MRC

British  

abbreviation

1. Medical Research Council

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Example Sentences

Nielsen incorporated the ARF study after the Media Rating Council, an industry self-regulatory group, asked the company to use an independent source to address perceived inaccuracies in its demographic data, said George Ivie, executive director at the MRC.

From The Wall Street Journal

Dr. Cara Ruggiero, a co-author from the MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge, said established post-surgery approaches could help fill current gaps.

From Science Daily

Professor Amy Orben, who leads the Digital Mental Health programme at the University of Cambridge's MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, told the BBC there was "broad agreement" more needed to be done to keep children safe online.

From BBC

Dr. Indra Roux, a researcher at the University of Cambridge's MRC Toxicology Unit and the study's first author, said: "We've found that many chemicals designed to act only on one type of target, say insects or fungi, also affect gut bacteria. We were surprised that some of these chemicals had such strong effects. For example, many industrial chemicals like flame retardants and plasticizers -- that we are regularly in contact with -- weren't thought to affect living organisms at all, but they do."

From Science Daily

Professor Kiran Patil, senior author of the study and also based at the University of Cambridge's MRC Toxicology Unit, added: "The real power of this large-scale study is that we now have the data to predict the effects of new chemicals, with the aim of moving to a future where new chemicals are safe by design."

From Science Daily