Sentences with phrase «laboratory investigations at»

From a small wooden desk in a row home a few miles north of the U.S. Capitol, Justin Goodman is waging war against animal research as director of laboratory investigations at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

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The investigations also revealed that Kamasa's son who also had no training was working as a laboratory technician at the facility.

The Customs» document had noted «spoilage» in one of the containers during its inspection, and asked that the particular container be moved and detained at the premises of White Stones Frozen Foods Limited, until it was properly certified for human consumption through a laboratory investigation.

Customs had said it noted «spoilage» in the containers during its inspection of the frozen chicken, and asked that the particular container be detained until it had undergone a laboratory investigation, however, Mr. Agampim and the Port Veterinary officer, had at 5 - 5:30 pm used their eyes and nose to identify to remove the 266 boxes of the rotten chicken from the container with 2,800 boxes.

Interestingly, a third container with 2,800 boxes of frozen chicken, has been impounded at the premises of the importer; Tema - based White Stones Frozen Food Limited, pending a laboratory investigation, something the Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), had earlier asked them to do, but was ignored.

Also at 10 a.m., the Assembly Committee on Codes, the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Oversight, Analysis and Investigation holds a public oversight hearing on forensic science laboratories, 250 Broadway, Assembly Hearing Room 1923, Manhattan.

The work included conducting investigations at an area research laboratory and offered new perspectives on teaching that Mabey has incorporated in her classroom.

► Last Friday, a Sifter pointed to a story about a «massive investigation by USA Today» that «revealed details of hundreds of accidents in recent years at U.S. high - containment laboratories studying dangerous pathogens.»

According to Lindsay Murray of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food's fisheries laboratory at Burnham - on - Crouch, who is leading the investigation, the surveys have found crabs across more than 100 square kilometres of the Norfolk coast and show that «the bank is part of an important crab fishery and breeding ground».

In what was originally a separate line of investigation, David Baker and Taane Clark and colleagues at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute analyzed the whole - genome sequences of two P. falciparum laboratory strains that they knew were unable to produce gametocytes.

«We believe that it is quite remarkable,» he says, «that for all the determinants that have been considered in a series of investigations performed in our laboratory, one can find nonresponders — even after 20 weeks of regular exercise at a frequency of five times a week over the last several weeks of the program.»

In January 2010, an explosion in a chemistry lab at Texas Tech University (TTU) in Lubbock seriously injured a graduate student and touched off an investigation by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board that led to a groundbreaking report on laborinvestigation by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board that led to a groundbreaking report on laborInvestigation Board that led to a groundbreaking report on laboratory safety.

The study is part of a three - year, $ 515,000 National Science Foundation - funded project between Kansas State University and Karen Johannesson at Tulane University that is titled «Collaborative Research: Chemical Hydrogeologic Investigations of Tungsten: Field, Laboratory, and Modeling Studies of an Emerging Environmental Contaminant.»

Overexpression of variant PNPLA3 gene at I148M position causes malignant transformation of hepatocytes via IL -6-JAK2 / STAT3 pathway in low dose free fatty acid exposure: a laboratory investigation in vitro and in vivo.

Field observations of microbes recovered from deep drill cores, deep mines, and the ocean floor, coupled with laboratory investigations, reveal that microbial life can exist at conditions of extreme temperatures (to above 110ºC) and pressures (to > 10,000 atmospheres) previous thought impossible.

The team's initial clinical investigations looked at an experimental asthma allergen, with the new process found to successfully terminate established allergic responses in sensitized laboratory mice.

Therefore, scientists at the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor (ME, USA) have carried out investigations into the genetics of these organisms to find out if these regenerative mechanisms could be triggered in humans.

Dr. John Loring, a geochemist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, was quoted by reporter Rachel Berkowitz about PNNL's investigations related to carbon dioxide storage under the Carbon Sequestration Initiative.

Results: Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have reported the first systematic investigation using global proteomics to identify changes in the abundance of bacterial proteins associated with macrophage colonization and a new protein that helps the bacterium to survive inside macrophages.

** In 2014, Sethian established CAMERA at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as an integrated, cross-disciplinary center to develop and deliver fundamental new mathematics required to capitalize on experimental investigations at DOE Office of Science user facilities.

«ECOSTRESS will enable a detailed investigation into plant water use throughout the day,» says Josh Fisher, the mission's science lead at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Furthermore, we'll be able to better understand how certain regions are being impacted by drought.

She then worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Mars Program Office where she served as the Mars Sample Return Science System Engineer and worked on formulation of sample science and astrobiology investigations for future robotic missions, as well as long - term planning for potential human missions to the red planet.

The 3 largest case series of infants with microcephaly also reporting congenital contractures found that, among 35, 48, and 52 infants with microcephaly and presumed congenital ZIKV infection, isolated clubfoot occurred in 14 %, 10.4 %, and 3.8 % and arthrogryposis in 11 %, 10.4 %, and 5.7 %, respectively.36 - 38 Among a series of 104 infants under clinical investigation, 7 (6.7 %) with presumed (5 infants) and laboratory - confirmed (2 infants) congenital ZIKV infection had arthrogryposis; 6 of these infants had a head circumference of at least 2 SD below the mean.41 All had bilateral congenital hip dislocation, which previously has been reported to occur in 30 % to 40 % of children with arthrogryposis of various etiologies and 3 of 7 had dislocation or partial dislocation of 1 or both knees.41, 57

What goes on at the crime scene is called crime scene investigation (or crime scene analysis), and what goes on in the laboratory is called forensic science.

A Dutch medical institution announced an investigation Tuesday after discovering that up to 26 women may have been fertilised by the wrong sperm cells at its IVF treatment laboratory.

These investigations, under contract to the Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory (which manages the MRO Project for NASA), supported development of the MARCI and CTX for launch aboard the 2005 orbiter and now are supporting mission operations at MSSS.

Several conclusions now can be drawn: (1) research grants are used to pay for indirect expenses by all science faculty researching in a laboratory, (2) many scholarly investigations by faculty not needing to work in a research laboratory have their indirect expenses paid by some internal budget at the same institutions, (3) research grant awards for indirect expenses at some institutions exceed the amount given for direct expenses, and, (4) direct experience with paying for indirect expenses leads many Principal Investigators to have questions and suspicions that some type of hidden purpose or scam might be going on with the current system for using research grant funds to pay for indirect expenses.

«The results seem pretty dramatic,» says Mark P. Mattson, PhD, a senior investigator at the National Institute on Aging in Bethesda, Md. «Even though the number of subjects in the study was not really high, they had really high, statistically significant improvements in their performance on the memory test,» added Mattson, who studies caloric restriction and the brain in his role as chief of the Cellular and Molecular Neurosciences Section at the Laboratory of Neurosciences but was not involved in Dr. Floel's investigation.

Finally, laboratory science, even at the molecular level, plays a key role in our etiologic investigations and our screening of populations.

For nearly 10 months in 2002 and 2003, PETA conducted an undercover investigation at Sinclair Research Center, a contract laboratory for Iams pet food.

Dr. Kiupel is a Professor in the Department of Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation as well as Director of the Immunohistopathology Laboratory and Biopsy Service at the MSU Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health (DCPAH) The processes and procedures for collecting samples were worked out through the efforts of BGF Trustee Mary Maliarik, PhD and the MSU team.

This year - long investigation initiated by the artist Tania Brugueraincludes an online archive, an association of Arte Útil practitioners, an open - call, a publication, a working laboratory at the Queens Museum, an artist residency at Immigrant Movement International and a series of public projects and debates culminating in the transformation of a building at the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands into the Museum of Arte Útil in the fall of 2013.

Four questions were selected by attendees as focus topics for further investigation by artists nominated to lead a series of week - long performance laboratories and open rehearsals at the New Museum.

While there, I had the opportunity to take on the role of Director, Investigations and Hearings at CMLTO (College of Medical Laboratory Technologists of Ontario)- a self - regulatory body.

Before practicing law, Shrestha was a research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, where his investigation on materials for hydrogen storage technology received several patents.

In Philadelphia, Frederic W. Whitehurst, a Ph.D. chemist and former supervisory special agent at the Federal Bureau of Investigation Laboratory, discussed a colleague's false or misleading forensic testimony in multiple cases.