Sentences with phrase «tested by scientist»

A «Trojan horse» treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer, which involves using tiny nanoparticles of gold to kill tumour cells, has been successfully tested by scientists.

These approaches to carbon sequestration should be tested by scientists and hard data will allow us to see whether they are effective solutions or not.

Firstly, a comment you've made a few times I've noticed, that the equations are used, tried and tested by scientists and engineers who build things and you give this as a proof that this shows the science behind the approach is sound.

Why would you jump to the conclusion that the physics textbooks are wrong on a very fundamental and basic matter of physics and that the scientific consensus is wrong in using equations that have been tested by scientists and engineers and used to build all sorts of technology rather than acknowledge that your own knowledge may be what is limited here?

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In a new study based on mice, scientists at Lancaster University found that a drug that goes after three diabetes - related targets «significantly reversed the memory deficit» in mice who got the drug, as measured by their performance in a maze test when compared to mice who didn't get the drug.

If you're looking for a more scientific diagnosis, there's also a tried and true 40 - question diagnostic test developed by scientists that will give you a more official answer to that burning office question — Is he really a narcissist or just a garden - variety jerk?

The «cosmic ray test» was developed by Silas Beane, a nuclear physicist at the University of Washington, and involves scientists building up a simulation of space using a lattice or grid.

The article described how an internal investigation conducted by a company executive, Dinesh Thakur, who went on to become a whistleblower, reported appalling deceit: Ranbaxy scientists substituted cheaper, lower - quality ingredients in place of better ingredients, manipulated test parameters, and even bought brand - name drugs and used them in place of their own generics to win FDA approval.

Testing by Virginia Tech scientists also revealed that on a key indicator of grass - feeding, Aurora milk matched normal milk, not organic.

Science requires peer review and independent confirmation by having a different scientist run a similar test, and / or run a different test that confirms the result in a different way.

A formal paper by scientists is expected to be met by the test of scrutiny.

The scientists protested and presented reams of objective evidence validated by independent tests.

This does not mean that the content of revelation needs to pass the specific tests devised by academically critical methods which generally accept only those ideas that pass muster with scientists.

The same thing can be said of the decision to engage in nuclear tests that have consequences not foreseen by the scientists who plan them and affect distant nations that have no part in the decisions.

Science works in ways you may not understand, like sometimes the math leads scientists to postulate stuff that ends up not true, which they discover by testing the postulates, thus generating new information and correcting or updating the postulate.

The conceptuality developed rationalistically provides hypotheses for empirical research that are often strikingly different from the ones actively tested by most scientists, since the latter work, largely unconsciously, out of a different metaphysics.

Los Baños, Laguna — Farmer - scientist group MASIPAG's call to revoke the application to field and feed test Golden Rice is validated after Testbiotech made an analysis on risk assessment made by Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) on Golden Rice.

A discovery by CSIRO scientists is central to the Australian Poll Gene Marker test, which is helping Australian cattle breeders select the best breeding cattle for their herds.

Scientists from Japan and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have discovered a rice gene that in preliminary testing increased production by 13 - 36 % in modern long - grain indica rice varieties — the world's most widely grown types of rice.

Furthermore, tests using a new test called liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry (LC - MS)-- scientists believe it is a more accurate way to measure gluten in fermented beers — showed that even though all the tested beers «had been rated by their makers to have gluten levels below 20 mg / kg, according to ELISA», the new test «found detectable gluten fragments in every sample using LC - MS, and most had much higher levels of gluten than ELISA detected.»

In a very official study conducted by professional scientists over appetizers at a cocktail party, it was decided that how you set your table is the most legitimate personality test to date.

Based on the findings of the research by scientists from PepsiCo, Gluten Free Watchdog calls on ALL suppliers and manufacturers of gluten - free oats whether purity protocol or mechanically / optically sorted, and their certifying bodies to reevaluate their testing methodology and requirements for certification, respectively.

As such, I recognize and appreciate that there are some in the concussion community, especially scientists - who by their very nature are appropriately cautious in endorsing any new technology without validation via rigorous, peer - reviewed testing - and some helmet manufacturers who believe that impact sensor technology has not advanced sufficiently to warrant widespread use in contact and collision sports.

As such, I recognize and appreciate that there are some in the concussion community, especially scientists - who by their very nature are appropriately cautious in endorsing any new technology without validation via rigorous, peer - reviewed testing - as well as some of the helmet manufacturers themselves, who believe that impact sensor technology has not advanced sufficiently to warrant their widespread use in contact and collision sports.

Support a multi-year effort led by world - class scientists to develop a blood test for earlier detection of breast cancer when survival rates are the highest, known as the EIF Breast Cancer Biomarker Discovery Project.

We yank children away from their proper role as self - motivated scientists, testing their world by asking and answering their own questions, and instead force them to become test takers, occupying their brains with our stupid questions.

Although scientists have long suspected that RHI caused brain damage, especially in boxers, a 2010 study of high school football players by researchers at Purdue University [1,13] was the first to identify a completely unexpected and previously unknown category of players who, though they displayed no clinically - observable signs of concussion, were found to have measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on computerized neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI).

The scientists were interested in understanding what factors influenced women to share test results, particularly with their children, who might also be affected by the cancer - conferring genes.

Tests were conducted in Sweden by scientists, curious as to the affects ultrasounds may have on the human brain during development.

This can be seen starkly in the results of a new study, published in the journal Drug Test Analysis and carried out by scientists at King's College London.

Here's the point made endlessly by scientists or anyone with even a passing understanding of pharmacology: you can not test the causal mechanism for psychoactive effect in court.

So why are UK scientists still conducting antiquated experiments on animals that have, for decades, proved ineffective, while modern non-animal testing methods have advanced by leaps and bounds?

Nanophotonics research by materials scientist Jennifer Dionne could lead to improved drugs, cancer tests or invisibility cloaks.

Inspired by Polish scientist Marie Curie and other famous scientists, this chandelier is made from real lab test tubes.

To test the additive, the scientists welded a laminated sheet of PE and a sheet of PP together by adding their new material between the two sheets.

By measuring one of nature's most fundamental constants more precisely than before, scientists have tested proposed tweaks to the standard model, the theory governing fundamental particles.

By including the whole world, Stein says, the model should enable scientists to test forecasts of big, damaging earthquakes in a practical amount of time.

But the rote memorization of facts, formulas or rules that can lead to high scores on such tests do not a good 21st century scientist or engineer make, notes Alan Friedman, a member of an independent, bipartisan board established by Congress to set policy for NAEP.

Scientists are testing methods ranging from selective insecticide spraying to intelligent robotic traps to curb disease - carrying mosquitoes by harnessing the power of data collection and targeted interventions, according to a presentation at the AAAS annual meeting.

In medicine today, physician - scientists and basic scientists supplement support for their research by applying their expertise part time to develop and test commercial products.1 In my own field, vision science, university - based researchers obtain additional funding through clinical and electrophysiologic studies, pathology, imaging, biochemistry, and animal model development performed for pharmaceutical and instrument companies.

Scientists from the University of Bristol tested this concept further by exploring what happens when the photos show faces with different expressions.

The Polish scientists were looking to send someone to set up monitoring of radioactive contaminants in the upper atmosphere, the legacy of atomic - weapons testing by the Soviet Union, the United States, and other countries in the 1950s.

SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, headed by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, has been in the spotlight with recent test flights of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space capsule, which the company hopes to use to run a space taxi service for NASA astronauts to the ISS (New Scientist, 18 December 2010, p 12).

Despite such glowing testimonials, some researchers worry about the potential for serious psychic damage if these compounds are used by hundreds of therapists on thousands of patients, instead of by a small cadre of dedicated scientists testing carefully screened volunteers in tightly controlled situations.

Scientists have been using an ancient Greek fable written by Aesop as inspiration to test whether birds and small children understand cause and effect relationships.

Often such claims are independently tested and ultimately verified or rejected by other scientists.

In additional tests, the scientists found they could restore the norovirus infections by transplanting fecal material from untreated mice into mice that earlier had been treated with the antibiotics.

The resulting $ 1.16 million Extreme Events initiative would test the trio's approach against the most advanced power grid simulator then available, operated by scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), to predict where and how often big blackouts struck.

At the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society, scientists reported here yesterday a better way to measure a community's drug use by testing its wastewater.

A lab scientist who tests supplements for companies confided in Cohen that he was deeply disturbed by the prevalence of an ephedra substitute, DMAA, which kept appearing in products despite mounting concerns about its safety.