, rats — our fellow omnivores — have shown a very erratic ability to self - select the diet that would do them the most nutritional good.

Using the approach, scientists exchanged one chemical group for another in 39 cancer drugs — and discovered under lab conditions that the chemically altered versions of three of the drugs had more potent anti-cancer activity.

It should also be noted that the lab conditions favored the products somewhat compared to real - life situations, because spraying bed bugs directly is often difficult as they hide and scatter.

The New Scientist reports that «Post has experimented mainly with pig cells and has recently developed a way to grow muscle under lab conditions - by feeding pig stem cells with horse fetal serum.

In our lab conditions, video performance was good, although it's heavily dependent on the source.

That may or may not be true - we don't measure such things in lab conditions, because neither do real - world users - but it doesn't mean the phone doesn't get warm in some situations, as we've found over time.