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LMS

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LMS British  

abbreviation

  1. local management of schools: the system of making each school responsible for controlling its total budget, after the budget has been calculated by the Local Education Authority

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"By understanding how drugs are taken up into cells, we can understand whether this influences why cancer drugs work for some people and not for others. Eventually, we hope to be able study the molecular signature of a patient's tumor to help to tailor therapeutic approaches in a more personalized way," says Dr. Louise Fets, senior author and Head of the LMS' Drug Transport and Tumour metabolism Group.

From Science Daily

"We were surprised to see large variability in drug accumulation at the single-cell level. This variability was driven by the build-up of a drug in lysosomes, which are acting as reservoirs, increasing the exposure of cancer cells to drugs, by storing and releasing the drug when needed," says Dr. Carmen Ramirez Moncayo, first author and Postdoctoral Researcher at the LMS.

From Science Daily

The new laser melting sampler, or LMS, is expected to help reconstruct continuous annual temperature changes that occurred thousands to hundreds of thousands of years ago, which will help scientists understand climate change in the past and present.

From Science Daily

The LMS system delivers a laser beam through an optical fiber with a special silver nozzle, and quickly pumps out the liquid sample, eventually depositing it into stainless steel vials.

From Science Daily

The BBC saw evidence on the WhatsApp, Telegram and Skype accounts of LMS which revealed that the company had recruited and trained hundreds of chat moderators, mostly in the Nigerian states of Lagos and Abuja.

From BBC