To realize the full potential of the orbiting research platform, scientist-astronauts will be sought after, says Peggy Whitson, chief of the Astronaut Office at NASA.
In a system similar to that on offshore oil platforms, scientists have daily shifts lasting up to 12 hours for 8 days straight.
With emerging and anticipated improvements in proteomics and enzymatic measurements for throughput and accuracy, along with robust genotyping platforms, scientists will soon be able to use natural variation to better understand the genetics of metabolism and the importance of metabolism to plant growth and development.
By applying nano-scaled materials to tunable platforms, scientists have greatly enhanced the capabilities of traditional MS-based techniques, by increasing mass resolution, mass range, mass intensities, to name a few.
The prodigious output demonstrates the popularity of an online platform that scientists had only begun to exploit 5 years ago.
Frontiers, also based in Switzerland, is another open-source publishing platform for scientists.
The first step is already done: there is an international peer-reviewed journal (Evolution: Education and Outreach) which may used as a platform uniting scientists.
The purpose of this special issue is to create a platform for scientists, engineers and practitioners to present their latest theoretical and technological advancements on carbon capture.
He's one of more than a dozen investigators who have launched apps using ResearchKit, Apple's open-source software platform for scientists, unveiled in March.
This ICT based platform provides scientists an "easy-to-integrate" generic tool, thus enabling worldwide collaboration and remote processing for any kind of data.
