Sentences with phrase «research studies in the lab»

She assists students who perform shelter medicine research studies in the lab and is their daily go - to person.

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A study released in November of 12 participants who spent two weeks in a Boston sleep - research lab discovered that using light - emitting e-reader devices can have negative effects on sleep quality.

«For now, the focus of this technology innovation centre will be on Visa Checkout and mVisa, but for certain, India will soon have teams that will jointly work with our two research labs in US and Singapore in studying the many aspects of blockchain disrupting technologies»

In 2010, researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center published a study in the journal Clinical Cancer Research showing that sulforaphane had the ability to kill breast cancer stem cells in mice and in lab cultures, and it also prevented the growth of new tumor cellIn 2010, researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center published a study in the journal Clinical Cancer Research showing that sulforaphane had the ability to kill breast cancer stem cells in mice and in lab cultures, and it also prevented the growth of new tumor cellin the journal Clinical Cancer Research showing that sulforaphane had the ability to kill breast cancer stem cells in mice and in lab cultures, and it also prevented the growth of new tumor cellin mice and in lab cultures, and it also prevented the growth of new tumor cellin lab cultures, and it also prevented the growth of new tumor cells.

Jens Ludwig, an economist at the University of Chicago who oversees a research group there called the Crime Lab, has for the past few years been studying, along with some colleagues, a counseling program called Becoming A Man, or BAM, which operates inside 49 Chicago schools, mostly high schools in low - income neighborhoods.

Edwardson is a key player in influencing future strategy for research in the lab, as well as a valuable academic mind as Shedd continues to analyze previous studies conducted with partners at the University of Chicago, The University of Illinois and Argonne National Laboratories.

«We could apply the strategy used in this study to quickly identify and design small molecule drugs for other RNA - associated diseases,» explained study first author Sai Velagapudi, a research associate in the Disney lab.

Rather than pack up and go home, he went for the last option available — a master's degree in cancer research — and picked a cancer lab that also studied viruses, at the University's Institute of Hematology.

This study built on previous research from the Sundrud lab, which showed that when TH17 cells entered the intestine in human tissue samples, they increased the expression of a gene called MDR1.

She engages K - 12 students in her neuroscience research through lab visits and internships for students from low - performing schools, and compliments her research by meeting with each study participant to discuss their brain scans, as well as their college plans and potential interest in a science career.

A crucial National Research Council report issued in 2009 noted that most forensic disciplines have not been subjected to rigorous scientific study, arising as they have from crime labs, not academia.

Conley started a research lab to study muscle atrophy in space.

She marched off into her doctoral studies, earning her degree in 1981 from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts based on research she conducted in Smith's lab.

In lab tests, prototype multilayer lenses have shown they can release ciprofloxacin (an antibiotic often used to treat eye and other infections) for up to 100 days, according to a study published in the July issue of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science by researchers from Children's Hospital Boston, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary's (MEEI) ophthalmology department, Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (M.I.T.) chemical engineering departmenIn lab tests, prototype multilayer lenses have shown they can release ciprofloxacin (an antibiotic often used to treat eye and other infections) for up to 100 days, according to a study published in the July issue of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science by researchers from Children's Hospital Boston, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary's (MEEI) ophthalmology department, Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (M.I.T.) chemical engineering departmenin the July issue of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science by researchers from Children's Hospital Boston, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary's (MEEI) ophthalmology department, Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (M.I.T.) chemical engineering departmenin Boston, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (M.I.T.) chemical engineering department.

Because his wife, Lisa Teodecki, was still working on her neuroscience Ph.D. at WSU, he worked as a research technician in Kramer's lab for another year while considering his options for graduate studies.

Her main focus has been studying how the central nervous system develops in embryos: in frogs as a graduate student, then in mice as a postdoc at Duke University starting in 1997, and later at U.C. San Francisco when her lab moved to the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center there in 1999.

The research is part of a growing field called ecoimmunology, which aims to push the study of immunology beyond lab animals like fruit flies and mice and understand how immune systems function in real - world settings outside the lab.

«One problem in liver research is that no one is able to grow liver cells in the lab,» says the study's lead author, Sheikh Tamir Rashid.

Bellotti says his organization already has a mailing list of 350,000 names, which he'll use to pressure Congress to require federal agencies to provide more details about the studies they conduct — and to defund labs or programs engaging in what the group considers wasteful and unnecessary research.

Almost 40 percent of self - identifying DIY biologists (most of whom are unaffiliated with a conventional research institutions) work in community labs — more than any other setting, including hackerspaces, professional labs and homes — according to a forthcoming study I coauthored at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

The team also looked at changes in the genetic sequence of the Zika NS1 protein over time, noted David L. Akey, a research scientist in Smith's lab and the study's other lead author.

Beyond improvements to fuel efficiency and oil spill remediation, there are currently few easy methods to generate a stable vortex in the lab, so the team hopes their discovery of the «blue swirl» can serve as a natural research platform for the future study of vortices and vortex breakdown in fluid mechanics.

The study began with a collaboration among the two lead authors — Harrison Brand, PhD, a research fellow in Talkowski's lab, who sequenced and analyzed the genomes of patients with arhinia, and Natalie Shaw, MD, then with the MGH Reproductive Endocrine Unit and now at the National Institute for Environmental Health Science, who was investigating the lack of reproductive development in a few patients with arhinia.

He and Leonia Bozzacco, a research affiliate in Charles M. Rice's lab, led the study, which appears in Cell on May 4.

To study how Amazonian trees responded to drought, Santiago's team plucked branches from the tops of trees in French Guiana's Paracou Research Station and studied them in a lab to determine how readily they develop hydraulic failure, which is a function of their physics, including the dimensions of their plumbing and the pressure their vessels can withstand.

At PENN - PORT, Varamini worked in the research lab of physiology professor Joseph A. Baur, studying the molecular mechanisms of aging in transgenic mice.

Dipak Das, director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at the University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) in Farmington, and his lab studied the beneficial health effects of wine (including one component resveratrol, which has been linked to life extension and other health benefits) and other foods, as well as cardiology.

Didier Houssin, president of the French Evaluation Agency for Research and Higher Education, says that the biosafety review of the work must consider whether studies of this kind should be conducted only in labs with the highest biosafety rating of BSL - 4, a restriction imposed this month by Canada.

«It's not only remarkable that we were able to predict a new phosphor compound, but one that's stable and can actually be synthesized in the lab,» said Zhenbin Wang, a nanoengineering Ph.D. candidate in Ong's research group and co-first author of the study.

Authors of the new study include SDSC's Goetz and Walker as well as Matthew A. Clark, who developed part of the software during his internship with Walker and Goetz, as part of SDSC's Research Experience for High School Students (REHS) program and later as an undergraduate research intern in the Research Experience for High School Students (REHS) program and later as an undergraduate research intern in the research intern in the WMD lab.

Shapiro stayed on as a part - time postdoc in Tyack's lab, studying the effect of sonar on whales and working to publish his earlier research.

«Parents are constantly making a variety of everyday decisions and have competing demands on their attention,» says Joanna Dudek, a graduate student in Haley's Parent - Infant Research Lab and the lead author of the study.

A comparable study, she says, may find that lab rats also do not lose hippocampal cells — and thus redeem them as a research tool in studies on the link between alcoholism and memory loss.

In addition to Belote and Pitnick, the article was co-authored by William T. Starmer, professor of biology at SU; Manier, a former SU research associate who is assistant professor of biology at the George Washington University; Stefan Lüpold, an SU research assistant professor; Kirstin S. Berben, an SU lab technician; Outi Ala - Honkola, a former SU postdoctoral fellow who is a biologist at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland); and William F. Collins» 12, a former student of Pitnick's who is a master's candidate at the Johns Hopkins» School of Advanced International Studies.

One thing that inhibits research into Ebola is the safety precautions needed; the virus can only be studied in biosafety level 4 (BSL - 4) labs, which are rare and in high demand, and working with the virus in these labs requires extensive safety training.

As his research progressed and he and others began unraveling the sophisticated mechanism by which the Ebola virus enters cells, he was «bitten by the Ebola bug» and made studying the virus a key focus of his lab, which he started up in 2007.

The study seems to suggest «that these people who are funded for these small amounts of money and who are able to work in someone else's well - endowed lab... are able to do somewhat risky research,» Stephan says.

The first author of the Science paper is Laura Gaydos, a graduate student in Strome's lab at UC Santa Cruz who led the study for her Ph.D. thesis and is now a postdoctoral researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

So, over the next 6 years, she worked as a research assistant in a diabetes lab, a process engineer at a paper mill, and a research associate in a lab studying diabetes and bone disease.

I got to go all over the world: to India to research poverty, to New Orleans to teach science, to Sweden to study design and biomechanics, and to Nike's research labs in Oregon.

This study was performed in the lab of Baozhong Shen, the TOF - PET / CT / MR Center of The Fourth Hospital of Harbin Medical University and the Molecular Imaging Research Center (MIRC) of Harbin Medical University.

Scientists are studying it now in the research lab of New Zealand's national museum in Wellington where it will likely end up as a preserved specimen.

To better determine the role of specific chemoattractants in type III hypersensitivity, lead author Yoshishige Miyabe, MD, PhD, a research fellow in Luster's lab, used multiphoton intravital microscopy — an imaging technology pioneered for studies of immune cell movements in living animals by CIID investigator and co-author Thorsten Mempel, MD, PhD — to follow in real time the development of IC - induced arthritis in a mouse model of rheumatoid arthritis.

That's unfortunate because using citizen science in studies would not only highlight volunteers» role in science, it could also could attract more investment into future research, said Rick Bonney, director of program development and evaluation at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, who reviewed Cooper's study.

Xinde Zheng, a research associate in the Hunter lab, was already studying the properties of cells affected by Leigh syndrome, whose inherited neurodegeneration is caused by a mutation in mitochondrial DNA that reduces ATP production.

To test their theory, Xiaoli Guo, a post-doctoral researcher in Mitchum's lab and first author of the study, synthesized the CLE - B nematode peptide and applied it to the vascular cells of Arabidopsis, a model plant system used in plant research.

«Due to the complexity of threats we have identified in this study, conservation efforts in Michigan should prioritize both protecting the highly suitable mussel habitats that are left, and identifying any additional populations in under - sampled areas of the state,» said Wesley Daniel, a former research associate in Infante's Aquatic Landscape Ecology Lab, and now Cherokee Nation Technologies contractor for U.S. Geological Survey in Gainesville, FL..

The protein's role in cancer was an unexpected finding in Kniss's lab because only a handful of studies had described the connection before his group pursued this line of research.

He was completely baffled until he read about a 1968 research study conducted in India that linked a milk protein to liver cancer in lab rats.

Kipnis also saluted the «phenomenal» surgical skills of Igor Smirnov, a research associate in the Kipnis lab whose work was critical to the imaging success of the study.