Sentences with phrase «through laboratory studies»

NOAA scientists are leading efforts in assessing alternative chemicals for possible use as replacements to ozone depleting gases through laboratory study.

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Being able to study things like black hole mergers through gravity will shed light on some of the «darkest yet most energetic events in our universe,» said Albert Lazzarini, deputy director of the LIGO Laboratory, in an American Physical Society press release.
The Des Plaines trail meanders through areas such as Van Patten Woods, a popular family destination near Zion, as well as unusual natural areas such as the Wadsworth Demonstration Project, where the river winds through a living laboratory to study wetland restoration, and MacArthur Woods near Libertyville, home to endangered plants.
Beginning as early as this spring, the companies will offer telomere - measurement tests to research centers and companies studying the role of telomeres in aging and disease; the general public may have access by the fall through doctors and laboratories, perhaps even directly.
In a breakthrough study that could improve how people learn and retain information, the researchers significantly boosted the memory and mental performance of laboratory mice through electrical stimulation.
Through a new study of the coccobacillus Francisella, Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers are working to use DNA markers to discern related but relatively harmless species as they are identified and to provide a means to distinguish them from the harmful F. tularensis.
I am studying ferroelectric crystalline solids through the diffraction of x-rays and neutrons in the CNRS Structure, Properties and Modelisation of Solids Laboratory at l'Ecole Centrale of Paris.
The team of researchers, from the Universities of Gloucestershire, Aberdeen and Plymouth, conducted studies on past climate through detailed laboratory examination of peat from a bog near Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego.
This is one of the first and most extensive studies that instead focused on the characteristics of the plant defensive traits through fieldwork and laboratory analyses of the anti-herbivore chemicals.
The research does not conclude that the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) can transmit Zika to humans, but it highlights the need for deeper research into additional potential vectors for the virus that has rapidly spread through the Americas since its initial outbreak in 2015, says Chelsea Smartt, Ph.D., associate professor at the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory at the University of Florida and lead author on the study to be published this week in the Entomological Society of America's Journal of Medical Entomology.
Following up on the inspectors» findings, a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) laboratory study has demonstrated severe corrosion — rapidly eating through 1 millimeter of wall thickness per year — on steel alloy samples exposed to ethanol and acetic acid vapors.
«Next steps are to further explore this possibility in human trials in order to assess if it will help patients, but these two drugs make sense from a variety of studies and we find that they act together through multiple mechanisms to control cancer growth in the laboratory
Data for the study was obtained from dozens of published peer - reviewed scientific studies and the Xylem Functional Traits Database, which contains measurements of the hydraulic safety margins for each species as determined through laboratory experiments.
The study, published Nov. 17 by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that triclosan causes liver fibrosis and cancer in laboratory mice through molecular mechanisms that are also relevant in humans.
Prior to joining Dr. Bowden's laboratory, Dr. Dickinson earned her PhD through the Genetics Graduate Interdisciplinary Program at the UA, studying oxidative stress and heart disease.
UNSW Australia study author and Ph.D. candidate Katarina David (left) preserves samples of moist rock collected by drilling a 300 - meter deep core through the layers of sandstone and claystone near Sydney, for later testing in the laboratory.
In the Rutgers study, Zong and lead author Ji - An Pan, a scientist in his laboratory, looked at liver and heart damage in laboratory mice and found that the mice in which the TRIM21 gene was inactivated suffered little heart or liver damage when put through the same laboratory procedures used to produce tissue damage in mice with the gene.
Researchers from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have shown that early fatigue damage behavior in structures may be predicted through the study of the microscale mechanical behavior of the material.
The scientists hope to gain more insight into this by exploring how past changes in seawater pH have impacted these organisms, but also through further field and laboratory studies testing the effect of ocean acidification on these calcifiers.
In one study, conducted by Douglas J. Donahue of the University of Arizona, Jacqueline Olin of the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Materials Research and Education, and Garman Harbottle of Brookhaven National Laboratory, a three - inch sliver of the parchment was put through an accelerator mass spectrometer.
The findings have implications for all aspects of medical and scientific research because laboratory mice underpin studies whose results have a transformative effect on human and animal lives through vaccination and other immune - based therapies.
«This study showed the value of interdisciplinary collaboration through a novel combination of laboratory, observational and modeling work.»
A new study from the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Wash., for example, finds that during Salmonella infection the pathogen may use fucose to fortify itself and find its way through a host's body
The park is home to the Soudan Underground Laboratory, a 36,000 cubic meter facility that houses half a dozen physics experiments including one that uses a detector weighing 5400 metric tons to study neutrinos fired through the earth from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory 730 kilometers away in Batavia, Illinois.
Jiangxiao Qiu, a former graduate student in Turner's laboratory and now a postdoctoral researcher with The Nature Conservancy, studied the impact the Asian worms — of the species Amynthas agrestis and Amynthas tokioensis — from July through October of 2014 in the forest at the UW Arboretum, and conducted an experiment on soil samples taken from around southern Wisconsin.
«The time from selection of the target through discovery of the antibody and completion of initial animal tests totaled only about five months,» said Hongkai Zhang, a research associate in the Lerner laboratory who was first author of the study.
The following profile of REGEN2017 student Susannah Kassmer, Ph.D., appears in the fall edition of the MDI Biological Laboratory's «Breaking Through» magazine, which focuses on how the study of highly regenerative animal models can help science understand the potential for regeneration in humans.
The Laboratory's graduate education and science education programs provide educational opportunities for students and teachers from elementary school through postgraduate studies.
Researchers have established a strong genetic component for addictive behaviors through studying animal models, including laboratory mice.
The study conducted in the laboratory of Don Cleveland, Ph.D., UCSD Professor of Medicine, Neurosciences and Cellular and Molecular Medicine and member of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, shows that therapeutic molecules known as antisense oligonucleotides can be delivered to the brain and spinal cord through the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) at doses shown to slow the progression of ALS in rats.
Dec. 28, 2017 - To address future climate change effects on water resources, scientists at five UC campuses, and Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories will study California's water systems, from the headwaters in the Sierra Nevada, through rivers, reservoirs and groundwater in the Central...
The fundamental goal of B.Nadel's laboratory is to contribute to cancer prevention, monitoring, and therapy, through the study of the pathological deregulations of lymphocyte differentiation.
A new class of inhibitors offers a novel way to treat lung cancer with minimal toxic side effects on normal cells, according to a laboratory study funded through philanthropic contributions to the Lung Cancer Moon Shot.
Some studies show that in a laboratory setting, they cause cancer cells to self - destruct through a process called apoptosis.
Advanced laboratory studies have now demonstrated that rhodiola achieves its cortisol - lowering, stress - fighting effects through several different mechanisms.
A 1996 survey of research studies found substantial evidence that less sleep is associated with a decrease in cognitive performance, both in laboratory settings and through self - reported sleep habits.
The idea of the Battle of the Scientists includes four famous scientists competing against one another to grow out of the laboratory through field work, study, observations, and win the race to the Nobel Peace Prize.
Several innovative programs emerged through the middle of this century, such as the Laboratory of Human Development (now the Human Development and Psychology program), which began exploring the psychological development of children in 1949, the Administrative Career Program (now the Administration, Planning and Social Policy program) in 1952, and Project Zero, founded to study and improve education in the arts.
In physics this week, a student puzzled so deftly through a laboratory setup to study collisions that I was powerless against his knowledge.
These include a field study of oral fluid drug screening devices that would provide law enforcement officers a quick indication whether a driver had used certain selected drugs such as marijuana, opiates, and amphetamines, for subsequent confirmation through a laboratory test.
In well - controlled laboratory studies, Simparica provided consistent flea kill from 99.8 % to 100 % through day 35, almost eliminating fleas within 24 hours of dosing or re-infestation for the entire month.2 And ticks didn't fare much better — Simparica's tick protection remained strong through day 35 with 96.9 % to 100 % tick kill throughout the entire study period.3 - 6
Veterinary Clinical Pathology, also referred to as Laboratory Medicine, studies disease in animals through the examination of blood, tissues, and fluids.
«We will continue to track her progress through a tagging programme co-developed with The Mote Marine Laboratory in Florida (the world's largest scientific research organization dedicated to the study of sharks and their relatives),» said Steve Kaiser, vice president, Marine and Science Engineering.
Lehigh University Art Galleries • Teaching Museum (LUAG) inspires, develops, and promotes visual literacy and cultural understanding through cross-disciplinary educational opportunities that supplement formal classroom study, as an educational laboratory to benefit students, faculty, and the community - at - large as part of the university learning experience.
LUAG inspires develops and promotes visual literacy and cultural understanding through cross-disciplinary educational opportunities that supplement formal classroom study as an educational laboratory to benefit students, faculty, and the community - at - large as part of the university learning experience.
«The results from this study are significant because they help us to understand the processes involved in the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria through the environment, but also because they provide added incentive to reduce sewage pollution into our waterways» said coauthor Gregory O'Mullan, a microbiologist with joint appointments at Lamont and Queens College who oversees the laboratory where the study was done.
WUFI Pro Training: 475 partner Floris Keverling Buisman, an Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / Fraunhofer IBP Certified Instructor of the WUFI platform, guides attendees through the best practices for studying vapor diffusion, liquid transport, and considerations for building components that best suit a safe, healthy, and long - lasting building.
2014 - present • Oversee entire recruitment process: finding and screening potentially suitable subjects for relevant studies, and ensuring proper protocol for obtaining and documenting consent is followed through • Communicate and collaborate with laboratories and investigators on findings, and report on clinical research results • Conduct and monitor studies to ensure proper procedures are carried through in compliance with company policies and federal and state regulations • Counsel health care professionals on proper treatment and dosages • Manage all researchers and acquire necessary space and equipment to conduct studies
• Lab Technician - Branson's Laboratories - Los Angeles, CA - 2015 to presento Conduct tests and experiments using the most advanced technology availableo Work directly with test subjects, educating them on standard procedures, what to expect, and potential risks, receiving informed consent with documentationo Contribute data for over 25 studies with published findings in peer - reviewed journalso Maintain a proper laboratory work environment and train newer staff and those in other areas of expertise in appropriate protocol • Graduate Research Assistant - University of Denver - Denver, CO - 2007 - 2017o Performed experiments and investigations under the direct supervision of the lead scientists and professorso Aided lead scientists and / or head researchers in collecting and interpreting information for their projectso Recorded data and results, and collected relevant information for the official reportso Directed a group of 11 biomed students through a research project for light therapy on rats
Led laboratory bench studies and bioassays for product advancements helping damaged tissue heal through cytokine and growth - factor repositioning.
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