Sentences with phrase «previous human research»

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«Previous research, including human clinical trials, supports that diet beverages are an effective tool as part of an overall weight management plan.

The team's previous research found that 21 percent of individuals seeking human milk online did so for a child with a pre-existing medical condition.

This study built on previous research from the Sundrud lab, which showed that when TH17 cells entered the intestine in human tissue samples, they increased the expression of a gene called MDR1.

While the One - Year Mission has concluded for retired astronaut Scott Kelly, NASA's Human Research Program is focusing on comparing previous six - month mission findings to One - Year Mission preliminary findings.

Previous research suggests that, during the last ice age (which ended around 11,700 years ago), humans moved into the Americas from Asia across what was then a land bridge to North America, eventually reaching what is now the west coast of British Columbia, Canada as well as coastal regions to the south.

He says that seeing schizophrenia - like anomalies in the brain of a closely related primate «really enhances the plausibility» of previous research that links flu to fetal brain development in humans.

«This means, in conjunction with our previous research papers, that Ebola virus VP40 can assemble and interact with human phosphatidylserine to generate the lipid coat of the virus,» Stahelin said.

Previous research had suggested that levels of BPA, which mimics the female hormone estrogen in the human body, declined by 50 percent every five hours after it was ingested in foods or water it had leached into from plastic containers.

Previous research shows human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs)-- generated directly from adult cells — can express markers for a wide variety of cells, including those that secrete NP.

Coss, who taught drawing classes early in his academic career and whose previous research focused on art and human evolution, used photos and film to study the strokes of charcoal drawings and engravings of animals made by human artists 28,000 to 32,000 years ago in the Chauvet - Pont - d'Arc Cave in southern France.

Previous research has shown that on average, humans absorb about 10 percent of a dose of the most common vitamin E supplement if it is eaten without any fat.

«Most previous research into ways of delaying the onset of HD symptoms have focused on studying the mutant protein in cells or in animal models, but the relevance of abnormalities in those systems to what actually happens in patients remains a huge assumption,» says James Gusella, PhD, director of the Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), corresponding author of the Celresearch into ways of delaying the onset of HD symptoms have focused on studying the mutant protein in cells or in animal models, but the relevance of abnormalities in those systems to what actually happens in patients remains a huge assumption,» says James Gusella, PhD, director of the Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), corresponding author of the CelResearch (CHGR) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), corresponding author of the Cell paper.

How does your multi-touch work build on your previous research in the areas of computer graphics, machine learning, real - time computer vision and human - computer interfaces?

Building on previous animal and human research, the study identifies an electrophysiological marker for threat in the brain.

«In light of the predictions of the proponents of the tax, as well as in light of the previous research, we expected to see the tax fully passed through to consumers,» said Cawley, professor of policy analysis and management and of economics in Cornell's College of Human Ecology.

(1) However, while previous research on humans and other animals has shown that certain types of learning, like conditioning, can occur during sleep, (2) this study reveals that we can also memorize new representations and objects (here auditory «objects») while dozing.

Investigators at the Cedars - Sinai Heart Institute — whose previous research showed that cardiac stem cell therapy reduces scarring and regenerates healthy tissue after a heart attack in humans — have identified components of those stem cells responsible for the beneficial effects.

While previous research had determined that humans could use the sense of smell to detect high levels of pure fat in the form of fatty acids, it was not known whether it was possible to detect fat in a more realistic setting, such as food.

Project lead Dr Nicola Bellotto, an expert on machine perception and human - centred robotics from Lincoln's School of Computer Science, said: «This project will build on our previous research to create an interface that can be used to help people with visual impairments.

Previous research had established the wolf as the ancestor of today's dog, but when and where humans first domesticated the animals remained unclear.

Previous research has shown that HIV - 1 integrates more frequently into human genes that are transcribed into RNA (the first step in gene expression), but the biological significance of this targeting has been unclear.

Mann's previous research has shown that dolphin mothers pass the sponging method to their daughters and some of their sons, rare evidence of a cultural tradition in an animal other than humans.

Previous research by Najafabadi had shown that RNA degradation is involved in different human diseases.

The researchers suggest that Neanderthal DNA may not have contributed to differences in skin colors between modern humans, unlike what previous research has suggested.

Previous research at the Afar rift unearthed fossils of some of the earliest known hominins — that is, humans and related species dating back to the split from the ape lineages.

Previous research from other studies had linked hearing loss with marked differences in brain structure compared to those with normal hearing, both in humans and animals.

Previous studies have shown the drug to be effective at spurring new bone growth in mice and in humans with osteoporosis, and a U-M research team believes that it may spur new growth in brittle bone disease patients as well.

Previous research conducted recently in Brazil and elsewhere points to increased mortality rates for human neural progenitor cells (hNPCs) infected by Zika virus, as well as growth inhibition and morphological abnormalities.

Dr David Sloan, Co-author and Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Physics at Oxford University, said: «A lot of previous work has focused on «doomsday» scenarios on Earth — astrophysical events like supernovae that could wipe out the human race.

The 2012 platform also repeats previous calls for expanding federal funding «for the stem - cell research that now offers the greatest hope for many afflictions — with adult stem cells, umbilical cord blood, and cells reprogrammed into pluripotent stem cells — without the destruction of embryonic human life.»

«Previous research has shown that Wolbachia — a genus of bacteria that live inside mosquitoes — render mosquitoes resistant to pathogen infection, thereby preventing the mosquitoes from infecting humans with the pathogens,» said Jason Rasgon, associate professor of entomology, Penn State.

Human brains naturally shrink with age, but previous research has shown that this seems to happen more quickly in obese people.

Steven Grant, a researcher at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, says that the new findings will help untangle a «chicken and egg problem» with human addiction studies: Previous research found a correlation between the D2 - family receptors and drug abuse, but it was unclear whether fewer receptors contributed to addiction or if chronic drug use led to a drop in the number of receptors.

Previous research has shown that the fractal nature of time deviations makes music sound distinctly human.

Previous research indicated this was the case in mice, but this is the first study to document presymptomatic dysfunction in humans.

Previous research in rodents and humans has shown that electrical activity surges in the brain right after the heart stops, then goes flat after a few seconds.

«We know from previous human studies that changes in gut bacterial composition correlate with the early development of type 1 diabetes, and that the interactions between bacterial networks may be a contributing factor in why some people at risk for the disease develop type 1 diabetes and others don't,» said Jessica Dunne, Director of Discovery Research at JDRF, which funded the study.

Previous research in rodent disease models has shown that transplanted oligodendrocyte precursor cells derived from embryonic stem cells and from human fetal brain tissue can successfully create myelin sheaths around nerve cells, sometimes leading to dramatic improvements in symptoms.

In previous research, Quaggin's lab showed that deleting the gene in mouse models led to glaucoma, but the scientists didn't know how mutations impairing the gene affected humans.

Previous research suggests our ability to cooperate and exhibit empathy — both thought to be critical to human success — relied in part on the large brains of our hominin ancestors, relative to body size; and that selection against aggression within early human populations allowed us to thrive.

Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), sees the effort as a «groundbreaking» event, adding that «I know of no previous example of this kind of collaboration» between companies and basic biologists.

It is a continuation of previous research, published in 2011, that focused on the effect of decitabine on glioblastoma human cell cultures.

Previous research has shown that the brain stem of human babies who died of SIDS was deficient in serotonin and serotonin receptors.

This corresponds to a previous study by Professor Vainio's research group, where it was found that dogs prefer viewing conspecific faces over human faces.

Previous research has shown that individuals are very sensitive to even the smallest sign of social exclusion, as this endangers fundamental human needs such as the needs for belonging, self - esteem and control.

Scientists are planning an attempt to extract DNA from the «hobbit» Homo floresiensis, the 1 - meter - tall extinct distant relative of modern humans that was unearthed in Indonesia, following a study that suggests problems in standard sampling methods in ancient - DNA research could have thwarted previous efforts.

Previous research has found that in modern times, many people get sleepy in the midafternoon, leading to speculation that humans naturally want to nap during this time, and that the modern lifestyle suppresses this urge.

While this number is higher than the previous estimate made in the late 1990s based on ground measurements, the new research includes data on more volcanoes, including some that scientists have never visited, and it is still lower than human emissions of sulfur dioxide pollution levels.

Previous research led by Vazquez - Prokopec showed that contact tracing of human cases of dengue fever, combined with indoor residual spraying for Aedes mosquitoes in homes, provided a significant reduction in the transmission of dengue during an outbreak.

Previous clinical and animal research showed that mice receive less tissue damage under ischemic condition than humans, but the cause of the difference was not clear.