Sentences with phrase «lab study found»

The Berkeley Lab study found that global land surface temperature decreased by a modest amount — an average of roughly 0.01 degrees Celsius, based on an albedo increase of.003 averaged over all global land surfaces.

A Cornell Food and Brand Lab study found that women who stored soft drinks on the counter weighed 24 to 26 pounds more than women whose counters were free of sugary beverages.

Complicating study of the virus even further, a lab study found that an infected mosquito can pass the virus to nearby mosquitoes while they are feeding on an uninfected animal.

On May 3, 2017, Science retracted the study described in «Tiny plastics cause big problems for perch, lab study finds» (SN: 6/25/16, p. 14).

«Hydroxyethyl starch has direct harmful effects on kidney cells, lab study finds.»

Previous lab studies found the compound toxic to certain species — small rainbow trout and water fleas — at concentrations that are expected in the environment.

Not exact matches

While studying microfluidics and 3 - D printing, he found that he could take the testing lab and shrink it to the size of a shoebox and still conduct 30,000 different medical tests.

He said that his research should not be called «modeling» because it is based on the combined findings of thousands of lab results, as well as several other studies he has published.

The study found that results from Theranos differed from those of Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp, the other two labs in the study.

«We suspected that the young are most vulnerable because of their immature immune systems, but we didn't have a lot of hard evidence to show that before,» said study lead author Bo Hang, a Berkeley Lab staff scientist who previously found that thirdhand smoke could lead to genetic mutations in human cells.

Last year, he led a study that found people's capacity to pay attention improved when they wore a white lab coat.

Another lab study put the theory to the test in the work place, finding that those who received positive notes from peers were less likely to experience burnout, fatigue or have intentions to quit.

A number of lab and animal studies have found that healthy organic food may increase antioxidant content, helping to protect cells from damage.

They say a new study found that, when exposed to heat, baby bottles release a chemical that, researchers say, has been linked to obesity, diabetes and developmental problems in lab animals.

Another study published in 1999 by Anderson Laboratories found that lab mice exposed to various brands of disposable diapers experienced asthma - like symptoms, as well as eye, nose and throat irritation.

«So my lab is currently looking at those other species of borrelia to see if they're found in this area and how common they are and, similar to this study, to see if ticks are co-infected with those at unexpected rates.»

«These findings shed new light on fundamental aspects of our online communication ecosystem,» says Deb Roy, an associate professor of media arts and sciences at the MIT Media Lab and director of the Media Lab's Laboratory for Social Machines (LSM), who is also a co-author of the study.

Preliminary results from field studies also appear to confirm the published lab findings.

The handful of labs that continued to pursue ApoE did so in the face of indifference from funding agencies and the neuroscience community, and without the resources needed to validate experimental findings with larger studies.

The new Cornell Food and Brand Lab study by Andrew Hanks, David Just, and Brian Wansink, found that eliminating chocolate milk from the elementary schools decreased total milk sales by 10 %, indicating that many students substituted white for chocolate milk.

In a 2016 study, for example, Dokholyan's lab found evidence that «trimer» structures made of just three copies of the SOD1 protein are toxic to the type of neuron affected in ALS.

Finding high levels of fibers in the fish is significant, as some studies investigating microplastics in fish have dismissed such fibers as contaminants from the lab environment, meaning their role as a pollutant may have been underestimated.

The researchers determined that CRISPR had successfully corrected a gene that causes blindness, but Kellie Schaefer, a PhD student in the lab of Vinit Mahajan, MD, PhD, associate professor of ophthalmology at Stanford University, and co-author of the study, found that the genomes of two independent gene therapy recipients had sustained more than 1,500 single - nucleotide mutations and more than 100 larger deletions and insertions.

PreScience Labs, a U.S. company founded by Geschwind, received approval for a phase I study from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2013.

Even the nice vanilla wonder trees I had in the lab didn't mask the odor of the rotting meat I used to feed my new - found study subjects, so I moved into a room located near the so - called corpse entry that had a grating instead of windows.

Bloch's colleagues at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences tested the oils in gene expression studies on lab - grown human breast cancer cells and found that they could mimic estrogens, the primary female sex hormones, and inhibit androgens, the primary male sex hormones.

Published in the peer - reviewed journal Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine, the study, «Sperm RNA elements as markers of health,» from the lab of Stephen A. Krawetz, Ph.D., the Charlotte B. Failing Professor of Fetal Therapy and Diagnosis in the Wayne State Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, indicates that RNA found in male sperm not only shows promise as a determinant in successful live birth, it may also tell us more about the health of a child as it matures.

To find out, the team looked at several hundred human mu opiate genes, lumping together their own studies of several dozen volunteers from pain or opiate addiction clinics with studies from other labs.

Further, in the team's second study, a lab study of working adults from across the United States, Emich said, «We find that men are given more credit than women even when saying the exact same thing.»

«To find other materials with similar properties, we focused on the feasibility of exfoliation,» explains Nicolas Mounet, a researcher in the THEOS lab and lead author of the study.

Chesser says some of his group's studies of mice exposed to radioactivity around Chernobyl hint at hormesis: Small exposures over 10 to 45 days, they found, appeared to temper damage from an acute radiation dose delivered in the lab later.

Perhaps most significantly, in a study led by Frances Champagne — then a graduate student in Meaney's lab, now an associate professor with her own lab at Columbia University in New York — they found that inattentive mothering in rodents causes methylation of the genes for estrogen receptors in the brain.

I found a new home in a lab studying graphene, a material with promising electronic properties.

In a new study, Murphy, a molecular biologist at Princeton University, showed that long - lived bodily, or somatic, cells in Caenorhabditis elegans, a one - millimeter nematode commonly used as a model for aging studies in labs, activate genetic pathways completely separate from those found in long - lived egg, or oocyte, cells.

«Interestingly, we found that magnetic anisotropy is an inherent property in the 2 - D material we studied, and because of this characteristic, we were able to detect the intrinsic ferromagnetism,» said study lead author Cheng Gong, a postdoctoral researcher in Zhang's lab.

In earlier animal studies, the Andersen lab found that it is here, in the PPC, that the initial intent to make a movement is formed.

The Ecological Applications study's findings are also consistent with an earlier study from Frank's lab that found another scale insect species is more abundant at warmer temperatures due to increased survival rates.

As part of his studies, Mackey has found himself struggling with a question facing the fMRI field as a whole: when is the technique ready for use outside the lab?

In controlled studies in the lab, I found that people who were more altruistic — more likely to give away money to strangers in a game — were also more likely to vote.

The findings are based on the results of different studies the team conducted in the lab and online.

A comparable study, she says, may find that lab rats also do not lose hippocampal cells — and thus redeem them as a research tool in studies on the link between alcoholism and memory loss.

Scientists may have found a sweet new way to fight Group B Strep: Sugars in some women's breast milk busted up colonies of the potentially harmful bacteria in a small lab study.

The finding is in keeping with a 2012 study by Brenner and his lab, which assessed the effectiveness of treating liver fibrosis with GKT137831 — a NOX1 / 4 inhibitor developed by Genkyotex SA of Geneva, Switzerland.

New findings published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showed in lab studies that supplementing an epigenetic cancer drug called decitabine with vitamin C enhanced the drug's ability to impede cancer cell growth and trigger cellular self - destruction in cancer cell lines.

The study also includes three co-first authors: Qingjian Han from Ji's group who discovered SHANK3 in sensory neurons and pain defects in SHANK3 mutant mice; Yong Ho Kim, an electrophysiologist in Ji's group who found diminished TRPV1 function in SHANK3 mutant mice; and Xiaoming Wang from Jiang's lab who generated SHANK3 mutant mice.

The study builds on earlier work by Kuhl's team, which found that babies from English - speaking households could learn Mandarin from live tutors, but not from video or audio recordings of Mandarin and from other work at I - LABS establishing the importance of infant eye gaze for language learning.

«This was a totally unexpected finding,» said study principal investigator Junqiao Wu, a physicist at Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and a UC Berkeley professor of materials science and engineering.

«Our findings present new potential targets for therapeutic regulation of cross-presentation,» said Filippo Veglia, Ph.D., first author of the study and staff scientist in the Gabrilovich Lab.

However, Laksari and Kurt emphasize that their findings are predictions that need to be tested more extensively in the lab, either with animal brains or human brains that have been donated for scientific study.

The latest study of a new at - home test kit, published today in Science Translational Medicine, found that even untrained users were able to measure sperm count and concentration as well as motility (the percentage of actively moving sperm), detecting abnormal semen with 97 percent accuracy compared with traditional lab testing.