Sentences with phrase «researchers at the lab»

In 1992 Graziano Fiorito, a researcher at that lab, announced a bombshell: Octopuses could learn by watching other octopuses.

«Uranium dissolved in groundwater flows slowly into nearby rivers, where it becomes diluted below the uranium concentrations naturally present in river water,» says John Bargar, SLAC's project lead and researcher at the lab's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), a DOE Office of Science User Facility.

And researchers at labs around the world are developing new techniques to do this.

It's the quintessential Shannon type of performance, but it plays well into the style del Toro is going for with the researchers at the lab.

In this movie, researchers at the lab engage in genetic alterations in order to create a new dinosaur.

These games have all been the projects of other researchers at the lab, to whom we loaned some of our brainstorming / prototyping power.

Not exact matches

At the same time, two German researchers — Sepp Hochreiter, now at the University of Linz, and Jürgen Schmidhuber, codirector of a Swiss AI lab in Lugano — were independently pioneering a different type of algorithm that today, 20 years later, has become crucial for natural - language processing applicationAt the same time, two German researchers — Sepp Hochreiter, now at the University of Linz, and Jürgen Schmidhuber, codirector of a Swiss AI lab in Lugano — were independently pioneering a different type of algorithm that today, 20 years later, has become crucial for natural - language processing applicationat the University of Linz, and Jürgen Schmidhuber, codirector of a Swiss AI lab in Lugano — were independently pioneering a different type of algorithm that today, 20 years later, has become crucial for natural - language processing applications.

Researchers at MIT's Media Lab are giving a «voice» to that voice inside your head.

Now, the researcher and bionics expert is the co-director of the Center for Extreme Bionics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-- a unique research lab that began with the idea of taking prosthetics to the next level.

Yu Yanagisawa, a chemistry researcher at the University of Tokyo, presses together two pieces of resin glass together to repair them at the university's lab in Tokyo.

At the centre of the story is Mervin Kelly, the researcher - turned - president of Bell Labs, who was determined to create a systemized approach to innovation.

As David Emm, principal security researcher at Kaspersky Lab in the U.K., said, any device that was connected to the internet could be compromised by sites like the Russian one.

Researcher Aviv Regev's «lab has gone from looking at 18 cells at a time to sequencing RNA from hundreds of thousands.»

Not long ago, researchers at the University of Manitoba's Human - Computer Interaction Lab conducted a study in which participants were asked to do 80 minutes of painfully dull drudge work under the supervision of a human, or that of a computer named Nao.

The «Skygofree» spyware implant has been in use since 2014, according to researchers at Russia's Kaspersky Lab.

Co-founder at Iconic Lab, ICO project advisor, as well as blockchain researcher.

He is also a visiting scientist at the MIT Media Lab and was previously a senior researcher at Harvard Business School.

Also at the University of Milan, researchers compared the digestibility of various gluten - free foods in the lab (in vitro) and then with a group of healthy volunteers (in vivo).

«The exciting development of HOMECRAFT Create multi-functional rice flours, leveraging our recent investments in Asia - Pacific, reflects the continued commitment of researchers working in this area at our global network of Ingredion Idea Labs innovation centers.»

A few weeks after my trip to Queens, I visited the Stress Neurobiology and Prevention lab at the University of Oregon in Eugene, where a team of researchers led by Phil Fisher, a psychologist, has developed a series of interventions with parents that in many ways parallel the ABC program, though with one major difference: They use digital video as a teaching tool to help steer parents away from behaviors that cause fear and stress in children and toward patterns that promote attachment and self - regulation.

Researchers at Tufts Medical School noticed that cancer cells being grown in the lab multiplied more quickly in polyester test tubes than in glass.

The quick freezing of fractions of an ounce of breastmilk had been perfected earlier that decade by researchers at Borden Labs.

«Babies like routines because they give the baby a sense of having some control over their surroundings,» explains baby researcher Gustaf Gredebäck at the Uppsala Child and Baby Lab.

Developing a biomimetic breast will allow both while working in the lab under controlled conditions, and researchers can finally get at what the natural mechanics of breastfeeding look like.

Related: Nathan Matias, a PhD student at the MIT Media Lab, has posted a terrific summary of a recent seminar given there by Christian Sandvig, Karrie Karaholios and Cedric Langbort on ways that researchers can audit the algorithms that subtly and quietly shape the user experience, with a focus on Facebook's News Feed.

Other researchers bring their labs right to the tel: Ruth Shahack - Gross from the University of Haifa runs an infrared spectroscopy unit at the edge of Area Q, another residential neighborhood, to learn what destroyed the red brick city and ended the Canaanite world.

With its festival atmosphere and a panel of judges from the worlds of venture capital and communications as well as science, the Skolar Award contest also expresses a somewhat subversive notion: that researchers need not only to discover important new knowledge, but also to convey it beyond the lab and readers of scientific journals so that society at large can understand it, value it, benefit from it, and support it.

At first he worked on a vaccine against Chagas disease, but then he noticed some recent findings made by other researchers in the lab.

Researchers hope the organoids will be better than lab animals or cells growing in culture at revealing how the human brain develops, both normally and when things go awry, and identify potential therapeutic or genome - editing targets.

Ban and Poul Nissen, a membrane protein researcher at the Aarhus University in Denmark who was also doing a postdoc in Steitz's lab at the time, pushed to determine the structure of the large subunit of the ribosome at high resolution.

Thousands of ultracold strontium atoms vibrate in a lattice of laser light inside this record - setting atomic clock, designed by researchers at the Joint Institute for Lab Astrophysics in partnership with the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Researchers at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine have reached important milestones in their quest to engineer replacement tissue in the lab to treat digestive system conditions — from infants born with too - short bowels to adults with inflammatory bowel disease, colon cancer, or fecal incontinence.

That's why Science recognized the idea of «treatment as prevention» as its scientific breakthrough of the year, crediting the lab of infectious diseases researcher Myron Cohen, a physician - scientist at the University of North Carolina School (UNC) of Medicine in Chapel Hill, with discovering and investigating one of the most promising antiretroviral drugs, HPTN 052.

Researchers sequenced nuclear DNA from three molars from layer 11 and a child's molar from a deeper layer, 22, according to a talk by graduate student Viviane Slon, who works in the lab of paleogeneticist Svante Pääbo at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Only a minority of the postdocs working in university labs have opportunities to receive high - quality training from eminent senior researchers, develop their own research ideas, gain experience in lab management and grant writing, acquire contacts and a publication record and, ultimately, move into a tenure - track position at a research institution.

In addition to paying to equip the new labs, the university gave the Dunns funding for at least a year's worth of supplies for their research — a luxury in Turkey, where researchers usually rely on grants for all of their funds, including start - up.

Lighting up the Internet in India are bizarre allegations that a researcher at the country's premier defense lab was attacked with an ax in a bungled attempt at human sacrifice.

But,» [w] hile in developing countries those friendships helped in securing the most attractive jobs, such as professorships, within their national higher education system, researchers in developed countries benefited from the global network of their senior friends giving them access to the most respected research groups, labs and universities, allowing them to present their work at the most prestigious conferences and publish in the most important books and journals.»

«They ask us for excellence, but they give us miserable resources,» said Guadalupe Barrera, a researcher at the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), who marched with students from her ecotoxicology lab.

Cells inside the brains contract, while cells on the outside grow and push outward, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, discovered from working with the lab - grown brains, or organoids.

Fellow USDA researcher Al Rango, now at the department's Jornada Experimental Range in Las Cruces, New Mexico, stopped by the lab and was stunned by the results.

Graduate students may be greener than postdoctoral researchers or lab technicians, but they are still a hot commodity, says David Meyer, a professor of biological chemistry at the University of California at Los Angeles and the senior associate dean of graduate studies for the School of Medicine.

«I think we need to do more work to see if there are any limitations to the number of genes CRISPR - on can activate at a time,» says Haoyi Wang, a co-author and postdoctoral researcher in the Jaenisch lab.

«The researchers have taken a technique that most in the field thought would be impossible for complex organs such as the kidney, and have painstakingly developed a method to make it work,» says Jamie Davies at the University of Edinburgh, UK, who was part of a team that last year made some headway in their attempts to grow kidneys from scratch in the lab.

The researchers determined that CRISPR had successfully corrected a gene that causes blindness, but Kellie Schaefer, a PhD student in the lab of Vinit Mahajan, MD, PhD, associate professor of ophthalmology at Stanford University, and co-author of the study, found that the genomes of two independent gene therapy recipients had sustained more than 1,500 single - nucleotide mutations and more than 100 larger deletions and insertions.

At the 2015 AACC Annual Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo, researchers will present findings that a first - of - its - kind smartphone test for chlamydia can detect the disease with high accuracy, which could reduce the prevalence of this sexually transmitted disease (STD) by making chlamydia screening easier and cheaper.

A team of researchers led by Jeff Tza - Huei Wang, PhD, from the Johns Hopkins University BioMEMS Lab, Baltimore, Maryland have developed the first low - cost NAAT platform that can diagnose chlamydia at the point - of - care and that integrates sample preparation, DNA amplification, and data processing all in one coffee mug - sized instrument.

More than a year later, when Prasher finished cloning the gene, he called Chalfie's lab only to learn that the researcher was on sabbatical at the University of Utah.

The study, published in Nature, was conducted by Professor Luciano Floridi, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information and Director of the Digital Ethics Lab, and Carl Öhman, a postdoctoral researcher at OII, advises that online remains should be viewed in the same way as the physical human body, and treated with care and respect rather than manipulated for commercial gain.

At the same time, researchers have found that much smaller protein clusters called oligomers — made of only a few copies of these proteins — can be highly toxic to motor neuron - like cells grown in the lab and thus are more likely to be the chief causes of brain - cell death in these diseases.