Sentences with phrase «pioneering studies showed»

But pioneering studies showed that molecular bric - a-brac could be added to DNA in adulthood, setting off a cascade of cellular changes resulting in cancer.

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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

In her pioneering study of cosmologies of different peoples, she shows that the human body is our most accessible metaphor for figuring what we really suspect about our group's and the world's makeup.

In 2015 Oxford pediatric neuroscientist Rebeccah Slater and her colleagues published a pioneering functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study showing infants» brains respond to painful stimuli very similarly to those of adults.

Pioneering new research, carried out by the Universities of Exeter, Zurich, Stanford and Chicago, shows that existing studies have massively under - valued the risk that ongoing carbon dioxide emissions pose of triggering damaging tipping points.

«This new study is important because it incorporates many of the advances in MBI pioneered here at Mayo Clinic and shows that studies can be performed safely, with low radiation exposure to the patient,» says Dr. O'Connor.

The first long - term study of a pioneering endoscopic laser treatment for early vocal - cord cancer, developed at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and previously shown to provide optimal voice outcomes, finds that it is as successful as traditional approaches in curing patients» tumors while avoiding the damage to vocal quality caused by radiotherapy or by conventional laser or cold - instrument surgery.

Pioneer says that field studies show its new hybrids will increase maize yields by 5 % in water - limited environments, such as the western states of the intensively agricultural Corn Belt region.

Bronzaft pioneered studies that show noise can impede children's learning.

Previous research, including pioneering work at MD Anderson by this study's senior author Ignacio Wistuba, M.D., and others, has shown normal - appearing tissue close to lung premalignant and cancer lesions may have tumor - associated molecular abnormalities.

A pioneering method, developed at Chalmers University of Technology, has demonstrated its potential in a large study, showing that metabolic fingerprints from blood samples could render important new knowledge on the connection between food and health.

Several recent studies have shown that cells can be returned to pluripotent state using «defined factors» (specific proteins that control which genes are active in a cell), a technique pioneered by Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, a professor at Kyoto University in Japan.

«This shows that the approach has much greater potential than we ever imagined,» said Juergen Knoblich, of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Austria, a pioneer in creating cerebral organoids who was not involved in either study.

The team highlighted that their study is a pioneer in showing that a drug treatment has the potential to solve social problems and improve social skills in autistic children.

The John lab was a pioneer in using mouse for glaucoma studies and was among the first to show that mice have a Eyeing the eyeSchlemm's canal is critical in maintaining proper fluid flow from the eye.

He has published numerous studies on educational choice programs with organizations such as the Heritage Foundation, the Texas Public Policy Foundation, the Pioneer Institute, the Show - Me Institute, and the Caesar Rodney Institute.

Backed by a pioneering nine - year study, the nutrient blend found in the new Purina Pro Plan PRIME PLUS Adult 7 + has shown to improve and extend the life of cats ages 7 and older by a year.

Schiele was a pioneering force in Austrian modernism and this show traces his artistic development, from early experiments to his later celebrated figure studies.

With works — all from Walther's holdings — ranging from motion studies by pioneering 19th - century photographer Eadweard Muybridge to documentation of a 1996 performance by Chinese artist Song Dong, and from Richard Avedon's 1970s portraits of the American political establishment to anonymous mug shots, the show examined how we represent ourselves and are in turn represented.

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.

In addition, Scottish sculptor, artist and pop art pioneer Eduardo Paolozzi also made his Biennale debut in 1952, showing a bronze sculpture called Bird (1950), a brass version of Forms on a Bow (1949) and Study for a Larger Version in Concrete (1951).

She studied with the influential German émigré abstract artist Hans Hofmann, was included in pioneering group exhibitions of abstract art at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago and elsewhere and showed with the powerful Betty Parsons Gallery.

Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).

Buyer representation was being practiced by only a few pioneers, their vision spurred by a Federal Trade Commission study showing that most buyers, 70 percent, thought they were being represented.