Sentences with phrase «scientists pioneered the use»

Konza Prairie scientists pioneered the use of long - term, large - scale fire and grazing experiments to understand the ecological effects of fire and grazing in grasslands.

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That is because the assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences at Vanderbilt University is a member of a small group of earth scientists who are pioneering in the use of mineral cave deposits, collectively known as speleothems, as proxies for the prehistoric climate.

Scientists are using a pioneering method of «caging» and cooling water molecules to study the change in orientation of the magnetic nuclei at the centre of each hydrogen atom — a process which transforms the molecule from one form of water to another.

The work is the fruit of the Innovative Genomics Initiative, a joint effort between UC Berkeley and UCSF that aims to correct DNA mutations that underlie human disease using CRISPR - Cas9, a pioneering technology co-developed by scientists at UC Berkeley that has made genome editing easier and more efficient than ever before.

As scientists decode and find ways to replicate these environments, they are pioneering a number of new treatments that can transform medicine, showing how they can be used to regenerate damaged tissue, create new muscle where there was none before — even grow «organelles» that can be used to test new drugs.

It included a controversial love affair with physicist Paul Langevin, a friendship with Albert Einstein, the establishment of the Radium Institute in Paris, her pioneering use of radiography on the French wounded in the first world war, her tours of the United States to raise money to obtain radium for her institutes in Paris and Warsaw, and her relationships with her daughters, scientist Irène Joliot - Curie and writer Eve Curie.

The FEBS / EMBO award is the latest of a string of prizes recognizing Robinson's pioneering use of mass spectrometry for the study of protein complexes and her role as a mentor to women scientists.

Inspired by nature, University of Huddersfield scientist Dr Jason Camp is pioneering the use of simple sugars to power chemical reactions.

Dr Maria Paola Clarizia, a visiting scientist at NOC from University of Michigan, and the lead author of the paper, stressed that «the UK has been a pioneer in using GNSS reflectometry to measure ocean features, and the NOC has led the field in analysing the data.»

Scientists have pioneered the use of a high - powered imaging technique to picture in exquisite detail one of the central proteins of life — a cellular recycling unit with a role in many diseases.

«Lastly, the technique we have pioneered will likely be a valuable tool for scientists and clinicians studying the biology of complex nanoparticle populations,» Dr. Zhang said, «and may aid in the development of diagnostic tests using them as biomarkers.»

A Canadian scientist who used a fellowship to visit London's Royal Institution to work with crystallography pioneer William H. Bragg, Barnes wound up publishing the definitive structure of ice formed under natural environmental conditions.

On September 23, 2010, scientists using the the European Space Agency's Venus Express mission released infrared images of a single storm vortex at the planet's South Pole, although a double vortex was apparently detected both by NASA's Pioneer Venus Mission in 1979 and the ESA's Venus Express mission in 2006.

In a revolutionary set of studies, Gladstone scientists pioneered a way to reprogram skin cells into heart cells and brain cells using only a combination of chemicals and without adding any external genes to the cells.

Director of the British Antarctic Survey, Dame Jane Francis is a pioneering scientist whose study of fossil plants and their use as tools for climate interpretation is recognised internationally.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) scientists have pioneered the use of genome editing to trace lineage in living systems.

To that end, Berkeley Lab researchers will use CRISPR / Cas9 gene - editing technology, which Berkeley Lab scientist Jennifer Doudna helped pioneer, to systematically test the function of representative sequences in mice.

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I found it interesting that the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to three scientists who pioneered the use of computers to model drugs.

A pioneering technique that involves the use of satellite - mounted thermal cameras and microwave sensors allows scientists to identify parts of the ocean that are most at risk of acidification.

Scientists from Macao Polytechnic Institute are pioneers in exploring urban temperature in Hong Kong using seasonal econometric models.

However welcome the recent announcement that a team of scientists based at Newcastle University, has grown a section of human liver using stem cells from umbilical cords, rather than from the more controversial source of embryonic stem cells, and whatever the eventual promise or potential of harvesting organs for transplantation from genetically modified pigs, the benefits of either of these two pioneering techniques to currently dying / suffering patients, remain both elusive and distant.

Dr. Blascovich not only pioneered the use of these methodologies through his research and publications, but also made them broadly available to the field by initiating, leading, and supervising regular NSF sponsored workshops that teach these methods to other scientists.

Ran is a research scientist and coach who pioneered the use of mobile technology to deliver programs of positive personal transformation, bringing him into close collaboration with partners like Deepak Chopra and Stephen Covey.