Sentences with phrase «new laboratory system»

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«This is evidence of a big shakeup early on in the solar system's formation,» Glenn Orton, a co-author of the new study and a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Business Insider.

New equipment and additional employees allowed the New York State Police's forensic laboratory system to speed up testing for drunk driving cases, the governor announced.

The Department of Homeland Security plans to close a New York - based laboratory that has helped the city's Police and Fire Departments develop systems to detect nuclear and biological threats, a move that some local officials fear could hamper the city's efforts to prevent and respond to terrorist attacks.

In his 2018 - 20 capital plan, Bellone proposed $ 11 million for public safety projects including an accredited police fingerprint laboratory; replacement of the police information technology system; and a new canine headquarters with a training facility and kennels.

In making the Justice Department announcement, Rosenstein also said the department would reinstitute next month the Council of Federal Forensic Laboratory Directors, a group of the heads of the government's leading forensic laboratories and digital analysis centers; put in place a system for monitoring examiner's courtroom testimony and regularly review the new standards «to confirm that they reflect current scientific knowledge and best practices.»

This week, at the Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium, researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Harvard University presented a paper describing a new system, dubbed Veil, that makes private browsing more private.

«I can easily see the current system having 50 million samples in the very near future,» says Dwight Adams, the director of the massive new FBI laboratory on the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia.

M.I.T.'s Laboratory for Computer Science is developing a new infrastructure for information technologies — the Oxygen system — that promises to realize a vision long held by the lab's director: helping people do more by doing less

► Setting an example we hope will be emulated widely, the new president of RIKEN, Japan's «scandal - tarnished network of national laboratories,» announced plans to restore the labs» luster by «introducing a tenure track system that would retain the best young researchers now on temporary contracts,» Dennis Normile reported Monday at ScienceInsider.

Postdoctoral researcher Aaron Becker designed a new control algorithm that allows swarms of r - one robots from Rice University's Multi-Robot Systems Laboratory to complete complex tasks — including spelling out Rice's trademark R.

Nagrath, director of Rice's Laboratory for Systems Biology of Human Diseases, said the new metabolic analysis indicates that ovarian cancer may be susceptible to multidrug cocktails, particularly if the amounts of the drugs can be tailored to match the metabolic profile of a patient's tumor.

Researchers at Rice University's Laboratory for Systems Biology of Human Diseases analyzed the metabolic profiles of hundreds of ovarian tumors and discovered a new test to determine whether ovarian cancer cells have the potential to metastasize.

«Smart access systems that use fingerprinting and iris - recognition are very secure, but they're probably more than 10 times as expensive as our VibWrite system, especially when you want to widely deploy them,» said Chen, who works in the School of Engineering and is a member of the Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB) at Rutgers University - New Brunswick.

Green's laboratory, which specializes in designing new drug - delivery systems, worked with Campochiaro and Aleksander Popel, Ph.D., professor of biomedical engineering, whose laboratory discovered the new drug — a short piece of protein that blocks the growth of unwanted blood vessels.

Today, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and The Lustgarten Foundation jointly announce the development of a new model system to grow both normal and cancerous pancreatic cells in the lLaboratory (CSHL) and The Lustgarten Foundation jointly announce the development of a new model system to grow both normal and cancerous pancreatic cells in the laboratorylaboratory.

The laboratory uses a U.S. - style tenure system — MRC's Programme Leader - Track (PLT) scheme — to train new early - career group leaders and weed out unproductive people.

«These new results imply the current - day impact rates for small particles at Saturn are about the same as those at Earth — two very different neighborhoods in our solar system — and this is exciting to see,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «It took Saturn's rings acting like a giant meteoroid detector — 100 times the surface area of the Earth — and Cassini's long - term tour of the Saturn system to address this question.»

Heaton, director of the Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, is part of the team of California researchers behind the new warning system, called ShakeAlert.

Its instrument was built by a consortium including Caltech; JPL; the University of California, Berkeley; Columbia University, New York; NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.; the Danish Technical University in Denmark; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, Calif.; ATK Aerospace Systems, Goleta, Calif., and with support from the Italian Space Agency (ASI) Science Data Center.

A new integrated climate model developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other institutions is designed to reduce uncertainties in future climate predictions as it bridges Earth systems with energy and economic models and large - scale human impact data.

The new system enables researchers to carry out the concentration step within one hour, compared to a day for the standard method now in commercial use, said Ladisch, also a professor of biomedical engineering and director of Purdue's Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering (LORRE)

The study was supported by an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's New Innovator Award (LM011952 - 01), the Harvard Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology Center (GM107618, National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the NIH), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease of the NIH (AI114952), and Turkish Academy of Sciences GEBIP Fellowship and TUBITAK 115S934 Grant.

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory is teaming up with the Spanish government to create a new center for the development of mathematical models of living systems.

Using a biomaterial matrix of porous silk, the new, scalable system is capable of producing platelets for future clinical use and also provides a laboratory tissue system to advance study of blood platelet diseases.

Using a biomaterial matrix of porous silk, the new system is capable of producing platelets for future clinical use and also provides a laboratory tissue system to advance study of blood platelet diseases.

At the Neural Information Processing Systems conference this week, researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are presenting a new approach to training speech - recognition systems that doesn't depend on transcrSystems conference this week, researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are presenting a new approach to training speech - recognition systems that doesn't depend on transcrsystems that doesn't depend on transcription.

The panel recommends construction of new facilities including a linear system to simulate tokamak conditions, as well as beefing up an existing neutron irradiation source — possibly one at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

Kepler project scientist Nick Gautier of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory presented new data at the meeting on three of the larger planets in the Kepler - 20 system, now officially known as Kepler - 20b, -20 c and -20 d. From the star's wobbles, observed with ground - based telescopes, Gautier and his colleagues were able to deduce the masses of Kepler - 20b and -20 c: 8.7 and 16.1 Earth masses, respectively.

Another group, led by molecular biologist Gregory Hannon of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, knew that a set of seven microRNAs showed up in some immune system tumors.

«This protein is highly expressed in the nervous system and has an integral role in neuronal development,» said Elizabeth Wilson - Kubalek, senior staff scientist in Professor Ron Milligan's laboratory at TSRI and co-first author of the new paper with Christopher Garnham and Annapurna Vemu of the NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).

«Our findings suggest new ways of tackling the still - difficult task of working out which patients should receive which drug and how drugs should be combined to maximize therapeutic benefit,» said senior study author Peter Sorger, the Otto Krayer Professor of Systems Pharmacology and director of the Harvard Program in Therapeutic Science and the Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Robert A.J. Signer, a postdoctoral research fellow in Dr. Morrison's laboratory and first author of the study, realized that this reagent could be adapted to measure new protein synthesis by stem cells and other cells in the blood - forming system.

This session examined the biogeochemical processes that are likely to affect the evolution of the Earth system over the coming decades, with a focus on the dynamics of marine and terrestrial ecosystems and the development of improved understanding through (a) fieldwork and laboratory experiments, (b) development of new observational datasets, both modern and palaeo, and (c) simulations using numerical models.

Oct. 25th Dr. Fran Bagenal, University of Colorado Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, will present Exploration of the Outer Solar System: New Horizons at Pluto and Juno at Jupiter

«Once again, the Pluto system has surprised us,» said New Horizons Project Scientist Hal Weaver, of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «Our predictions were nearly spot - on for the other small moons, but not for Kerberos,» added New Horizons co-investigator Mark Showalter, of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif..

By exploiting the properties of neutrons to probe electrons in a metal, a team of researchers led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has gained new insight into the behavior of correlated electron systems, which are materials that have useful properties such as magnetism or superconductivity.

The Center for Cancer Immunology Research (CCIR) addresses immunology - based approaches to the treatment of cancer and has emerged as a one - of - a-kind cancer immunology research program that allows laboratory immunologists to work with clinical oncologists to develop new or improved forms of cancer immunotherapy that activate and instruct our immune system to eliminate cancer and prevent its recurrence.

So he and his team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and collaborating teams at CCP4 and at the Diamond Light Source synchrotron in the United Kingdom developed a modular system that allows new algorithms to be dropped in as new experimental methods and technologies emerge.

This person will be responsible for the coordination and oversight of all new construction and special projects that affect the site or facility and overall maintenance and upgrade of this scientific research facility containing laboratories, offices, shops, residences, vehicles, roads, water and wastewater facilities, power distribution systems and radio telescopes.

The study is the result of one the first collaborations from the Microbiome Center, a joint effort by the University of Chicago, the Marine Biological Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory to support scientists at all three institutions who are developing new applications and tools to understand and harness the capabilities of microbial systems across different fields.

Researchers from the US Department of Energy and the Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, with the University of California Berkeley, have developed a new system that keeps CO2 from traveling into the atmosphere.

Dr. Conklin's laboratory has developed new method genome engineering in human iPS cells using the TALENs and CRISPR system.

Researchers at several DOE national laboratories are organizing a new initiative — New Fuels and Vehicle Systems Optima (Optima)-- targeting the development and... Read mornew initiative — New Fuels and Vehicle Systems Optima (Optima)-- targeting the development and... Read morNew Fuels and Vehicle Systems Optima (Optima)-- targeting the development and... Read more →

We present and exploit new near - infrared images and integral - field spectra of the four gas giants surrounding HR8799 obtained with SPHERE, the new planet f... ▽ More The planetary system discovered around the young A-type HR8799 provides a unique laboratory to: a) test planet formation theories, b) probe the diversity of system architectures at these separations, and c) perform comparative (exo) planetology.

Alain Destexhe, Research Director of Unité de Neurosciences CNRS, Gif - sur - Yvette, France Bruno Weber, Professor of Multimodal Experimental Imaging, Universitaet Zuerich, Switzerland Carmen Gruber Traub, Fraunhofer, Germany Costas Kiparissides, Certh, Greece Cyril Poupon, Head of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy unit of NeuroSpin, University Paris Saclay, Gif - sur - Yvette, France David Boas, Professor of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, University of Pennsylvania Hanchuan Peng, Associate Investigator at Allen Brain Institute, Seattle, US Huib Manswelder, Head of Department of Integrative Neurophysiology Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, VU University, Amsterdam Jan G. Bjaalie, Head of Neuroinformatics division, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway Jean - François Mangin, Research Director Neuroimaging at CEA, Gif - sur - Yvette, France Jordi Mones, Institut de la Macula y la Retina, Barcelona, Spain Jurgen Popp, Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena, Germany Katharina Zimmermann, Hochshule, Germany Katrin Amunts, Director of the Institute Structural and functional organisation of the brain, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Leslie M. Loew, Professor at University of Connecticut Health Center, Connecticut, US Marc - Oliver Gewaltig, Section Manager of Neurorobotics, Simulation Neuroscience Division - Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Geneve, Switzerland Markus Axer, Head of Fiber architecture group, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM - 1) at Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Mickey Scheinowitz, Head of Regenerative Therapy Department of Biomedical Engineering and Neufeld Cardiac Research Institute, Tel - Aviv University, Israel Pablo Loza, Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels, Spain Patrick Hof, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, US Paul Tiesinga, Professor at Faculty of Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands Silvestro Micera, Director of the Translational Neural Engineering (TNE) Laboratory, and Associate Professor at the EPFL School of Engineering and the Centre for Neuroprosthetics Timo Dicksheid, Group Leader of Big Data Analytics, Institute Structural and functional organisation of the brain, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Trygve Leergaard, Professor of Neural Systems, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway Viktor Jirsa, Director of the Institute de Neurosciences des Systèmes and Director of Research at the CNRS, Marseille, France

The laboratory of Linda Bradley, Ph.D., professor at SBP, recently published a paper identifying PSGL - 1, a protein that limits T cell responses to viruses, as a new target for checkpoint inhibition, an approach akin to taking the «brakes» off the immune system.

«It was all too easy to get used to receiving new images from the Saturn system on a daily basis, seeing new sights, watching things change,» said Elizabeth Turtle, an imaging team associate at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.

July 21, 2017 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists play a significant role in a new project aimed at removing technical barriers to commercialize enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), a clean energy technology with the potential to power 100 million American homes.

In a new study published in the Journal of Immunology, researchers at the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech's Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory (NIMML) unveiled a new mechanism by which H. pylori and the immune system cooperate to minimize destructive immune responses.

In laboratory studies with normal and cancer cells, the new radiation delivery system proved able to specifically target colon cancer cells, and what's left over is likely to be easily filtered out by the kidneys because the delivery system's molecules are so small.