Sentences with phrase «with lab studies»

One strength of this study is that it had high ecological validity compared with lab studies which tend to control variables and use student populations as research participants.

Not exact matches

Harvard's Dutton Lab has already partnered with David Chang's world - famous Momofuku test kitchen to study the fermentation of foods like miso, koju and katsuobushi.

Fitbit is currently working with sleep labs to study how prototypes perform in detecting sleep apnea.

Christian Catalini, a professor and founder of MIT's Cryptoeconomics Lab, is working on a study of about 1,500 ICOs with his team.

The first one — called the CPW Lab app — was developed after he had begun a collaboration with Facebook in early 2013, as part of his academic studies.

He also led major initiatives including the development of a number of centres with key community leaders, including The Canadian Centre for Advanced Leadership in Business, The Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, The Westman Centre for Real Estate Studies, The Energy ande Environment initiative, and The Creative Destruction Lab — Rockies.

«For now, the focus of this technology innovation centre will be on Visa Checkout and mVisa, but for certain, India will soon have teams that will jointly work with our two research labs in US and Singapore in studying the many aspects of blockchain disrupting technologies»

In a lab study, researchers reported that rats who consumed powdered liver were able to swim much longer (from 63 minutes to 2 hours) compared to rats fed a basic rat with or without supplemental vitamin B complex.

Jens Ludwig, an economist at the University of Chicago who oversees a research group there called the Crime Lab, has for the past few years been studying, along with some colleagues, a counseling program called Becoming A Man, or BAM, which operates inside 49 Chicago schools, mostly high schools in low - income neighborhoods.

Together with her team of postdoctoral and PhD students Helen has been conducting studies of parent - infant sleep in the lab, the community and in local hospitals for the past 20 years.

Edwardson is a key player in influencing future strategy for research in the lab, as well as a valuable academic mind as Shedd continues to analyze previous studies conducted with partners at the University of Chicago, The University of Illinois and Argonne National Laboratories.

Pairing state - of - the - art technology like DNA sequencers and robotic fluid handlers in the lab with Shedd's world - class animal expertise, the lab enables Aquarium researchers to study the countless invisible organisms that co-exist with the 32,000 animals in Shedd's care.

Here's an update on a story I shared with you last February: Back then, I told you how a team of researchers had examined four published studies by the Cornell Food and Brand Lab and had raised a number of serious concerns about the studies» data.

One parent must stay overnight with your child if the sleep study is performed in the Sleep Center Lab.

At 4:30 p.m., the NYC Department of Youth and Community Development holds the «DYCD Heroes Project» comic book showcase with hip - hop legend and Darryl Makes Comics Publisher and Founder Darryl «DMC» McDaniels, Hudson Guild Beacon Center, NYC Lab High School for Collaborative Studies, 333 W. 17th St., Manhattan.

«So my lab is currently looking at those other species of borrelia to see if they're found in this area and how common they are and, similar to this study, to see if ticks are co-infected with those at unexpected rates.»

To study how the fruit fly neurons responded to external temperature, Yadlapalli worked with Chang Jiang, a postdoctoral researcher in the labs of Pramod Reddy and Edgar Meyhofer of the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering.

The project is generally backed by a lab with a strong reputation and a solid publication track record in their field of study.

For a number of years, this lab in a cavern has hosted the UK's search for dark matter, along with super-sensitive radio - isotope testing equipment for environmental and climate studies, for example.

She has spent decades studying the crystalline structures of biological materials such as seashell minerals at the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y. Growing frustration with government shutdowns, a huge disruption to national labs like Brookhaven, partly spurred her candidacy.

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.

Michael Kaplitt, a neurosurgeon at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, whose lab develops gene therapies for brain disorders, teamed up with Greengard and other colleagues in the new study.

«Along with my lab colleagues Stefanie Makinson and Bryan Higashikubo, we designed studies to examine seizures,» added Clemente.

She still runs an eight - person lab, studying endocytosis with four grad students who probably don't have to attend as many lab meetings as they used to.

The handful of labs that continued to pursue ApoE did so in the face of indifference from funding agencies and the neuroscience community, and without the resources needed to validate experimental findings with larger studies.

For decades, wildlife documentaries have promoted the idea that Komodo dragons owe their success as predators to toxic bacteria in their saliva — a claim bolstered by a 2002 study reporting deaths among lab mice injected with their saliva.

In a recent study from the Piglet Nutrition and Cognition Lab at the University of Illinois, 3 - and 4 - week - old piglets were given dog toys to play with.

Jonathan Storm, a behavioural ecologist now at the University of South Carolina Upstate, in Spartanburg, briefly exposed lab - grown female crickets to wolf spiders whose fangs had been immobilised with wax, then studied the behaviour of their subsequent offspring.

These three traits show a negative correlation with intelligence,» says Suzanne Sniekers, first author of the study and postdoc in the lab of Posthuma.

Women with low - risk pregnancies in the Kansas City area were enrolled in the study at KU Medical Center's Maternal and Child Nutrition and Development Lab between March 2006 and September 2009.

The study, published in Nature, was conducted by Professor Luciano Floridi, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information and Director of the Digital Ethics Lab, and Carl Öhman, a postdoctoral researcher at OII, advises that online remains should be viewed in the same way as the physical human body, and treated with care and respect rather than manipulated for commercial gain.

It also proved useful for making contacts: I eventually applied to do graduate studies in plant physiology at Queen's University, in the lab of a scientist with whom I had worked the previous summer.

For example, animal studies have shown that neurons derived in the lab from human embryonic stem cells improve Parkinson's symptoms; however, any residual stem cells associated with those neurons could form masses of unwanted cells.

She focused on this exclusively, interviewing with various labs at UBC and finally deciding to complete her doctoral studies with Brett Finlay in the department of microbiology and immunology.

«At present, therapy for this large proportion of patients with heart failure is empiric, and there remains a huge unmet need,» said Scott Solomon, MD, director of BWH Noninvasive Cardiology, who also led the core echocardiography lab for the study.

Almost 40 percent of self - identifying DIY biologists (most of whom are unaffiliated with a conventional research institutions) work in community labs — more than any other setting, including hackerspaces, professional labs and homes — according to a forthcoming study I coauthored at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

In addition, the substance used to stick cells together (ViaGlue), will provide researchers with tools to create and test 3D in vitro cardiac tissue in their own labs to study heart disease and issues with transplantation.

A new study published in Nature Communications by researchers from the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology (MRC CDN) at IoPPN, carried out in collaboration with the Tian lab at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (USA), unravels how this synchrony is achieved at the molecular level.

So far, researchers have mostly turned on genes with CRISPRa in cells growing in lab dishes, says Charles Gersbach, a biomedical engineer at Duke University not involved in the new study.

To find out, the team looked at several hundred human mu opiate genes, lumping together their own studies of several dozen volunteers from pain or opiate addiction clinics with studies from other labs.

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.

The insight from Sudbury is complemental, the geologists say, because you can directly observe the rocks with your own eyes and collect loads of samples for detailed study in the lab.

«To find other materials with similar properties, we focused on the feasibility of exfoliation,» explains Nicolas Mounet, a researcher in the THEOS lab and lead author of the study.

To study the role of sweet taste receptors, Cohen and lead study author Robert J. Lee, PhD, a post doctoral researcher in his lab, partnered with colleagues from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Monell Chemical Senses Center to analyze cultures and tissue samples from the upper respiratory tract of patients who were undergoing sinonasal surgery for a variety of conditions.

«Our results show that healthy growth can be achieved by combining certain soil bacteria with grasses, even when plants are grown in extremely nitrogen - deprived soil,» said study coauthor Richard Ferrieri, director of Brookhaven Lab's Radiochemistry and Biological Imaging Program.

«Most of these studies have been conducted in very simple lab settings, [with] one species of bacteria — often the «lab rat» of the bacteria world, E [scherichia].

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.

Perhaps most significantly, in a study led by Frances Champagne — then a graduate student in Meaney's lab, now an associate professor with her own lab at Columbia University in New York — they found that inattentive mothering in rodents causes methylation of the genes for estrogen receptors in the brain.

I found a new home in a lab studying graphene, a material with promising electronic properties.