Sentences with phrase «number of researchers now»

A number of researchers now theorize that DNA - based life evolved from an RNA - based predecessor.

What is emerging is a new idea: that qualities like grit and resilience are not formed through the traditional mechanics of «teaching»; instead, a growing number of researchers now believe, they are shaped by several specific environmental forces, both in the classroom and in the home, sometimes in subtle and intricate ways.

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The idea failed to gain traction then, but now a number of prestigious researchers are studying the potential therapeutic uses of LSD, psilocybin and MDMA.

«We can now generate extremely large numbers of these embryos and study them in detail,» lead researcher Dr. Nicolas Rivron told the BBC.

For the first time, the number of people who do not profess any religion (53 per cent) now outnumbers those who do, according to researchers.

«I'm sure that first number is at least 85 % now; gambling is growing at a phenomenal rate in the United States,» says Henry Lesieur, chair of the criminal justice department at Illinois State University and the acknowledged dean of American gambling researchers.

While researchers continue to look for the concussion «holy grail» in the form of specific impact thresholds above which concussions are highly likely and / or the number of impacts or the magnitude of impacts per week or per season that substantially increase the risk of long term brain injury, impact sensor technology is available right now to do what we can to reduce total brain trauma by using impact data to identify kids who need more coaching so they can learn how to tackle and block without using their helmets.

As a number of researchers have now shown, intergenerational environments foster a better understanding and resolution of problems and spur more innovation and originality.

The researchers now are studying some of the master genes to determine whether modifying them also causes changes in large numbers of other genes.

ETH researchers have now shown that the high estimated mutation rates at the start of the epidemic were due to the limited number of virus samples at the time in combination with the computer models used, which calculate the estimates using genetic data from virus samples and from underlying assumptions.

Combined with extensive media coverage, a rise in the number of victims may help to explain why mass shootings now seem unusually common, one researcher suspects.

According to the researchers, the findings represent a major breakthrough in sleep research because, for the first time, it will now be possible to objectively capture the real - life sleep habits and sleep quality of large numbers of people.

By comparing the numbers of nerve cells, or neurons, among eight species of carnivores (ferret, banded mongoose, raccoon, cat, dog, hyena, lion and brown bear), researchers now have a better understanding of how different - sized brains are built.

Now, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have shown how to turn a regular smartphone into a portable, inexpensive microscope that accurately measures copy - number variations in seconds.

A number of epidemiological studies have already pointed toward this effect, and it has now been verified by Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich researchers in the Pasture birth cohort.

Based on their joint consideration of sperm size and number, and with the aid of new meta - analytical methods, the two researchers now reveal that species facing intense sperm competition invest more in their ejaculates on average than their monogamous counterparts.

Now, Wyss Institute researchers led by Church have developed a new suite of such sensors, reported in Nucleic Acids Research journal, that not only increase the number of cellular «switches and levers» that scientists can use for complex genetic re-programming, but also respond to valuable products such as renewable plastics or costly pharmaceuticals and give microbes a voice to report on their own efficiency in making these products.

Kristen Marhaver, who began this work while she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Merced, USA, said: «Now that we've successfully reared juvenile Pillar Corals in the lab, not only can we study them in more detail to find out what factors could be threatening their survival in the wild, but it also means that we can try to out - plant a small number back to the reef.

Now researchers at Linnaeus University in Sweden and from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) have found an important finding to answer this question: Individual differences have a positive and stabilizing effect on the number of moths.

There is a database called the influenza sequence database that I believe is maintained at Los Alamos by a group of researchers there and for some years now they have had an open part of it and a closed or private part of that database, and a small number of researchers have been allowed to have access, small number of labs have been allowed to have access to this private database and they deposit their flu samples in there and they can share data amongst themselves, but no one else gets to look at it.

Now these researchers have demonstrated how a laser device could be effectively used for detecting drunken drivers and thereby helping to reduce the number of accidents caused by drivers under the influence of alcohol.

The researchers will now continue their work to investigate whether physical exercise can affect the number of accumulated mutations.

I'm now benefiting from that because a number of my students that have gone out and worked in other world class groups have had the opportunity to return to the institute as more senior researchers and start to train their own students.

Between the super-Earths, the circumbinary planet, and the dozens of other new discoveries, researchers are now turning up exoplanets in unprecedented numbers.

However, bnAbs are found in only a minority of infected people, in quantities too small to clear the virus, so Burton and other researchers are now trying to design vaccines to elicit these bnAbs in numbers large enough to provide effective protection.

Now that researchers know it's possible to fairly divide cake in a bounded number of steps, the next goal, Procaccia said, is to understand the huge gulf between Aziz and Mackenzie's upper bound and the existing lower bound on the number of cuts needed to divide a cake.

Researchers at the Cells - in - Motion Cluster of Excellence at the University of Münster (Germany) have now developed a method enabling them to better evaluate and study the activity of inflammatory cells in mice: they have succeeded in genetically modifying precursors of immune cells, then increasing their numbers in a test tube and finally tracking them spatially and temporally in living organisms.

The European Commission now wants to support researchers at all stages of their careers, and a number of new Marie Curie schemes that reflect this policy shift have been set up.

In the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they report that they were able to more than triple the number of documented facial expressions that researchers can now use for cognitive analysis.

By comparing 400 morphological features, such as the shapes and numbers of teeth, in the new fossil with those in 68 other specimens, the researchers have now placed the 73 - million - year - old creature in the Eutherian evolutionary tree, an umbrella group that includes placental mammals.

Jasper says TOR can be regulated by a number of stimuli, and researchers are now attempting to better understand how the activity of this signaling pathway is controlled in stem cells.

Now, as a codirector of MIT's Leg Lab, he's one of a number of researchers developing radically improved prosthetics.

Now a refined version of an old calculation is causing a stir by suggesting that researchers have also systematically underestimated the number of the particles» antimatter partners — antineutrinos — produced by nuclear reactor experiments.

Now, Richards and a number of researchers are looking to bridge the gap between neuroscience and AI.

Now researchers say they've found evidence to support Tammet's claim that his enriched perception is at the heart of his knack for number memorization.

Tübingen neurology researchers can now report how and where brain cells depict an empty set as a part of the number line.

A number of extrasolar planets have been found in the past two decades and now researchers agree that planets can have a wide variety of characteristics.

University of Tübingen neuroscience researchers headed by Professor Andreas Nieder now have some answers as to how and where brain cells depict a zero amount as a part of the number line.

Based on a three - day experiment, the researchers are now looking to investigate whether the vast number of changes that take place in seconds or minutes of zero gravity are actually processes of adaptation to a new environment or far - reaching, permanent problems.

Researchers from Leibniz Institute for Age Research — Fritz Lipmann Institute (Jena, Germany) now identified a crucial role of telomeres, the end structures of chromosomes, for sensing cells with a wrong chromosome number, referred to as aneuploidy.

Now, in a study published this past January in Science, a team of researchers at the University of Trento in Italy, led by cognitive psychologist Rosa Rugani, has shown that infants of a different species altogether also prefer to see bigger numbers on the right.

A number of different types and sizes of wearable e-skins are now being developed in labs around the world as researchers recognize their value in diverse medical, scientific and engineering fields.

Now the researchers hope that future observations of a large number of distant galaxies using the ALMA telescopes could help unravel how frequently such evolved galaxies occur in this very early epoch of the history of the universe.

«There are now a number of potential therapeutic strategies that could conceivably achieve this goal, once considered aspirational,» researchers, including Barré - Sinoussi, wrote in the Nature Medicine article.

The researchers are now working on scaling up the number of electrodes so they can record from multiple neurons at a time, potentially allowing them to determine how different parts of the brain are connected.

Researchers now report that they can use this gamma ray radiation to infer the number of small asteroids in different groups of small solar system bodies.

In the study now published in the scientific journal Nature the researchers have compared the genomes in a large number of dogs and wolves, and mapped areas of the genome that show clear differentiation between the two groups.

This approach has been used to cure people with multiple sclerosis, and has been attempted with varying degrees of success for a number of other autoimmune conditions for going on fifteen years now: there are researchers with a lot of experience in this type of therapy.

Raman spectroscopy is now increasingly available in single purpose hand held units that can identify the presence of a small number of target substances with ease - of - use appropriate for field work by law enforcers, first responders or researchers in the field.

A number of epidemiological studies have already pointed toward this effect, and it has now been verified by LMU researchers in the Pasture birth cohort.