Sentences with phrase «laboratory model for»

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Liboiron uses her position as the head of the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research to advocate for open science hardware and lead «a small but growing movement for people who make technology and instruments open source,» something she describes as «very much against the model that runs many universities around the world.»

Just as Silicon Valley companies are laboratories for new technologies and business models, so Toms is becoming a kind of Darpa for the social - venture set.

I have done a little work on developing model behavioral assay procedures for studying the experiences of laboratory rats.

With models for 250 and 500 bottles per hour (BPH), these fillers can be integrated with our laboratory and small scale UHT, HTST and Aseptic processing equipment to create a complete laboratory aseptic processing line.

For processing, seeds were de-hulled with an Impeller Husker (model FC2K; Yamamoto Co, Ltd, Yamagata - ken, Japan); seeds were subsequently polished in small batches for 30 s with an electric grain polisher (model «Pearlest;» Kett Electric Laboratory, Tokyo, JapaFor processing, seeds were de-hulled with an Impeller Husker (model FC2K; Yamamoto Co, Ltd, Yamagata - ken, Japan); seeds were subsequently polished in small batches for 30 s with an electric grain polisher (model «Pearlest;» Kett Electric Laboratory, Tokyo, Japafor 30 s with an electric grain polisher (model «Pearlest;» Kett Electric Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan).

All current and previous car seat models are tested for chemical compliance by independent laboratories.

Human tissue grown in the laboratory offers a critical model for understanding the disease process.

This study identifies myomerger as a fundmentally required protein for muscle development using cell culture and laboratory mouse models.

This realization «pushed one entire laboratory project in the direction of understanding the immunology of pregnancy as a model for immunity of cancer,» Markovic says.

Using geological observation, laboratory impact experiments and computer modeling, Schultz and Brown graduate student Stephanie Quintana have offered a new explanation for how those streaks were formed.

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.

Called GREAT3, which stands for GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing 3, the event is sponsored by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and a European Union Network of Excellence called Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modeling and Computation Learning 2 (PASCAL2).

The common name for this problem is a «combinatorial explosion,» and the solution to it, called «rule - based modeling,» was developed 12 years ago by VCell team member Michael Blinov and colleagues James Faeder and William Hlavacek, who all worked during that time at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

It's for this reason that it's important to understand the differences in responses between geoengineering experiments, said Ben Kravitz, a climate modeler at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory who helps run the international Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project.

Realistic stem cell therapies to replace diseased or damaged tissue may still be years away, but researchers have uncovered a promising new use for these undifferentiated cells: they can be programmed to become patient - specific laboratory models of inherited liver disease.

«For the past 100 years the tendency and the trend has been to develop as consistent a model as possible, so every individual will respond the same way to the same challenges,» says Nadia Rosenthal, the scientific director at Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine.

The ability of the inorganic component of sea spray particles to take up water has been the focus of this international study where a large suite of well - controlled laboratory experiments have shown, for the first time, that the hygroscopicity of the inorganic component of sea spray is significantly lower than pure sodium chloride, a substance routinely used to describe their hygroscopicity in climate models.

The menagerie of exoplanets has provided new natural laboratories for scientists to test out models of planetary formation and evolution.

We were very surprised based on the fact that previous models people used for planet formation suggested a much higher critical shock pressure,» says Richard Kraus, now a scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and lead author on the paper published in March in Nature Geoscience.

Transparent eggs and fry are «ideal for getting light in and getting light out,» notes Eric Edsinger, who develops model organisms at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass..

Tropsha is the K.H. Lee Distinguished Professor at the School and director of the Laboratory for Molecular Modeling.

The model has already been integrated into the next generation of the global land model used for climate simulations by the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, a major national climate modeling center.

«Despite the low infection levels of mouse cells with oHSV, we were able to cause a delay in tumor growth in one of the cancer models and even cure many of the mice in a second model,» said first author Jennifer Leddon, who conducted much of the laboratory work during a research experience in the Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases.

«For the onboard measurements to be meaningful, we needed to develop a model that predicted the arrival times using ground - based observations provided by our collaborators at radio telescopes around the world,» said Paul Ray, a SEXTANT co-investigator with the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory.

In his groundbreaking book The Inflationary Universe, for example, Alan Guth of MIT, who codeveloped the leading model of the Big Bang, speculates provocatively about whether it would be possible to create a new universe in a basement laboratory, but he treats such a Genesis - on - demand merely as a scientific thought problem.

The zebrafish larva is an ideal model to study genes involved in epilepsy, and the methods necessary for such studies are now well - established in our laboratory.

Most animal studies of the disease are conducted with laboratory mice that have been genetically engineered and bred to model ALS, but for this research, investigators used rats with ALS because they more accurately portray the disease's variable course in humans.

«There hasn't been a good animal model for any kind of speech disorder,» says study author Wan - chun Liu, a senior research associate in Fernando Nottebohn's Laboratory of Animal Behavior.

«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.

Plentiful online scientific databases offer terabytes of data for scientists to mine with their desktop computers, while model genera like Drosophila (fruit flies) are available for experiments in increasingly powerful laboratory spaces.

A study combining tumor cells from patients with breast cancer with a laboratory model of blood vessel lining provides the most compelling evidence so far that a specific trio of cells is required for the spread of breast cancer.

Now Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researchers have extended cryo - EM's impact further by developing a new computational algorithm that was instrumental in constructing a 3 - D atomic - scale model of bacteriophage P22 for the first time.

In laboratory studies, the researchers conducted a series of experiments involving 3,5 di - tert - butylcatechol, or DTBC, a compound that is used as a model substance for tracking the chemistry of oxidation.

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.

Research in the laboratory of Rebecca Wingert, the Gallagher Family Associate Professor of Adult Stem Cell Research in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, has confirmed the key role of a certain small molecule in the development of kidney structures in zebrafish, a widely used model for human kidneys.

One climate model at Princeton University's Geo physical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory predicts that central India will have doubled precipitation, while the centers of continents at middle latitudes — the midwestern United States, for example — will actually have much drier summers than they have now (this summer's drought could, in other words, be a foretaste).

The protein was manufactured synthetically for the first time in a laboratory in Vienna 25 years ago and since then has been used worldwide as an allergen model in research.

He also believes the technique will work reasonably well for studying the structure and function of proteins in most other model organisms, including laboratory mice.

Recently, Dr. Cohen's laboratory obtained an ethical approval to test the therapeutic efficiency of NT219 as a treatment in Alzheimer's - model mice, hoping to develop a future treatment for hitherto incurable neurodegenerative disorders.

In his current position at The Jackson Laboratory, he has overall responsibility for the ongoing operational development of the PDX resource, which generates, banks, and distributes patient - derived xenograft (PDX) mouse models of human cancers.

He likens the model to a laboratory for assessing future prospects for gravitational wave astronomy.

For assessing the global ocean - carbon sink, McKinley and her co-authors from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NCAR and the University of Colorado Boulder used the model to establish a long - running climate scenario from historical data.

For her study on geologic storage, Lord and her colleagues analyzed and reworked the geologic storage module of Argonne National Laboratory's Hydrogen Delivery Scenario Analysis Model.

Markram's laboratory has characterized the electrical properties of many neocortical neuron types through experiments in vitro, and constructed a model for each.

Steve Mirsky: And some people think that Tycho Brahe's island laboratory is a model for the island in The Tempest.

Models were developed by scientists at NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), the University of Michigan, LimnoTech, the University of Michigan Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research, and the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL).

LUX improvements, coupled to advanced computer simulations at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's (Berkeley Lab) National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and Brown University's Center for Computation and Visualization (CCV), have allowed scientists to test additional particle models of dark matter that now can be excluded from the search.

«For example, there is a huge amount of interest and excitement globally in growing cerebral organoids» — miniature brain - like organs that can be studied in laboratory experiments — «from stem cells to model human brain development and disease mechanisms.

«Support for the development of the ACME model supports the development of CESM and vice versa,» explains David Bader, a modeler at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California who runs the ACME project.

In the past few years, in high - energy experiments at CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics, near Geneva and at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), physicists have made precision tests of the Standard Model.