Sentences with phrase «molecular studies at»

Molecular studies at PsychoGenics and other organizations have demonstrated that the excision of the neomycin resistance cassette results in a modest but significant increase in mutant HTT mRNA levels, and a trend towards an increase in soluble mHTT protein and extranuclear inclusions.

Not exact matches

«This technology will allow us to paint a whole chromosome and look at it live and really follow it... as it goes through developmental transitions, for example in an embryo,» study co-author Rebecca Heald, a molecular and cell biologist at UC Berkeley, said in a statement.

So I'm at MIT as an undergrad, and I'm studying molecular biology as premed.

And he ran down SoHe who was only 22 and a Toronto university studying molecular biology and he aimed the steering wheel at Betty and accelerated — Betty whose mother had long ago named her Mary Elizabeth — and who was revelling in one of the first warm April days in her 95th — and last — spring on this spinning orb.

«Our new findings show that in the absence of embryonic movement the cells that should form articular cartilage receive incorrect molecular signals, where one type of signal is lost while another inappropriate signal is activated in its place,» Paula Murphy, a professor of zoology at Trinity College Dublin who co-led the study, says.

I am studying molecular biology at BYU.

Boivin had studied cellular, molecular, and microbial biology for her Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Calgary in her native Canada, but, she says, «I always had an interest in archaeology.»

By looking at reproduction as both a source of cooperation and conflict between the sexes, the researchers are finding clues from this study on a behavioral and molecular level that can be an important link for solving certain unexplained causes of human infertility.

Mangahas studied plant biology and botany during his undergraduate years at the University of Washington, Seattle, as well as molecular biology.

«This is a big step in determining the identity of key components of the molecular machinery that converts sound waves into electrical signals in the inner ear,» said the study's co-senior author, Gregory Frolenkov, of the Department of Physiology at the University of Kentucky.

Furthermore, he says, his years studying yeast at the molecular level — supplemented by formal training and further research in the enology program at the University of California (UC), Davis — has sharpened his winemaking intuition.

«It requires student initiative to connect with the right role model / adviser,» says Todd Evans, a professor of developmental and molecular biology and Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies and Director of the Graduate Program at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in Bronx, New York.

The fields within biology are further divided based on the scale at which organisms are studied and the methods used to study them: biochemistry examines the fundamental chemistry of life; molecular biology studies the complex interactions of systems of biological molecules; cellular biology examines the basic building block of all life, the cell; physiology examines the physical and chemical functions of the tissues and organ systems of an organism; and ecology examines how various organisms interrelate.

It turns out that taste buds are doing more than we think,» says senior author of the University of Michigan - led study Scott Pletcher, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and research associate professor at the Institute of Gerontology.

«We have confirmed what earlier studies indicated, and gained new knowledge about molecular characteristics of these neural stem cells,» says Milos Pekny, professor at the Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology.

«Nonetheless, the proof of concept studies we have obtained thus far are extremely encouraging, and we are confident that with proper support and efforts we could translate our findings into experimental therapeutics for a variety of solid tumors that are driven by EphA2 overexpression, including breast, lung, prostate, pancreatic, and ovarian cancers,» said Pellecchia, who serves as the founding director of the Center for Molecular and Translational Medicine at UCR.

In doing so, the team has provided a molecular dynamics tool that allows for the study of various heat transfer problems at the nanoscale, including understanding and utilizing passive liquid flows.

Zhou, who is the director of virology and molecular biology for Microbac Laboratories, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Penn., said the study did not yet look at the survivability of Zika on hard non-porous surfaces beyond eight hours.

Before now, researchers were unable to study it at nanoscales in molecular simulation.

«Our aim was to explore the effect of a more acidic ocean on every gene in the coral genome,» says study lead author Dr Aurelie Moya, a molecular ecologist with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University.

In collaboration with Anna Pyle, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale, Patrizio and his team studied samples from 20 cumulus cells in 15 patients younger than age 35 and in those age 40 and older.

There, I got to study tuberculosis not only on the level of macroscopic bone changes as before, but also look at the molecular level and search for the pathogen's DNA.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congress has launched an investigation into controversial human embryo studies conducted by Mark Hughes, a molecular geneticist who once worked at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The new study's findings build upon prior research by Dr. Roger Lo, a professor of medicine (dermatology) and molecular and medical pharmacology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

I first became aware of bioinformatics while in graduate school at the University of Colorado, Boulder, studying molecular, cellular, and developmental biology.

«These findings stimulate new avenues for cell therapy approaches for regenerative medicine,» said Douglas Millay, PhD, study senior investigator and a scientist in the Division of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology at Cincinnati Children's.

A new study sheds light on unique property of 2 - D materials — ability to shield chemical interactions at the molecular level.

The data simply looked spectacular,» says Thijs Ettema at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, who lead the scientific team that carried out the study.

Wehrenberg said the results of this study are directly applicable to Lawrence Livermore's efforts to model both plasticity and tantalum at the molecular level.

In addition to Jorgensen, who holds a doctorate in molecular biology, founding members include science writer Daniel Grushkin; Sung Won Lim, a physics undergraduate; and Russell Durrett, who studies biotechnology and entrepreneurship at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.

Gabor Csanyi, a professor of molecular modeling in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, contributed to this study.

To link, at a molecular level, a gene variant with biochemical changes and clinical symptoms related to a heritable psychiatric disorder, as in this present study, is therefore something of a breakthrough.

In the future, studies are aimed at using novel molecular approaches to selectively delete AMPK in specific brain regions associated with nicotine dependence to better understand the functional role of this protein in addiction.

«We found that a particular vaginal bacterium, Gardnerella vaginalis, did not cause infection during exposure to the urinary tract, but it damaged the cells on the surface of the bladder and caused E. coli from a previous UTI to start multiplying, leading to another bout of disease,» said the study's senior author, Amanda Lewis, PhD, an assistant professor of molecular microbiology and of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University.

Research for the study was conducted by first co-authors Dr. Ranit Kedmi and Nuphar Veiga and colleagues at Prof. Peer's TAU Laboratory, in collaboration with Prof. Itai Benhar of TAU's School of Molecular Cell Biology and Biotechnology, Dr. Michael Harlev of TAU's Veterinary Service Center, Dr. Mark Belkhe of Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) and Prof. Judy Lieberman of Boston Chidren's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

«Finding these similarities and studying the aspects of mouse biology that may reflect human biology, allows us to approach the study of human illnesses in a better way,» affirms Bing Ren, one of the principal authors from the ENCODE Consortium and a lecturer in molecular and cellular medicine at the University of California — San Diego.

«It is very clear that synthetic binding technologies are now mature,» said study co-author Shohei Koide, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the University of Chicago and a world - leader in monobody research and design.

«The study results elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying disease progression in multiple sclerosis models, providing a basis for future clinical trials to determine safety and efficacy of these chemical agents in humans with demyelinating disorders,» says Patrizia Casaccia, MD, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience, Genetics and Genomic Sciences at Mount Sinai and senior author of the study.

«Understanding how the enzyme actually works requires the knowledge of its three dimensional molecular structure at the atomic level,» said Dr. Mueller, principal investigator for the study that used cryo - electron microscopy (cryo - EM) to reveal the enzyme at near atomic resolution.

They contacted Anutosh Chakraborty, a molecular biologist who was studying such mice down the hall at Scripps at the time.

Immune system defenses against dangerous bacteria in the gut can be breached by turning off a single molecular switch that governs production of the protective mucus lining our intestinal walls, according to a study led by researchers at Yale, the University of British Columbia, and the Weizmann Institute of Science.

In the study, the research team identified three distinctive characteristic regimes with regard to the degree of slip at the interface and revealed the underlying molecular mechanisms for each regime: (i) the z - to - x chain rotation mechanism in the vorticity plane in the weak flow regime, which effectively diminishes the wall friction against chain movement along the flow direction, (ii) the repetitive chain detachment - attachment (out - of - plane wagging) and disentanglement mechanism in the intermediate regime, and (iii) irregular (chaotic) chain rotation and tumbling mechanisms in the strong flow regime.

Published in Molecular Neurobiology, the study led by Dr Elodie Siney under the supervision of Dr Sandrine Willaime - Morawek, Lecturer in Stem Cells and Brain Repair at the University, analysed how enzymes called ADAMs affect the movement and function of the human tumor cells.

Reasoning that boosting the clock may be beneficial, Zheng «Jake» Chen, Ph.D., the study's senior author and assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, launched a search for a clock amplitude - enhancing small molecule.

Liu, who was an investigator at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington DC during the research, decided to study tissues removed from eight patients with either focal cortical dysplasia or tuberous sclerosis complex to see if she and her co-authors could discern what might be going awry at the molecular level.

A new study published in Nature Communications by researchers from the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology (MRC CDN) at IoPPN, carried out in collaboration with the Tian lab at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (USA), unravels how this synchrony is achieved at the molecular level.

After finishing her Ph.D. studies in molecular biology at the Hellenic Pasteur Institute in Athens in 1998, Alexopoulou headed for the United States.

But a new genetic study of a 1000 - year - old skeleton from the Bahamas shows that at least one modern Caribbean population is related to the region's precontact indigenous people, offering direct molecular evidence against the idea of Taino «extinction.»

The newest comer into this wild and speculative debate is Philip Bell, who studies yeast molecular biology at Macquarie University in Australia.

Dmitry Royhman, currently studying to get his PSM in cell and molecular biology at IIT, says, «The reason I chose to do the PSM instead of the traditional Master's degree was because the M.S. would have restricted me more toward research, and I was not sure that was the path for me.»