Sentences with phrase «new lab techniques»

These include Cenix Bioscience, which has developed a new lab technique to identify the genes that are involved in cell division, predicted to be very useful for finding potential new targets for anticancer drugs.

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You'll just need to learn some new techniques, which lab techs, your PI, or other grad students can easily teach you.
She was always ready to learn new techniques, and she diversified her skill set by working in the animal facility, cell culture room, and also in a mass spectrometry lab.
An international team led by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed a new technique for identifying gene enhancers — sequences of DNA that act to amplify the expression of a specific gene — in the genomes of humans and other mammals.
He is excited about all the «toys» in his new lab and the powerful new techniques he can apply to interesting scientific questions.
Moreno's first job in the lab — helping a postdoc develop a mutagenesis technique to identify new genes involved in organ development and positioning — earned him a second - author paper in Science just a couple of years into his Ph.D..
Doctors at the Stony Brook Heart Institute Electrophysiology Lab are using a new nonsurgical technique called the LARIAT Suture Delivery Device to treat patients with atrial fibrillation, or A-Fib, who can not tolerate blood thinning medication.
NSF provides state - of - the - art imaging tools to academic labs; supports efforts to develop new microscopy techniques; and funds training for young scientists and engineers in the field.
As equipment makers and service providers try to make single - cell sequencing accessible to more labs, scientists at the forefront of the field are pushing the technique into entirely new territory.
You're new to your lab, and you find yourself trying to get up to speed on the techniques and protocols necessary for conquering the world.
Even then, with a completely clean lab highly focused on meticulous technique, a new contamination struck in 2013 — something Myers identified when several different cell lines showed up with exactly the same mutation.
One way neuroscientists can hone their technical edge is to take off - major courses in physics or engineering (if they are still in graduate school) or postdoc in a lab that can teach them new techniques.
Nanorod structures aren't new, but the technique used by Lin's lab produces nanorods of uniform sizes — such as barium titanate and iron oxide, which have not yet been demonstrated via wet - chemistry approaches in the literature — and highly - uniform core - shell nanorods made by combining two dissimilar materials.
One of my first consultancy contracts was to run a training course in computer techniques for postgraduate students in this new lab.
The team developed a new technique that allowed them to culture large numbers of hair follicle germs — a precursor of follicles — in the lab.
«Since all traditional options were not feasible our multi-specialty team felt the new technique could be the answer for this patient,» says Adam Greenbaum, M.D., director of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab at Henry Ford Hospital and leader of the team.
Manalis» lab is also using the new technique to study how cells» densities change as they pass through constrictions.
An international collaboration of scientists led by Omar Yaghi, a chemist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has developed a technique they dubbed «gas adsorption crystallography» that provides a new way to study the process by which metal - organic frameworks (MOFs)-- 3D crystals with extraordinarily large internal surface areas — are able to store immense volumes of gases such a carbon dioxide, hydrogen and methane.
All three labs used a technique that Tuschl had developed to clone small RNA molecules, and their results — 103 new microRNA genes in all — were published together in the journal Science in October 2001.
Joao Botelho, a Brazilian student in Vargas» lab, developed a revolutionary new technique that allows him to study specific proteins in 3D embryonic skeletons.
Using a technique that introduces tiny wrinkles into sheets of graphene, researchers from Brown University have developed new textured surfaces for culturing cells in the lab that better mimic the complex surroundings in which cells grow in the body.
Newer techniques that use high temperatures are faster and need much less solvent, but they require pricey lab equipment.
Engineers in the Coordinated Robotics Lab at the University of California, San Diego, have developed new image processing techniques for rapid exploration and characterization of structural fires by small Segway - like robotic vehicles.
In this new study, Kandel's former student, John H. Byrne, who heads the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, has brought a new twist to the original learning method developed in Kandel's lab — a technique that consisted of shocking slug tails at regular intervals and then seeing whether the animals overreacted later when receiving another zap, a sign that they remembered their tormentors all too well.
The LOCI lab specializes in developing new imaging techniques for living things, with a special interest in studying cells in their microenvironment rather than in isolation.
In a recent issue of Nano Letters, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab) demonstrated a new growth technique that uses specially engineered catalysts.
A new technique developed at the University of Virginia School of Medicine will let a single cancer research lab do the work of dozens, dramatically accelerating the search for new treatments and cures.
The ET Lab's new technique uses a coronagraph, optical fibers and a high - resolution spectrometer, all working together to strip out a star's glare while capturing an extremely detailed chemical fingerprint of any worlds in orbit.
CDC and the Sabeti lab also found other advantages in working together, including the division of labor, sharing of resources, the opportunity to learn new techniques, and the exchange of complementary knowledge of virology and bioinformatics.
Besides engaging in research in the lab, students attend seminars on new research findings, receive classes in bioinformatics techniques and learn about opportunities for careers in the plant sciences.
In the current study, lead authors David V. Hansen, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow, and Jan H. Lui, a graduate student in the Kriegstein lab, examined the OSVZ, using new labeling and tracking techniques to follow individual cells and their progeny over time in cultured tissue slices from fetal cortex tissue that had been donated for research.
This result was similar to recently published data from the Egli lab in New York, which used an alternative technique, that of maternal spindle transfer or MST in eggs prior to fertilization, where they also had one aberrant ES cell line where this occurred (out of 8).
We developed new ways to demonstrate complex cell separation techniques used in the lab: visitors were invited to collect CTCs using a hurricane tunnel and isolate individual cells on an interactive maze.
Seungkyu Lee and Eugene A. Kapustin, Berkeley Lab researchers and UC Berkeley graduate students who participated in the latest work, said hard - to - study proteins, such as those important for drug development, are high - priority targets for the new technique.
Since his departure from the Lab, Chapman has continued with his interest in molecular imaging with FELs and in 2009 led an international collaboration to carry out the first experiments in this area at LCLS, where a global team introduced a new technique now called serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX).
Berkeley Lab's Len Pennacchio (left) and Axel Visel led the development of a new technique for identifying gene enhancers called SIF - seq, for site - specific integration fluorescence - activated cell sorting followed by sequencing.
And researchers at labs around the world are developing new techniques to do this.
A new technique to study proteins, which does not require advanced equipment, specialized labs or expensive reagents, has been developed at SciLifeLab / Uppsala University.
A New Technique Is Born «I came across a new method to produce iPSCs that was developed at Stanford,» said Michael Ward, MD, PhD, a former staff scientist in Gan's lab who is now an investigator at the National Institutes of HealNew Technique Is Born «I came across a new method to produce iPSCs that was developed at Stanford,» said Michael Ward, MD, PhD, a former staff scientist in Gan's lab who is now an investigator at the National Institutes of Healnew method to produce iPSCs that was developed at Stanford,» said Michael Ward, MD, PhD, a former staff scientist in Gan's lab who is now an investigator at the National Institutes of Health.
Berkeley Lab researchers have developed a new technique called two - dimensional electronic - vibrational spectroscopy that can be used to study the interplay between electrons and atomic nuclei during a photochemical reaction.
In each post, one of our researchers explains their own science in their own words, providing you with a uniquely personal perspective on everything from exciting new techniques to eureka moments in the lab.
Berkeley Lab played a key role in the 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry, awarded today, honoring the development of cryo - EM, an imaging technique that has launched the fields of structural biology and biochemistry into an exciting new era of discovery.
This Continuing Education Lab is calling new and seasoned yoga teachers of all backgrounds and styles who are looking to expand their knowledge, inspiration and technique.
While I wish I were camped out in my favorite 50's inspired diner, tucking into an ice cream float, instead I'm spending most of the day in the lab working through a new technique, which will no doubt go horribly awry before it works out.
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The techniques and practical theory in the book has helped me focus my instruction and has been vital when teaching my students new skills or concepts in the lab.
«This is another step in the direction of radically new interaction techniques afforded by smartphones based on thin film, flexible display technologies» says Roel Vertegaal (School of Computing), director of the Human Media Lab at Queen's University who developed the flexible PaperPhone and PaperTab.
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Eichenberg has been leading the Metals Department at CAA into new directions, turning it into a research lab where students learn to give expression to their ideas through the rigorous exploration of a wide range of materials and techniques.
When asked what she plans to do with her prize money, Catarino said she will attend some conferences; do an exchange program at another lab in order to learn new techniques; and speak at high schools about the importance of entering scientific fields.
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