Sentences with phrase «of leading scientists who»

«This will bring together a broad team of leading scientists who believe a cure is possible, and that it will happen here.

So say a group of leading scientists who propose to track the activity of the entire brain, neuron by neuron, millisecond by millisecond.

Its development at Theranos won't be helped following the 2013 suicide of the lead scientist who had been working on design patents for the company up to that time.

Not exact matches

«We suspected that the young are most vulnerable because of their immature immune systems, but we didn't have a lot of hard evidence to show that before,» said study lead author Bo Hang, a Berkeley Lab staff scientist who previously found that thirdhand smoke could lead to genetic mutations in human cells.

Thaddeus R. Miller, an Arizona State University scientist who helps lead a national research network focused on «Urban Resilience to Extreme Events,» said in an email that boosting the capacity of cities to stay safe and prosperous in a turbulent climate requires a culture shift as much as hardening physical systems:

One of the professors (who, as it happens, is one of the world's leading scientists) was kneeling next to the wife of my tailor — she's an immigrant woman whose simple southern Italian spirituality is of the sort that gets Catholics labeled Mary worshippers by our Protestant friends.

@ 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.

«Our age is in need of a great philosopher; one who can thread his way, step by step, through the intricate labyrinth of reasoning into which scientists have been led, eyes riveted to earth... one who can keep his mind, at the same time, open to the metaphysical implications of all he learns, and at last put the whole corpus of our knowledge together in one grand synthesis... He must at once be a Thomist and an Atomist; until that reconciliation is attempted, the pulpit and the laboratory will be forever at cross-purposes.»

There are many who refuse to accept the conclusions of the world's leading, most eminent scientists and scholars.

Imagine, then, their great surprise when defenders of the status quo, who included some of the leading political scientists in the nation, instructed them in no uncertain terms that devices like competitive elections, labeled «procedural democracy,» counted as next to nothing in comparison to «substantive democracy.»

Our age is in need of a great philosopher; one who can thread his way, step by step, through the intricate labyrinth of reasoning into which scientists have been led, eyes riveted to earth, by the desire to improve our human lot, the desire to destroy life, or mere common curiosity; one who can keep his mind, at the same time, open to the metaphysical implications of all he learns, and at last put the wholecorpus of our knowledge together in one grand synthesis.

Akin to a lawyer giving all of her clients the best defence she can regardless of what she personally believes about their innocence, a religious scientist can also honestly follow the evidence where it leads regardless of where they want it to lead (with the exception of creationist scientists, who never appear to be be honestly following the evidence).

Such early lines seem to promise that the Elephant Man will be the little child who leads these scientists to transcend their own kind of naïveté and egoistic blindness.

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»?)

In the sixteenth century there occurred a considerable expansion of interest, especially among medical men who were leading scientists and thinkers of the day, in the philosophy of nature, which led to the momentous developments of the seventeenth century.

Many believe that the Enlightenment was the death - knell of religion, but what they don't realize is that many of the leading scientists of the Enlightenment Era were Bible - believing Christians who went to nature looking for the order and beauty and logic that they believed they would find there as a result of their belief that God was created nature.

Dr. Sommer is an internationally acclaimed public health scientist who has been at the forefront of research into vitamin A deficiency, leading major studies that were fundamental to the current understanding of the effect of vitamin A supplementation on mortality, malnutrition, and blindness.

«A very high percentage of Australians didn't meet their dietary fruit intake recommendation by eating fruit alone *,» said Malcolm Riley, Research Scientist at CSIRO Food and Nutrition who led the analysis of the Australian Health Survey 2011 - 2012 data.

«The fact that British Cycling agrees with and supports our vision of taking truly accurate power measurement to all those cyclists who are aiming to improve and has given us the opportunity to work with leading coaches and sports scientists through the next two Olympic cycles, is a dream come true for the engineering innovators at Verve.»

Now a team of scientists led by Johns Hopkins pediatric surgeon - in - chief David Hackam, M.D., Ph.D., says experiments in mice reveal how breast milk works to ward off the development of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a devastating intestinal disorder that affects 12 percent of premature babies and claims the lives of one in four of those who have it.

Rugby and soccer players who suffer multiple knocks to the head during their careers are at added risk of brain damage that could lead to dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases, brain scientists are warning.

Points 2 and 3 might lead to their not believing in global warming, but when faced by such an overwhelming majority of scientist who believe it, it seems (to me) almost like a conspiracy theory to deny it.

Both William Olaf Stapledon, early twentieth century philosopher and science fiction author, and Professor Sir David Weatherall, distinguished medical scientist, have strong ties to Liverpool; and Birmingham has historically been home to a wide range of humanist thinkers like John Baskerville, nineteenth century avowed atheist and renown printer, Harold Blackham, first director of the BHA; George Holyoake, nineteenth century writer who coined the term «secularism», sex education pioneer Martin Cole, leading international humanist and philosopher - physicist Sir Harry Stopes - Roe; and writer and comedian Natalie Haynes.

President Nana Akufo - Addo led hundreds of mourners who converged at the forecourt of the State House to bid farewell to renowned Scientist and Mathematician, Professor Francis Allotey.

Last year, psychologist Brian Nosek led a consortium of nearly 300 scientists who published the first attempt to estimate the reproducibility rate in psychology by redoing 98 recent studies.

The research team, led by Joshua Cinner, a social scientist who studies coral - reef systems at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, based its analysis on data that describe conditions at more than 2,500 reefs.

«But nobody has yet figured out a way to translate the information gathered by these devices into measures of health and longevity, let alone monetize this information — until now,» says S. Jay Olshansky, professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health and chief scientist at Lapetus Solutions, who is lead author on the paper.

The low dose required for infectivity and the severity of the disease it causes had led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to classify F. tularensis as a Category A bioterrorism agent, and to track tularemia cases nationwide, according to Dr. Brook Peterson, a senior scientist at the UW School of Medicine who also participated in the study.

«This whole issue of emerging resistance of antibiotics is going to be a huge problem in the foreseeable future,» says James Hedrick, the IBM Research advanced organic materials scientist who led the study, published April 4 in Nature Chemistry (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group).

If scientists «start too early to specialize in biomaterials, there is a risk that they... would know all the possible applications but they will maybe not have the basis to be able to develop new ideas or new systems,» says Christine Dupont - Gillain, who leads the Nanostructured Surfaces for Cell Engineering group at the Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences of the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium.

In my next column for the «Career Success Factors» series, I will share with you the experiences of another friend, who has distilled a list of the top 10 habits of the world's leading scientists.

So, this [broader] notion of planetary boundaries is something that a group of scientists around the world, led by Stockholm University and others, who had [recently] been pulling together to say, «Wait a minute.

«Methane concentrations in drinking water were much higher if the homeowner was near an active gas well,» explains environmental scientist Robert Jackson of Duke University, who led the study published online May 9 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

As controversy rages around the scientists who created mutant strains of the H5N1 avian influenza virus, leading flu researchers have called for a 60 - day voluntary pause on such work.

«Less than 10 years ago, Steve Jobs promised that smartphones «will change everything,»» said Kostadin Kushlev, a psychology research scientist at the University of Virginia, who led the study with colleagues at the University of British Columbia.

The citizen scientists were indispensable for this research project, says Karine Prince, who is a postdoctoral research associate at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and is the lead author of the new report.

«We found that over half of the people with autism who used Vocational Rehabilitation services got jobs,» said Anne Roux, lead author of the report and research scientist in Life Course Outcomes at the institute.

«We hope these findings help government, industry and scientists to work together to address this issue,» says Sonter, who led the study as a UVM postdoctoral researcher, before joining the University of Queensland (Australia).

This has led to the radicalization of some elements who have denounced scientists as «vaccine barbarians,» «pharmaceutical and medical killers,» and so on.

«As far as we are aware, this is the highest level of ionisation that has ever been achieved using light,» explains the co-author Robin Santra from the research team, who is a leading DESY scientist at the Center for Free - Electron Laser Science (CFEL).

«When Greg first spotted the worms gliding through a clam field in Monterey Bay, we jokingly called them purple socks,» said MBARI scientist Robert Vrijenhoek, a co-author of the study who led the deep - sea expeditions using remotely operated vehicles.

Scientists knew that fruit flies, cockroaches, and other simple organisms have sensory processors that resemble a cortex, but these were «always interpreted as a striking example of convergent evolution of unrelated structures,» says molecular biologist Raju Tomer, who led the study at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Germany.

The HUST team has received advice from outsiders like Jerry Nelson of the Lick Observatory at the University of California, Santa Cruz, an applied physicist who led the design of the 10 - meter Keck telescopes in Hawaii and was the TMT project scientist.

With previous studies showing that higher temperatures, caused by global warming, have led to more unstable mountain rocks — the scientists, who took part in the new study, believe that using the two monitoring techniques together could prove vital for thousands of skiers and mountain climbers who undertake trips every year.

«The scientists should just tell us what they know and not worry too much about whether there's too much gloom and doom in it,» says Dan Kahan, a Yale law and psychology professor who leads the Cultural Cognition Project, studying public perceptions of risk.

Deborah Waroff, a retired Wall Street energy analyst and CFS / ME activist who was diagnosed with the poorly understood illness in 1989, bemoans the conflict between two of the disease's leading scientists.

Dr James Walters, from Cardiff University, who led the study, explains: «Many of the genetic variants that confer risk to schizophrenia are relatively common in the population, and many scientists would have expected them to be selected against by natural selection, become rare and eventually disappear from the population.

«My scientific life is tied to this spacecraft, to this mission,» says Luciano Iess, a planetary scientist at the Sapienza University of Rome who has led Cassini's radio experiment since 1990.

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