Sentences with phrase «leading laboratories using»

Today, he is heading up one of the world's leading laboratories using nanomaterial research to pursue challenges in energy and environmental sciences, particularly in the development of the next generation of batteries.

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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.»

The two most important ones are one, using our specialty store channel as a laboratory to test product in our stores earlier than we take it to general market, to be able to get reads and then be able to react, both to chase into product, to make adjustments to product, and to take position on raw materials, which leads to the second part that George mentioned in his prepared remarks, where the (45:19) product, whether that's certain leather qualities that we use on an ongoing basis, or fabrications in ready - to - wear, to take a position, an ownership position on those so that we're able to react more quickly.

The church's minister of counseling led the group using a laboratory method.

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He is an expert in the use of systems - based methods to improve patient outcomes, a leading researcher in use of large scale clinical laboratories and electronic health records to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of care, and a nationally recognized thought leader in the very methods needed to transition to the future of lower - cost, more patient - centered, health care for the 21st century.

Last month Johnson said he had been told by Porton Down that the nerve agent used in the Salisbury poisoning case could only have come from Russia, but the lead scientist at the defence research laboratory later said this was not the sort of finding the organisation could make.

Frank of Columbia University, Henderson of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England and Jacques Dubochet of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland were named Nobel laureates for significant discoveries that led to the development and use of cryo - electron microscopy to produce close - up, three - dimensional views of biomolecules.

Using the huge laser power of the US National Ignition Facility, a team led by Brian MacGowan of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have managed to squeeze fuel into spheres for the first time.

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.

Now a recent study, led by Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration Associate Professor Dan Shim, has re-created in the laboratory the conditions found deep in the Earth, and used this to discover an important property of the dominant mineral in Earth's mantle, a region lying far below our feet.

The Singapore team used leading edge DNA sequencing tools, some of which were developed in - house, including specialised laboratory techniques and computational methods developed at Duke - NUS and GIS to characterise genetic alterations associated with the spread of colorectal cancer to the liver.

«The novelty of this study is that it provides potential neuroimaging - based tools that can be used with new patients to inform about the degree of certain neural pathology underlying their pain symptoms,» said Marina López - Solà, a post-doctoral researcher in CU Boulder's Cognitive and Affective Control Laboratory and lead author of the new study.

«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.

A team led by Charles R. Carrigan at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) used field experiments to build a new, complex model that predicts isotopic ratios of noble gases that would be released from such explosions (Sci.

Now, a large team of astronomers led by Charles Alcock of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, has used the Hubble Space Telescope and ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile to study a microlens that was discovered in 1993.

Led by the University of Surrey, a team of researchers from the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NL), the National Physical Laboratory (UK), King's College London (UK) and Sheffield Hallam University (UK), used different types of an analytical chemistry technique known as mass spectrometry to analyse the fingerprints of patients attending drug treatment services.

The team of cosmologists from Harvard University, the University of Minnesota, the California Institute of Technology / Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Stanford University / SLAC used BICEP2 to observe telltale patterns in the cosmic microwave background — the afterglow of the Big Bang almost 14 billion years ago — that support the leading theory about the origins of the universe.

An international team led by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) used advanced techniques in electron microscopy to show how the ratio of materials that make up a lithium - ion battery electrode affects its structure at the atomic level, and how the surface is very different from the rest of the material.

A collaboration led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has observed an unexpected phenomenon in lithium - ion batteries — the most common type of battery used to power cell phones and electric cars.

Dr Hayley Luxton, lead researcher from the Molecular Diagnostics and Therapeutics Laboratory at University College London, said: «Using antibodies mounted with a toxic payload, we can exploit the fact that aggressive prostate cancer cells have more NAALADL2.

Using a novel synthetic platform for creating vaccines originally developed in the laboratory of David Weiner, PhD, a professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, a team led by his colleagues at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has successfully eradicated precancerous cervical lesions in nearly half of the women who received the investigational vaccine in a clinilaboratory of David Weiner, PhD, a professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, a team led by his colleagues at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has successfully eradicated precancerous cervical lesions in nearly half of the women who received the investigational vaccine in a cliniLaboratory Medicine from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, a team led by his colleagues at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has successfully eradicated precancerous cervical lesions in nearly half of the women who received the investigational vaccine in a clinical trial.

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.

Led by former UCSF postdoctoral fellow Dai Horiuchi, PhD, now assistant professor of pharmacology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, the group searched for synthetic lethal partners of MYC using a clever experimental system developed in collaboration with Paul Yaswen, PhD, of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

A team led by solar physicist Bart De Pontieu of the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto, California, used a Swedish telescope equipped with a rapidly flexing mirror, which cancels the blur caused by Earth's air.

To test this hypothesis, a team led by first author Mei Tran, a senior scientist in the Parikh laboratory, began conducting studies of mitochondrial metabolism using microscopy, biochemistry and bioinformatics tools.

In the Rutgers study, Zong and lead author Ji - An Pan, a scientist in his laboratory, looked at liver and heart damage in laboratory mice and found that the mice in which the TRIM21 gene was inactivated suffered little heart or liver damage when put through the same laboratory procedures used to produce tissue damage in mice with the gene.

A team of researchers led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory used neutron macromolecular crystallography to investigate the different states of three glaucoma drugs as they interact with the targeted enzyme, human carbonic anhydrase II (hCA II).

The Critical Materials Institute, a U.S. Department of Energy Innovation Hub led by the Ames Laboratory, has created a new chemical process that makes use of the widely available rare - earth metal cerium to improve the manufacture of nylon.

By using supercomputers such as Titan, a large multidisciplinary team of scientists led by Peter Thornton of the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) had the power required to integrate massive codes that combine physical and biological processes in Earth system with feedbacks from human activity.

In the second report, researchers led by Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory used remote sensing and radar data to calculate the glaciers» movement.

«Although laboratory tests can predict effects in the field, care should be taken when using the lab data for 303 (d) listing if alternative field data indicate that the organisms of concern are not affected by the constituent of concern, such as pyrethroids,» said Stephen Clark, lead author of the Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry study.

«This case demonstrates the novel application of wearable devices for display of CTA data sets in the catheterization laboratory that can be used for better planning and guidance of interventional procedures, and provides proof of concept that wearable devices can improve operator comfort and procedure efficiency in interventional cardiology,» explained lead investigator Maksymilian P. Opolski, MD, PhD, of the Department of Interventional Cardiology and Angiology at the Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland.

Now, the Laboratory of Malaria Immunology Team at the Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC), Osaka University, headed by Professor Cevayir COBAN, have used mouse malaria models to show that robust immune activation and invasion of parasite by - products into the bone marrow during and after malaria infection leads to an adverse balance in bone homeostasis - a process usually tightly controlled - by bone forming osteoblasts and bone resorbing osteoclasts.

Nan Yang, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar in the Wernig laboratory and lead author of the study, pointed out that there is another advantage to using this technique.

Using submicron synchrotron x-ray beam, a group of scientists led by the Geophysical Laboratory's Ho - kwang «Dave» Mao, have studied the loading behavior of the DAC up to 400 GPa.

Now a team led by Takashi Hosokawa at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, has used computer simulations to show the gas clouds from which the stars formed would have been much hotter than thought.

EARA also focuses on creating an international favourable climate for animal research, leading pan-European initiatives to assert the rights to use laboratory animals in research.

Using a powerful microscope that lets researchers see the formation of crystals in real time, a team led by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that negatively charged molecules — such as carbohydrates found in the shells of mollusks — control where, when, and how calcium carbonate forms.

In the Finkbeiner laboratory, Linsley uses time - lapse imaging of neurons in culture, within organotypic mouse brain slices, and within live zebrafish to uncover the mechanisms in neurodegeneration that lead to neuronal death.

Another group led by Michael Wigler, Ph.D., used different methods to investigate the phenomenon at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory at roughly the same time.

Paige Kelley, a postdoctoral researcher with a joint appointment at the University of Tennessee and the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), is using neutrons to study specific crystal properties that could lead to the realization of a quantum spin liquid, a novel state of matter that may form the basis of future quantum computing technologies.

The experiments, led by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), are helping researchers narrow down the process by which the protein, called photosystem II, uses light energy to split water and create oxygen.

Dr. Curren's specialization in laboratory experimentation (used to supplement spacecraft data) has led her to explore the environmental processes that dictate the evolution of materials on the surfaces of solar system bodies.

«Our study confirms that the dust is there, and that we can use it to determine how much energy was generated in the destruction of the star,» Varoujan Gorjian, an astronomer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, who was part of the study led by van Velzen, said in the statement.

A team of Chinese and American researchers led by Dr. Ji - jing Pang of the Eye Hospital, School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, PR China, and including Jackson Laboratory scientist Bo Chang, M.D., used gene therapy to restore cone function in the retinas of the B6 (A)- Rpe65rd12 / J (005379) mouse, a model of Leber congenital amaurosis — even if the disease has progressed for three months (Li et al. 2011; Pang et al. 2005).

A team led by Robert Weatherup of the University of Cambridge in the UK and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US obtained their videos using a specifically modified scanning electron microscope (SEM).

Methods: As reported in Geophysical Research Letters, the team led by scientists from PNNL and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory used both observations and models to derive their new formula.

«This study is the first to show the value of using ocean salinity measurements to forecast the intensity of tropical cyclones,» said team lead Dr. Karthik Balaguru, an oceanographer at PNNL's Marine Sciences Laboratory.

In 2015, a team led by the University of Michigan's Sharon Glotzer used high - performance computing at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory [ORNL] to study melting in two - dimensional (2 - D) systems, a problem that could yield insights into surface interactions in materials important to technologies like solar panels, as well as into the mechanism behind three - dimensional melting.