Sentences with phrase «on lab cultures»

My new doctor told me that lactobacillus doesn't grow very well on lab cultures and that the test is not very good at detecting lactobacillus — when she was using the test, all of her patients would come back with low levels.Therefore I would take that result with a grain of salt.

«Until now, our understanding of how phytoplankton assimilate nutrients in an extremely nutrient - limited environment was based on lab cultures that poorly represented what happens in natural populations,» explained Michael Lomas of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, who co-led the study with Adam Martiny of University of California — Irvine, and Simon Levin and Juan Bonachela of Princeton University.

Not exact matches

The industry has landed on «clean meat,» after deciding that terms like «lab - grown meat,» «in vitro meat,» and «cultured meat» all have too much of an ick factor.

The backer of companies like the plant - based protein - maker Beyond Meat, and cultured - meat company Memphis Meats, Tyson Ventures» latest investment is also tackling technology development to create mass - produced meat in a lab — instead of on the farm.

Through a global network of physical LOFT labs, we have built environments where teams discover, incubate, and accelerate work on new technologies, products / services, and processes in a fail - fast culture where every idea is given a fighting chance to succeed.

Both companies — indeed all companies on the hunt for a meat replacement — are looking for a way around relying on fetal bovine serum, which is now a crucial component for any lab - cultured meats.

Call it clean meat, cultured meat, or even lab - grown meat — the questions remain the same: What's it going to take to get this revolutionary product on grocery store shelves, and how close are we right now?

Yeast testing: In an attempt to learn more about residual gluten protein in yeast grown on gluten - containing growth media Gluten Free Watchdog tested White Labs Pilsner Yeast cultured in a solution containing barley malt for gluten.

Culturing stem cells by day, and audiences in dingy stand - up clubs by night, it wasn't until Helen Pilcher left the lab that she started basing her comedy on science.

Kozlowski also advises to do what you can to intimately learn the culture of academia — don't just rely on your experience in a lab in grad school.

«It's certainly a strange experience to see a photograph of bacterial cultures you took in the lab appear on the CBS evening news.

Still, only a few dozen labs in the world are certified as BSL4 facilities; some are very small and only work on diagnostics, or cell cultures, or a single species of animals.

NSF Workshop on the Postdoc Experience Calls for «Culture Change» 3 December 2004 Correcting the problems and inequities that bedevil postdocs will require «changing the culture» of labs and universities across the cCulture Change» 3 December 2004 Correcting the problems and inequities that bedevil postdocs will require «changing the culture» of labs and universities across the cculture» of labs and universities across the country.

Now researchers in California and Virginia have identified symbiotic bacteria living on amphibians» skins that protects them from the deadly fungal disease, and later this summer the scientists will collect some of the microbial samples, culture them in the lab, and use the product to inoculate some frogs in California's Sierra Nevada to see if the approach stops chytrid in the wild.

Can you provide any specific examples of different attitudes and approaches in the lab based on culture?

«People who initially join the lab are often surprised by the frank and open discussions that center on race, culture, politics, and religion,» says Summers.

Approaching your PI can be especially difficult if the culture in the lab is focused on research and publications, or if the PI doesn't see the value in going off to attend a training course or doing an internship in a different area, he adds.

In the meantime, «we will work aggressively to set Brookhaven on a course toward a new culture,» pledges Lyle Schwartz, who is both AUI president and interim lab director.

In addition to emphasizing the recruitment of graduate students, American universities have a number of on - campus service facilities such as modern research labs, well - stocked reagent rooms, and cell culture facilities.

Indeed, the current culture of responsibility among DIY biologists, their collaborative style of working and the fact that community labs are open spaces in which everyone can see what is going on reduce, if not eliminate, doomsday scenarios of mutant organisms escaping from basements and causing harm.

The implications were hardly lost on the Bethesda crowd: If the virus was transmitted in cell cultures in Ruscetti's lab, it could also be contaminating the nation's blood supply as a result of blood donations from unknowingly infected donors.

The ability to keep human embryos developing in the lab for almost 2 weeks — achieved for the first time this year — should provide new insights into very early human development, and generate debate on whether ethical limits on studying embryos in culture should be extended.

Legionella, however, turns the tables on amoebas, rendering them both a food source and a perfect lab culture for microbe hunters.

Schleper and Ettema are working hard on growing Loki in the lab, but culturing it has proved extremely difficult.

The microbes rely on oxygen, carbon and other nutrients in their deep environment to live, but Røy's team found that carbon is so limited that the cells respire oxygen 10,000 times slower than bacteria in lab - grown cultures.

«One of the goals of this project is to help students think about labs as environments where science is practiced, [but] also [as] an environment that's shaped by culture and by norms,» says Julia Kent, CGS's director of global communications and best practices and Denecke's co — principal investigator on the project.

Sweeney delved into work in Bais's lab at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute after school, on weekends and during summer breaks, culturing an estimated thousand Arabidopsis plants for experiments.

This typical, casual canteen chat only partly reveals the facility's successful lab culture, which encouraged Ramakrishnan to focus on understanding the ribosome, the cellular machinery that turns RNA into protein.

«As bioengineers, we can now design 3D culture systems where environmental parameters such as composition, porosity, and stiffness can be precisely tuned to study the importance of these cues on tumorigenesis,» says coauthor Sandeep Koshy, a Harvard graduate student in the Harvard - MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, who works in Mooney's lab at Harvard SEAS and at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.

The lab techs had been throwing the cultures out after two days because with strep, on the first day we may see something, but by the second day it's covered with contamination and you might as well throw it in the bin.

Lacking the expensive machinery needed to validate cell lines on their own, most researchers either skip validation or ship their cultures to specialized labs which can delay important findings and treatments.

Traditionally, cell culture in the lab has been done in petri dishes and on other flat surfaces.

Cells from her malignancy were cultured and used to start a cell line, called HeLa, which lives on to this day in research labs around the world.

Wanting to pursue more experimental research, he headed to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a postdoc to join a lab of engineers who focused on cell and tissue culture experiments.

In this case, the retraction and investigation occurred even as other outside observers were raising questions about the science and integrity of both the lab and Anversa specifically, he notes, including recent criticism of the lab culture published on Retraction Watch by an anonymous former trainee.

Previous experiments from other labs have successfully brought embryos more than 10 days into development by implanting them on a three - dimensional scaffold of endometrial cells and nutrients in culture.

So say two of the world's most recognizable icons for luxury and culture — the BMW Group and Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation — which convened a gathering in the lobby of the Guggenheim Museum here Friday to provide details about the city's forthcoming BMW Guggenheim Lab, part of a social science project that aims to solicit input directly from the streets on how to improve urban living.

I disagree with a moratorium, which is in any case unlikely to work well, indeed I am fully supportive of research being carried out on early human embryos in vitro [in culture / in the lab], especially on embryos that are not required for reproduction and would otherwise be discarded.

Faculty - Administrators: Increasing Proximity to VPR — ResearchNorth (St. Louis U.)-- changing culture of research office and increasing accessibility; very low startup and maintenance ($ 20K; $ 160 / mo; 525 sq. ft.); programming; intellectual resources (books); faculty can use it for meetings (use increasing) and lab meetings bring students to the space; snacks, coffee, beer; open door culture has increased casual interaction; VPR and Provost have dropped in on meetings; similar space has been requested for second campus — space has somewhat bridged a physical division between north and south campuses.

Also new this year is an emphasis on defining and creating a lab culture that reflects shared values and promotes productivity.

The idea for a spinoff medical technology company originated several years ago when Medlin and his adviser, Endre Takacs, were working in Clemson's Atomic and Medical Physics lab on an experiment with bioengineers to systematically study the effects of low - dose radiation on living cell cultures.

Braving culture shock and a formidable language barrier, Hur joined the lab of Santa Barbara organic chemist Thomas Bruice, known for his work on the computational analysis of enzyme reactions.

As a result of their case study at the workshop, George Church offered to put his lab at Harvard to work on the barrier to progress — the inability of any lab to culture the virus so that a vaccine can be developed.

In order to be able to characterize this population of uncultivatable bacteria, CNL's BBF lab has developed a series of methods based on microbial genetics that do not require the bacteria to actually be cultured.

The new platform combines microfluidic lab - on - a-chip technology with physiologically relevant spheroids to enable formation and long - term culture of 3D multicellular tumours / organoids for drug screening / profiling and individualized chemosensitivity testing.

The team conducted tests on three different samples of cells aged in different ways: cells taken from aged donors, cells aged in culture in the lab, and those isolated from patients suffering from Hutchinson - Gilford progeria syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that ages sufferers at an accelerated rate.

stands for Rhythm Experience and Africana Culture Trial, and it's a collaborative study between the Penn Institute on Aging and the University of Pittsburgh's Brain Aging and Cognitive Health Lab.

With the caveat that these benefits occurred within the confines of lab cultures and dose adjustments, sclareol may have an impact on the way that cancer cells proliferate, and it could help induce apoptosis (cancer cell death).

Julie specializes in marrying the client's story with science focusing on education, culture and scientific analysis (functional labs, ordering labs, nutrition and lifestyle analysis) in order to get to the root of chronic disease processes and symptoms focused on quality prevention.

There is no longer a separate computer lab for students and we're starting to see what a positive impact the Learning Commons is having on our school culture and specifically on teaching and learning.