He also participates as a board member of the Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness, Chicago United, The Lyric Opera of Chicago, The University of Chicago Hospitals and The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.
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The drug works for only a subset of patients with IBS, says Dr. William Chey, director of the gastroenterology physiology laboratory at the University of Michigan Health System.
Professor Stephen Cox, head of the speech processing laboratory at the University of East Anglia and scientific adviser to the project, said the technology was made possible due to advances in machine-learning algorithms.
In its solar system there is another planet, Gliese-581d, that is also of interest in the search for life, according to the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo.
"There is no agreement by the astrobiology community on how to measure habitability, " said Abel Mendez, director of the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo, who is working on several planetary indexing systems.
The team is lead by Professor Atta Badii of the Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory at the University of Reading in the UK and has 19 specialists working on Hector.
Athene Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, is one of only five exceptional female scientists from around the globe to receive an award this year.
He collaborated with a team of pathogen hunters, including Fabian Leendertz of the Robert Koch Institute in Germany and Stephen Rich of the Laboratory of Medical Zoology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
His team at the Neural Systems Laboratory, University of Washington, hopes to take brain-computer interface (BCI) technology to the next level by attempting to teach robots new skills directly via brain signals.
"Even when the clinical trials were going on, Elan Pharmaceuticals was continuing to refine the vaccine, " says JoAnne McLaurin , a professor of laboratory medicine at the University of Toronto who has published scientific papers on AN-1792.
"The brain is very resilient, " said Bruce McEwen , head of the neuroendocrinology laboratory at Rockefeller University in New York City.
Luminaries past and present from across the UK's computing industry had gathered to mark the 75th anniversary of the Cambridge University computer laboratory.
Ross Anderson, an academic in the Computer Laboratory at Cambridge University, who has spent 20 years researching bank-related fraud, is also unconvinced.
In her laboratory at the University of Washington, mathematician Kristin Rae Swanson peers into the future of brain cancer patients--on her computer screen.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory have partnered together on a successful trial for a brain-computer interface that allows a person to control a robotic arm using only their thoughts.
And just to make sure the two populations did not cross-contaminate, one of them was dispatched to the laboratory of her colleague Jim Bull at the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Harvey Fishman, who founded and directed the Ophthalmic Tissue Engineering Laboratory in the Department of Ophthalmology at Stanford University in California, and his business partner, Tamer Abuelata, have created an iPhone app that will help limit the number of visits to your opthamologist.
If your levels are normal, taking 2, 000 IU every other day or every third day would be fine, according to Dr. Bess Dawson-Hughes, senior scientist and director of the Bone Metabolism Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA HNRCA at Tufts University.
Patrick McNamara, for example, is the head of the Evolutionary Neurobehaviour Laboratory at Boston University's School of Medicine.
When ads are pulled because of new and serious side effects, some reappear in a longer form with more detail about the new risks, says Ruth Day, director of the Medical Cognition Laboratory at Duke University.
Prototypes built by researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stanford University and Philips, a Dutch electrical-goods firm, can detect a substance that is present at a concentration of less than one part in a million billion.
That's exactly what the whiz-kids from the City College of New York, Rice University and the US Army Research Laboratory have done with a new lithium-ion battery powered by red dye extracted from madder roots.
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The research is published in the US Fishery Bulletin, by scientists from Oregon State University and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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But the machine best suited for doing this work, the proposed rare-isotope accelerator that could be built either at Michigan State University or at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, has been delayed by lack of funds.
Another pioneering research group in this area is the laboratory of Miguel Nicolelis at Duke University Center for Neuroengineering.
The mission operations centre is the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
Della Santina, director of the Vestibular Neuroengineering Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University.
"We expect it to be an extra burden, " says Kristen Graves, administrator for the Cardiac Catherization Laboratory at New York University Medical Center.
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Mark Showalter is from the SETI Institute, and Hal Weaver is a researcher at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.
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The university's Schaap laboratory studied a simple multicellular organism, Dictyostelium, in which motile cells (those which can move spontaneously) differentiate into two immobile cell types: stalk cells and spores.
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