Sentences with phrase «emory uses»

In a now famous YouTube video, illusionist Sean Emory uses his magic skills to transform a leaf and some dirt into a sparkling engagement ring, which was enough to conjure up a «yes» when he asked his longtime love to marry him.

A clinical trial taking place at Emory uses virtual reality therapy for military personnel who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan and have been diagnosed with PTSD.

A clinical trial taking place at Emory uses virtual reality therapy for military personnel from Iraq who have PTSD.

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Researchers led by Xiao - Jiang Li, MD, PhD and Shihua Li, MD, at Emory University School of Medicine, used genetically engineered mice in which the huntingtin gene can be deleted, triggered only when the mice are given the drug tamoxifen.

Researchers from Emory University in Atlanta report in the online journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases that they used phylogenetics — the study of the evolutionary link between organisms — to study 26 geographically scattered strains of a family of bacteria known as Treponemes, which are behind the sexually transmitted disease syphilis as well as related nonvenereal infections such as yaws.

Several paralyzed patients using the Emory device have learned to control a computer with their thoughts.

The Emory team used high density microarrays to probe more than 900,000 sites across the human genome to detect structural variation, including deletions or duplications of DNA.

«It's like remote control of the brain circuitry to create a pair bond,» says Robert Liu at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and a member of the team using technology to play Eros.

Although data on how the trails are used are limited, it is known that they inspire some exercise: in a January 2007 study by PATH foundation staff and Emory University researchers, sponsored by Georgia Healthcare Foundation, a third of 315 trail users surveyed at Davidson - Arabia Mountain Nature Preserve said that most of their weekly physical activity has involved the trails.

In this study, researchers at Emory University, CDC, and the University of Washington used network - based mathematical models of HIV transmission in a population of MSM to estimate the impact of applying these CDC guidelines to prevent new HIV infections in the U.S..

Hyder Jinnah of Emory University and colleagues used functional MRI to scan the brains of volunteers as they activated their head - turning neck muscles by pushing against pads.

Science reporter Sara Reardon chats with Helen Mayberg of the Emory University School of Medicine about the scientific and ethical issues of using surgery to treat psychiatric disorders.

But the source told ScienceInsider that FDA approved its use in the two patients after a request from a physician at Emory University in Atlanta who used the expanded access rules, which allow the emergency use of unapproved medicines on a «compassionate use» basis.

Although genetically modified mice have been used widely to model neurodegenerative diseases, they lack the typical neurodegeneration or overt neuronal loss seen in human brains, says corresponding author Xiao - Jiang Li, MD, PhD, distinguished professor of human genetics at Emory University School of Medicine.

Like many influenza virologists, John Steel of Emory University in Atlanta often uses a feeble lab strain of influenza in his studies of how seasonal flu spreads.

The new technique, pioneered by Wilson and fellow researchers at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, saves time by using antibodies produced by so - called B cells (white blood cells that produce and then ferry them to infection sites to battle invading germs) in response to vaccines instead of to actual infections.

Eri Saikawa, who studies air pollution and its health impacts at Emory University, and wasn't involved in the new study, plans to use Wiedinmyer's data in a model to see how it matches observations in China and Southeast Asia, and to see how trash burning might be contributing to the substantial amounts of air pollution there.

Now, Skehel, along with colleagues at Harvard, Yale, and Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, has used that sequence to build the virus's hemagglutinin (HA)-- a protein that latches onto receptors on the host cell surface — and determine its structure.

«This research highlights the potential role of individual differences in verbal abilities during childhood as a risk factor for the subsequent development of alcohol use during adolescence and young adulthood,» said Michael Windle, professor and chair of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.

Georgia Tech / Emory University Associate Professor Todd McDevitt and graduate student Anh Nguyen make microparticles to be used for delivering growth factors to stem cells.

Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine were testing whether GM - CSF (granulocyte - macrophage colony stimulating factor), already used to restore white blood cell numbers during cancer treatment, could help heal blood vessels damaged by atherosclerosis.

Emory's Donald (Tig) Rainnie and his research team use freely moving rodent models to examine the effects of DBS on neural circuits thought to be disrupted in depression.

Then the cells» genetic expression — evidence of which genes were being used by the cells and which weren't — were analyzed in Peng Jin's laboratory at Emory University.

One of the most common insecticides used in the battle against the Aedes aegypti mosquito has no measurable impact when applied in communities where the mosquito has built up resistance to it, a study led by Emory University finds.

Closing costs are «money that would have been better used to support research that ultimately could have continued to combat diseases like AIDS and Parkinson's, rather than shutting down a productive research enterprise, mothballing a valuable research campus, and walking away from» millions in federal funding, said R. Paul Johnson, a former director of the primate center who now leads the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University.

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Just as an aside, we don't know the nature of the recent alleged chemical attack in Syria, and the chemical used in the Emory experiments is not a «weaponized» nerve agent such as Sarin.

Researchers at Emory and Georgia Tech have developed tools that could allow neuroscientists to put aside the fiber optic cable, and use a glowing protein from coral as the light source instead.

Researchers at Emory and Georgia Tech have developed a method for Cheap Oakleys purifying cardiac muscle cells from stem cell cultures using molecular beacons.

Animals that were used in this study were treated humanely according to the ARVO Statement for the Use of Animals in Ophthalmic and Vision Research and the procedures used on them were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Emory University.

Emory cardiologist Aloke Finn and his colleagues recently had two papers in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and in Atherosclerosis describing a possible interaction between the widely used diabetes drug metformin and drug - eluting stents, which are used to to treat coronary artery disease.

Using modern functional MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have shown that the neckâ $ ™ s motor control region in the brain is actually between the shoulders and trunk, a location that more closely matches the arrangement of the body itself.

Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine, led by principal investigator Michael Frankel, MD, Emory professor of neurology and director of Grady Memorial Hospitalâ $ ™ s Marcus Stroke & Neuroscience Center, are studying biomarkers as part of two ancillary studies of blood samples using two grants from the National Institutes of Health.

The Behavioral Genetics of Addiction Laboratory (PI information: http://psychology.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/palmer-rohan.html) located in the Department of Psychology at Emory University, is looking for self - motivated and enthusiastic Postdoctoral Fellows to work on statistical genetics and epidemiological studies of substance use, psychopathology, and their relation to cognitive functioning.

The patientâ $ ™ s brain was scanned in two ways: on the left, MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and on the right, PET (positron emission tomography), using a probe developed at Emory.

Puskas and his colleagues have published an analysis of bilateral vs single grafting at Emory, as well as a proposed metric for when single grafting should be used in the context of patients with diabetes:

All procedures were approved by Emory University's Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee.

Arshed Quyyumi and colleagues from Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute presented research on Sunday at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions meeting on the use of a blood test along with an exercise stress test.

«If we use relative brain size as a metric of «intelligence» then one would have to conclude that dolphins are second in intelligence to modern humans,» Lori Marino, Lori Marino, a senior lecturer in neuroscience and behavioral biology at Emory University, told Discovery News.

Another recent study from Xiao - Jiang Li's laboratory at Emory University used a similar (but not exactly the same) technique to remove huntingtin in mice at 2, 4, and 8 months of age.

An excellent example of the use of CRISPR gene editing technology came up at the Emory - Children's Pediatric Research Center's Innovation Conference this week.

The «optimal cutoff» the Emory authors use in some of their statistical analyses is 5.2 picograms per milliliter.

There are many variations of H1N1, says Rafi Ahmed, director of the Emory Vaccine Center and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, but this technology could be used to identify a very specific strain, such as the one weâ $ ™ re dealing with in the current pandemic.

Many investigators, including those at Emory, are using the technology to establish â $ œdisease in a dishâ $ models and derive iPS cells from patient donations, turning them into tools for personalized medicine research.

In one of the latest examples, a team led by Kenichiro Itami of Nagoya University and Djamaladdin G. Musaev of Emory University has used a computational - experimental approach to create a predictive regioselective reaction for C — H imidation of aromatic compounds (Chem.

Emory researchers Susan Safley and Collin Weber have been exploring the possibility of using different animals for xenotransplantation: fish, specifically tilapia.

In particular, chemist James Snyder has been a key driver in designing and synthesizing curcumin - related compounds used by several investigators at Emory and elsewhere (see figure):

The research team, led by Emory Vaccine Center immunologist Bali Pulendran, discovered that mice lacking the amino acid sensor GCN2 are more sensitive to the chemical irritant DSS (dextran sodium sulfate), often used to model colitis in animals.

To determine the influence those efforts have had on news media portrayals, Emory researchers studied newspaper articles using the terms â $ œschizophreniaâ $ and â $ œschizophrenicâ $ in the years 2000 versus 2010.