Sentences with phrase «microscopic studies at»

Finally, microscopic studies at ALS beamline 12.3.2 identified the other minerals in the Roman samples.

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Researchers at the Mississippi - Alabama Sea Grant Consortium have taken part in a two - year study, and found that microscopic plastics are now increasingly common in the area where their study took place on the Gulf Coast.

In this Perspective, Wolf and Ertl discuss results by Kliewer et al. (page 1399) and Petek et al. (page 1402), which illustrate the fundamental insights into the microscopic characteristics of electron dynamics at surfaces that can be obtained by state - of - the - art high spatial and temporal resolution studies.

Doug Natelson, 37, is the Benjamin Franklin of the microscopic world: He studies electronic properties at the atomic scale, where the overlap of classical and quantum physics gains importance.

A study by Isabel Schmidt, for instance, an ecologist at the University of Brasília, examined what time of year different species release their nearly microscopic seeds in order to identify which species are most impacted by harvesting.

Specifically, after the analysis involving microscopic techniques and virtual models developed by the UA researcher, carious lesions caused by carbohydrates, present in plants, were found in the dental remains discovered at the La Brea Tar Pits site in Los Angeles, California, described by Alejandro Romero as «one of the most paradigmatic sites to study fossil mammals from the Pleistocene in North America.»

But Jacob Taylor, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland, says it provides experimental data for «a quiet revolution» in statistical physics, the study of how heat flows both in microscopic systems and on the scale of everyday life.

Health: Combined Optical and Magnetic Resonance Microscope - «Studying cells in real time» Dr. Robert Wind, Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA helped develop a combined microscope that can study live cells at the same time with two completely different microscopic techniques.

Attendees at the astrobiology meeting in Arizona showcased an assortment of high - tech devices for next - generation exploration, ranging from microfluidic «life analyzers» and integrated nucleic acid extractors for studying «Martian metagenomics» to exquisitely sensitive, miniaturized organic chemistry labs for spotting tantalizing carbon compounds and minerals at microscopic scales.

One beneficiary of this young researcher exchange program was Matthew Julius, who studies the evolution of diatoms, a group of microscopic algae, now at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.

«It combines knowledge from the field of microfluidics, which uses fluids at a microscopic scale to miniaturize biological experiments, with the cellular, biological and molecular studies we conduct in laboratories.»

By joining forces with Professor Wim Versées at the VIB research center for structural biology, the scientists were able to figure out the three - dimensional structure of Skywalker, making it possible to study the protein in microscopic detail.

A landmark new study, led by scientists at Bowdoin and the California Academy of Sciences, explores the fascinating, little - known natural history of the face mite species Demodex folliculorum, using genetic testing to link the microscopic animal's evolution to our own ever - evolving human story.

This week, in a presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and in a paper in Brain Structure and Function, scientists present the first microscopic study of neurons in the cerebral cortex of the African elephant.

Tiny microscopic animals called zooplankton are ingesting plastic particles at an alarming rate, according to a new study by Dr. Peter Ross, head of the Ocean Pollution Research Program at Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre.

This could make it possible to study «subtle things about how charge carriers behave at a microscopic level, that you can't see from the outside,» Levitov says.

Lars Berglund, a professor at Wallenberg Wood Science Center at KTH, says that while optically transparent wood has been developed for microscopic samples in the study of wood anatomy, the KTH project introduces a way to use the material on a large scale.

«To our knowledge, this is the first time anyone has microscopic insight into the solvation of a polyoxyanion,» said Dr. Chris Mundy, a physical chemist at PNNL who co-authored the study.

«This accurate local structure is the important piece in relating the microscopic to macroscopic, or intrinsic properties of the ions in solution to collective properties,» said Mundy, who led the studies at PNNL.

Microscopic view of a colony of undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells being studied in developmental biologist James Thomson's research lab at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Water may be more common than expected at extreme depths approaching 640 kilometres and possibly beyond — within Earth's lower mantle, says a study that explored microscopic pockets of a trapped form of crystallised water molecules in a sampling of diamonds from around the world.

The data reported were based on one patient and, despite 67 years of subsequent studies that failed to establish scientific support for this theory, we are still faced with reluctance to treat men with testosterone supplementation for fear of giving them prostate cancer or fueling prostate cancer already present at a subclinical or microscopic level.

A seven and one - half year study conducted on monkeys fed carrageenan, at the Albany Medical College, Albany, N.Y. found no changes in hematology or clinical chemistry values, no changes in organ weight or organ - to - body ratios, no storage of carrageenan - like material in the liver or other organs, and no gross microscopic changes in tissue.

Franz worked at Kew Gardens making accurate studies of orchids and drawing microscopic phenomena, while Ferdinand explored Australia as a ship's artist.

Besides, my hands - on experience in chemical testing and histological studies could come in very handy at your lab's department of microscopic studies.

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Attuned and standardized all laboratory equipment at a new outlet of the medical laboratory, ensuring set - up of separate workstations for microscopic studies, blood work, chemical analysis and bacterial studies.