Sentences with phrase «many biological applications»
Under the influence of Lee Segel, a renowned applied mathematician, I was ushered into the (currently more mainstream) branch of mathematical biology that combines applied mathematics with a keen interest in true biological applications.
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«Lens - free fluorescent microscope: FlatScope may be the world's tiniest, lightest microscope for biological applications and beyond.»
«The ease of fabrication, light weight and excellent performance of our e-whiskers should have a wide range of applications for advanced robotics, human - machine user interfaces, and biological applications.»
The sorting of individual cells is necessary for many biological applications, including the isolation of specific cell types from cell suspensions.
Beyond looking at the dynamics of creating the droplets and how ordered materials behave when the torus transforms into a sphere, Fernandez - Nieves and colleagues are also exploring potential biological applications, applying electrical fields to the droplets, and sharing the unique structures with scientists at other institutions.
The research team is now exploring additional biological applications for the new system and is working to extend the method to other microscope modalities, such as confocal microscopy.
Proposals should cite a direct relation between biological applications and mathematics, and research teams should include representatives from both life sciences and mathematics.
Their results, published this week in Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing, report that these nanoscale polymers, which are biocompatible, could have a wide range of biological applications such as for drug delivery scaffolds or miniature implantable sensors.
Why It Matters: The discovery could one day help industrial users «point cool» specific components and help with biological applications such as studying cells.
With respect to biological applications, the group is focusing on how cellular heterogeneity and cell - to - cell communication drive ensemble - level decision - making in the immune system, with an emphasis on «two - body» interaction (e.g., host cell - virus interactions, innate immune control of adaptive immunity, tumor infiltration by immune cells).
The US teams utilize the unique strengths of ONT's technologies to showcase high - impact biological applications both independently, as well as with external collaborators and ONT customers.
For work on optical tweezers for biological applications which use focused laser light to trap and manipulate virus particles, living cells and other biological entities whilst allowing them to maintain viability.
Here, he focused on the field of optical super-resolution microscopy, specifically the biological applications of stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy.
The Klarman Cell Observatory develops and shares these methods with the broader scientific community for direct biological application through a series of collaborative projects.
Not only does their work demonstrate that scientists have a basic understanding of what determines oligomerization, it also shows that they can design proteins with tunable shape, size, and symmetry for a variety of biological applications.
The possibility to carry out all operations, also when fully immersed in liquid render the technology ideal for biological applications at the single cell level.
Although nature has used the principle of biophotonics to harness light for photosynthesis and to create vision for millennia, it wasn't until about 10 years ago that a substantial transfer of photonics technologies to biological applications began to transform medical and life sciences.
«I was only remotely aware of using EM for biological applications.»
Biological applications discussed included nanoscale clustering of membrane proteins (particularly during synaptic and T cell signalling in mammalian cells), molecular assembly / organisation of protein complexes, and single particle tracking.
It has its biological applications too, it can show how the veins and arteries are pulsing in our bodies.
Not exact matches
Made of a polymer that has already been approved by the FDA for applications such as biodegradable sutures, InVivo's implant seems to undermine the biological ripple effect that leads to apoptosis, essentially by leading the body to believe that the damage is not that bad, which tones down the immune response and helps the healthier neural tissue survive and heal.
A: Our approach to addressing eligibility rejections in the U.S. is generally similar regardless of whether the application has an Alice - type rejection or a biological or diagnostic Myriad or Mayo - type of rejection.
What strikes me as another salient detail is the final topic in the historical section of the biological sciences, «The physiology of the nervous system and its application to psychology» (C.II.m).
Secondly, the Bill proposes to remove the need for IVF providers to take into account the child's need for a father when considering an IVF application, and to confer legal parenthood on people who have no biological relationship to a child born as a result of IVF.
National strategies have been implemented to accelerate research and its application in areas including biological control, crop rotations and polycultures.This has resulted in major changes in some of the goals of Cuban plant breeding and a search for more appropriate methods of participatory plant breeding.
The court, whose decision is final, said in a statement Tuesday that it had examined the cycling union's biological passport program as a part of Caucchioli's case and «found that the strict application of such program could be considered as a reliable means of detecting indirect doping methods.»
The principal differences between organic farming and conventional farming are the former's extensive restriction of the use of artificial pesticides, fertilisers and other agro-chemicals; its hostility to the agricultural application of biotechnology; its rejection of the routine use of pharmaceuticals on livestock; its attention to animal welfare; and its focus on crop rotation, soil quality and maintaining biological diversity as alternatives to chemicals.
The New Dynamics of Ageing Programme (NDA), a collaboration between five of the UK's Research Councils - the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council and the Medical Research Council, has today announced the second round of successful applications to be funded under the programme.
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«That is really the greatest challenge, because many scientists can come up with new materials for certain applications,... but if they don't know how these materials are going to be placed in the body and interact with the cells, interact with biological fluids and so on, they have no appreciation of the total problem,» Peppas says.
Such membranes should be useful for desalination, biological separation, and other applications.
Shyam Sablani, associate chair of biological systems engineering at Washington State University in Pullman, whose program not only doesn't require GRE scores but doesn't include them on the application form that the faculty sees, says that the question to bring back the requirement has been raised twice in the 10 years he has been with the department.
Bioengineering — the application of engineering principles to biological problems related to the human body — is a relatively new but very wide field.
Arrays of silicon nanotubes have many potential applications, including for solar - energy harvesting, photonics, and biological processes such as drug delivery.
The agency is confronting pressure from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to streamline and speed up the drug application process, budgetary concerns stemming from relatively stagnant public funding over the last several years, and disputes over subjects ranging from biological warfare to the regulation of genetically modified foods.
Another long - term goal of the Lipomi lab is to produce electronic polymers whose properties — extreme elasticity, biodegradability, and self - repair — are inspired by biological tissue for applications in implantable biomedical devices and prosthetics.
«What's new is the application of [force microscopy] to the nanomechanical properties of biological structure,» says Sergei Magonov, a staff scientist at Digital Instruments, a company that makes force microscopes.
The larger organelles, such as the nucleus and vacuoles, are easily visible with moderate magnification (although sometimes a clear view requires the application of chemicals that selectively stain parts of the cells); they were among the first biological discoveries made after the invention of the microscope.
The study appeared in the April 14 print edition of Chemical Communications in the article «Visualizing Nanoparticle Mobility in Liquid at Atomic Resolution,» by Madeline Dukes, an applications scientist at Protochips Inc. in Raleigh, N.C.; Benjamin Jacobs, an applications scientist at Protochips; David Morgan, assistant manager of the Cryo - Transmission Electron Microscopy Facility at Indiana University Bloomington; Harshad Hegde, a computer scientist at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute; and Kelly, who is also an assistant professor of biological sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech.
«Let them eat xylose: Yeast engineered to grow efficiently on novel nutrients: Discoveries may lead to faster growth and higher cell densities in biological engineering applications.»
At first, Chandran's focus was still mainly on fundamental biological questions, but over time, he has become increasingly interested in applications, while maintaining the basic research side.
Outcomes of children and young adults with cancer have improved, primarily due to enhanced understanding of tumor biology and due to the clinical application of biological discoveries through multicenter clinical trials.
The applications for biological engineering, then, are limited only by our collective imagination.
Currently, the mainstream applications are the management of heterogeneous biological data and genome analysis.
This new biological platform will significantly increase the number of applications for biological circuits.
The MIRT program offers several international research opportunities for students interested in the biological sciences and its applications.
Neal Pellis, associate director of the Biological Sciences and Applications Office at the Johnson Space Center, suggests that buckyballs and other nanomolecules may have free radical — scavenging possibilities.
This multiple wave scattering hinders most applications of optical imaging for deep biological samples.
«Wood formation model to fuel progress in bioenergy, paper, new applications: Lignin research may represent the most comprehensive model of a biological pathway in a single plant species.»
However, the clinical application of TEG to treat insomnia is still in the immature status, because the TEG is primarily used for industrial purpose and very little is known about its applicability and toxicity to the biological systems.