Despite a discouraging first meeting on New Year's day, when I competed for the attention of
the lab scientists with a football game being shown on an adjacent television set, I returned later for a real interview.
«This is an exciting development,» said study principal investigator Joel Ager, a Berkeley
Lab scientist with joint appointments in the Materials Sciences and the Chemical Sciences divisions.
«This is an exciting development,» said study principal investigator Joel Ager, a Berkeley
Lab scientist with joint appointments in the Materials Sciences and the Chemical Sciences divisions.
Not exact matches
Momo Vuyisich, the company's chief
scientist, led the team that developed the technology at Los Alamos
Lab, which co-owns the technology along
with the startup.
Opentrons, a Brooklyn - based startup that's trying to replace
lab work that
scientists often have to do by hand
with a $ 4,000 robot, just raised $ 10 million.
Other sources provide services to keep costs low: Science Exchange connects
scientists with experts; and Transcriptic is a cloud - based biotech
lab testing experimental drugs, while Gingo Bioworks designs custom microbes for customers.
Brain waves usually are monitored in hospitals or research
labs, but I'm in a conference room at a company called Emotiv, where a few dozen
scientists have developed the gear and software that quite literally read my mind, allowing me to play a sort of video game
with nothing but sheer thought.
In a case of technology meets biology,
scientists in
labs across the country are experimenting
with synthetic DNA as a storage medium, most notably Microsoft and the University of Washington.
The next big jump in data storage could take the form of the DNA inside all organic matter:
Scientists in
labs across the country are experimenting
with synthetic DNA as a storage medium.
After a long career as a research
scientist, Cynthia is expert in methods development and
lab proficiency programs,
with applicability to the cannabis industry.
But
with all of the creative offerings coming out of the
labs of the nation's best pizza
scientists, it's easy to overlook the most logical of all pizza hybrids: A breadstick pizza.
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with smart ingredients, boosting the appeal of vegetarian sausages, an excursion into the world of fine honeys, the sweet success of the gourmet confectionery market, and more
The
lab set also comes
with 20 activity cards and a write and wipe journal to record results — perfect for the budding
scientist.
With a «chief
scientist» specializing in consumer behavior, an «analytics department» monitoring voter trends, and a squad of dozens huddled at computer screens editing video or writing code, the sprawling office complex inside One Prudential Plaza looks like a corporate research and development
lab — Ping - Pong table and all.
«Permadoc: A
scientist who spends upwards of ten (or more) years working out of one (or more)
labs as a postdoctoral fellow
with little to no career advancement.»
I put off making a decision by taking a research
scientist position in the
lab of a new PI so that I could see the job up close,
with all its benefits and struggles.
The
scientists believe that because they included eight mutations in their
lab - made viral strain, it is unlikely the virus will revert back to its original, more dangerous form (a common concern
with any live - virus vaccine).
University
scientists staff their
labs with graduate students and postdocs recruited «
with funding and the implicit assurance of interesting research careers,» she writes.
That's why Science recognized the idea of «treatment as prevention» as its scientific breakthrough of the year, crediting the
lab of infectious diseases researcher Myron Cohen, a physician -
scientist at the University of North Carolina School (UNC) of Medicine in Chapel Hill,
with discovering and investigating one of the most promising antiretroviral drugs, HPTN 052.
«These students become aware of the different jobs within a
lab, different ways of thinking, and have also a direct link
with real
scientists who can help them for their future orientation.»
There was no need to worry, however, because the sight of several thousand
scientists (including about 1400 anthropologists) marching in
lab coats and Einstein wigs
with placards seeking money for science, of all things, was a novelty.
«I'm a plant
scientist in Dr. Patel's
lab at Big State University,
with significant research experience in improving efficiency of various cropping systems under a range of environmental conditions, as well as working
with parent lines development and hybrid seed production.
He, along
with others, is finding ways to establish active research
labs by pulling in expertise and reaching out to collaborate
with scientists outside the country.
Scientists» long relationship
with lab mice has been one of incremental advances to improve a flawed system.
Despite hanging out
with scientists and becoming a
lab rat herself, there is a danger she may alienate more scientific readers.
The need for
scientists with an eye for business as well as research knowledge is increasing rapidly, and for those who love science but have second thoughts about spending a lifetime in the
lab, this might be the answer.
While Miller and Orgel followed their clues in the
lab, other
scientists pursued their obsession
with life's chilly origins to the ends of the earth.
D.» or «physician -
scientist» even meant until I joined a
lab as an undergraduate researcher and began working
with an M.D. - Ph.
For most
scientists, the move from being a postdoc in a university
lab to taking a job
with a promising biotech startup is the path to higher income.
It involves learning about experimental procedures, research independence, communicating your scientific work
with fellow
scientists, and developing productive collaboration
with lab mates and other people.
It also proved useful for making contacts: I eventually applied to do graduate studies in plant physiology at Queen's University, in the
lab of a
scientist with whom I had worked the previous summer.
So, I took a job as a research
scientist in the analytical
lab of a smaller chemistry - driven, discovery - based pharmaceutical company located in Vancouver, B.C.
With fewer than 100 employees and no products on the market, it couldn't have been further from the formal corporate work environment I was accustomed to at a multinational company.
To her left, she could see the starting line for an academic position
with her own
lab, and to her right she could see the potential for a position as a research
scientist in the biotech industry.
The fundamental unity of science training and science scholarship does not relieve research
scientists — their
labs teeming
with graduate students and postdocs supported by stipends paid from research grants — or their host institutions, or the funding organizations, of the responsibility to take training the next generation of
scientists very, very seriously.
I never thought we would actually get to do real
labs and talk
with real
scientists.
The 100 Island Challenge team, composed of postdoctoral researchers, staff, and graduate students from the
labs of Sandin and Scripps ecologist Jennifer Smith, is partnering
with scientists and communities around the world to visit 100 different islands and use these novel 3 - D imaging techniques to create photo mosaics capturing every detail of the coral reef structure and ecology.
Scientists had been searching in vain for such a gene since 1994 when Rockefeller University
scientist Jeffery Friedman found that
lab mice
with a specific genetic mutation fail to produce leptin and as a result have uncontrollable appetites, and become huge.
That could be a good thing: In a world where computer - driven systems analysis is becoming increasingly integrated
with traditional wet
lab research, interdisciplinary
scientists like me will be highly valued.
The electron microscopy provided a crucial piece of the larger puzzle assembled in concert
with Berkeley
Lab materials
scientists and soft x-ray spectroscopy experiments conducted at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL).
Although his team continued its research,
with other
scientists assuming the principal investigator roles he had held, the
lab lost critical time on projects funded by grants due for renewal.
Scientists with outside interests are often regarded
with suspicion in the
lab; we can be seen as undedicated, unfocused, easily distracted, and so divorced from the scientific frame of mind that we'll probably end up working in — oh, the shame — industry.
The technology allows
scientists in the
lab to «light up» and then monitor a brain protein called alpha - synuclein that has been associated
with Parkinson's.
There's nothing wrong
with scientists having outside interests, and your time outside the
lab is your own.
So
scientists choose the lymphocytes
with the greatest tumor - fighting activity, grow a large population of them in the
lab, then infuse them back into the patient.
In the United States, the odds are greater that a
scientist will be able to launch his or her own
lab, sometimes
with startup money from a university.
She is a professor of social psychology and neuroscience at Northeastern University in Boston, and like many
scientists with large, active research
labs, she watches
with dismay as some Ph.D. s and postdocs struggle to find a secure job, as she did 2 decades ago.
Working
with scientists in and out of your
lab is especially important, Frias says, which places great demands on communication skills.
Still, the hunt for nonterran life could be accomplished
with a tool familiar in any biology
lab,
scientists suggested here yesterday at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference and in a paper in press at Astrobiology.
For example
with our colleagues from the Chicago Field Museum, the Cornell
Lab of Ornithology
with support from the McArthur Foundation we have been able to implement for almost 10 years management plans that we developed in joint expeditions
with Cuban
scientists and the people from protected areas.
The opportunity to work together
with other
scientists is another consideration to factor in when choosing a
lab, argues Nicolas Carayol, a professor of economics at the University of Bordeaux in France, who was not involved
with the study.