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Since the end of 2012, a new precision laboratory has been in operation on the campus of the Max Planck Institutes in Stuttgart; it provides an almost disturbance - free laboratory environment for highly sensitive experiments such as the mK scanning tunneling microscope.

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Diagnostic assays for on - farm use have different constraints compared with those used in traditional laboratory environment

The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) had speculated the outbreaks in August and September were the result of separate leaks from the Pirbright laboratory site, which has been linked to the disease.

Consent for the current GM trials being undertaken by Leeds University, the Sainsbury Laboratory and Rothamsted Research was granted in accordance with the Environmental Protection Act 1990 following evaluation by the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE).

That makes the two protoclusters ideal laboratories for exploring early phasesof galaxy formation in a unique clustered environment.

Asked why they made the switch and what it's like leaving the laboratory for the classroom, Wenham and several other north European scientists - turned - teachers reply that teaching offers a dynamic, demanding, but extremely enjoyable professional environment.

In the study, which included a series of laboratory experiments, field surveys and mathematical modeling, the presence of various species of dragonfly larvae reduced the infections in frogs caused by parasitic flatworms called trematodes, said Val Beasley, professor and head of the department of veterinary and biomedical sciences, Penn State, who worked with Rohr and whose research group collaborated with Lucinda Johnson, senior research associate and director of the Center for Water and the Environment, University of Minnesota Duluth, to complete the field study.

The Bush administration and automakers are touting fuel - cell vehicles as a nonpolluting technology, but engineers at the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment at MIT say the nonpolluting claim is not necessarily true.

«So far, so good,» says Howard Herzog, principal research engineer at M.I.T.'s Laboratory for Energy and the Environment.

«We can test how far prebiotic chemistry has progressed in an environment that we know has the ingredients for life,» said lead investigator Elizabeth Turtle of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md..

And Yan - Chuan Cai of the University of Edinburgh waxes similar about the fifth force he's hunting: «Cosmic voids are underdense environments where the fifth force is expected to be more active,» he says, so they «are perhaps better laboratories for testing modified gravity.»

Astronauts can train for space missions in underwater environments like the enormous Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, located in NASA's Johnson Space Center.

«Regardless of whether you're in a closed or open environment, there's always a constant exchange of microbes between a host and their environment, and that constant exposure has impacts on health; for example it can lead to changes in a host's immune system that help the host stave off pathogens,» said Argonne's Jack Gilbert, an author of the study and the director of The Microbiome Center, a joint Argonne, University of Chicago and Marine Biological Laboratory program.

They also plan to evolve the chemistry behind the materials so that it may be possible for gels to better mimic more complex cellular environments beyond the control of stiffness alone, as well as investigate how dynamic changes in matrix properties — a hallmark of the stem cell niche — can be mimicked in the laboratory.

«This study, carried out using laboratory rats modeling stroke, demonstrated that ischemic stroke — in both its subacute and chronic stages — damages the BSCB in a variety of ways, creating a toxic environment in the spinal cord that can lead to further disability and exacerbate disease pathology,» said study lead author Dr. Svitlana Garbuzova - Davis, associate professor in USF's Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair.

The NERC would be responsible for the «non-marine environment», and take over the Scottish Office's Macaulay Land Use Research Institute and the Forestry Commission Research Laboratory.

Susan Euling, now employed as a biologist with the EPA's National Center for Environmental Assessment, found the Environmental Fellows Program to be the perfect way to combine her love of the environment with her laboratory training as a postdoc in developmental biology.

Thanks to the development of a simulation model for the breathing process of a person in a dusty work environment, researchers from the J.M Madariaga Official Laboratory (LOM) and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) have designed a method capable to experimentally determine the efficacy of a series of existing filters and masks in the market.

This new workflow is also compatible with the laboratory's Compute and Data Environment for Science (CADES), which assists experimentalists with the analysis of vast quantities of data.

According to Paul Lebbin, project manager for the new Cabin Comfort and Environment Research facility, the studies conducted at the laboratory will «help airlines balance profitability with what the passengers want.»

Ernest Moniz, professor of physics and engineering systems, director of the Energy Initiative, and director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment at MIT.

Now, new chlorine - free pyrotechnics could pave the way for a generation of red flares and fireworks that are better for the environment and for people's health, says Jesse J. Sabatini at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, in Maryland.

The laboratories at Rothera are very well equipped with, for example, analytical chemistry and microbiology labs, a controlled environment room, an aquarium, and a modern diving and boating facility.

Moving the chemical complexity of the ocean to the laboratory represented a major advance that will enable many new studies to be performed,» said Kimberly Prather, Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of California, San Diego and director of the Center for Aerosol Impacts on Climate and the Environment, who led the team of more than 30 scientists involved in this project.

«This creates a model for the behavior of other organic getters, allowing us to predict their optimal operating temperatures and environments,» said Long Dinh, a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

The structure of the new Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, «with numerous small groups, most of which are headed by young group leaders, will promote a very open, scientifically stimulating, and interactive environment similar to that found within Heidelberg's European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL),» Di Croce hopes.

«Until now, our understanding of how phytoplankton assimilate nutrients in an extremely nutrient - limited environment was based on lab cultures that poorly represented what happens in natural populations,» explained Michael Lomas of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, who co-led the study with Adam Martiny of University of California — Irvine, and Simon Levin and Juan Bonachela of Princeton University.

In a collaboration between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and IBM Research, the Cognitive and Immersive Systems Laboratory (CISL) has reached that milestone, and is poised to advance cognitive and immersive environments for collaborative problem - solving in situations like board rooms, classrooms, diagnosis rooms, and design studios.

But the biggest surprise was that the California Department of Public Health refused to apply the explicit exemption written into the law for laboratory tests done in a purely teaching environment.

The paper is authored by Ryuho Kataoka (National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan and Graduate University for Advanced Studies [Sokendai], Hayama, Japan), Yoshizumi Miyoshi (Solar - Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Japan [STEL]-RRB-, Kai Shigematsu (STEL), Donald Hampton (Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, USA), Yoshiki Mori (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Shizuoka University, Japan), Takayuki Kubo (Department of Precision Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan [DPE]-RRB-, Atsushi Yamashita (DPE), Masayuki Tanaka (Department of Mechanical and Control Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), Toshiyuki Takahei (Orihalcon Technologies, Inc., Japan), Taro Nakai (Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University, Japan), Hiroko Miyahara (Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan) and Kazuo Shiokawa (STEL).

We tested species of Malawi cichlids found in rocky reefs, open sand habitats, or the sand - rock interface for a variety of environment - usage phenotypes in a controlled laboratory setting.

(b) The University of California is requested to utilize California's unique collaborative research environment by convening stakeholders from public and private research institutions, national laboratories, biotechnology and high technology companies, and venture capital firms to develop the governing structure for the Cal - BRAIN program.

This research was conducted by: • Shuro TAKANO (NAOJ Nobeyama Radio Observatory / SOKENDAI) • Taku NAKAJIMA (Solar - Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University) • Kotaro KOHNO (Institute of Astronomy / Research Center for the Early Universe, The University of Tokyo) • Nanase HARADA (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics [At the time of writing: Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy]-RRB- • Eric HERBST (University of Virginia) • Yoichi TAMURA (Institute of Astronomy, The University of Tokyo) • Takuma IZUMI (Institute of Astronomy, The University of Tokyo) • Akio TANIGUCHI (Institute of Astronomy, The University of Tokyo) • Tomoka TOSAKI (Joetsu University of Education)

With outstanding world - class researchers and fully - equipped modern laboratories, you'll have the best possible environment for moving forward with your research

Using laboratory and field - based experiments he is investigating the effects of increased temperature and ocean acidification on reef fish populations and testing their capacity for acclimation and adaptation to a rapidly changing environment.

Although showing great promise in the laboratory, these technologies require control and safety measures that make sure the engineered microorganisms keep their functional gene circuits intact over many cell divisions, and that they are contained to the specific environments they are designed for.

Her doctoral research was conducted in the laboratory of Erik Lee Snapp and focused on optimizing fluorescent proteins for subcellular environment.

As the official Belgian Antarctic Operator, the Foundation ensures safe conditions for field research, provides cargo and personnel logistics, experienced polar guides, field accommodation and mobile laboratory facilities, and guarantees minimal impact on the Antarctic environment.

But the exchange at the annual meeting 2014 at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel also revealed some critical knowledge gaps: In laboratory experiments, a common phytoplankton species was able to adapt to ocean acidification, even when simultaneously exposed to other stress factors such as rising water temperatures — but will the adapted strains also successfully compete in their natural environment?

Existing academic laboratory environments are adequate for manufacturing enough targeted nanoparticles for ongoing preclinical studies (in vitro and in vivo).

In addition to having good scientific environment to discuss anything, we have an access for various kinds of biotech companies addressing all kind of laboratory needs.

Now, she and her Oxford colleague Dr Lali Iyadurai have taken their model for the first time from the laboratory into a clinical environment to study patients who had a traumatic motor - vehicle accident.

Working at Goddard Space Flight Center's Planetary Environments Laboratory as a bio-geochemist and geologist with an interest in astrobiology, Dr. Eigenbrode is part of the research team working with MSL's Science Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument testing the chemistry of Martian rocks, sediments and ice and looking for organic and inorganic compounds.

This call is open to all research disciplines and offers post-doctoral fellowships for international experienced researchers in region Centre - Val de Loire laboratories including: A 12 - month fellowship in a high level laboratory Integration in an international scientific community Funding and organization of international scientific events Enabling environment (housing, administrative support, etc...)

«Really, the big thing in this package of six papers is that we've accomplished the mission goal of finding a habitable environment,» Caltech's John Grotzinger, the principal investigator for Curiosity's $ 2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission, told NBC News.

The UmweltBühne (EnvironmentStage) presented the puppet show «The Secret Laboratory» which is designed especially for children of primary school age and is intended to encourage a conscious observation and understanding of nature and the environment.

Rick Stevens is Associate Laboratory Director for Computing, Environment and Life Sciences.

They have received a joint degree from three universities as this programme is a unique collaboration between Karolinska Institutet, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University, in the environment of Science for Life Laboratory.