Sentences with phrase «years earlier scientists»

Although Dolly, the sheep, was the first to be created from the cell of an adult mammal, years earlier scientists managed to replicate frogs and cattle at the embryonic level.

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When the headhunter contacted him months before, he wouldn't tell Eckert much except that the company had been founded by famed scientist Rodney Brooks, who, until a few years earlier, had led MIT's computer - science and artificial - intelligence lab.

After spending a year meeting with Plain Sight's scientists several times and researching its technology, Rennick agreed to the merger in early 2005.

But research on the contact lenses began several years earlier at the University of Washington, where scientists worked under National Science Foundation funding.

To ensure that the social network keeps innovating, the company launched Pinterest Labs earlier this year, bringing together researchers, scientists, engineers and universities to tackle challenges in machine learning and A.I.

Earlier this year, Chinese scientists caused a controversy when they announced they'd used the gene editing technique to tweak the genomes of human embryos.

Dec. 18, 2013 — The most complete sequence to date of the Neanderthal genome, using DNA extracted from a woman's toe bone that dates back 50,000 years, reveals a long history of interbreeding among at least four different types of early humans living in Europe and Asia at that time, according to University of California, Berkeley, scientists.

In a study released earlier this year, scientists from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia detailed artificial womb technology, which has the possibility of revolutionizing care for pre-maturely born infants.

New Scientist magazine has featured the topic of AI on two consecutive covers, and earlier this year it emerged that silicon valley pioneer Anthony Levandowski has founded a new religion dedicated to the worship of an «AI God» when the technology finally comes of age.

Early Domestication of Chile Peppers Confirmed By Dave DeWitt Scientists, including researcher Linda Perry, writing in the journal Science (February 16, 2007), have proven that chile peppers were domesticated in South America at least by 6,000 years ago.

September 25, 2009 «Over the last few years, a new buzz phrase has emerged among scholars and scientists who study early - childhood development, a phrase that sounds more as if it belongs in the boardroom than the classroom: executive function.»

Earlier this year, General Electric asked a brilliant question: What if scientist Mildred Dresselhaus was treated like a celebrity?

Into the wild by Rachel Bernstein, 10 March 2015 After finding out that his early successes wouldn't land him the tenure - track position he desired, Ethan Perlstein felt like he was «in the wilderness» for about a year before he reinvented himself, first as an independent scientist and then as a biotech startup founder.

Five early - career female scientists were honored Thursday evening as this year's recipients of the L'Oréal USA For Women in Science fellowship awards that grant each winner $ 60,000 to further their postdoctoral research.

Berkelium has been mostly used to help scientists synthesize new elements such as element 117, tennessine, which was added to the table earlier this year.

For the third year in a row, Science News profiled 10 early - and mid-career innovators who are transforming their fields in «The SN 10: Scientists to watch» (SN: 10/14/17, p. 16).

Five early - career female scientists were honored Thursday evening as this year's recipients of the L'Oréal USA For Women in Science fellowship awards.

If an object is massive enough, it can actually create detectable gravitational waves, or ripples in space - time, which scientists saw for the first time earlier this year.

Most scientists think that the moon formed in the earliest days of the solar system, around 4.5 billion years ago, when a Mars - sized protoplanet called Theia whacked into the young Earth.

Many space enthusiasts got their hopes up earlier this year when scientists discovered TRAPPIST - 1, a star with a collection of seven Earth - sized planets — three of which were in the star's habitable zone and could house life - sustaining liquid water.

For the third year, we are spotlighting the work of 10 early - and mid-career scientists, age 40 and under, who stand out to mentors and peers as people who will make a difference.

In that spot, the scientists found a niche of angioblasts, those same cells that a hundred years earlier were thought to be the source of lymph vessels, but were later neglected.

The program, now in its 18th year, provides early career individuals with the opportunity to spend 12 weeks at the Academies in Washington, DC learning about science and technology policy and the role that scientists and engineers play in advising the nation.

The study from the University of Bristol comes on the back of public health warnings issued earlier this year by scientists who voiced concerns about the increased risk of psychosis for vulnerable people who use the drug.

In a study published earlier this year, his team, along with scientists at Arcturus Therapeutics, treated hemophilia in mice using mRNA that encodes a clotting protein.

They provide a crucial view of Earth's earliest evolution of multicellular life, which scientists now think started millions of years earlier than previously thought.

Yemeni biochemist Eqbal Dauqan, currently a visiting scholar at a Malaysian university, was able to travel to Italy earlier this year to attend a conference on displaced scientists.

Next year, the ERC will launch its own young investigator award scheme, which will dwarf the ESF effort and almost every other award for early career scientists.

New opportunities for early career scientists to work at the interface of computer science and other scientific disciplines are expected to open up in Europe in the coming years as Microsoft plans to invest big money in European science.

They doubled their budget over 5 years in the early 2000s, and in the process they trained — at the graduate and postdoc level — a lot more scientists.

Today, new tagging methods are quickly shedding light on what scientists once called the «lost years» — the early years of a sea turtle's life when their migration patterns were mostly unknown.

First, planetary scientists suspect that cyanide was abundant on early Earth, deposited here by comets or created in the atmosphere by ultraviolet light or by lightning (once the atmosphere became oxygen rich, 2.5 billion years ago, the process would have stopped).

Earlier this year, the coalition parties in the German Bundestag brought a motion «Strengthening Germany's international attractiveness and efficiency as a scientific and research location for foreign students and young scientists» (Bundestagsdrucksache 14/6209).

One of EMBO's key activities for early - career scientists is providing long - term (up to 2 years) and short - term (up to 3 months) fellowships.

Scientists studying the effects of tsunamis have now shed light on what could be the earliest record of a person killed in a tsunami: someone who lived 6,000 years ago in what's now Papua New Guinea in the southwest Pacific.

The sequencing of a 10,600 - year - old genome has settled a lengthy legal dispute over who should own the oldest mummy in North America — and given scientists a rare insight into early inhabitants of the Americas.

The craters may be up to 4 billion years old, from a time when asteroids were heavily bombarding the early Solar System, says team member William McKinnon, a planetary scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Michigan State University scientists now have early proof that an antidepressant drug that's been around for more than 50 years could slow the progression of Parkinson's.

Scientists have long sought samples of ancient mantle that could hold the secrets of the earth's early years.

Earlier this year, scientists in China published a partial structure.

In the early stages of farming more than 7,000 years ago, women engaged in a wide array of physically intense activities that were crucial to village life but have gone largely unnoticed by scientists, conclude biological anthropologist Alison Macintosh of the University of Cambridge and colleagues.

Earlier this year it was reported that the sons of women exposed to phthalates during pregnancy tend to have smaller penises (New Scientist, 4 June, p 11).

An irony: amid all this highfalutin braggadocio of how close we are to computers taking over the world and emulating human thought, I had to give my talk on the «social singularity» (progress in political, economic and social systems over the past 10,000 years) early because Rice University computer scientist James McLurkin could not get his small swarm of robots to work.

But early this year, Princeton materials scientists Steven Atkinson, Frank Stillinger and Salvatore Torquato found significantly less dense configurations by pushing the pennies together as if they were on a shrinkable pad of rubber rather than a rigid table, until reaching the «no closer» point.

The shallow, salty seas spotted in 2004 evaporated from scientists» view of early Mars within a few years, but even so, the past decade's half - dozen martian missions have finally delivered.

Fossils discovered by UNSW scientists in 3.48 billion year old hot spring deposits in the Pilbara region of Western Australia have pushed back by 580 million years the earliest known existence of microbial life on land.

The antiquity of these creatures suggests two evolutionary scenarios, the scientists say: Either eurypterids diversified quickly during the early stages of the Ordovician period (which began about 485 million years ago), or their lineage, including yet - to - be-discovered ancestors and kin, evolved more slowly and originated even further back in time during the Cambrian period — possibly during the Cambrian explosion, a period of evolutionary diversification sometimes called «life's big bang,» which began about 542 million years ago.

Using the long - gone youngster's genetic instruction book, scientists have estimated that humans emerged as a distinct population earlier than typically thought, between 350,000 and 260,000 years ago.

Because the earliest Homo remains date to just 2.3 million years ago, scientists can be certain that an australopithecine made the cut marks on the 3.4 - million - year - old Dikika bones.

Every year, the MIT Technology Review «35 Innovators Under 35» (TR35) program recognizes talented scientists who pursue groundbreaking business ideas, at an early stage in their career.