Sentences with phrase «predict human response»

About the «Human Emulation System» Powered by Organs - On - Chips Technology Based on the Organs - on - Chips technology, Emulate has created a new living Human Emulation System ™ that provides a real - time window into the inner workings of human biology and disease — offering researchers a new technology designed to predict human response with greater precision and detail than today's cell culture or animal - based experimental testing.

The data would be used to better predict human response to countermeasures, viruses or pharmaceutical drugs, and could help scientists determine if certain types of neurons are more susceptible to exposure.

In 2008, a study in Theriogenology (vol 69, p 2) concluded: «On average, the extrapolated results from studies using tens of millions of animals fail to accurately predict human responses.»

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Darimont predicts other large carnivores would show similar responses because humans have effectively become the planet's apex predators — even if we often do not eat what we kill.

In response, some have fearfully predicted that these intelligent machines will dispense with useless humans — mirroring the plot of The Matrix — while others see a utopian future filled with endless leisure.

«This model was trained on genetic data from human tumors in The Cancer Genome Atlas and was able to predict response to certain inhibitors that affect cancers with overactive Ras signaling in an encyclopedia of cancer cell lines,» Greene said.

Scientists have long predicted large - scale responses of infectious diseases to climate change, giving rise to a polarizing debate, especially concerning human pathogens for which socioeconomic drivers and control measures can limit the detection of climate - mediated changes.

The resulting «map» of gene - drug interactions allowed the researchers to accurately predict the responses of multiple human cancer cell lines to different chemotherapy agents based on the cell lines» genetic profiles and also revealed new genetic factors that appear to determine the response of breast and ovarian tumor cells to common classes of chemotherapy treatment.

By means of the new technique the highly variable sensory response from the human nose may be predicted based on the more precise chemical measurement of odorants.

Loss of the RING domain predicted poor treatment responses in both mouse and human mammary tumors.

Under a microscope, their cells and molecules are so similar to ours that many researchers use these and other animals to understand how the human body works — and to predict our likely responses to possible drugs or poisons.

Emulate's Lung - Chip Demonstrates New Capabilities to Predict Human Lung Inflammation and Drug Responses in Asthma and COPD

We predicted that these diversified epitope regions would be the targets of mutation as the 2009 H1N1 pandemic (pH1N1) lineage evolves in response to the development of population - level protective immunity in humans.

Hypoxia - inducible factor - 1alpha expression predicts a poor response to primary chemoendocrine therapy and disease - free survival in primary human breast cancer

The white matter pathways comprise a set of active wires and the responses and properties of these wires predict human cognitive and emotional abilities in health and disease.

The authors» intention, they wrote, was for this comprehensive analysis to «provide a framework for predicting the behavior of future outbreaks for Ebola virus» and other human pathogens and to guide targeted, life - saving responses.

The uncertainty includes our own wavering over our human and economic response, layered over our inability to predict the ice sheet response as a function of CO2 and other climate drivers under our control.

However, for regional downscaling (and global) models to add value (beyond what is available to the impacts community via the historical, recent paleorecord and a worst case sequence of days), they must be able to skillfully predict changes in regional weather statistics in response to human climate forcings.

The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, which has resulted in the phasing out of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), a group of industrial compounds that react with and disassociate ozone molecules, is a collective adaptive response by humans to a perceived and predicted threat to life from stratospheric ozone depletion.

An overall increase in global - mean atmospheric temperatures is predicted to occur in response to human - induced increases in atmospheric concentrations of heat - trapping «greenhouse gases.»

His expertise is in predicting and understanding large - scale response to human - induced climate change and detailed changes at a regional level.

Only a few studies on humans have investigated whether prenatal maternal stress and emotional distress compromise immune responses or predict infectious disease in the offspring [16 — 19].