Sentences with phrase «small lab studies»

Small lab studies suggest it can improve vigilance and reaction times.

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.

Not exact matches

«We could apply the strategy used in this study to quickly identify and design small molecule drugs for other RNA - associated diseases,» explained study first author Sai Velagapudi, a research associate in the Disney lab.

In Robinson's lab, Sharon studied protein - protein interactions within proteasomes, large multiprotein complexes that clear cells of unwanted proteins by degrading them into small peptide fragments.

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.

The study seems to suggest «that these people who are funded for these small amounts of money and who are able to work in someone else's well - endowed lab... are able to do somewhat risky research,» Stephan says.

MLVs so dependably cause cancer in lab - bred mice — especially leukemia and lymphoma — that a small fraternity of scientists at the NCI and elsewhere has fruitfully studied these viruses since the 1960s in an effort to understand how human cancer begins.

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

To test their ideas, they conduct biomechanical studies in Lieberman's lab — Room 53 in Harvard's small redbrick Peabody Museum.

Kristen Marhaver, who began this work while she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Merced, USA, said: «Now that we've successfully reared juvenile Pillar Corals in the lab, not only can we study them in more detail to find out what factors could be threatening their survival in the wild, but it also means that we can try to out - plant a small number back to the reef.

This knowledge isn't only for those in the corner office; even if you occupy just a small corner of the lab bench, studying the interpersonal relations that go on in a negotiation can be very rewarding.

The lab mounted the small - scale study with the knowledge that the industrial production of nanotubes will inevitably lead to their wider dispersal in the environment.

The Wuhan lab will give his group a chance to study how such viruses cause disease, and to develop treatments based on antibodies and small molecules, he says.

The findings were unexpected because previous studies, done with small numbers of people in the lab, concluded that people's minds wander less often.

Several studies involve a small flowering plant called thale cress, or Arabidopsis thaliana, which is essentially the lab mouse of plant research.

To observe nucleation in a collagen gap — about 2 nanometers high and 40 nanometers wide — the team studied calcium phosphate nucleation with in situ small - angle X-ray scattering at the Advanced Photon Source in Argonne National Lab.

«Our findings for this study provide important starting points for using small molecule imaging techniques to explore MAO - B further at the organism level, and in fact, opens up future prospects for non-invasive imaging - based diagnostic applications,» said Dr Li Lin, the first author of the paper and a post-doctoral fellow in Prof Yao's lab.

«This is a small study, but it suggests gardens can help children's diets — even in the snow belt,» said lead author Brian Wansink PhD, Director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab and author of Slim by Design.

It was based largely on an NIH study finding that productivity gains per grant slow as labs get bigger, and that NIH could move funds from large labs to small ones without lowering overall productivity.

Lab studies also reveal that, despite their size, small squid make bigger sperm than large squid.

His team has shown in lab studies and computer simulations that individual worms interact to coordinate their movements so that even at low densities they begin to swim in small polarised groups, and at higher ones produce circular mills.

In order to optimize for the action of the electric field on the biogas process comprehensive studies on pilot plants but also on small lab reactors are conducted.

A 1971 case report, along with numerous lab studies, have suggested that disulfiram (commercially known as Antabuse), which makes people feel sick from drinking small amounts of alcohol, might also be a cancer fighter.

The Rossi lab has as its primary focus studies on the functions and therapeutic applications of small RNAs.

Our group is helping Rafael Yuste's lab to pioneer the use of Hydra vulgaris, a small, freshwater polyp that attaches itself to underwater surfaces in lakes, rivers and ponds and uses its tentacles to capture prey, as a model organism for studying neural function.

Using a small fragment of apolipoprotein B as a guide, Brian Spencer, a postdoctoral fellow in the Verma lab and the study's lead author, successfully shepherded the enzyme glucocerebrosidase into the brains of adult mice.

When he moved back to Tokyo in 1977 to the lab of Yasuhiro Anraku, Ohsumi continued with his new study subject, but worked on transport systems that moved small molecules like amino acids and calcium into and out of the yeast version of the lysosome (idiosyncratically known by yeast biologists as the vacuole — which means «empty space»).

The other set of studies, led by Destaillats working with Berkeley Lab scientists Lara Gundel and Jennifer Logue, will look at the particulate matter in thirdhand smoke, or PM2.5, particles smaller than 2.5 micrometers in size.

In this study, scientists in Dr. Harvey Lodish's lab at Whitehead and their colleagues at Millennium found that FATP4 is present at high levels in the cells that line the villi, the tiny finger - like projections in the small intestines.

In a study by Cornell University Food and Brand Lab, those who were given larger bowls served themselves and consumed 16 per cent more cereal than those who were eating out of smaller bowls.

Having grown up as the most grounded member of his small family, he has developed a peculiar relationship with his parents, playing to their expectations while studying them as though they were lab rats, charting with alarm their declining sex life.

Classrooms are organized in pods around computer labs, allowing students to rotate from large - group instruction into individualized tutoring, small - group project work, online learning and independent study.

Ballantine and Gaines Pell detail the instructional support the lab provides, through vocabulary study and guided reading in small groups; free reading time with books at each student's level; read - alouds of historical novels connected to content in students» humanities classes; and vocabulary instruction.

A smaller group of 9th grade students focused on a social studies lesson in an enclosed room between the STEM and ELA pods, and another group of students was conducting a science experiment dissolving Alka - Seltzer tabs in the adjacent science lab.

Time in the reading lab involves four major instructional components: small - group tutorials, independent reading, teacher readalouds, and vocabulary study.

Smarter Balanced cognitive labs, conducted in collaboration with the American Institutes for Research (AIR) in fall 2013, consisted of 14 small think - aloud studies that addressed topics pertaining to an automated test delivery system.

• 31 % percent are from racial and ethnically diverse backgrounds • 30 % percent are studying mixed animal medicine • 9 % percent are studying to practice food animal medicine • 28 % percent are going into small animal practice • 13 % percent are going into equine exclusive clinical practice • 7 % percent are entering academia (research and clinical), public health, or government • 15 % percent will go into other areas, such as zoo / exotic, lab animal, wildlife, etc..

• 36 % are from racial and ethnically diverse backgrounds • 33 % are studying mixed animal medicine • 11 % are studying to practice food animal medicine • 24 % are going into small animal practice • 4 % are going into equine exclusive clinical practice • 16 % are entering academia, public health, government, & industry • 11 % will go into other areas such as lab animal, zoo / exotic animal, wildlife or other

Once you are in the program, you will study anatomy and physiology, terminology, nursing skills, small and large animal diseases, radiology, anesthesiology, parasitology, hematology, clinical skills, lab and exotic animals, birds, and behavior.

Of the total group of 2012 scholars, 31 percent are students from diverse backgrounds, 47 percent are studying to practice food and mixed animal veterinary medicine, 28 percent will go into small animal practice, 8 percent will enter academia (research and clinical) and the remainder will go into other areas, such as public health, lab animal medicine and poultry.

Now the Preservation Green Lab of the National Trust for Historic Preservation has released a new study, Older, Smaller, Better: Measuring how the character of buildings and blocks influences urban vitality that goes beyond the apocryphal and comes up with hard data.

In one of her studies, 42 married couples were invited into a hospital lab, where small suction blisters were created on their forearms.

A second possibility is that in previous lab studies, due to small sample sizes, interactions failed to reach significance.