Sentences with phrase «pioneering studies into»

Botanic Garden Alpine and Woodland Supervisor, Paul Aston, and colleague Simon Wallis, are pioneering studies into the cellular - level structures of these alpine plants with Dr Wightman.

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Today is the 70th birthday of Elizabeth Hay, an embryologist at Harvard Medical School who, through pioneering studies on regeneration of amphibian limbs, has shed light on the cellular mechanisms that transform normal cells into tumors.

Yet a series of pioneering studies have demonstrated that it is possible to lure specific memories into particular neurons, at least in mice.

A pioneering study — led by scientists from Imperial College London in collaboration with marine biologists from UC Santa Barbara — found that the predators, through their fecal material, transfer vital nutrients from their open ocean feeding grounds into shallower reef environments, contributing to the overall health of these fragile ecosystems.

The new study gives a pioneering insight into the efficiency and limits of the life - giving process, photosynthesis.

Erlich and his colleague Dina Zielinski, an associate scientist at NYGC, chose six files to encode, or write, into DNA: a full computer operating system, an 1895 French film, «Arrival of a train at La Ciotat,» a $ 50 Amazon gift card, a computer virus, a Pioneer plaque and a 1948 study by information theorist Claude Shannon.

The spacecraft pioneered the detection of aurorae at mid latitudes, provided estimates on the rate at which Mars» atmosphere escapes into space, and studied the Martian moon Phobos at close quarters.

In a pioneering series of anatomical studies carried out over the past three decades, Rakic has revealed how neurons in the developing cerebral cortex are generated and how they assemble themselves into highly ordered, distinctively layered, and densely interconnected circuits that direct higher order sensory and motor functions.

«Discovery of a gene that could convert human embryonic stem cells into myocardial cells would be golden,» said Didier Stainier, PhD, UCSF assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics, the senior author of the UCSF study and a pioneer in the study of heart development in the transparent zebrafish embryo.

In a revolutionary set of studies, Gladstone scientists pioneered a way to reprogram skin cells into heart cells and brain cells using only a combination of chemicals and without adding any external genes to the cells.

Dozens of Pioneering Studies Dig into on personality types and their impact on our lives social attitudes, relationships, and much more.

'' [Education Pioneers] is able to leverage the huge benefits of cohort - building and human - capital and people pipelines, and they're getting smart, interesting, engaged people into these roles,» said Frederick M. Hess, the director of education policy studies for the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank.

Curator Michael Klein, who has been studying and assembling a small exhibition of Hartigan's works from the early 1960s, thinks a new examination of Hartigan's achievement is overdue, and he asks a powerful question: just where where does her art, and the art of other pioneering women artists of the 1950s and 60s fit into the «canon» of American painting?

His pioneering publication, Animal Locomotion (1887), included 781 plates, each a series of pictures that broke down the movement of a wide variety of animals — from horses, elephants, ostriches, and deer to men, women, and children — into discrete elements for study by scientists, artists, and others.

In LA Weekly, Doug Harvey tells the story of Mercedes Matter, who was born into the East Coast cultural aristocracy in 1913 to father Arthur B. Carles, a pioneer American abstract painter who studied with Matisse, showed at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 gallery and exhibited work in the legendary Armory Show.

The son of pioneering British abstractionist William Scott, James Scott studied painting and theater design at the Slade School of Fine Art in the early 1960s, but while there quickly transitioned into making films.

Located in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., the Tang is a pioneer in integrating exhibition programming and collection studies into academic life and curriculum across a wide - range of disciplines.

RONAN McGREEVYCHILDREN WHO have the benefit of preschool are less likely to lie, cheat or steal as adults, a conference was told yesterday.US educator Dr Larry Schweinhart, who pioneered a long - term longitudinal study into the benefits of early childhood education, said it was an accepted...