Research teams are also developing ways to innovate the early drug - discovery process, including pioneering methods to rapidly identify drug targets and test
them on laboratory models and finding and testing new therapeutic possibilities for already FDA - approved drugs.
Not exact matches
In many dark energy
models, we would expect to see significant effects
on both
laboratory and cosmological scales.
Testing that has been completed
on components of the system, dubbed KRUSTY, has been «greatly successful — the
models have predicted very well what has happened, and operations have gone smoothly,» said Dave Poston, chief reactor designer at the Los Alamos National
Laboratory.
It is customary and even ethically mandatory that experimentation that carries with it a substantial degree of risk to human subjects first be tested in an animal
laboratory or, at the very least,
on a computer
model.
The extreme cases of unambiguous wave and particle behaviour occur in mutually exclusive
laboratory situations.7 As one physicist puts it, you may have to use a wave
model on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and a particle
model on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.
I have done a little work
on developing
model behavioral assay procedures for studying the experiences of
laboratory rats.
With a
laboratory machine designed as a semi-automatic
model, containers can be fed into as many as 21 stations which print
on four types of bottle...
Some football helmet manufacturers suggest that players who wear their helmets - especially new
models - may be at lower risk of concussion than those who wear competitors»
models or older helmets, basing their claims
on how well the new or newer helmets absorb and lessen some of the impact forces that cause concussion in biomechanical studies performed in the controlled environment of the
laboratory.
But the fact that one part of the rings didn't cool as expected allowed us to
model what they might be like
on the inside,» said Ryuji Morishima of NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Pasadena, California, who led the study.
We were very surprised based
on the fact that previous
models people used for planet formation suggested a much higher critical shock pressure,» says Richard Kraus, now a scientist at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory and lead author
on the paper published in March in Nature Geoscience.
«However, these studies were either carried out in the
laboratory over short timescales or based
on theoretical
models.
«Astronomers observe exploding stars and astrophysicists
model them
on supercomputers,» said Wrede, assistant professor of physics at MSU's National Superconducting Cyclotron
Laboratory.
«The problem is that most of the plant - tolerance
models we currently use to predict these outcomes are based
on laboratory studies or plant physiological studies, so they often don't factor in the compounding effects of simultaneous stressors like drought and pressure from natural enemies.
Modeled on such pathbreaking establishments as the Medical Research Council
Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, United Kingdom, and Bell Labs in New Jersey, Janelia consists of small, multidisciplinary groups — approximately 45 of them when staffing reaches full strength in 2009.
«We have in the Luzon Strait an oceanic
laboratory where we can test our theoretical
models and simulations to see them play out
on a small scale.»
The
model has been validated through
laboratory experiments
on a human - made freak or rogue wave (the so - called «soliton splash») using test tanks.
In his groundbreaking book The Inflationary Universe, for example, Alan Guth of MIT, who codeveloped the leading
model of the Big Bang, speculates provocatively about whether it would be possible to create a new universe in a basement
laboratory, but he treats such a Genesis -
on - demand merely as a scientific thought problem.
Today, a team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory (CSHL) led by Professor Partha Mitra describes a new mathematical
model that combines large data sets to predict where different types of cells are located within the brain, based
on their molecular identity.
In her 4 years at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, Laura Glish, a 2006 graduate, worked
on collaborative projects in two different
laboratories and explored a variety of experimental techniques, from atomic force microscopy to synthetic chemistry and molecular
modeling.
Osborne's swagger seems a bit subdued as we wind our way through the
laboratories and testing pools, past scale
models of tankers and oil platforms detailed down to the company logos painted
on their sides (no photos allowed).
PhysiScore outperformed not only the Apgar scale but also three
models that rely
on invasive
laboratory tests, the team reports online today in Science Translational Medicine.
Yet that's just what researchers have done, using a seemingly simple
laboratory model of rifting
on the seafloor.
«It's the same Olympic
model going
on with the
laboratories,» he says.
«If human organs
on chips can be shown to be robust and consistently recapitulate complex human organ physiology and disease phenotypes in unrelated
laboratories around the world, as suggested by early proof - of - concept studies, then we will see them progressively replace one animal
model at a time.
When projects
on the scale of a nuclear power station or THORP are concerned, or the release of genetically modified organisms into the environment, to give another example, it is not possible to
model them fully in the
laboratory using traditional trial - and - error methodology.
Eventually, HBP wants to evolve into an international organization, Gillet says,
modeled on CERN, the European Space Agency, or the European Molecular Biology
Laboratory.
Such ease of use will likely encourage the use of more animal
models in the study of human diseases, says Rhonda Wiler, a geneticist at biotech giant Genentech in San Francisco, California, who co-chairs the Roundtable
on Science and Welfare in
Laboratory Animal Use (which organized the workshop).
For her study
on geologic storage, Lord and her colleagues analyzed and reworked the geologic storage module of Argonne National
Laboratory's Hydrogen Delivery Scenario Analysis
Model.
Chu also talked about
modeling energy research
laboratories on Bell Labs.
In order to guarantee the compatibility of these tests
on a global scale, the
laboratories use
model species specified by international guidelines, including a species of earthworm.
«Having these personalized
laboratory models, which we can make in a matter of weeks, will let us test multiple different drugs
on the tumor and help us bring precision medicine to individuals with bladder cancer.»
Dan Hooper, a physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, tweeted
on 26 March: «I'm a very creative dark matter
model builder (if I do say so myself) and I can not come up with a viable
model that can produce this signal.»
The new computational
model is built
on CogSketch, an artificial intelligence platform previously developed in Forbus»
laboratory.
Shown are the 1988 - 2014trends in springtime ozone levels
on days that were very smoggy (top panel) and of average smogginess (bottom panel), from observations (left) and from a
model built by the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Laboratory (right).
«While
laboratory studies of the effect of temperature
on the physiology and behavior have provided significant insights into thermal ecology of ectotherms, the time is ripe to take this knowledge outside the lab to further develop climate change
models,» he said.
Greenblatt and co-author Samveg Saxena at the Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory developed a
model that is essentially a «best - case scenario,» where the cars are not just driverless but also run
on electricity.
On Tuesday, Enserink followed up with a report on a study recommending that HBP «be remade into an international organization modeled on CERN or the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EPFL) in Heidelberg.&raqu
On Tuesday, Enserink followed up with a report
on a study recommending that HBP «be remade into an international organization modeled on CERN or the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EPFL) in Heidelberg.&raqu
on a study recommending that HBP «be remade into an international organization
modeled on CERN or the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EPFL) in Heidelberg.&raqu
on CERN or the European Molecular Biology
Laboratory (EPFL) in Heidelberg.»
According to the authors of the study, in future researches it will be necessary to know about the action mechanism of the new products - highly selective and with low cell toxicity
on in vitro tests - and broaden preclinical studies with
laboratory animal
models.
In testing
on laboratory mouse
models and human MDS / AML samples, the researchers identified a novel substrate of TRAF6 called hnRNPA1, an RNA binding protein.
Using statistical
models, a team of researchers from the British Antarctic Survey and Plymouth Marine
Laboratory assessed the likely impact of projected temperature increases
on the Weddell Sea, Scotia Sea and Southern Drake Passage, which is known for its abundance of krill.
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory have developed a new computational
model of a neural circuit in the brain, which could shed light
on the biological role of inhibitory neurons — neurons that keep other neurons from firing.
Through the integration of such large - scale data sets within computational
models, his
laboratory is unraveling condition - dependent networks of active regulation process and novel principles
on the operation of metabolic networks.
Franziska Michor (Dana - Farber Cancer Institute)-- Research done at the computational biology and bioinformatics
laboratory of Dr. Michor has led to the first clinical trials based
on the evolutionary mathematical
modeling of cancer.
This session examined the biogeochemical processes that are likely to affect the evolution of the Earth system over the coming decades, with a focus
on the dynamics of marine and terrestrial ecosystems and the development of improved understanding through (a) fieldwork and
laboratory experiments, (b) development of new observational datasets, both modern and palaeo, and (c) simulations using numerical
models.
To save the stranded rover, NASA ran tests
on a
model of the rover in a simulated Martian «sandbox» at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory.
For the purposes of this Prize, research based solely
on computer
models will not be accepted as a substitute for ocean experiments or effective, small - scale
laboratory models and experiments.
We focus
on several
model organisms in the
laboratory but are open to additional approaches by independent - minded and motivated individuals.
The following profile of REGEN2017 student Susannah Kassmer, Ph.D., appears in the fall edition of the MDI Biological
Laboratory's «Breaking Through» magazine, which focuses
on how the study of highly regenerative animal
models can help science understand the potential for regeneration in humans.
Recent in - situ measurements at the Martian surface by the RAD instrument (Hassler et al. 2012)
on board the Mars Science
Laboratory rover agree relatively well with the quiet - time GCR predictions made by these computational
modelling efforts (Hassler et al. 2014; Kim et al. 2014; Gronoff et al. 2015).
The Jackson
Laboratory celebrated the groundbreaking for its new, state - of - the - art vivarium, a 134,900 - square - foot facility to maintain research mouse
models, at the institution's Ellsworth, Maine, location
on August 2.