Sentences with phrase «laboratory techniques for»

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The laboratory techniques for dating almost anything by radioactive decay, whether a hominid fossil or a coral horn, are very similar.
They have screened combinations of antibodies that bind to specific proteins on the surface of the immature and mature stem cells and that can be used for flow cytometry, a common laboratory technique for sorting cells.

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Motherhood resulting from merely laboratory techniques may stir wonder at technology, but not reverence for maternity.
Extensive research using improved epidemiologic methods and modern laboratory techniques documents diverse and compelling advantages for infants, mothers, families, and society from breastfeeding and use of human milk for infant feeding.1 These advantages include health, nutritional, immunologic, developmental, psychologic, social, economic, and environmental benefits.
To that end, another member of the Ja Laboratory, Graduate Student Keith Murphy, has developed a new open - source, customizable technique for jointly studying multiple fly behaviors.
Holt and Rakoff noted that many other recommendations for improving forensic techniques that the National Academy of Sciences outlined have been adopted by state and local crime labs and led to the implementation of codes of professional conduct governing forensic laboratories and other practices.
An international team led by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed a new technique for identifying gene enhancers — sequences of DNA that act to amplify the expression of a specific gene — in the genomes of humans and other mammals.
These changes might be very subtle — squeezing in recent advances, the names of specific products, or a particular laboratory technique, for example — but they WILL increase the impact of your letter.
«The trick is to apply for jobs that require your particular mixture of skills and the laboratory techniques you have mastered,» says Dominguez.
The new technique compensates for the difference by using artificial intelligence to reproduce the level of resolution and color details needed for a laboratory analysis.
She then did a joint Ph.D., at La Sapienza University and the European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) in Florence, using optical techniques to investigate quantum effects in semiconductor nanostructures.
If confirmed by other researchers, the planet would not just be an astronomical novelty; Its detection, reported on the e-print server at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (see astro - ph / 9908038), would also be a triumph for a new and potentially powerful technique for finding planets around other stars.
Jacques Dubochet of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, Joachim Frank of Columbia University and Richard Henderson of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, won for their contributions to the development of the technique, called cryo - electron microscopy, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced October 4.
The new realization for the computational scheme of a neuron calls into question the spike sorting technique which is at the center of activity of hundreds of laboratories and thousands of scientific studies in neuroscience.
Using a labor - intensive cell culturing technique for hunting retroviruses that he had pioneered in the 1970s, Ruscetti had transmitted the pathogen from patients» T - cells to uninfected T - cells in the laboratory.
When a gene is up for grabs, speed is essential because the basic techniques of discovery are open to every laboratory.
His laboratory develops and deploys new biochemical and computational methods in functional genomics, to elucidate the genetic basis of human disease and human physiology, and to create and deploy novel techniques in next - generation sequencing and algorithms for tumor evolution, genome evolution, DNA and RNA modifications, and genome / epigenome engineering.
For the new study, presented last week at the Biology of Genomes meeting here, molecular biologist Marco Osterwalder of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, and colleagues harnessed a powerful new gene - editing technique called CRISPR to figure out exactly how some of these candidate enhancers work.
«The Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence (PLIF) technique and the process of correcting for absorption effects is a tool that is unique to the Combustion and Propulsion Laboratory,» said Shaun DeSouza, a researcher at the University of Florida and lead author of the publication.
«Cutting DNA opens the door to introducing new mutations,» says senior author Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies whose laboratory developed the new technique.
He was running a core laboratory, and he was «the guy» at his institution for that technique.
In the new paper, Kajimura's team collaborated with the laboratory of Yasushi Ishihama, PhD, of the University of Kyoto, Japan, to search for differences in how white and brown fat cells respond to the cold using a technique called phosphoproteomics.
John Freeland of the Advanced Photon Source, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Argonne National Laboratory, contributed soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy, a technique for understanding orbital structure changes, and related data analysis.
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.
But immunologist Nordin Zeidner, chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Vector - Host Laboratory in Fort Collins, Colorado, had doubts, and after retesting the technique found a success rate of just 20 to 30 percent in mice.
Developed by Greg Kopp of the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, the imager collected radiance data for nearly half of its eight - and - a-half hour flight, demonstrating improved techniques for future space - based radiance tests.
«There's a fairly long and challenging technical road ahead for all these techniques, including LIFE,» says Ron Davidson of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, co-chair of the committee.
She quoted Edward Holmes, a leading scientist at the HIV - sequencing laboratory at the University of Edinburgh, as saying that using viral genetic data for forensic science is much more complex than other techniques, such as DNA fingerprinting.
Gimzewski, a physicist at ibm's research laboratory in Zurich, made the device — which admittedly has no immediate practical application — to demonstrate the sophistication of the techniques he and his colleagues have developed for manipulating individual molecules.
For the past two decades, Lerner and his TSRI laboratory have helped pioneer techniques for discovering antibodies that can be used as therapies or scientific tooFor the past two decades, Lerner and his TSRI laboratory have helped pioneer techniques for discovering antibodies that can be used as therapies or scientific toofor discovering antibodies that can be used as therapies or scientific tools.
For example, it could be used to image neurons in living mice by combining the Raman scattering technique with existing methods in which tiny windows are implanted in the brains and spinal cords of laboratory animals.
This technology and the laboratory techniques that the Goddard lab develops to apply it to analyze meteorites will be valuable for future sample - return missions since the amount of sample likely will be limited.
A recent study at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory successfully used this technique at an X-ray free - electron laser for the first time with the element selenium as a marker.
A novel technique known as in - situ plasma processing is helping scientists get more neutrons and better data for their experiments at the Spallation Neutron Source at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Using a laboratory technique called chromatography, they found three new compounds, one already - known compound that was identified for the first time in plants and 20 already - known compounds that were found for the first time in hops.
The laboratory of Dr. Daniel Kaufmann has developed a highly accurate technique for detecting the rare cells that hide the virus and prevent current therapies from curing HIV infection.
LOOKING for a fresh outlet for their skills, intelligence experts at a US nuclear weapons laboratory are helping the credit - card giant MasterCard International to develop techniques for detecting fraud.
Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin have developed new techniques for robots or computer programs to learn how to perform tasks by interacting with a human instructor.
The genetic techniques developed by Professor Sir Martin Evans and his two fellow Nobel Laureates have brought huge benefits, having been adopted in laboratories the world over for vital research into hundreds of diseases and disorders.
About two decades ago, Lerner's laboratory developed some of the first techniques for using B - cell gene - mixing to generate very large «libraries» of antibodies and swiftly determine which of these can bind to a desired target.
No culturing required After honing the bone - growth technique in laboratory pigs for more than two years, Taylor and his team were ready to attempt it in a person.
In studying at Bowdoin, I developed a love for research science and learned basic laboratory techniques.
The Program for Neuropsychiatric Research (PNPR) at McLean Hospital, founded in 2004 by Dr. Bruce Cohen, is a consortium of investigators and clinicians using laboratory, brain imaging, and clinical techniques to increase understanding of the causes of psychotic, mood, and related psychiatric disorders and use that knowledge to guide the development of improved treatments.
Scientists at the Science for Life Laboratory in Uppsala and Stockholm have now developed a new technique for discovering mutations in cancer tissues.
Abstract: Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have devised a clever combination of materials — when used during the thin - film growth process — to reveal that particle atomic layer deposition, or p - ALD, deposits a uniform nanometer - thick shell on core particles regardless of core size, a discovery having significant impacts for many applications since most large scale powder production techniques form powder batches that are made up of a range of particles sizes.
James Lawler, a University of Wisconsin — Madison professor of physics known for devising innovative techniques to measure the chemical elements in the sun and other stars, has been named the recipient of the 2017 Laboratory Astrophysics Prize by the American Astronomical Society.
NEWSOME: One of the most obvious roles for the private sector is that the big data giants like Microsoft and Amazon and Google have data handling, data storage, data curating, data access, and data analysis techniques that are far in advance of what's available in universities and in government laboratories.
To this end, our laboratory is applying advances in RNA sequencing, coupled with techniques we have developed for isolating and characterizing nanometer - sized vesicles, to obtain the profile of microRNAs in vesicles secreted by healthy RPE cells.
Results: By gently dropping selected molecules onto surfaces, the unassumingly named soft landing technique provides exquisite control for those building and studying materials, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
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