Sentences with phrase «small team of scientists»

A small team of scientists at The University of Western Australia, the Western Australian Museum, and the California Academy of Sciences has identified 18 new species of sea slugs, including some...

Maybe you should recruit a small team of scientists (from all sides of whatever the debate is supposed to be) to guide the discussions.

In 2011, he was one of the small team of scientists that produced the white paper for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy that eventuated in the BRAIN Initiative.

The latest of these new programs is Creative Research Awards for Transformative Interdisciplinary Ventures (CREATIV), which offers up to $ 1 million to small teams of scientists.

Not exact matches

Deep in the bowels of Houston's 72,000 - seat NRG Stadium, in a curtained - off makeshift room near the court where the Villanova Wildcats and the University of North Carolina Tarheels are playing for the NCAA basketball championship, a small team of engineers and data scientists from a company called Lightwave huddles over laptops watching a stream of real - time data.

He is part of a team cataloging the microbial diversity of U.S. air — in which the scientists have picked up, among other things, very small concentrations of bacteria related to anthrax.

At the Gladstone, cardiovascular scientist Robert Mahley, working with a team including neuroscientist Yadong Huang, has identified small «corrector» molecules that modify the structure of ApoE4 protein to one more like that of ApoE3, thereby reducing abnormal fragmentation.

These new results mirror those of a smaller 2017 study by a different team of scientists.

Led by Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist and marine chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the team found that a small fraction of contaminated seafloor sediments off Fukushima are moved offshore by typhoons that resuspend radioactive particles in the water, which then travel laterally with southeasterly currents into the Pacific Ocean.

In conducting their study, which includes detailed behavioral, medical and genetic observations of 14 boys with CS from 12 families, the team of scientists and physicians worked closely with families of the small but fast - growing Christianson Syndrome Association, including hosting the group's inaugural conference at Brown's Alpert Medical School last summer.

A recent survey found that the larger the research project team, the more it functions like a small factory, with implications for the training and career prospects of young scientists

To improve the current culture, the team argues that increased data sharing will allow more diverse people to actively participate in research, such as early - career scientists and those from underrepresented groups; scientists from smaller or historically less - influential institutions; citizen - scientists; and scientists from the Global South, scientists from Africa, South and Central America, and much of Asia who are often excluded from leading research.

Its CEO, Yotam Ariel, has formed a team of scientists and engineers who are designing a satellite the size of a backpack to spot the distinctive patterns of sunlight that is reflected from small emissions of methane on Earth.

In a new study, an international team of scientists claim that the most powerful volcanic eruptions, dubbed «super-eruptions», are triggered by a slow and steady drip feed of magma from large reservoirs deep within Earth's crust into smaller reservoirs closer to the surface.

An international team of scientists, including one from the University of Colorado Denver and another from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, announced the discovery Thursday of a new species of hominin, a small creature with a tiny brain that opens the door to a new way of thinking about our ancient ancestors.

«By combining seven smaller telescopes to synthesize the accuracy of one large one,» says Michael Shao, the scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who heads the SIM team, «we're going to be able to search the nearest 40 or so stars to find planets that are from one to two times the mass of Earth and that are in a habitable zone around their stars.»

A team of scientists has helped fill in the blanks via a unique, 13 - year survey made in small boats, ranging in size from 5.5 to 18 meters.

«We've seen these materials on a small scale,» says planetary scientist Jim Bell of Cornell University, a member of the rover scientific team.

The Caltech team says that its system could eventually allow scientists to analyze thousands of different proteins in a matter of milliseconds using much smaller samples than before.

The other half is spent on supporting U.S. scientists» travel to meetings to put the report together, as well as funding for a small team of staff that works for Field.

Thinking small has enabled an international team of scientists to gain new insight into the evolution of planetary building blocks in the early solar system.

«Capturing an object this small, about half a kilometer across, at such a tremendous distance with this clarity is truly amazing,» said Michael Busch, a research scientist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, and a member of the observing team.

«Because the primary Small Intestine Chip recapitulates the physical microenvironment that cells experience inside the human body, such as fluid flow and cyclic peristalsis - like stretching motions, it exhibits a genome - wide gene expression profile that comes closer to its in vivo counterpart than that of the same intestinal cells grown as 3D organoids,» said first - author Magdalena Kasendra, Ph.D., a former Postdoctoral Fellow on Ingber's team and now Principal Scientist at Emulate, Inc. in Boston.

Scientists from the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, based at The University of Manchester and part of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre, teamed up with experts at AstraZeneca, as part of a collaboration agreed in 2010, to test a drug — known as AZD3965 — on small cell lung cancer cells.

In 1966, a team of U.S. Geological Survey scientists journeyed to two small glaciers in Alaska to dig snow pits needed for measuring snow depth and density at the remote mountainous locations.

A team of scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Engineering has developed a wearable liquid - based microfluidic tactile sensor that is small, thin, highly flexible and durable.

On Monday, a team of American and British scientists led by Thompson reported on their chemical analysis of a sample core bored out of coral on the most populated atoll of Kiribati, a postcard - worthy Pacific Ocean country comprising many small islands.

While astronomers have been mired in plans for an exotic array of space - based telescopes, a small, creative team of scientists and engineers based at Princeton University has come out of intellectual left field with a new idea that could cut years from NASA's schedule and cost far less than anyone had believed possible.

A double object with a smaller moon could explain why MU69 sometimes shifts its position from where scientists expect it to be during occultations, said New Horizons team member Marc Buie of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo..

Kamuela, HI — Combining observations from the world's largest telescopes with small telescopes used by amateur astronomers, a team of scientists discovered that the large main - belt asteroid (87) Sylvia has a complex interior, thanks to the presence of two moons orbiting the main asteroid, and probably linked to the way the multiple system was formed.

A team of scientists and engineers set out to wire a small corner of a remote landscape with a clever idea and a pinch of salt.

An international team of scientists contributed to this research, including Jennifer Yokoyama, of UCSF; Lei Zhu, of UCSF and Gladstone; Lauren Broestl, of UCSF; Kurtresha Worden of Gladstone and UCSF; Dan Wang, of UCSF; Virginia Sturm, of UCSF; Daniel Kim of Gladstone; Eric Klein of UCLA; Gui - Qiu Yu, of Gladstone; Kaitlyn Ho of Gladstone; Kirsten Eilertson of Gladstone; Lei Yu, of Rush University Medical Center; Makoto Kuro - o of UT Southwestern Medical Center and Jichi Medical University; Philip De Jager, of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute; Giovanni Coppola, of UCLA; Gary Small, of UCLA; David Bennett, of Rush; Joel Kramer, of UCSF; Carmela Abraham, of Boston University; and Bruce Miller, of UCSF.

Using genetic «fin - printing», an international team of scientists has gathered the first clear proof that small traditional fishing grounds that are effectively managed by local communities can help re-stock both themselves and surrounding marine areas.

First, NSF funds the core scientific research of individual investigators; NSF presently has more than 40 active awards to individual investigators and small teams pursuing exoplanet research, including highly competitive awards to young scientists in the ascending stages of their careers.

An international team of 31 scientists found the planet after careful and repeated measurements of slight shifts in the color of the light coming from its host star, Proxima Centauri, which is a small, dim star in the Alpha Centauri system.

Reykjavik, ICELAND, December 13, 2002 — deCODE genetics (Nasdaq / Nasdaq Europe: DCGN) announced today that team of deCODE scientists has mapped to a small segment of chromosome 16 a gene contributing to psoriatic arthritis.

Now, using two separate sets of data sent back by the Cluster spacecraft, an international team of scientists has been able to probe this turbulence in more detail and at smaller scales than ever before observed.

By studying the remarkable patterns packed into the millimeters - small body of the rainbow peacock spider, scientists say we could harness similar «super Not to be confused with Echo Team Masaru Echo Enatsu (Japanese: 江夏 優, Enatsu Masaru) is a...

(When talking to a scientist who helped devise small, self - driving robot drones that can play football in teams, he asks if the most accomplished group of drones can out - think Brazil's team.

Wise used a cast of unknowns for this film about a team of scientist that descend upon a small New Mexico town where a U.S. satellite has crashed and unleashed a deadly alien organism that kills the residents.

We're a team of plant scientists, engineers and food enthusiasts that specialize in creative solutions for growing food in small spaces — such as the New York City apartments in which we live.

There's a total of four classes of worm available in the game for you to choose from; Scientists can't take a lot of damage but they can slowly increase your teams health; Scouts can fit in small tunnels that others can't and can also leap large distances; Heavies can take and deal out extra damage, and the Soldier is pretty much the standard Worms....

Later, Gris Gris Lab grew and formed a team of social scientists who began cultural consulting to further support and strengthen the local economies of non-profits and small businesses in New Orleans, Washington D.C., Detroit and New York City.

Instead of seeing large collaborations of meticulous, careful, critical scientists, we instead see a small team of incompetent cowboys, abusing almost every aspect of the framework of science to build a fortress around their «old boys» club», to prevent real scientists from seeing the shambles of their «research».

@micro6500: But the IPCC teams are a small collection of I would presume selected scientists who most had to pass the 2,3 and 4 as «yes» test to get the gig.

But the IPCC teams are a small collection of I would presume selected scientists who most had to pass the 2,3 and 4 as «yes» test to get the gig.

The problem was with «the team» a small group of climate scientists who by their own admission had a bunker type mentality.

Handled the task of providing technical and administrative leadership to a small team of fermentation scientists and technicians