News that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has cut off funding for Mark Hughes, a geneticist
who pioneered a technique for screening for mutations in the DNA of a single cell, has dismayed Hughes's colleagues.
Many police departments now maintain frequently updated maps of high - crime areas to more effectively deploy foot patrols «putting cops on the dots,» as William Bratton, chief of the Los Angeles Police Department
who pioneered the technique in New York City in the early 1990s, likes to say.
Ever an example of true humility, Fama gives tremendous credit to his predecessors and his contemporaries such as Michael Jensen
who pioneered the technique of performance evaluation (measuring additional return after accounting for risk exposure) that is still used today.
Not exact matches
Meet the doctor
who helped
pioneer the
technique for the world's first three - person baby.
The approach was based on a
technique pioneered at Cambridge University by data scientists
who claimed it could reveal more about a person than even their parents or romantic partners knew.
But imaging neuroscientist Karl Friston of University College London,
who helped
pioneer the VBM
technique, says gray matter shrinkage is not necessarily a bad thing.
If you just bend it a bit, light spills out,» says David Payne of the University of Southampton, UK,
who pioneered many of the fibre - optic
techniques used today.
Jockers developed his
techniques at Stanford University in California, where he worked with literature researcher Franco Moretti,
who pioneered the use of automated large - scale analyses of digitised texts, a process he calls «distant reading».
«We can learn an awful lot about early development through these investigations,» says Robert Edwards, the embryologist
who pioneered the «test - tube baby»
technique of in vitro fertilisation.
The survey is «a very nice way of doing things,» says Chuck Steidel of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena,
who pioneered the color selection survey
technique.
«It's a fascinating paper,» says Sandy Dasgupta, a chemist at the University of Texas, Arlington,
who pioneered an environmentally friendly, ice - based version of a commonly used
technique for separating the compounds in complex mixtures, called ice chromatography.
We are concerned that a public outcry about such an ethical breach could hinder a promising area of therapeutic development,» write Lanphier and his colleagues,
who include Fyodor Urnov, a
pioneer in gene - editing
techniques and scientist at Sangamo BioSciences in Richmond, California.
For more on the
technique and the researchers
who pioneered it, see the story in the 19 April issue of Science.
Moore vividly re-creates the life of this Scottish
pioneer,
who was noted not only for his innovative surgical
techniques but also for his investigations into organ transplantation (he implanted a cock's testicle into a hen's belly) and animal dissection (he carved up a giraffe and several whales).
Karl Deisseroth, a Stanford University professor
who worked with Boyden to
pioneer the
technique, was also honored with one of the life sciences prizes.
And finally, the Elliot crater is named after the astronomer James Elliot,
who discovered the rings around Uranus and
pioneered new
techniques to study Solar System bodies.
Among the authors of the new paper is one of the
pioneers of the CRISPR
technique, Feng Zhang —
who is here for the summit.
The same researchers
who pioneered the use of a quantum mechanical effect to convert heat into electricity have figured out how to make their
technique work in a form more suitable to industry.
Running approximately two - and - a-half minutes, the single's ominous guitar riffs have been widely cited as early examples of the power chord
technique, a rock»n' roll staple beloved by musicians as diverse as The
Who's Pete Townsend and punk
pioneers The Ramones.
Paul J. Dougherty, M.D. is an internationally renowned refractive surgeon
who has helped
pioneer many of today's vision correction
techniques.
Peter Voulkos was indisputably a
pioneer who changed the dynamic of ceramics: both its look as well as its time honored
techniques.
Some painters
who effectively used spray painting
techniques include Jules Olitski,
who was a
pioneer in his spray
technique that covered his large paintings with layer after layer of different colors, often gradually changing hue and value in subtle progression.
The show will introduce the Spanish public to the contemporary works of this group of
pioneers in Mali
who use this traditional
technique to make works of contemporary art.
Textile artist and author India Flint,
who is from the Deep South of Australia, is a
pioneer in ecologically sustainable plant dyeing
techniques.
Entitled Sunset, Sunrise it draws attention to this under - recognised female artist, now in her early 90s,
who has been a
pioneer in merging traditional Persian
techniques with contemporary abstraction.
JoAnne Northrup is dedicated to bringing artists
who use
pioneering techniques and inventive materials into the mainstream conversation about contemporary art.
Organised at Almine Rech Gallery by the artist DeWain Valentine, «Plastic Show» is presenting a series of works by five Californian artists (Mary Corse (b. 1945), Robert Irwin (b. 1928), Craig Kauffman (1932 — 2010), John McCracken (1934 — 2011), and DeWain Valentine (b. 1936)-RRB-
who have been investigating the potential of plastic (synthetically produced resins) in art:» Known for their
pioneering work with various synthetic resins and synthetic polymers during the 1960s and «70s, these artists are today recognized not only for their active roles in the development of plastics as a newly discovered medium in art, but also for their sophisticated
techniques and at times even quasi-acrobatic prowess required to shape them into the seamless, translucent, luscious volumes.»
She describes her work as «being physical explorations into thinking, feeling, communicating and relating» and is influenced by the
pioneering work of Melanie Klein (1882 — 1960), the Austrian - born British psychologist
who advanced the field of child psychology by devising therapeutic
techniques where children were invited to experiment and play with materials, asserting the importance of non-linguistic (i.e. Freudian) responses to our relationship with the world.
Today we'll explore the work of two Goldman Prize winners
who have
pioneered innovative models for protecting water and other natural resources using a combination of traditional
techniques and modern conservation methods.
Along the way, Rebecca also meets Ben and Charlotte Hollins - the brother and sister team
who now run the innovative Fordhall Farm in Shropshire - and talks about their nature - based no - till pasture system; she talks with peak oil experts Richard Heinberg and Colin Campbell; visits Martin Crawford of the Agroforestry Research Trust and explores the small holding of Chris and Lynn Dixon -
who have
pioneered their low input, biodiverse permaculture - based land management
techniques in the hills of Wales for years.
This program is based on research and the proven
techniques of therapy are adapted by Dr. Stephanie Covington
who is a
pioneer in the field of addiction, trauma and the psychosocial development of women.