Sentences with phrase «human experiments suggest»

Human experiments suggest that if the subject is not paying conscious attention to a discrimination process, the P300 is greatly reduced or undetectable (AT 151).

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The results of the experiment would suggest that bird flu could potentially mutate to become transmittable between humans like the flu, a scary thought considering the human fatality rate from bird flu when contracted from birds was recorded as 60 percent in 2010.

The charity said this was «particularly concerning» as most of these experiments studied human diseases which do not exist in non-human primates, such as Parkinson's Disease, and this they suggested «significantly challenges» the validity of the tests.

ARTIFICIAL sweeteners can cause glucose intolerance in mice, and perhaps in humans, by altering gut bacteria, a series of experiments suggests.

BO plays a role in mate selection among mice, and some experiments have suggested its importance for human mate selection as well (ScienceNOW, 18 June 2004).

The «simple but smart» experiment, as neurobiologist James Bower of the California Institute of Technology calls it, suggests that human smell is more sophisticated than previously thought.

Additional experiments using a combination of maraviroc and a drug that blocks the VEGF protein suggest that the treatment duo could be an effective way to prevent metastatic disease in human breast cancer patients, according to the researchers.

«One of our experiments showed that bypassing Lin28a and directly activating mitochondrial metabolism with a small - molecule compound also had the effect of enhancing wound healing, suggesting that it could be possible to use drugs to promote tissue repair in humans.»

Riquelme's simple experiment suggested that mammals, perhaps including humans, could benefit from the heart - bolstering chemical machinery of pythons.

The new study — published October 18, 2016 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry — combined genetic analysis of more than 9,000 human psychiatric patients with brain imaging, electrophysiology, and pharmacological experiments in mutant mice to suggest that mutations in the gene DIXDC1 may act as a general risk factor for psychiatric disease by interfering with the way the brain regulates connections between neurons.

Now, Dr. Andrey Vyshedskiy, Boston University, USA, and Rita Dunn, ImagiRation, USA, suggest an experiment that utilizes currently available methods for isolating so - called «object neurons» in the human brain.

Experiments on mice and on heart cells obtained from infants born with congenital heart disease suggest that neuregulin 1, a human growth factor, can put infant heart cells on a path that mimics normal growth rather than stalling out.

Their experiments with lab - grown mouse and human T - cells suggest that people with cancer who have a greater variety of such receptors may respond better to immunotherapy drugs and vaccines.

These human - pig «chimeras» were not allowed to develop past the fetal stage, but the experiment suggests such creations could eventually be used to grow fully human organs for transplant, easing the fatal shortage of organs: 120,000 people in the United States are waiting for lifesaving transplants, but every day two dozen die before they get them.

«What we are seeing is more and more species of creatures that suggests that nature was experimenting with how to evolve humans thus giving rise to several different types of human - like creatures originating in parallel in different parts of Africa,» Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum, one of the peer reviewers of the paper, told the BBC.

Experiments have previously suggested that the CD8 T cells could protect against the virus, but the study of 341 staff and students at Imperial College London published in Nature Medicine is the first «natural experiment» to test the idea in humans during a pandemic.

In the meantime, the results of experiments in animals and humans suggest that lipid - lowering drug treatment, especially with the fibrates and statins, should be avoided except in patients at high short - term risk of coronary heart disease.

The experience was a bit bewildering at first, since the studio is a laboratory where the artist has more than a dozen «experiments» going simultaneously: a giant firefly contraption takes up a swing - set zone; materials for an upcoming performance are laid out on every surface of the seating and sofa zone; fish tanks surround a computer zone and provide the staging ground for an oceanic corral project; dozens of human arm forms, cast in a Black Power salute and cast in gold, are lined up along a wall, in preparation for a huge installation in Washington, D.C. this fall; a 3 - D printer is on pause as it creates Lilliputian figures for who - knows - what; and everywhere are various staging grounds of plastic models which will eventually be sprayed in gold and mounted on pins, to create Kaino's now - signature six - foot - tall, glittering gold pin drawings that suggest atomized worlds.