Sentences with phrase «only small laboratory»

So far, they have worked with only small laboratory rodents — mice and rats.

Not exact matches

The Antarctic Peninsula holds only a small fraction of the continent's ice, but it is «a natural laboratory,» says Theodore Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. «It's the trailer for the movie that's going to unfold over the rest of Antarctica for the next 50 to 100 years.»

Ringer adds that even though the experiments produced only laboratory quantities of the superstrength alloy, the process could quickly be adapted to produce small components that require high strength but low weight, such as biomedical implants.

«We now see a prominent northern cloud, where only small features were visible during the Voyager encounter,» says Dave Crisp of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

He wants to see programmes set up that will encourage companies to employ more scientists, build closer ties between public laboratories and industry and give more research funding to small and medium - sized companies, of which only one in ten currently does any research at all.

«There are other elements involved, but if size were the only factor, we'd be looking for an asteroid smaller than about 40 feet (12 meters) across,» said Paul Chodas, a senior scientist in the Near - Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «There are hundreds of millions of objects out there in this size range, but they are small and don't reflect a lot of sunlight, so they can be hard to spot.

The new assays detect only the most common malaria parasite, P. falciparum, and while they can use very small blood samples collected «in the field,» the analysis itself needs to be done in a biomedical laboratory.

Therefore only a small number of laboratories worldwide specialise in the technique.

The device, known as a pulsed - power generator, will be the largest of its kind in the civilian world, smaller only than half - a-dozen or so similar devices in military laboratories in the US, Russia and Europe.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — After more than a year of operation at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the COHERENT experiment, using the world's smallest neutrino detector, has found a big fingerprint of the elusive, electrically neutral particles that interact only weakly with matter.

The work is going on not only at MDIBL and The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, two of the state's most well - known labs, but also at small colleges (think Bates College in Lewiston), the University of Maine System's flagship campus in Orono and a Portland hospital.

Since the recent study analyzed only a small batch of patients, Kim's laboratory is now focused on understanding the connection between chronic itch and problematic immune systems, and whether older people are more likely to have chronic itch.

In contrast, FOBT cards showed a much smaller difference in OTU abundances (with only 1 and 3 OTUs exhibiting a growth of more than 8-fold in the Knight and Mayo laboratory sequencing, respectively).

The study concludes that infectious virions constitute only a small fraction of a typical HIV - 1 preparation and that, in a laboratory setting, all of the infectious virions can bind to red blood cells and other non-permissive cells (i.e., cells that can not be infected).

The USDA National Nutrient Data Laboratory reports that a small potato measuring between 1.75 inches and 2.5 inches in diameter provides only 0.21 grams of total fat.

Clinical laboratories have a small class size with only six to nine students at a time, allowing for individual attention and instruction.

10 base stations (see http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/co2/contents.htm) and a lot more, measured by different teams and laboratories (continuous and via flask samples), measure the same trends, only influenced by the seasons, and a small altitude and N / S gradient.