Sentences with phrase «biological studies created»

By tinkering with the medium in which cells are grown, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies created a type of stem cell with a survival rate of 30 to 40 percent, vs. 1 percent.

Not exact matches

Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, led by Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, revealed that they'd created their own viable chimeras — or, in polite company, «interspecies blastocyst complementations.»

In many respects, synthetic biology — a field that «aims to apply standardized engineering techniques to biology and thereby create organisms or biological systems with novel or specialized functions to address countless needs,» as the U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues defined it — is still very much in its infancy.

The startling feat prompted President Barack Obama to ask his newly formed bioethics commission to examine the implications of the Venter study and other kinds of synthetic biology, such as creating biological circuits by putting components together in a cell.

«One hypothesis to explain speech development is that the sound of each word creates a memory, or template in the brain,» says Sarah Bottjer, a professor of biological sciences and psychology at USC Dornsife College and an author of the study.

In a study spanning molecular genetics, stem cells and the sciences of both brain and behavior, researchers at University of California San Diego, with colleagues at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies and elsewhere, have created a neurodevelopmental model of a rare genetic disorder that may provide new insights into the underlying neurobiology of the human social brain.

Through recent work by the same team at UCL, this issue was resolved by creating a new tree of life for placental mammals, including these early forms, which was described in a study published in Biological Reviews yesterday.

As a proxy measure, the sleep disruption demonstrated by the shift workers in our study creates short - and long - term biological disturbances.

In the current study, which was chosen as the Paper of the Week in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, the scientists created novel assays to more accurately measure the brain's energy production.

But if we're ever going to rid ourselves of the disease, we need to create smarter and more cost - effective vaccines,» says Blaine Pfeifer, PhD, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the study's co-lead author.

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have created a sort of nanoscale display case that enables new atomic - scale views of hard - to - study chemical and biological samples.

A study found that the beaver is playing an increasing part in climate change because the dams they build for shelter create shallow, stagnant ponds of water which allow biological material to build up on the bottom of the river.

One way to get around the altered properties of the stranded cells is to populate mouse livers with human hepatocytes in the hope of creating a natural environment, which is exactly what researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies did.

In addition, the group has studied venation of tree leaves as a model system of a complex biological network with interesting topological and geometrical features, and has recently created methods to section whole rodent livers and reconstruct their three - dimensional vascular structure in unprecedented detail.

The study, published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, is a step forward in creating precision medicine approaches to diabetes prevention and treatment.

The Institute of Theoretical Physics is Corresponding PI of the ERC Synergy Grant BioQ «Diamond Quantum Devices and Biology» which is looking in the development of quantum technologies for studying biology, the impact of quantum dynamics on biological function and the use of self - organised structures for creating quantum devices.

New data and research approaches have created opportunities for researchers to study in detail many aspects of cancer biology, including how the normal biological programs of cell proliferation and death are altered during cancer and how the immune system responds to tumors.

The internalization and clustering of NPs in living cells (unlike the water model studied above), involves several biological processes that not only form such clusters, but also create significant heterogeneity in their size.

Now, with the help of an eccentric billionaire, he has the chance to create a «perfect little world» - to study what would happen when ten children are raised collectively, without knowing who their biological parents are.

Study results were based on suppression of fecal egg counts (FEC) to help understand the biological impact of anthelmintic treatment choice on parasite egg shedding and pasture contamination created by the herd.

Temperature records began shortly after the Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Reserve was created, so exact temperature data are still being compiled to conduct useful studies there.

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