Remember that blood serum and plasma glucose levels
run at a lab are often 10 - 15 % higher than results obtained on meters.
Not exact matches
For Theranos to take
lab - testing business from the two major
lab companies used by doctors, Quest and LabCorp, and to partner to
run tests for more hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies, it has to show it can get it right
at every stage, from the preparation before it pricks someone's finger to the accurate processing of hundreds of thousands of samples.
But his question is whether Theranos could have really developed a way to
run as many tests as it offers (more than 240 so far) on the large scale needed
at hospitals and in major
labs without relying on already existing machines to automate processing.
Dinner
Lab ran its story up against a few venture capital houses, but, Bordainick says, because of the company's positioning between a tech company, an events business and a catering business, the Palo Alto finance class sort of balked
at him.
I clung to the shotgun seat while a self - driving Audi TT - S took corners far faster than most human drivers would dare, and Stanford professor Chris Gerdes, who
runs the Stanford Dynamic Design
Lab, sat
at the wheel.
The B Corp label is also an effective marketing tool; B
Lab runs its own ad campaign on behalf of B Corps aimed
at 17 million consumers.
At U of T and elsewhere,
labs are
running brain - fitness training experiments, hoping to teach focus and the use of more of the brain.
Another pioneer in this field is George Church, a genetics professor who's been working
at Harvard Medical School since 1977 and
running his own
lab since 1986.
At Epicenter, we
run corporate innovation
labs that are strategic and with an entrepreneurial DNA.
Kristen Rasmussen, R.D., a culinary nutritionist who teaches
at the University of California, Berkeley, has done research
at the Nordic Food
Lab in Copenhagen and
runs a Nordic porridge pop - up in the Bay Area.
Part of that makes perfect sense, according to James McKenna, a professor of biological anthropology who
runs a mother - baby behavioral sleep
lab at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind..
Hyndman, a retired teacher who worked
at Dawes for 26 years — 12 in the science
lab — has been
running the program
at Dawes on a volunteer basis.
She is Professor of Anthropology
at Durham University, England where she
runs the Parent - Infant Sleep
Lab.
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.
Two years later, the clinic's conference room became the new
lab, and Wang hired Xin — then a cancer - genetics postdoc
at Case Western Medical School — to
run clinical diagnostics and basic research.
Through it all, I silently watched as he struggled to juggle his family life with the responsibilities of
running a new
lab at a competitive and prestigious institution.
When Eric Cornell started as a postdoc with Carl Wieman
at JILA, an institute
run jointly by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado in Boulder, in 1990 he did his best to transform their second - floor
lab into a basement.
Obtaining research money is very competitive
at every level, says National Health and Medical Research Council Chief Executive Officer Warwick Anderson, but the squeeze is particularly tight for postdocs who want to
run their own
labs.
«I really enjoy the everyday mentoring of students
at the bench, and I wasn't interested in all the grant writing that comes with
running a
lab,» Ponik says.
Freeze
runs a
lab at Sanford - Burnham Medical Research Institute, a mere 180 meters from Scripps.
Now
at UCLA, Liu is launching his own
lab to study the way the inorganic components of soil influence bacteria's ability to
run these and other important chemical reactions.
When she arrived, she met Smith, who was a research associate
running Packer's
lab at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in nearby Martinez.
After
running a number of computationally intensive simulations of supernova light
at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility located
at Berkeley
Lab, Goldstein and Nugent suspect that they'll be able to find about 1,000 of these strongly lensed Type Ia supernovae in data collected by the upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)-- about 20 times more than previous expectations.
At the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Pereira - Smith and Smith (far right) maintain
labs that are next door to each other and essentially
run as one research group.
She decided she wanted to
run her own
lab one day and teach
at a university.
«We're trying to control these animals so much, they're no longer useful,» says Joseph Garner, a behavioral scientist who
runs a program to improve the value and welfare of
lab animals
at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
For example, two of five nanoscience centers
at the office's 10 national
labs would close and the Stanford Synchrotron - Radiation Lightsource would
run for 3 months and then be mothballed.
In the meantime, a new analysis from the BaBar experiment, which
ran at the SLAC National Accelerator
Lab in California until 2008, suggests the standard model is not what it seems.
Roughly 1200 of these are research
labs, which are often housed
at major academic centers or
run by government agencies themselves, including the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But as Stacy Gelhaus, a postdoc in Ian Blair's
lab at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, found out, there are many small ways that traditional postdocs can gain some early autonomy and, in the long
run, prepare themselves for an independent position.
Chris Randall walks through the halls of Huntsville, Alabama's A&M University proudly carrying the souvenir bag he got from being an undergraduate researcher
at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Department of Energy's (DOE) largest science laboratory, and one of the most prestigious government -
run labs in the U.S..
His research group,
at the Carnegie Institution for Science
labs in Stanford, Calif., «
runs on curiosity,» he says.
There are no rules against it, but becoming an item with one of your colleagues can make others wary of you, says Simon Barker, a PhD student
at Newcastle University who works in the same
lab as his girlfriend, as well as
running a start - up with her.
«Whether you
run your own academic
lab or take a position
at a company, learning how to manage people, projects, and budgets are necessary skills, but traditional graduate and postdoctoral training do not offer formalized courses in these topics,» says Garth Fowler, outreach program manager for ScienceCareers.org.
In l986 while
running a
lab at Georgia Tech, Kennedy learned that Canadian scientists were spurring neuron growth in rats» brains by adding bits of sciatic nerve.
To
run a meaningful experiment, Mash wanted to replicate Cox's methodology precisely, so she sent a colleague, neuroscientist John Pablo, to the
lab at Jackson Hole.
Turner's
lab manages one of the world's longest -
running beach erosion research programs,
at Collaroy and Narrabeen in Sydney, using drones, real - time satellite positioning, fixed cameras, and airborne LiDAR and quadbikes.
Then, of course, there's Hammond herself: an African - American woman
running one of the most productive chemical engineering
labs at one of the most prestigious engineering schools in the world.
Semi-starved
lab mice will not only live about 25 percent longer but will
run a maze
at three years with the facility of a well - fed mouse of six months.
Quoted prices start
at about $ 960 and while the technical descriptions differ a little from site to site, for those New Scientist found, the tests are
run by a
lab in Toronto, Canada, operated by a company called the Health Genetic Center.
At last week's meeting of the Entertainment Software and Cognitive Neurotherapeutics Society in San Francisco, Polat's team described tests of the software that Dennis Levi ran in his lab at the University of California, Berkele
At last week's meeting of the Entertainment Software and Cognitive Neurotherapeutics Society in San Francisco, Polat's team described tests of the software that Dennis Levi
ran in his
lab at the University of California, Berkele
at the University of California, Berkeley.
With the help of Ron Miles, professor of mechanical energy
at Binghamton University, whose
lab has a special quiet room without vibrations, Menda, Miles and undergraduate co-author Katherine Walden» 14,
ran experiments with a special cage that allowed them to eliminate vibrations.
Brian Krueger, a molecular biologist
at the University of Florida is no open - science skeptic: He
runs a
lab with an open slant and even started a social network — LabSpaces.net — that aims to make the scientific process more public and open.
At Darwin's
lab, eight sequencing machines
ran around the clock, decoding the DNA samples that had been collected from Ginger and the others, while Schellenberg and George Martin and their colleagues combed through the results for suspect genes.
The animal rights group had
run numerous ads alleging that researchers
at an NIH
lab in Poolesville, Maryland, were traumatizing baby rhesus macaques by taking them away from their mothers and addicting them to alcohol.
Theroux transfers the mud to a jar so that it can be
run through DNA and RNA sequencers back
at the
lab.
In a
lab near Deisseroth's office, Tye inserted a fiber - optic cable into a mouse's little brain
at just the right spot, leaving enough slack for the animal to
run around.
Now in her third year
at Lewis & Clark, Weissman - Unni has a
lab up and
running.
But the new iPad
runs at 1.4 GHz — which is 100 MHz faster than the 5S, Primate
Labs founder John Poole said on Wednesday.
Run by Kanok Pavasuthipaisit
at Mahidol University, the
lab has fertilized Asian elephant eggs in vitro.