Sentences with phrase «number laboratories used»

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Simo Tchokni of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and her colleagues used various metrics such as number of followers and Klout score to determine the traits of influential social media sharers — and emoticons were a common factor.

«Whilst we recognise the need to ensure the safety of the armed forces and civilians in conflict, it is very disappointing to see the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory report a rise in the number of animals it is using in scientific procedures year on year since 2009,» Kailah Eglington, Chief Executive of the Dr Hadwen Trust, told politics.co.uk.

The RSPCA immediately challenged the Government to «prove it has a genuine commitment» to reducing the numbers of animals used in laboratories.

With between 80,000 and 150,000 different synthetic chemicals manufactured regularly, it might be too much to expect that a small number of laboratory tests could be used to judge their effect on humans.

Using a method recently developed in Hudson's laboratory, the number of gene repeats can be accurately monitored by measuring the ratio between two genes.

«It is important to test all mosquitoes collected in areas with a high number of Zika cases for Zika RNA, and if the mosquitoes are positive for Zika RNA they must be tested for live Zika virus prior to transport or use in a laboratory for experiments.»

It also provides a number of hypotheses about Alaskan tectonics and rock deformation that we can test, using the Alaska Range as our laboratory.»

«We can now take linear nano - materials and direct how they are organized in two dimensions, using a DNA origami platform to create any number of shapes,» explains NYU Chemistry Professor Nadrian Seeman, the paper's senior author, who founded and developed the field of DNA nanotechnology, now pursued by laboratories around the globe, three decades ago.

Bruce Buchholz of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory used cellular markers for a study in which he concluded that we're more or less stuck with the number of fat cells we have at about age 20.

Furthermore, the team devised a technique to control the number of neurons labeled — labeling too many neurons makes it impossible to distinguish individual ones — that allows researchers to visualize individual neuron shapes and trace their connecting fibers through intact tissues using another technology the Gradinaru laboratory has helped develop, known as tissue clearing.

Burgh is one of a growing number of patients who have been dosing themselves with a simple laboratory chemical that has never before been used to treat cancer in people.

In addition, the culture media in which the embryos are first developed in the laboratory have improved in quality, as have the hormonal medications used to help women produce a sufficient number of high quality eggs at the right time.»

This enabled them to greatly reduce the number of laboratory animals, because usually different groups of animals have to be used for such comparative studies.

Under a new agreement with MasterCard, researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are trying to adapt computer algorithms that were developed to detect clandestine nuclear explosions to spot attempts at credit - card fraud, such as using someone else's credit card number without authorisation.

He was promoted to Director of Proteomics, where he designed and implemented a number of technologies currently used in many proteomics laboratories across the world.

BPRC housing and animal care procedures comply with Dutch law, European Directive 2010 / 63 / EU, and with the «Standards for Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals by Foreign Institutions», identification number A5539 - 01, provided by the Department of Health and Human Services of the US National Institutes of Health.

A portion of the funding will be used to purchase new equipment and upgrade the existing core facility laboratory, which is utilized by a growing number of investigators from a variety of disciplines.

Thus, BPRC is fully compliant with the international demands on animal studies and welfare as set forth by the European Council Directive 2010 / 63 / EU, and Convention ETS 123, including the revised Appendix A as well as the «Standard for humane care and use of Laboratory Animals by Foreign institutions» identification number A5539 - 01, provided by the Department of Health and Human Services of the United States of America's National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Dutch implementing legislation.

His laboratory has developed a number of techniques to study the molecular profiles of circulating and airway immune cells from patients with asthma and other diseases, using fewer cells than was possible previously.

«A number of these assays and associated bioinformatics software have been validated for use in Invivoscribe's own «LabPMM» clinical laboratories, and they are currently being used by leading cancer treatment centers and pharmaceutical partners, both to optimize treatments for patients, and to stratify, enroll, and track residual disease in patients in international phase II and phase III clinical studies.

Ultrasound testing of the heart to measure the thickness of the heart wall and to determine the presence of HCM is used along with the gene tests (which are available from a number of laboratories) to characterise cats.

An in - house version may yield a positive or negative result while a test sent to a reference laboratory will provide a number that can be used to diagnose and monitor pancreatitis.

Of that number, 67 percent were taken from secured areas for personal use or medical laboratory testing.

Research should be limited to the smallest number of animals of the most suitable species, and the animals should be maintained in sanitary conditions and cared for in a humane manner in accordance with the Animal Welfare Act, the Health Research Extension Act, and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.

In 2014, according to USDA data, the number of dogs used in U.S. laboratories stood at 65,153 (a decline of almost 12 percent from the prior year).

The U.S. federal Animal Welfare Act does not require laboratories to publish the numbers of rats, mice, and birds they use.

While it is virtually impossible to know or estimate how many cases of heartworms can be prevented by the use of the Double Defense approach, it is quite obvious from our laboratory study that the number of infected dogs and the number of worms per infected dog would be greatly reduced by this approach.

With the increased use of large numbers of laboratory rats in the last century, this disease has been seen most often in laboratory animal workers in the US, as well as in poor populations.

These documents included inspection reports detailing abusive conditions at puppy mills and circuses, as well as annual reports from laboratories which contain basic statistical information about the number and species of animals used in research.

To test that I varied the data sources, the time periods used, the importance of spatial auto - correlation on the effective numbers of degree of freedom, and most importantly, I looked at how these methodologies stacked up in numerical laboratories (GCM model runs) where I knew the answer already.

Cloud physics is quite complex, so we need to make use of a number of empirical relationships that are established from field or laboratory measurements.

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