Sentences with phrase «of breakthrough discoveries»

The challenge of helping educators to be aware of breakthrough discoveries in their fields, and learning how to incorporate them in their classrooms remains.

Adopting renewable energy on a grand scale is a monumental task that requires next - generation technologies born out of breakthrough discoveries that push the boundaries in materials science, chemistry and engineering.

deCODE has made a number of breakthrough discoveries in the understanding of recombination, fertility and human evolution.

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We may remember this as the time when scientific discoveries and technological breakthroughs were integrated into the fabric of society faster than they had ever been before.

The breakthrough discovery typically drives this entrepreneur in the «lab» of their business — where they want to invent, design and tinker.

The first breakthrough for the idea was a 2007 study that Fares read on the discovery of a third photoreceptor in the eyes responsible for processing light information and synchronizing our body clock.

In a rare appearance Dr. Chandan Sen, Director, OSU Center for Regenerative Medicine & Cell - Based Therapies will explain how this breakthrough came about and how the technology is leading to other medical discoveries and how the principle can be used to generate any tissue out of skin or fat which is abundant in human body.

IDEAYA Biosciences, Inc., an oncology - focused biotechnology company committed to the discovery of breakthrough synthetic lethality medicines and immuno - oncology therapies, announced today the successful completion of a $ 94 million crossover Series B financing.

In 1996, Alexandria founded Alexandria Venture Investments to actively invest at the cutting edge of novel, breakthrough discoveries in biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics, research tools, medical devices, digital health, and technology.

Bernard Liaetar, co-architect of the Euro, remarked: «Bancor creates liquidity and allows for automatic price discovery without requiring a counterparty, which is a breakthrough».

The stock popped 55 percent Thursday after management announced a «breakthrough» discovery of a molecule capable of shutting down tumor activity and treating cancer.

It is beautiful to hear these breakthrough innovators tell their stories of discovery and impact.

But before expressing this belief, Fr Holloway makes a general remark about the nature of scientific knowledge which may serve as an introduction to Polanyi's refutation of Scientific Positivism and his proposal that science is Personal Knowledge: «It is most significant that here, as so very often in the discoveries of science, it was not the inductive data which was the real beginning of the breakthrough in knowledge, but a deductive vision glimpsed through scanty data which thrilled and excited the mind... from then on the hunt is up for the clues and the final proof.»

These rich and diverse innovations and discoveries, many of them only now beginning to dawn on mainstream Western thought 50 years later, suggest that a thorough reappraisal of Albert Schweitzer is called for, so that we might «rediscover» him as a remarkable index to the religious breakthroughs needed in our own time to revitalize our spiritual vision.

Hatfield's work has led to breakthrough discoveries in performance for athletes of all disciplines, shapes and sizes.

Located next to the Buffalo General Medical Center, the facility brings Kaleida Health physicians and SUNY Buffalo researchers together to join in the advancements in care and treatment, development of new medical technologies, discovery of breakthroughs and the spin off new biotechnology businesses and jobs.

The breakthrough discovery is the synthesis of one - dimensional, carbon nanothreads with diamond - like bonding only 0.6 nanometers in diameter.

With GFP, though, as with many scientific breakthroughs, the tremendous importance of the discovery was not clear until many years after the initial work.

It could be the biggest breakthrough since the discovery of penicillin: a new generation of antivirals that work against a huge range of viruses, including ones that don't exist yet

The map doesn't show the road to breakthrough discoveries, but it can be used to determine which areas of science are most closely connected to one another, as well as which are the most — and least — intellectually vital and productive.

Drs. Lazaridis and LaRusso say that collaboration is essential for translating scientific discoveries into breakthrough therapies to address the unmet needs of patients with PSC.

The annual gathering features significant discoveries or «breakthroughs» by 20 of the world's leading scientists and social leaders across a wide range of fields.

This breakthrough discovery is a major step forward towards the development of an asthma vaccine.

The first big breakthrough since the discovery of insulin came with the advent of home blood - glucose testing in the early 1980s, allowing diabetics to check their sugar level in a minute or two with a drop of blood on a reagent strip.

The discovery not only helped prevent the further spread of the disease but also constituted a major medical breakthrough — until then the scientific establishment had wrongly assumed that cholera was transmitted by air, not water.

That breakthrough was one of a six - year chain of discoveries that included his 2007 work demonstrating the nuclear transfer method to create embryonic stem cells from a nonhuman primate.

This breakthrough discovery was one of the first successful attempts to identify a gene associated with a disease.

The discovery of Proxima b will be a boost for Breakthrough Starshot, an ambitious project announced earlier this year to send a small spacecraft capable of reaching the Alpha Centauri star system in just 20 years.

He had just completed the last mile of a decadelong intellectual marathon that made his earlier breakthroughs — special relativity, say, or the discovery of light quanta — look like a sprint.

The Rice lab's breakthrough was the discovery of a tRNA synthetase that only adds the amino acid to the tRNA when it binds a chemical.

Academic research into the cause of the disease went into a 20 - year stall, punctuated in 2006 by a press conference in which Reeves and the CDC's director at the time, Julie Gerberding, announced what they portrayed as a breakthrough discovery: CFS was caused by a genetic predisposition to difficulty responding to stress.

Despite this lack of investment, exciting discoveries and medical breakthroughs do occur.

Dean, who now studies HG as part of a Ph.D. program at the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom, calls the GDF15 discovery «an incredibly exciting breakthrough» that proves HG is a physical, not a psychological, condition.

Scientific breakthroughs are often the result of unexpected discoveries, hardly the kind of stuff you can include in a research proposal.

Science hails these discoveries, which are prompting biologists to overhaul their vision of the cell and its evolution, as 2002's Breakthrough of the Year.

One factor is that the goals of obtaining a grant and making a breakthrough discovery are increasingly at odds, warn Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor - in - chief of Science; Marc W. Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School; Shirley Tilghman, former president of Princeton University; and Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate and former director of the National Cancer Institute, in a highly publicized critique of U.S. biomedical research that was published in April 2014.

The discovery, which opened up a potential new branch of astronomy, was named Science's Breakthrough of the Year for 2016.

Runners - up for 2016's Breakthrough of the Year include lab - grown human embryos, the discovery of the exoplanet next door, and portable DNA sequencers.

Ethical rules not only control ideas but extend to all categories of collaborations, such as funding, facilities, and rights for breakthrough discoveries.

Another breakthrough came a few years later with the discovery of «microsatellites», short sequences of two to four nucleotides.

This space tremor was detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO), a discovery that was named Science's Breakthrough of the Year for 2016 and won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.

The discovery in 2009 of ABA receptors by the same team behind the current breakthrough was heralded by Science magazine as one of the top breakthroughs of 2009 because of its relevance to the drought problem.

For example, Burke's group recently synthesized a derivative of the anti-fungal medication amphotericin (pronounced AM - foe - TAIR - uh - sin), which led to a big breakthrough in understanding how this clinically vital but highly toxic medicine works and the discovery of another derivative that is nontoxic to human cells while still effective at killing fungus.

Now scientists report a breakthrough in «waterproofing» rice: the discovery of a cluster of genes that allows plants to survive submersion.

Dr Majumder said collaborating with researchers internationally and accessing some of the most sophisticated equipment in the world, was instrumental to the breakthrough discovery.

ATLANTA — The bizarre discovery that the cosmos may expand at an ever - increasing rate — hailed by Science as the «Breakthrough of the Year» for 1998 — has won endorsement from an erstwhile skeptic, Stephen Hawking.

By stark contrast, grand breakthrough discoveries happen when you are, for instance, a penniless patent clerk in Switzerland, daydreaming about elevators moving near the speed of light.

Since the LIGO team announced their discovery in February, he and LIGO cofounders Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena and Ronald Drever, retired from Caltech, have already won several prizes: the Special Breakthrough Award, the Gruber Cosmology Prize, the Shaw Prize in Astronomy, and the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics.

You know, just the past year alone has seen a lot of new breakthroughs, discoveries, and they're constantly talking about the instruments that they're building, the bigger telescopes that are coming online soon.

«The new electron microscopy methodology is a major breakthrough in biomedical sciences as it has enabled the discovery of the atomic structure of a whole new set of proteins» says Zuber.