Sentences with phrase «works in a test tube»

«However, this normally only works in a test tube,» explains the head of the study, Prof. Olav Schiemann.

Of course, there is a world of difference between how a substance works in a test tube and how it works in the body.

Not exact matches

The audience roars with laughter as Polish tells how he initiated select new members into the cell biology lab he worked in after college with strategically placed miniature dry - ice bombs fabricated from plastic Eppendorf test tubes.

Edwards's work with Patrick Steptoe resulted in the first birth of a test - tube baby — Louise Brown in 1978

Chemist Harold Schmitz of the M&M Mars candy company took the work a step further, showing that a family of flavonoids, a subclass of chocolate polyphenols, helped neutralize low density lipoprotein or «bad cholesterol» in the test tube.

In fact, in the basement of Princeton's sprawling Frick Chemistry Laboratory, Kasdin is already working on a test bed: a meter - wide, 75 - meter - long tube with a camera at one end, a laser at the other and a scaled - down starshade in betweeIn fact, in the basement of Princeton's sprawling Frick Chemistry Laboratory, Kasdin is already working on a test bed: a meter - wide, 75 - meter - long tube with a camera at one end, a laser at the other and a scaled - down starshade in betweein the basement of Princeton's sprawling Frick Chemistry Laboratory, Kasdin is already working on a test bed: a meter - wide, 75 - meter - long tube with a camera at one end, a laser at the other and a scaled - down starshade in betweein between.

Later, we put the RNA in a new test tube, along with the other materials needed to make CRISPR work in this experiment: protein buffer, bovine serum albumin (a protein isolated from cows), water.

According to the study, antibodies from this group worked against the novel H1N1 virus in test tube experiments.

In the test tube experiments, SMARt - 420 made ethionamide more potent in both ethionamide sensitive and resistant bacteria, and it worked against a wide range of M. tuberculosis strainIn the test tube experiments, SMARt - 420 made ethionamide more potent in both ethionamide sensitive and resistant bacteria, and it worked against a wide range of M. tuberculosis strainin both ethionamide sensitive and resistant bacteria, and it worked against a wide range of M. tuberculosis strains.

But what works well in a test tube doesn't always prove a success in humans.

Practically speaking, Zhang's saCas9 — with an adeno - associated virus serving as a vector — allows CRISPR to work in vivo, as opposed to simply in test tubes.

They then placed the fragments, along with the full ADEPs, in test tubes containing Streptomyces coelicolor, a nonpathogenic relative of M. tuberculosis that is safe to work with in the laboratory.

Study after study has found that while these substances do work as antioxidants in the test tube, popping the pills does not provide any benefit.

On 23 March 1989, two chemists working at the University of Utah, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, stunned the world with their claim to have harnessed nuclear fusion — the process that powers the Sun — in a test tube of water at room temperature.

The researchers released each bat in a flight cage and doled out flowers one by one to the bats, working until 3 or 4 a.m. First, they'd place a male flower in a test tube vase on a table.

Although the experiment used an older Ebola virus that differs from the strain now in West Africa, the researchers showed in a test - tube study that ZMapp also worked against the more recently isolated virus.

Singh's lab earlier reported that antiretroviral drugs do work against XMRV in test tube studies.

Then they added a chemical called genistein, a known door - opening drug that, unfortunately, was so weak it worked only in the test tube.

So far, however, «molecular computations» have required lots of old - fashioned, shake - the - test - tube lab work for each step in the calculation.

Two years ago, April Hamblin, an entomology graduate student at NCSU who carried out the field work and co-wrote the study, began looking at how some of North Carolina's common native bee species tolerate increasing heat by placing individual bees in small test tubes.

In work described in a Nature Chemistry paper last year, Chen used test - tube - evolution techniques to develop an artificial DNA polymerase, SFM4 - 3, that can power the PCR amplification of a common type of modified DNIn work described in a Nature Chemistry paper last year, Chen used test - tube - evolution techniques to develop an artificial DNA polymerase, SFM4 - 3, that can power the PCR amplification of a common type of modified DNin a Nature Chemistry paper last year, Chen used test - tube - evolution techniques to develop an artificial DNA polymerase, SFM4 - 3, that can power the PCR amplification of a common type of modified DNA.

Shorter worked out the complicated and dramatically shifting biochemistry by mixing the two proteins Hsp104 and Sup35 in a test tube with various sources of energy.

The more scientists learn about how cells work in a Petri dish or test tube, the more realistically they can set rules for virtual tissues.

It should be possible to work some of these issues out by further test - tube research and studies in animals.

Only a fraction of such inhibitors that show promise in a test tube end up working well in living cells.

If it does, there is also no guarantee that it will work in the same manner that it does in a test tube.

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Lab Assistant — Parker Children's Hospital — March 2007 — May 2012 • Prepared specimens for analysis and distribution following laboratory procedures; performed laboratory functions and worked with quality and regulations indicators • Obtained blood from patients using fingerstick, heelstick, or venipuncture in order to procure blood samples for analysis; ensured correct patient identification through registration system and made sure that correct tests were ordered • Responded to patient needs, including attention to phone calls, courier deliveries, and removal of pneumatic tubes; referred unresolved issues to supervisory on duty • Filed and pulled pathology slides and performed proper tissue disposal when necessary; assisted supervising medical technologist with post-mortem specimens • Performed inventory and general maintenance of lab area; reported equipment repair needs and supplies required for efficient running of the lab

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