postdoctoral

American

[pohst-dok-ter-uhl] / poʊstˈdɒk tər əl /

adjective

of or relating to study or professional work undertaken after the receipt of a doctorate.

postdoctoral courses.

postdoctoral British

/ pəʊstˈdɒktərəl /

adjective

of, relating to, or designating studies, research, or professional work above the level of a doctorate

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Etymology

Origin of postdoctoral

1935–40; post- + doctoral ( def. )

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Back in New Jersey, Venkatesh Chinni, a postdoctoral scholar and lead author of the study, measured iron concentrations in the samples, analyzing both dissolved iron and iron attached to suspended particles.

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The research team, led by postdoctoral scholars Jengmin Kang and Daniel Benjamin, compared muscle stem cells from young and old mice.

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"When we gave sugar to the mice in hypoxia, it disappeared from their bloodstream almost instantly," says Yolanda Martí-Mateos, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar in Jain's lab and first author of the new study.

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Karen Konkoly, the study's lead author and a postdoctoral researcher in Paller's Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, said one of the biggest surprises was how strongly the cues influenced dreams even when participants were not lucid.

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According to Dr. Ruoming Peng, a postdoctoral researcher at the 3rd Physics Institute of the University of Stuttgart, the team was able to fine tune the magnetism by adjusting how electrons interact within each layer.

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