Sentences with phrase «of leading scientists from»

A letter to the Prime Minister outlining the threats and opportunities for the UK national interest arising from the recent elections in the United States has been signed by dozens of leading scientists from across the UK, including members of the Society.

Publishing in the journal Cell, remarkable progress in understanding how stem cell biology works has been reported by an interdisciplinary team of leading scientists from biology, physics, and engineering.

A group of leading scientists from across Europe have launched a three - year project aimed at developing an oral vaccine against Clostridium difficile, an infection that kills around 4,000 people a year (almost four - times more than MRSA) and for which there is currently no effective treatments.

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The scientists applied light from various sources, including the sun and a lamp, to a solution containing the quantum dots, which led to the creation of free radical atoms and caused the solution's acrylate monomers to link.

The Archbishop of York has joined leading scientists and figures from the entertainment industry in paying... More

@ steve, I could also get into some of the «higher brain functions» that lead scientists to better understand why we have compassion and such; however, I think that many people don't really give compassion or morals a lot of thought or care as to where they come from, they are simply a part of who we are as a species.

Yes, I like thousands of highly credentialed scientists from the world's leading academic and scientific institutions who have written dozens, if not hundreds of books casting doubt on Evolutionary Theory, I do have our doubts about evolutionary theory and Darwinism.

Cornell University Professor William Provine, a leading historian of Darwinism, concluded from Gallup's figures that the American public simply does not understand what the scientists mean by evolution.

June 4, 2013 — Scientists may not know for certain whether life exists in outer space, but new research from a team of scientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on mScientists may not know for certain whether life exists in outer space, but new research from a team of scientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on mscientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on meteorites.

Scientists from all walks of life, around the world accept evolution because of the evidence and where it leads.

In the course of her research, Ecklund surveyed nearly 1,700 scientists from leading universities and interviewed 275 of them.

A scientist's tenacity in a belief, despite paucity of evidence and doubt from peers, may lead her to develop a radically different conception of some aspect of our world, but one that is nonetheless true and significant.

In 2012 the lines between the sacred and the profane will get even more blurry: Scientists will religiously maintain their search for the elusive God particle (they won't find it); evangelical sports superhero and Denver Bronco quarterback Tim Tebow will continue to be both an inspiration to the faithful and an object of scorn to skeptics (he will be watching, not playing in, the Super Bowl); at least one well - known religious leader or leading religious politician will be brought down by a sex scandal (let's hope all our leaders have learned a lesson from former Rep. Anthony Weiner and stay away from sexting); and the «nones» - those who don't identify with one religion - will grow even more numerous and find religious meanings in unexpected places (what TV show will become this season's «Lost»?)

While scientists like Brian Cox give popular and compelling accounts of the wonders of the universe (see his BBC2 TV series of that name), and atheists like Dawkins and Hawking claim it all disproves God, we need to show how science and religion come from one Wisdom and lead to the One Wisdom Incarnate, Jesus Christ.

The Archbishop of York has joined leading scientists and figures from the entertainment industry in paying tribute to Professor Stephen Hawking.

Life - Producing Phosphorus Carried to Earth by Meteorites June 4, 2013 — Scientists may not know for certain whether life exists in outer space, but new research from a team of scientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on mScientists may not know for certain whether life exists in outer space, but new research from a team of scientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on mscientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on meteorites.

This is the title of an article in The New Zealand Herald on July 3rd 2007, bringing the news that the UMF ingredient studied by scientists for over 15 years was identified as Methylglyoxal (MGO ™) by a team a researchers from Dresden, Germany, led by Professor Dr. Thomas Henle, head of the Institute of Food Chemistry at the Technical University of Dresden.

These monitoring projects involve teams of experts, including scientists from some of Australia's leading regional universities and research institutions, and local land and water managers, assessing the impacts of environmental water use in the Gwydir, Lachlan, Edward - Wakool, Murrumbidgee, Goulburn, Lower Murray and the Junction of the Warrego and Darling rivers.

Localised teams made up of a range of experts including scientists from some of Australia's leading regional universities and research institutions will undertake each of the seven projects.

But Mars claims: «Most of the excitement and energy in this field today stems from the findings of Mars» scientists and their university partners that certain cocoa polyphenol - rich preparations have the potential to prevent and / or treat health conditions that are leading causes of death and disability around much of the world».

It is true that women were excluded from the House of Lords until 1958, but there is an irony that the first life peeresses were a leading social scientist, the founder of the Women's Voluntary Service, a prison reformer and childcare expert.

The climate change risk assessment is the result of more than three years of work, involving hundreds of leading scientists, and experts from both the public and private sectors.

With events from some of the country's leading social scientists, the Festival celebrates the very best of British social science research and how it influences our social, economic and political lives - both now and in the future.

Last month Johnson said he had been told by Porton Down that the nerve agent used in the Salisbury poisoning case could only have come from Russia, but the lead scientist at the defence research laboratory later said this was not the sort of finding the organisation could make.

Peter Atadja, a Ghanaian Drug Research and Development Scientist has led a team of researchers from Novartis Institute for Biochemical Research to develop Panobinostat (LBH - 589), an experimental drug for the treatment of cancers.LBH589 is a potent oral pan-inhibitor of class I, II, and IV histone (and non-histone) deacetylase enzymes (HDACs / DACs).

Then, during a postdoc at Princeton University, he collaborated with a scientist from Alcoa Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of aluminum products whose U.S. headquarters are in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and decided that industry was a good match.

The scientists from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital at McGill University, led by Peter McPherson, along with collaborators in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Germany, and at SickKids Hospital and the University of Toronto, have discovered that a severe form of epileptic encephalopathy is caused by recessive loss - of - function mutations in the gene DENND5A.

Recognition of the barriers faced by scientists from underrepresented groups can inform programs designed to recruit and retain those scientists; understanding the prevalence and impact of deceitful research can lead to more effective policies to prevent them.

Leading U.S. scientists have complained about threatening communications and abusive e-mails as a result of their research on the climate impact of heat - trapping gases from human activity.

During this in depth study, an international team of researchers led by British scientists investigated the impact of anti-hormone therapy on samples taken from patients with prostate cancer.

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In a recent experiment performed at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory at RIKEN, an international collaboration with scientists from eleven countries, led by scientists of the Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC (Spain) and the RIKEN Nishina Center (Japan), made a very surprising observation: High - energy gamma rays — which are mediated by the electromagnetic force — are emitted in the decay of a certain excited nucleus — tin 133, in competition with neutron emission, the decay mode mediated by the strong nuclear force.

«We were looking at two questions: how could we identify the oil on shore, now four years after the spill, and how the oil from the spill was weathering over time,» explained Christoph Aeppli, Senior Research Scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine, and lead author of the study reported in Environmental Science & Technology.

The missions are led by scientists, either from a NASA center or a university, and NASA has launched more than 90 of them since the 1950s.

Nonetheless, leading scientists of the era — Thomas Hunt Morgan, Albert Einstein, and Edwin Hubble to name but three — published in Science, presented their work at annual meetings, and in some cases received small grants or prizes from AAAS.

An international study led by scientists from Inserm and Paris Diderot University (France), the University of Chicago (USA), the National Heart and Lung Institute (UK) and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (USA) together with researchers of the Trans - National Asthma Genetics Consortium (TAGC) has discovered five new regions of the genome that increase the risk of asthma.

In a typical investigation, the RIO - led committee — made up mostly of faculty with relevant expertise — reconstructs the research behind a scientific result from its documentation (which may be sparse, cryptic, or fabricated)-- so the RIO job requires deep insight into how scientists work.

Led by Young Duck Kim, a postdoctoral research scientist in James Hone's group at Columbia Engineering, a team of scientists from Columbia, Seoul National University (SNU), and Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) reported today that they have demonstrated — for the first time — an on - chip visible light source using graphene, an atomically thin and perfectly crystalline form of carbon, as a filament.

A study out this week in Nature, led by scientists from the University of Pennsylvania and The Wistar Institute, reveals why these relapses occur.

To retrace the history of the disease, an international team of scientists, led by Johannes Krause from Tübingen University and Stewart Cole from EPFL Lausanne, have reconstructed entire genome sequences of M. leprae bacteria from five medieval skeletons that were excavated in Denmark, Sweden and the United Kingdom as well as seven biopsy samples from modern patients.

A new, highly permeable carbon capture membrane developed by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could lead to more efficient ways of separating carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust, preventing the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere and contributing to climate change.

An Otago - led team of scientists using techniques from the field of dentistry is shedding new light on the evolution of walruses, fur seals and sea lions.

The international team of scientists, led by Dr Philipp Khaitovich from Shanghai, examined for the first time the evolution of the human metabolome — the compendium of metabolites present in human tissues.

In order to determine its origin, Italian scientists took a tiny sample from the blade and compared the proportion of lead isotope — a kind of «finger print» of the ore deposits which remains unchanged in any objects subsequently made from the ore — with the corresponding data from numerous mineral deposits in Europe and the entire Mediterranean region.

A research team led by scientists from Brigham and Women's Hospital has developed a novel technology platform that enables the continuous and automated monitoring of so - called «organs - on - chips» — tiny devices that incorporate living cells to mimic the biology of bona fide human organs.

New findings from an international research team led by University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists may improve detection of skin cancer that lacks any brown or black color.

reported in the journal «Science», scientists led by Dr. Felix Creutzig from the Mercator Research Institute of Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Berlin, and Dr. Patrick Jochem, KIT, point out that the transportation sector may be easier to decarbonize than previously assumed in global emission scenarios.

Scientists from the University of New Hampshire and colleagues have published comprehensive findings on space - based radiation as measured by a UNH - led detector aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

Since about the same percentage of all US citizens say they do believe in a personal god, it makes one wonder what, if not their science, leads the elite of US scientists to differ so dramatically from the general population.

A team of scientists led by Dr. Martin Zeppenfeld from the Quantum Dynamics Division of Prof. Gerhard Rempe at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching has now made a virtue of necessity: the so - called optoelectrical Sisyphus technique, developed in the group, exploits the polarity of formaldehyde molecules, while reaching temperatures as low as 420 micro-Kelvin.