Sentences with phrase «numbers of scientists involved»

The battle over animal experimentation in Italy took a nasty turn this week when anonymous activists posted fliers showing photos, home addresses, and telephone numbers of scientists involved in animal research at the University of Milan and labeled them as «murderers.»

• Thursday on ScienceInsider, Marta Paterlini reported that fliers posted anonymously in Milan, included the photos, home addresses, and telephone numbers of scientists involved in animal research at the University of Milan and labeled the researchers «murderers.»

Batista was one of a number of scientists involved in the study from the Ragon Institute, established in the Boston area by experts from Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with the goal of working toward development of an effective vaccine against HIV / AIDS.

They haven't yet publicly tallied the number of scientists involved.

Hundreds: the number of scientists involved in writing the assessments of climate science by the National Research Council of the National Academies, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

Not exact matches

But this latest bet is one of the best - funded, with a number of illustrious scientists already involved — and Illumina's backing may give it a crucial boost.

A growing number of community colleges hope to improve instruction and train a more diverse cadre of scientists by involving students in research.

Adds Harold Brooks, senior scientist at NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory, who was not involved with this project, «The study is important because it addresses one of the hypotheses that has been raised to explain the observed change in number of tornadoes in outbreaks.

But a number of the invited speakers, including Alan Trounson, president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in San Francisco, and keynote speaker George Daley, a stem - cell scientist at Children's Hospital Boston in Massachusetts, are involved in research using human embryonic stem cells, which the Catholic Church considers unethical.

«Scientists are beginning to realise that primary cilia, which were once thought to be irrelevant are actually involved in a number of key biological processes,» explains co-author Professor Martin Knight from Queen Mary's School of Engineering and Materials Science and the Institute of Bioengineering.

At first Wallace was surprised at the number of social scientists involved.

«The number of people engaged and the range of scientists involved is not something that I've ever seen before.»

The project scientists now need to analyse the data and the tens of thousands of samples collected to try to identify the bacteria involved, or if, in fact, it is the total number of infections rather than a specific germ that is the critical factor.

And without strong new protections, «there [are] a substantial number of mammals that are likely to disappear,» adds John Fa, a conservation scientist at Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom who also works with Indonesia's Center for International Forestry Research but was not involved with the study.

And it seems that the number of opportunities for scientists to get involved in broadcasting may actually be on the increase.

To narrow down the number of chemical compounds that could be potential drug candidates, scientists utilize computer models that can predict how a particular chemical compound might interact with a biological target of interest — for example, a key protein that might be involved with a disease process.

«We were also pleased by the large number of scientists who were eager to get involved with the program, by, for example, giving guest science lectures in seminary classrooms and developing relationships with seminary professors.»

Much of the decline in violence in early states involved reduced numbers of murders and blood feuds, fostered by government rule and law enforcement, says political scientist Azar Gat of Tel Aviv University.

Study coauthors Rammohan Rao of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and Dale Bredesen of the Buck Institute and UCLA «have provided evidence for a novel — in fact, radical — idea: that ApoE somehow gains access to the nucleosol and acts as a conventional transcription factor, influencing the expression of a large number of genes,» Steven Barger, who studies neurodegenerative disease at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and was not involved in the study, wrote in an email to The Scientist.

Finally, an increasing number of research - intensive medical schools and hospitals (where most physician - scientists work) have constructed multifaceted programs aimed at encouraging medical students to become involved with research before and after receiving their MD degree and at protecting the research time of young physician - scientists during their junior faculty appointments.22 - 24

Since its genome was sequenced in 2002, scientists have identified a number of genes involved in how the parasite functions inside its host to cause malaria.

«A number of experiments and observations have figured out that, under the right conditions, radio communications signals in the VLF frequency range can in fact affect the properties of the high - energy radiation environment around the Earth,» Phil Erickson, one of the scientists involved, said in a statement.

A number of scientists, nutritionists and other experts involved with low carb dieting got together in 2008, and for the first time, defined what makes up a low carb diet.

«I was invited about a year or so ago to New York to speak to the staff of the New York Attorney General's office mostly about the work we did in Merchants of Doubt... And I also participated a few weeks ago in a meeting in Boston with some colleagues from the Union of Concerned Scientists, which also involved the staff of attorneys general offices from a number of states who came to listen to again factual presentations about climate science, history of climate disinformation,» she told Rep. Paul Tonko, D - N.Y., at the hearing.

The conflict here may be mostly the result of some very wealthy business interests who have a hidden agenda on this issue, and they are known to be spending a lot of money to confuse this issue in any way they can, often by involving a small number of otherwise fine scientists and others to spread doubt on their behalf.

Is it possible that climate scientists are now involved in what amounts to the game of musical chairs and have begun jockeying for, what they perceive, the reduced number of positions in climate science by publishing simply the facts instead of hyperbole.

The IPCC involves a huge number of scientists, most of whom are arguing with one another quite vigorously much of the time.

And I won't bother this time: it merely adds to the X number of scientists the IPCC claims were involved in preparation of the Report.

I have also talked to a number of brilliant and selfless scientists who were involved.

The lead scientist was from the University of Florida, while a large number of other US universities, and institutions in Germany, France, Mexico, Australia and China were also involved.

This to me is a very key issue, because if one cant discredit it, then the only option is looney conspiracy theories involving very large numbers of scientists over decades.

On the other hand, Gavin Schmidt of NASA GISS, one of the topmost scientists involved in the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming cause, in a recent paper clearly asserts that: • 75 % of the Greenhouse effect is attributable to water vapour and clouds • 100 % of the increase in CO2 emissions since 1850 (110 ppmv) is Man - made Following these numbers through and accounting for the effect of other Greenhouse gases results in a Man - made temperature rise between 1850 and 2010 of 2.21 °C.

Luterbacher et al 2010 This next interesting example was spotted by WUWT reader ZT here and involves Eduardo and a number of other prominent climate scientists, including Phil Jones.