Sentences with phrase «major research advances»

Wistar is poised for the future to make major research advances in the areas of cancer, immunology and vaccines.

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«Dr. Aplin's major research advance is part of a larger effort by the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center to develop new strategies for treating melanoma.

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PERTH - based Medi - tech Research Limited may be on the brink of a major advance in cancer therapy with its hyaluronic acid technology for the delivery of anti-cancer drugs.

Viteri notes that Acme has developed research alliances with Cornell University, University of Delaware, major ingredients suppliers and industry trade associations, which enables Acme Smoked Fish to include the latest scientific advances in its quality and safety efforts.

Established in 2009, the Stanford University / San Francisco Unified School District Partnership brings the most advanced education research to bear on major challenges identified by the school leaders in one of California's largest and most diverse districts.

«Several major advances in recent years have been good news for multiple myeloma patients, but those new drugs only target terminally differentiated cancer cells and thus can only reduce the bulk of the tumor,» said Jamieson, who is also deputy director of the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center, director of the CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinic at UC San Diego and director of stem cell research at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health.

This year those breakthroughs include tools for reprogramming living cells and rendering lab animals transparent; ways of powering electronics with sound waves and saliva; smartphone screens that correct for the flaws in your vision; Lego - like atomic structures that could produce major advances in superconductivity research; and others.

The researchers, part of the Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research Network, say this is the first major advance in therapy in 40 years.

DARPA [the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency] used to play a major role, and they're completely application - driven now, or almost completely.

Congress also rejected the president's proposal to slash funding for the Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy (ARPA - E), which pursues risky research that could yield major aResearch Projects Agency — Energy (ARPA - E), which pursues risky research that could yield major aresearch that could yield major advances.

Still, the swift evolution of advanced manufacturing provides an opportunity for the U.S. to reclaim many lost jobs if it retains a technological edge in the face of major investments in research and development by a number of U.S. competitors, they said.

(One major source has become the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies initiative.)

In their Essay the authors argue that the Ebola and Zika responses highlight openness challenges for effective data sharing and that three major impediments limit data sharing: there are no established standards for data users to credit data providers; scientists may doubt that sharing data will advance their scholarly stature as much as publishing primary research; and scientists may not be able to share data effectively because of inadequate technology, standards, or human capacity.

The mini livers are a major advance in stem cell research because they have yielded actual functioning cells.

«We're doing this research for commonsense reasons — as a potential solution to the challenges posed by the exhaustion of fossil fuels and global warming,» says Hiroaki Suzuki of JAXA's Advanced Mission Research Center, one of about 180 scientists at major Japanese research institutes working on theresearch for commonsense reasons — as a potential solution to the challenges posed by the exhaustion of fossil fuels and global warming,» says Hiroaki Suzuki of JAXA's Advanced Mission Research Center, one of about 180 scientists at major Japanese research institutes working on theResearch Center, one of about 180 scientists at major Japanese research institutes working on theresearch institutes working on the scheme.

The study, led by Darja Marolt, PhD, a NYSCF - Helmsley Investigator and Giuseppe Maria de Peppo, PhD, a NYSCF Research Fellow, and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, represents a major advance in personalized reconstructive treatments for patients with bone defects resulting from disease or trauma.

Recent research on these remarkable fossils and advances in understanding plant developmental genetics are beginning to reveal how major changes in life cycle had an early influence on the direction of plant evolution.

This marks only the second time researchers have generated a whole organ from a single stem cell, representing major advances for stem cell research and our understanding of prostate development, experts say.

«We hope that the UK's growing health data research capacity will help us to make major advances in our understanding of depression in coming years.»

Access to its DNA represents a major scientific advance, and will accelerate research on its fundamental biology.

Greening already under way Isla Myers - Smith, a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh who did not participate in the research, said the study is a «major advance» because it is the first to link such a broad range of vegetation changes with several climate feedbacks in the Arctic.

Major advances in computational design, physical modeling and rapid manufacturing have enabled the fabrication of objects with customized physical properties — such as tailored sneakers, complex prosthetics, and soft robots — while computer graphics research has seen rapid improvements and efficiencies in creating compelling animations of physics for games, virtual reality and film.

On Capitol Hill last week, Weinberg, an expert in the molecular biology of cancer, pointed out to the Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus that the major advances in understanding human cancer genetics had come, not from studying breast tissue, but from studying cow warts, worm vulvas, fruitfly retinas, and a chicken virus.

Of note, last year's Heritage Foundation budget — which has had a major influence on the Trump Administration's budget proposals — called for a significant rollback or elimination of programs in nuclear physics, advanced computing, chemistry, materials science, biological, and environmental research.

Although the scientific community widely sees nonhuman primates as essential for advances in biomedicine (they have facilitated major gains in the fights against AIDS and neurological diseases such as Parkinson's, for example), researchers agree more can be done to treat the animals more humanely and conduct research less wastefully.

Research funding must increase to allow the major advances in understanding the molecular defects behind a hematologic disease to be translated into novel diagnostics and targeted therapeutics.

Research by award - recipients exemplifies major advances resulting from the nation's investment in research to benefit the health and welfare of its cResearch by award - recipients exemplifies major advances resulting from the nation's investment in research to benefit the health and welfare of its cresearch to benefit the health and welfare of its citizens.

Teaching Non-majors biology university core, freshman form; cell and molecular biology (lower and upper division biology majors core); genetics; advanced cell biology (graduate students) research ethics (graduate students), upper division / graduate electives (developmental biology, selected advanced topics in cell and molecular biology).

In this research position you will play a leading role in discovering and advancing compounds for the treatment of major human diseases.

Our research lays the foundations for major advances in key green and medical technologies.

Major advances in this area were published April 20 by the American Chemical Society's journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.

The goal of the program is to encourage students representing a wide range of majors / disciplines to carry out both early and advanced independent research and creative endeavors under the mentorship of Northeastern faculty members.

Through a powerful integration of basic and clinical research, we are driving major advances that have an impact on many of today's most devastating diseases.

Berkeley Lab researchers will play major roles in three new cutting - edge energy research projects being funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARresearch projects being funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARResearch Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E).

Although a negative result that does not provide a major advance in the field per se, it does provide important information to other investigators in this research area.

Since the early 1900s, animal research has played an important role in most of the world's major medical advances.

And whatever the source of the cells, they also stress that it may be years before the research yields major advances in treating diseases.

A look at major scientific and engineering advances in research developments during the past year.

In the last five years, major advances in genomic technology, especially in sequencing whole genomes and whole exomes (the portion of the genome that codes for proteins), have given rare disease research an important boost.

A new network of 25 regional stroke centers and satellite facilities - the NIH Stroke Trials Network (NIH StrokeNet)-- is working to change the way stroke research is conducted in the U.S. Despite advances of the last two decades, stroke remains a major public health problem.

The work of Mark Zylka, PhD, and Ben Philpot, PhD, is featured by Autism Speaks in its list of 10 major advances in autism research in 2013.

«With this major grant, our dedicated professionals will continue to advance care and research in spinal cord injury, extending our legacy of improving the lives of people with disabilities,» said Richard Kessler, trustee of Kessler Foundation and grandson of Henry Kessler, MD, PhD, founder of Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation.

American leadership in global technological advances and scientific research, and the dynamism of our companies and universities in these areas, is a major source of our economic, foreign policy, and national security strength.

FAQ Life Extension is a major contributor to advanced research aimed at discovering new therapies for slowing and reversing the aging process.

Q: Do you think that the new methods that you describe hold the key to making major advances in educational and social research?

DENVER / Oct 14, 2015 — Morris Animal Foundation, a global leader in supporting scientific research that advances the health and well - being of animals worldwide, has announced a major initiative to find a cure, treatments and / or vaccine for a disease that kills thousands of cats every year — feline infectious peritonitis.

«HABRI is making a major investment in new, groundbreaking research that will advance our knowledge of the human - animal bond,» said HABRI executive director Steven Feldman.

amfAR - funded research has increased our understanding of HIV and has helped lay the groundwork for major advances in the treatment and prevention of HIV / AIDS.

D+M majors work directly with a diverse and dedicated faculty to develop cross-disciplinary research agendas that advance their artistic practices.