Sentences with phrase «scientist at the cutting»

The appointment of a scientist at the cutting edge of research to the head of the country's largest medical research organisation is a break with tradition.

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Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff, who has debated the issue with Thiel at Oxford, wrote that «the vast majority of my scientist colleagues at top universities seem awfully excited about their projects in nanotechnology, neuroscience, and energy, among other cutting - edge fields.

However, doctors and scientists at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) are developing cutting edge prosthetics to improve the lives of amputees.

It describes how Exxon conducted cutting - edge climate research decades ago and then, without revealing all that it had learned, worked at the forefront of climate denial, manufacturing doubt about the scientific consensus that its own scientists had confirmed.

It's evident by looking at the cut surfaces that the ceramics is craft through and through — but the scientist has kept on trying.

In other words at least pre speech infants are still completing their gestation, so to speak, and so my own preference both as a father and scientist is to encourage parents to let the infant and toddler sleep as close to them as is safe for as long as they can, without specifying an artificial, arbitrary «cut off.»

Wilson - White heat revolution, 1963Industry was modernising rapidly and in order to keep at the cutting edge, Harold Wilson argued that the government needed to help produce more scientists.

Climate scientists tell us that to keep the rise of global temperature above the pre-industrial level at below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) in order to avoid runaway global warming, the world must cut greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent per year starting in 2020.

Its three cities — Utica, Rome and Sherrill — and dozens of towns and villages constitute a unique community, with business and industry ranging from agriculture and low - tech family - owned enterprises to the high - tech engineers and scientists that support cutting - edge research and development ongoing at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y and the Masonic Medical Research Laboratory in Utica, N.Y.

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«I'd like to learn about cutting - edge technologies in the U.S. and how American scientists view the process of translating basic science into application,» said Chen, who was a panelist at the 2017 World Conference for Science Journalists in San Francisco.

Last week New Scientist reported that US emissions could be cut by more than 7 per cent if people changed their ways at home.

The scientists estimate that cold technology could cut the energy consumption and cost of CO2 capture by as much as 30 per cent in one of the «green» coal - fired power stations that the world is currently sniffing at.

(Reuters)- Almost 200 nations began global climate talks on Monday with time running out to save the Kyoto Protocol aimed at cutting the greenhouse gas emissions scientists blame for rising sea levels, intense storms, drought and crop failures.

Meanwhile, at Stanford University, materials scientist Zhenan Bao and collaborators cut pyramid - shaped holes in an elastic polymer to produce variations in capacitance, the ability to hold an electric charge.

At the cutting edge of research in the life sciences, a team of scientists and animators from Japan has created an astonishing new film about the function of the human heart.

The bill authorizes a shift in funding away from climate science and geoscience, tightens the strings on NSF grantmaking in ways «that most scientists consider too restrictive,» and «cuts authorized spending levels at the National Institute of Standards and Technology far below what the White House has requested.»

Mars Attacked: Planetary Scientists Vent Frustrations over Proposed Budget Cuts The field is bristling at cutbacks, proposed last month by the Obama administration, to planetary science and especially to NASA's program of robotic Mars explorers

For example, Matt Krause, director of human resources at CV Therapeutics, says, «Our research programs include multiple, cutting - edge cardiovascular product candidates in various stages of clinical trials and preclinical programs, all of which rely heavily on the contributions from our many B.S. - and M.S. - level scientists.»

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have created a customizable, fabric - like power source that can be cut, folded or stretched without losing its function.

«If emission cuts were postponed due to climate engineering, a halt in climate engineering would place the two - degree objective beyond reach,» says Tommi Ekholm, a Senior Scientist at VTT.

The annual Texas gathering of planetary scientists featured new research from across the solar system, as well as a good deal of anger directed at politicians looking to cut back on planetary exploration

Scientists fear that automatic cuts in funding for the National Institutes of Health, set to kick in at the start of 2013, will harm research and patients

The NOAA cuts, at least as they are initially laid out by the administration, would be devastating to the agency's scientific research across multiple areas, said Erika Spanger - Siegfried, a senior analyst in the climate and energy program at the Union for Concerned Scientists.

After taking a close look at autopsiedhuman brains, scientists at the Buck Institute in Novato, California, foundthat those with Alzheimer's disease had about ten times as much cleavage inthe brain, a process that Dale Bredesen, Buck Institute founder andleader of the research group describes as «molecular scissors» cutting out the amyloid - beta protein.

One - fifth of the scientists at Britain's leading water research laboratory will lose their jobs because the privatised water companies are cutting their spending on research.

As a result, says Harvey Flower, a materials scientist at University College London: «There is the potential to cut the cost of titanium very substantially.»

This is unacceptable at a time when leading scientists from all over the world are warning that greenhouse gases must be cut by at least 60 percent over the next half a century to avert the worst consequences of global warming.

► On Wednesday at ScienceInsider, Laura Margottini wrote about the response of Italian scientists to expected cuts to Italian research budgets.

Like many of his fellow scientists, Kok - Keong Tan, a mathematician at Dalhousie University, Halifax, was disappointed to learn that his research grant had been cut.

That might sound like a good deal to all kinds of American researchers and foreign scientists currently working in the U.S. in light of massive looming Trump budget cuts at the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Department of Energy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Geological Survey and, of course, the Environmental Protection Agency.

CRISPR is an enzyme that scientists have been able to «program» using targeting RNA in order to cut DNA at precise locations that the cell then repairs on its own.

Courses often cover legal issues, like how to handle research involving human subjects, rather than examining how funding may influence scientists or how cutting - edge research such as genetic engineering may affect society at large.

A group of dairy scientists conducted a study at the University of California, Davis, to examine the effects of using low - flow sprinkler systems that cut water use for this purpose by nearly 75 %.

In addition, the university has four Nobel laureates, as well as many other world - renowned scientists on staff, which made it easy for me to get experimental advice and technical assistance from people at the cutting edge of basic scientific research.

Coastal altimetry, which provides detailed wave and sea level data in the coastal zone captured by specialist instruments called radar altimeters on board satellites, is at the heart of the project and scientists from NOC have been at the cutting - edge of this technique.

In a new study led by The University of Texas at Austin, scientists have documented the first clear - cut instance of the reverse — a massive earthquake immediately triggering a series of large slow slip events.

Lincoln Brower, a biology professor at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, says outlaw logging in the monarchs» wintering grounds cut out nearly half their habitat since scientists had found it in the mid-1970s.

A new paper from scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich explains why plant breeders have found it difficult to produce wheat varieties which combine high yield and good resistance to Septoria, a disease in wheat which can cut yield losses by up to 50 %.

If scientists hoped to find a clear - cut path through which molecules might travel from the surface to the depths, the images Galileo sent back to Earth did not reveal it at all.

Lacking any official declaration of the project's cost or how it would be funded, some researchers bristled at the prospect of a large new federal initiative that could take money from traditional grants for individual scientists, especially at a time when NIH faces a massive budget cut.

«We were quite surprised at how massive, how thick this haze layer was,» says co-chief scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, «and that it cut down on the sunlight going into the ocean by as much as 10 percent.»

Trump's renunciation of the 2015 Paris climate accord, the rollback of many environmental rules, proposed deep budget cuts at key research agencies, and the failure to appoint qualified scientists in many research - related positions fueled the mistrust.

Tomatoes are already an ideal model species for plant research, but scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) just made them even more useful by cutting the time required to modify their genes by six weeks.

For now, scientists who want to experiment with the new SIM methods can arrange to do so through Janelia's Advanced Imaging Center, which provides access to cutting - edge microscopy technology at no cost.

A new study to be published by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research finds that a 70 percent cut in emissions should stabilize temperatures at a mark not too much higher than today.

Scientists can guide the scissors to the place they want to cut in an organism's genetic instruction book with a guide RNA that matches DNA at the target site.

• In News & Analysis, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee wrote about troubles at the Lick Observatory near San Jose, and other California observatory facilities, after a decision by the University of California's (UC's) Office of the President to cut off funding for the salaries of 11 faculty and staff members at the University of California Observatories system who are perceived by some to enjoy privileged status, with a lighter teaching load than other UC scientists and an 11 - month contract instead of the 9 - month contracts of other UC faculty.

This helped cut the proportion of the gas in the ancient atmosphere to levels low enough for life to flourish, says Geoff Brent, senior scientist at Orica, an explosives manufacturer based in Melbourne.

Scientists have developed a CRISPR gene - editing technique that can potentially correct a majority of the 3,000 mutations that cause Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) by making a single cut at strategic points along the patient's DNA, according to a study from UT Southwestern Medical Center.