Sentences with phrase «new lab project»

(The other new lab project is called Semantris, and it is clearly ruining the effectiveness of my workday.

Not exact matches

This morning, Intangible Labs, the startup behind a project formerly known as Basecoin, said it raised $ 133 million in a new fundraising round led by Bain Capital Ventures.

«Apart from 220 additional seats, a handful of meeting rooms and event venues, the new space will offer «project labs» that provide direct access points for our corporate partners to digital talent and fresh ideas.»

New York City - based Tanooki Labs created Bedside in 2012 as a «portfolio project for good,» and they decided to leave it completely open source and free.

That's the possibility raised by a new joint project between the MIT Media Lab and Microsoft that has developed temporary tattoos (and quite stylish ones at that) that turn your skin into a touchpad.

In 2011, after 10 years as head of technology, Brin took on a new role as director of special projects, one of which is a robotics lab.

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Google X's lab is welcoming two new moonshots into the fold: The company's assemblage of futuristic robotics projects and its unit for high - altitude satellite drones.

As one senior Labour figure declared, a Lib - Lab agreement would be «the ultimate fulfilment of the New Labour mission»: Tony Blair's abortive project to overcome the century - old Labour - Liberal schism under a reformed electoral system.

But the trickiness of his task in leading a united party forward was exposed as foreign affairs spokesman Menzies Campbell, a strong supporter of the Lib - Lab project, called for an unprecedented extension of co-operation with Labour to new policy areas including health and education.

The lab that I work in is primarily interested in understanding how and why certain cancers are more likely to spread to the skeleton, and my personal project has focused on uncovering new mechanisms that the cancer cells use to communicate with other cells in the bone.

For example, Cocas arranged a collaboration between a pregnant graduate student in her lab and another student so that data collection could be finished during the new mother's leave without her losing credit for the project, she says.

Many established researchers hiked the number of grants they receive and the number of scientists working in their labs, but newer investigators saw virtually no rise in funding through the Research Project Grant Program (R01) grants considered crucial to establishing an independent scientific career, Stephan found.

My tasks: building up a new lab, starting a new project, building up a new contact network to the other scientists round about, gaining postdoc experience — oh, and learning a new language.

5) After you have experienced the joy of moments 1) to 4) your life will be relatively free of heartache, must - do experiments, and lab clutter, at least for the few days until you get stuck into your new project.

In Tokyo, meanwhile, a spokesperson for the University of Tokyo Hospital confirmed in a phone interview that Moriguchi is on staff as a project researcher, but emphasized that the work apparently reported in New York was not carried out in the hospital's labs.

Help a lab mate with a project to learn some new science.

In New Zealand, for example, the PIs tend to maintain relationships more actively with overseas labs and develop collaborative projects, according to Dear.

Run constructive and well planned lab meetings with substantial time and attention spent on new ideas and projects.

As the project grew over the years, he moved it into a corner of the astronomy department, then to the University of Arizona's optical shop, then into an abandoned synagogue, and finally, in 1985, into the new mirror lab he had convinced the department to build.

The six students, working in her genetics lab, happened upon the misconduct by accident when, suggesting a new project to one, she showed the student a grant application that the student believed contained data that were misrepresented.

In the lab I was finally given the freedom to choose what to do with my project, what extra experiments to do on top of those outlined in my research plan, and what new methods to explore.

The new tool emerged from the PhD project of Yara Sánchez - Corrales from the Grieneisen Lab on cell polarity: the ability of cells to distribute internal proteins in order to facilitate communication, movement or growth.

She encourages new researchers to discuss and design a project with the lab head and then try an experiment — all in the first week!

That is one of the processes he hopes to capture with these new tools: «We bring kids to the lab, and we run studies where we tell them to build some kind of engineering or science project.»

«What we tend to see in the sciences,» says Goel, «is that the time it takes to get a lab set up, fully staffed, and experiments done prevents new faculty from engaging in risky projects, and in the end they only get minor experiments done.»

A new advanced technologies lab will become the «hub» by moving about $ 10 million in work that now supports NCI's intramural program to the RAS project, said David Heimbrook, CEO of SAIC - Frederick.

«All of these advances to the collider and its detectors showcase the value of RHIC as a testing ground for new technologies that may prove to be useful for other colliders and future research projects at and beyond Brookhaven Lab,» Dunlop said.

Gates, a founder of Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington, was a featured speaker at the DOE's Energy Innovation Summit, designed to highlight the work of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E), which aims to move new energy technologies from the lab bench to the market.

It would hamper NIH's ability to fund new projects and would also lead NIH to trim ongoing grants, forcing researchers to cut back on lab supplies or else lay off staff members, Talman says.

He told me about a new project in his lab involving the satellite - based remote sensing of large lakes in Sweden.

A second project, dubbed Eumorphia, will organize more than a dozen labs in nine countries to systematically screen new mouse mutants for interesting characteristics — a key step in determining the function of newly identified genes.

Established by the Energy Department's Fuel Cell Technologies Office in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project will draw on existing and emerging core capabilities at the national labs and aim to reduce the cost and time of new fueling station construction and improve the stations» availability and reliability.

The nature of academic research labs, with people always working on new projects, is that there is a limited amount that outsiders can contribute.

With funding from DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), he's working with a far - flung team at five universities and four IBM labs to create a new computer chip that can mimic the cortex using far less power than a computer.

When I was in North Carolina last month for the meet - and - greet - and - learn - exhausto - freneti - thon of ScienceOnline 2012, I procured for myself a sampling kit for a citizen science project being conducted by the lab of Rob Dunn, Sci Am Guest Blogger and author of the wonderful book The Wild Life of our Bodies.He's doing a new study called «The Wild Life of Our Homes», and for the low, low price of nothing *, I got a sampling kit with two neato dual - pronged sterile Q - tips, instructions, a questionnaire about the characteristics of my pad, and a mailing address to send it back to.

New York's lab kicks off the project with a structure to be located at 33 East First Street, on the border of the city's Lower East Side and East Village neighborhoods, from August 3 to August 16.

«Although I can now say it is easy, at the beginning when I joined this project, I struggled a lot to synthesize and isolate the sugar compounds, because I was not exactly an expert in sugar chemistry, and it was a new research field for me,» says Jiao Jiao, a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Kenichiro Itami's lab at ITbM, Nagoya University.

The Synthetic Biology Project has released a new documentary on the growth of do - it - yourself biology (DIYbio) as seen through a community DIYbio lab in Baltimore, MD..

COURTESY SHENDURE AND SCHIER LABS CRISPR FOR FATE - MAPPING Researcher: Jay Shendure, Professor, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington Project: In collaboration with Alexander Schier's lab at Harvard University, Shendure's group came up with a new way to trace cell lineages in cell culture and in whole organisms — in this case, developing zebrafish.

In a new article, Daniel Grushkin, a fellow with the Synthetic Biology Project, looks at the financial pressures facing the first wave of community labs.

The project began when a post-doc in the Mullins lab, Lillian Fritz - Laylin, collected a time - series of images of macrophage - like immune cells in motion using Betzig's new microscope.

«What makes NDCX - II unique is the beam's charged - particle density,» said Joe Kwan, Berkeley Lab project manager for the new accelerator.

As New Lab Complex Scientific Coordinator & Mouse Management Liaison, Colleen Silan is managing many aspects of the project.

Berkeley Lab scientists are developing key components for LCLS - II, a major X-ray laser upgrade and expansion project that will enable new atomic - scale explorations with up to 1 million ultrabright X-ray pulses per second.

«We have built an exact copy of that instrument that can be used in the LIGO - India Observatory, ensuring that the new detector can both quickly come up to speed and match the U.S. detector performance,» says David Shoemaker, leader of the Advanced LIGO Project, director of the MIT LIGO Lab, and a member of the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.

As part of the newly started SINGEK project (see my last blog entry in case you missed it) we welcome Max Emil Schön as a new PhD student to the Ettema - lab.

All the projects in the lab now are focused on trying to use stem cells, or other progenitors, to find new treatments for diabetes.

She is initiating a new project in the Kennedy lab to develop small molecules that extend both lifespan and healthspan.

We announced last year that with the support of the Forever Healthy Foundation, we would be funding a new project in Dr. Campisi's lab to explore these questions and look for solutions.