According to Biorob director Auke Ijspeert, this invention is the logical follow -
up of research the lab has done into locomotion that included a salamander robot and a lamprey robot.
Not exact matches
«The chances their parents can pick
up the bill are not as high,» says Sara Goldrick - Rab, a professor at Temple University in Philadelphia and founder
of the Wisconsin HOPE
Lab, a
research center at the University
of Wisconsin - Madison.
Labs may comprise workshops
of several days with relevant stakeholders, including venture capitalists, corporations, start -
ups, diverse levels
of governments, universities, and
research institutes.
First, for near 20 years, he played important roles during the start -
up years
of the École de Technologie Supérieure (University
of Québec) as a professor, a
research lab.
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After 10 years
of research in the Top Secret
Lab, America's Clone Ranger emerges with his highly anticipated follow -
up to the best - selling Top Secret Restaurant Recipes cookbook.
Kristen Rasmussen, R.D., a culinary nutritionist who teaches at the University
of California, Berkeley, has done
research at the Nordic Food
Lab in Copenhagen and runs a Nordic porridge pop -
up in the Bay Area.
According to
research by Dr. Travis Dorsch at the Utah State University Family Sports
Lab, parents are spending
up to 10.5 percent
of their gross income on their child's sports.
Dozens
of graduate students at Columbia University walked out
of classrooms and
research labs to press home their right to unionize, as part
of a one - week strike timed for high impact with classes wrapping
up for the year.
Rather than pack
up and go home, he went for the last option available — a master's degree in cancer
research — and picked a cancer
lab that also studied viruses, at the University's Institute
of Hematology.
But, for some, the appeal
of getting closer to family or helping their country further develop is stronger than the tradeoffs and challenges that come with setting
up a
lab in a country that is still shaking off the communist legacy
of a chronically underfunded and ill - functioning
research system.
Drawn toward biotech by the success
of interferon, which made the cover
of Time magazine in 1980, she
researched companies in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, area and ended
up at Biogen, for which she worked briefly as what she calls a «
lab rat.»
I put off making a decision by taking a
research scientist position in the
lab of a new PI so that I could see the job
up close, with all its benefits and struggles.
In addition to paying to equip the new
labs, the university gave the Dunns funding for at least a year's worth
of supplies for their
research — a luxury in Turkey, where researchers usually rely on grants for all
of their funds, including start -
up.
You will be able to set
up a professional profile, join groups belonging to our nine affiliated professional societies, discuss career issues, arrange to give a talk at a neighboring
lab, establish a
research collaboration, or locate a mentor or a protégé in your field
of scientific interest.
The Swansea
Lab's
research is focused on scale -
up of the production
of such nanoparticles by 10 million times to the level
of grams, and beyond.
At the same time, the hope is that the houses will raise the profile
of German
research and so tempt US companies to set
up major
labs in Germany.
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.
She estimates that her project, a large - scale analysis
of the gene profiles
of individuals, will end
up costing around a million dollars —
research that «could have been done in an academic
lab if the resources [were] available.»
Several
labs at Harvard Medical School and the National Institutes
of Health picked
up on these findings and conducted
research suggesting tDCS was promising for stroke rehabilitation and chronic pain.
In this network
of experts, Chiasson believes that they have a sound infrastructure to bring
research straight from the
lab right
up to commercialization.
«Manny Ares
of the University
of California, Santa Cruz, set
up a second
lab, which he runs all year long in parallel with his main
research lab.
Abdul Qadeer Khan, head
of the country's major nuclear weapons
research lab, is credited with setting
up Pakistan's uranium enrichment facilities.
«This finding opens
up a huge avenue
of research in parrots, in trying to understand how parrots are processing the information necessary to copy novel sounds and what are the mechanisms that underlie imitation
of human speech sounds,» said Mukta Chakraborty, a post-doctoral researcher in the
lab of Erich Jarvis, an associate professor
of neurobiology at Duke and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.
Buer Sen, MD, first author
of the Stem Cells paper and
research associate in Rubin's
lab, used cytochalasin D to break
up the actin cytoskeleton.
His former
lab chief «used his powerful position to impose his will and cover
up some exciting results
of mine, which could have moved the field
of cancer
research forward.»
These scenes also serve
up a rare glimpse into the inner workings
of a
research lab and life as an academic.
Building
Up Brazilian Brain
Research Susan Gaidos, 13 January Neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis has turned his lab in Natal, Brazil, into an epicenter of brain - machine interface r
Research Susan Gaidos, 13 January Neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis has turned his
lab in Natal, Brazil, into an epicenter
of brain - machine interface
researchresearch.
«When someone is thinking about joining my group I am very
up front with what my expectations are,» says PI Paul Doetsch, professor and distinguished chair in cancer
research, at Emory University School
of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, adding that one major expectation he has for his
lab members is a strong work ethic.
As his
research progressed and he and others began unraveling the sophisticated mechanism by which the Ebola virus enters cells, he was «bitten by the Ebola bug» and made studying the virus a key focus
of his
lab, which he started
up in 2007.
The economic climate has forced Beckmann to improvise by bulking
up on fee - for - service assaying work in her state -
of - the - art
labs, partnering on
research proposals with universities and biotech businesses, and beginning several
of OTRADI's own
research initiatives aimed at commercialization.
Scientists are studying it now in the
research lab of New Zealand's national museum in Wellington where it will likely end
up as a preserved specimen.
He and Hunter teamed
up with the
lab of Rusty Gage, a professor in Salk's Laboratory
of Genetics and holder
of the Vi and John Adler Chair for
Research on Age - Related Neurodegenerative Disease.
I had 4 years
of university behind me, and although my
lab credentials were opening
up opportunities in
research, my mind was set on journalism.
And what if there was more — the opportunity to spend
up to 12 weeks working in the
lab of one
of these top players, gaining new insight into your
research?
I also have had extremely supportive department chairs over the years who, for example, provided additional start -
up funds as my
lab expanded and did not allow me to put my salary support in the budgets
of my first grants (which left more money in those grants to pay for
research).
«We believe this is the first example
of 2D atomically thin nanostructures made from ionic materials,» says Peidong Yang, a chemist with Berkeley
Lab's Materials Sciences Division and world authority on nanostructures, who first came
up with the idea for this
research some 20 years ago.
To help you get started you might want to get a copy
of a
lab set -
up list from another junior faculty member in your area
of research who has recently set
up his or her own
lab.
In the summer
of 1990, Chris, Chuck, and I went to work lining
up the topics: professional standards,
lab safety, animal and human
research,
research funding, and scientific careers.
«There are some building - science
labs out there who try to bring in as many components as possible, but we never thought they got to the point where they really could address all the issues that might come
up in a building design standard,» says Dana Pillai, president
of Delos's
research division and executive director
of the Well Living
Lab.
They then teamed
up with another
research group to create a gene drive that, unleashed in a
lab population
of mosquitoes, spread genes that prevent the insects from harboring malaria parasites.
Now a
research team at the Department
of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley
Lab) has identified all
of the principal oil - degrading bacteria as well as their mechanisms for chewing
up the many different components that make
up the released crude oil.
Lots
of things can be done meanwhile, like planning and designing your
research, and thinking about setting
up lab, and working with others to think about different projects,» says Bramanandam Manavathi, an assistant professor in UoH's Department
of Biochemistry since 2007.
They will have salaries available for a postdoc and a
research technician and will also receive start -
up funding, plus help to cover consumables and
lab expenses each year
of the 5 - year contract.
Now that they're settled in, Templeton and Palmer spend much
of their time ordering equipment, setting
up their
labs, and writing
research grants.
The GAO report also noted that many
of the
labs using high - risk pathogens for
research belong to either CDC or the USDA, and recommended that Congress consider setting
up a fully independent oversight body to remove potential conflicts
of interest.
An anonymous member
of the
research team expressed impatience with the
lab bacteria by leaving graffiti on a blackboard: «Hey cells, GROW
UP!»
Garrison's dream
of setting
up a modern biology
lab on the Navajo reservation grows out
of her positive
research experiences in the MARC program, she says.
Greider says that the company elbowed in on her
research at a time when she was the equivalent
of an assistant professor at CSHL trying to establish her own
lab; even though both teams informally agreed upon the separate experiments each would pursue, she says that Geron «would end
up working on what we were working on anyway.»
Reed sums
up what a Ph.D. or postdoc might expect at the start
of research in an industrial
lab.