Sentences with phrase «studying lab science»

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Google engineers studied balloon science from NASA, the Defence Department and the Jet Propulsion Lab to design their own airships made of plastic films similar to grocery bags.

Dispassionate readers, who have studied the Galileo caricature of a war between science and religion will know that, apart from that sorry, somewhat isolated affair, the Catholic Church and the science lab have long been conjoined twins in the advancement of knowledge.

«These findings shed new light on fundamental aspects of our online communication ecosystem,» says Deb Roy, an associate professor of media arts and sciences at the MIT Media Lab and director of the Media Lab's Laboratory for Social Machines (LSM), who is also a co-author of the study.

She engages K - 12 students in her neuroscience research through lab visits and internships for students from low - performing schools, and compliments her research by meeting with each study participant to discuss their brain scans, as well as their college plans and potential interest in a science career.

In lab tests, prototype multilayer lenses have shown they can release ciprofloxacin (an antibiotic often used to treat eye and other infections) for up to 100 days, according to a study published in the July issue of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science by researchers from Children's Hospital Boston, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary's (MEEI) ophthalmology department, Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (M.I.T.) chemical engineering department.

Females working in forensic science labs were almost two times more likely to report high stress levels than males, according to the study, funded by the U.S. Department of Justice.

The new work drew on transmission studies conducted last year in the lab of Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a co-author of the new study and also a professor of pathobiological sciences at the UW - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.

Skop's parents didn't know much about science, she says, but adds: «They knew that if I got a work study in a science lab, it would lead to something.»

The study, published by the journal Science via First Release on April 12, paves the way for determining the structures of other functional states of the ATP synthase, which has been the subject of structural studies for decades in labs across the globe.

Kathryn Shows, a postdoc at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond who studies the genetic disorder Treacher Collins syndrome, credits her postdoctoral adviser and mentor for helping her return to science after leaving to start a family: «She encouraged me to come back, and she's been like a cheerleader for me, understanding that I have a life outside the lab.»

The following Berkeley Lab researchers also contributed to the study: Benjamin Bowen, a member of Northen's lab in EGSB and at the Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, helped analyze metabolomics data; Ulas Karaoz in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) analyzed metagenomics data; and Joel Swenson, a former postdoctoral researcher in Biosciences» Biological Systems and Engineering Division, helped conduct correlation and statistical analysLab researchers also contributed to the study: Benjamin Bowen, a member of Northen's lab in EGSB and at the Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, helped analyze metabolomics data; Ulas Karaoz in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) analyzed metagenomics data; and Joel Swenson, a former postdoctoral researcher in Biosciences» Biological Systems and Engineering Division, helped conduct correlation and statistical analyslab in EGSB and at the Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, helped analyze metabolomics data; Ulas Karaoz in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) analyzed metagenomics data; and Joel Swenson, a former postdoctoral researcher in Biosciences» Biological Systems and Engineering Division, helped conduct correlation and statistical analyses.

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was led by Vivek Shenoy, professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and co-director of Penn's Center for Engineering Mechanobiology, along with Xuan Cao and Ehsan Ban, members of his lab.

In a separate study, Goray and colleagues illustrated how easily DNA can transfer within and between items from a crime scene during transport to the lab, in a study involving objects such as used cigarette butts and bloodied knives (Forensic Science International Genetics, DOI: 10.1016 / j.fsigen.2011.03.013).

The study began with a collaboration among the two lead authors — Harrison Brand, PhD, a research fellow in Talkowski's lab, who sequenced and analyzed the genomes of patients with arhinia, and Natalie Shaw, MD, then with the MGH Reproductive Endocrine Unit and now at the National Institute for Environmental Health Science, who was investigating the lack of reproductive development in a few patients with arhinia.

For this study, Tomasson collaborated with nanomedicine expert Gregory M. Lanza, MD, PhD, the Oliver M. Langenberg Distinguished Professor of Science and Practice of Medicine, whose lab synthesized and modified a compound discovered by Edward V. Prochownik, MD, PhD, of the University of Pittsburgh.

That allowed tumor cells to survive gemcitabine treatment in lab dishes and mouse studies, Leore Geller of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and colleagues discovered.

On May 3, 2017, Science retracted the study described in «Tiny plastics cause big problems for perch, lab study finds» (SN: 6/25/16, p. 14).

The first author of the Science paper is Laura Gaydos, a graduate student in Strome's lab at UC Santa Cruz who led the study for her Ph.D. thesis and is now a postdoctoral researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

I got to go all over the world: to India to research poverty, to New Orleans to teach science, to Sweden to study design and biomechanics, and to Nike's research labs in Oregon.

More recently, new systems biology studies are bringing a sense of teamwork into academic life science labs, but there have been some growing pains.

«This material could be used to help stabilize temperature,» said study co-lead author Fan Yang, a postdoctoral researcher at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, a DOE Office of Science User Facility where some of the research was done.

«This was a totally unexpected finding,» said study principal investigator Junqiao Wu, a physicist at Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and a UC Berkeley professor of materials science and engineering.

It turns out that this is true for each language in bilingual children,» said Erika Hoff, Ph.D., lead author of the study, a psychology professor in FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and director of the Language Development Lab.

The study, a collaboration between British researchers and the BBC Lab UK web site, recruited viewers of the BBC science program «Bang Goes the Theory» to practice a series of online tasks for a minimum of ten minutes a day, three times a week, for six weeks.

That's unfortunate because using citizen science in studies would not only highlight volunteers» role in science, it could also could attract more investment into future research, said Rick Bonney, director of program development and evaluation at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, who reviewed Cooper's study.

An interdisciplinary team with researchers from fields of psychology, biological statistics and computational biology, medicine, and physics included the study's co-first authors, Paul Shamble, a former graduate student in Hoy's lab who specializes in spiders and is a distinguished science fellow at Harvard University, and Gil Menda, a postdoctoral researcher in Hoy's lab.

The latest study of a new at - home test kit, published today in Science Translational Medicine, found that even untrained users were able to measure sperm count and concentration as well as motility (the percentage of actively moving sperm), detecting abnormal semen with 97 percent accuracy compared with traditional lab testing.

«That's why we're making samples in the NAU lab where we can study their properties, probing them with a variety of analytical instruments,» said Will Grundy, a New Horizons co-investigator and head of the mission's surface composition science team.

The institution has long been regarded highly for its studies in physics, computer sciences and chemistry, though years of underfunding had left the university short of lab and classroom space.

While studying fire tornadoes — whirlwinds of red and yellow flame and ash — in the lab, scientists have stumbled on a new blue fire tornado that is stable, quiet, and only 6 centimeters tall, Popular Science reports.

On April 8 at 12 noon ET, join Science Editor - in - Chief Marcia McNutt; Lori Conlin, director for the NIH Office of Postdoctoral Studies; and Anish Goel, former AAAS S&T Policy Fellow and Director of Market Analysis and Geopolitical Affairs at Boeing, for a webinar on «Thinking outside the lab: Finding a fulfilling non-research career.»

The word «shmoo» has appeared in nearly 700 science publications since 1974; it is used in labs studying the bread - and beer - making species Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

The study, conducted at Yan's lab in the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, suggests that lake and highway authorities consider adjusting road salt use protocols to protect aquatic life such as the water flea, by taking the nutritional status of the lakes into account.

That is one of the processes he hopes to capture with these new tools: «We bring kids to the lab, and we run studies where we tell them to build some kind of engineering or science project.»

This summer, hundreds of Washington area elementary school children donned lab goggles and gathered scientific data to study the science of sports as part of a free, hands - on summer program.

The lab finding is «part of a growing body of evidence that ocean acidification alone and combined with other stressors will have effects beyond shell mineralization,» said Terrie Klinger, a University of Washington marine sciences professor studying the impacts of acidification.

Other co-authors of the study included researchers from the Berkeley Lab, Japan's Nuclear Science and Engineering Directorate and Rolls Royce.

They conducted two kinds of diffraction studies: neutron scattering experiments at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) at DOE's Los Alamos National Laboratory, and electron diffraction experiments using a transmission electron microscope at Brookhaven Lab.

At Kumho Life and Environmental Science Lab in Kwangju, for example, 10 of its 55 workers are paid by the program and work alongside full - time employees to crystallize proteins, breed transgenic plants, and conduct studies on environmental stress signals.

Now a study in Science [subscription required] reveals that plastics may also be a problem in the lab: Compounds purposely embedded in plastic lab equipment — to prevent bacteria from growing and to lower the melting temperature — can taint complex biological experiments, potentially skewing the results.

He was studying electrochemistry and materials science at Dalhousie as a postdoc, working out of a physics lab.

Kawaoka also discusses his thoughts about the recommendation from the U.S. government's National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) that Nature and Science, which has accepted but not published a paper by the second lab that did these studies, redact key portions of the experiments to prevent the widespread dissemination of the recipe for a potential bioweapon.

«By working through each step so carefully, these researchers demonstrated a level of performance and efficiency that people did not think was possible at this point,» said Berkeley Lab chemist Frances Houle, JCAP deputy director for Science and Research Integration, who was not part of the study.

Conklin's lab at Gladstone, an independent, nonprofit life science research organization affiliated with UC San Francisco, supplied these human induced pluripotent stem cells for this study.

WPI staunchly stood by Mikovits's work, even after one of the labs she collaborated with in the Science study retracted its contribution to the paper because contamination had tainted data it supplied.

Kashi completed her undergraduate degree in cognitive sciences at BGU, and is now embarking on her graduate studies in the lab.

Now, scientists who are members of the Center for Computational Study of Excited - State Phenomena in Energy Materials (C2SEPEM) a new energy materials - related science center based at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), have solved a mystery that could lead to gains in efficiency.

The study involved 25 researchers from 11 institutions and Sam Houston State University's Southeast Texas Applied Forensic Science Facility (STAFSF), a seven - acre outdoor human decomposition research lab.

Military personnel develop valuable skills that can serve them well in a research lab, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) is offering a new funding opportunity intended to encourage them to pursue graduate studies.

The first, developed by the lab of Yun Song, a UC Berkeley associate professor of statistics and of electrical engineering and computer sciences, takes into account the full DNA information available from the genomes in the study.