Sentences with phrase «zhao wuji»

«I think the key difference between this method and the other existing metabolic engineering strategies in yeast is really the scale,» said Zhao.

Relatively little is known about the underlying mechanisms that lead to the cognitive and learning deficits in fragile X syndrome, Zhao says, making it difficult to devise effective therapies.

For instance, while FXR2P has been shown to be important in autism, the function of the protein and its contribution to fragile X syndrome has been unclear, Zhao says.

Professor Jian - xin Zhao from UQ's School of Earth Sciences said the photos were a powerful visual tool often used to highlight the recent decline of the Great Barrier Reef.

«I always say the major reason I came back is a great, great opportunity,» says Zhao, speaking from Life Technologies» Shanghai office.

In a previous study, Zhao's team showed that both FMRP and FXR2P are integral for new neuron production in adult mice and are important for learning and cognition.

Zhao and colleagues examined the ability of the CRISPR - Cas system, a set of molecules borrowed from a form of immune system in bacteria (CRISPR stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, describing a feature of this system in bacterial genomes).

UC Davis researcher Min Zhao and Junfeng Feng, a neurosurgeon at Ren Ji Hospital, Shanghai, showed that they can steer transplanted stem cells (green, in inset on right) to one part of a rat's brain using electrical fields.

«One unmet need in regenerative medicine is how to effectively and safely mobilize and guide stem cells to migrate to lesion sites for repair,» Zhao said.

Dr. Junfeng Feng, a neurosurgeon at Ren Ji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shanghai Institute of Head Trauma, visited Zhao's lab to study how electric fields might guide stem cells implanted in the brain.

Stem cell scientist Guang Zhao of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas notes that the germ - cell gender - switching might not work easily in other animals, such as mammals.

Dr Xiubo Zhao, from The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Sheffield states: «By using a natural enzyme like catalase and silk which are fully biodegradable, our devices are far more biocompatible than earlier swimming devices.»

«These photographs taken from the late 19th Century onwards of two inshore Great Barrier Reef locations near Bowen, Queensland, reveal a dramatic loss of coral cover,» Professor Zhao said.

«Electrical mobilization and guidance of stem cells in the brain therefore provides a potential approach to facilitate stem cell therapies for brain diseases, stroke and injuries,» Zhao said.

This system allowed Zhao to make precise cuts in the yeast genome, into which the standardized genetic parts from their library could insert themselves.

Professor Min Zhao at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine's Institute for Regenerative Cures studies how electric fields can guide wound healing.

«Without the exact timing, the reasons for the loss depicted in the historical photos would have remained speculative,» Professor Zhao said.

Weian Zhao, associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences, and colleagues have programmed human bone marrow stem cells to identify the unique physical properties of cancerous tissue.

Zhao added that this stem cell - targeting approach can provide an alternative to many forms of chemotherapy, which has a number of bad side effects.

The iBioFAB was conceived and developed by the Biosystems Design research theme at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB), which is led by Zhao.

With support from the High Performance Biological Computing Group at Illinois, Zhao, Si and their colleagues analyzed the modified genomes of their most promising yeast strains.

Zhao wants to find other ways to boost these strains in people with diabetes, and hopes the team's findings could be used to develop probiotic treatments.

That suggested that the spike protein is key for infecting humans, Zhao's team reports online 29 January in Science.

«This is a new paradigm for cancer therapy,» Zhao said.

«Our new type of treatment only targets metastatic tissue, which enables us to avoid some of conventional chemotherapy's unwanted side effects,» said Zhao, who is a member of the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center at UCI.

With that goal in mind, Xue and his team joined forces with Chen Zhao, MD, PhD, UI assistant professor of pathology, and used their understanding of CML genetics to look for small molecules or drug compounds that might be able to eradicate the leukemia stem cells.

But instead of coming up for tenure in 7 years or so, Zhao could be coming up for parole.

Given how the virus adapted last year, it's especially important to nip epidemics in the bud, Zhao says.

Zhao says China's recent overadjusting of its fertility rate will turn into an overestimation of as much as 100 million by 2030.

Pharmacologist Huajun Zhao, 42, is in custody on «a single count of economic espionage,» reports the Milwaukee Journal - Sentinel.

Zhao said this takes away the possibility of Jupiter - sized planets causing asteroids that might hit or change the orbits of smaller, Earth - like planets.

Hongxia Zhao is now continuing studies on regulation of lipid dynamics as an Academy Research Fellow at University of Helsinki.

«This is a very green study in that it recycles existing data to draw new conclusions,» said Zhao.

Special Thanks: Brian Cusack; Team TaeTay — Jessie Wu, Lily Lin, Tony Zhao; Team PyroseWazo — Jacqueline Le, Asmera Mohamed, Tiffany Tang; The Cooper Union

«I think this is really amazing — equally important as the growth of additional eyes,» says University of California, Davis, biologist Min Zhao (also unaffiliated with the study) who investigates the application of electrical fields in wound healing.

One dip in the liquid can double the food's shelf life, Zhao reports.

They then combined these in a dish with testicular cells from newborn mice in various culture conditions — a process that took hundreds of trials, says author Xiao - Yang Zhao, a stem cell biologist now at Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, China.

Zhao, the study's first author, determined that for Alpha Centauri A, there might still be orbiting planets that are smaller than 50 Earth masses.

«Test methods for traditionally driven cars are something like having a doctor take a patient's blood pressure or heart rate, while testing for automated vehicles is more like giving someone an IQ test,» said Ding Zhao, assistant research scientist in the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering and co-author of the new white paper, along with Peng.

Zhao says his group plans to further optimize the culture conditions and eventually attempt to repeat the feat with human cells.

We now provide experimental evidence to suggest one which has not been even hypothesized before, a two - molecule sensing mechanism,» Zhao said.

The challenge was to find the right balance of light and dark, given that yeast cells die when their natural fermentation process is disturbed, Zhao said: «The yeast get sick.

«[A company] can pay workers small amounts to write negative online reviews for a competing business, often fabricating stories of bad experiences or service,» Zhao says.

These efforts work like an «evil Mechanical Turk,» Zhao says.

He and Zhao successfully grew crystals of the new doped material.

Now a team lead by Min Zhao at the UC Davis Institute for Regenerative Cures has found the first actual «sensor mechanism» that allows a living cell detect an electric field.

Co-authors from UC San Diego include Timothy Bertram, Douglas Collins, Luis Cuadra - Rodriguez, Timothy Guasco, Matthew Ruppel, Olivia Ryder, Nathan Schoepp and Defeng Zhao from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Grant Deane, Dale Stokes, Lihini Aluwihare, Brian Palenik, Farooq Azam, Gregory Roberts, Lynn Russell, Craig Corriga, Michelle Kim, William Lambert, Robin Modini and Byron Evans Pedler from Scripps Institution of Oceanography; and Mario Molina, who holds a joint appointment.

In addition to McAlpine, Qiu and Sweet, the 17 - person research team included Ghazaleh Haghiashtiani, Shuang - Zhuang Guo, Ruitao Su, Zhijie Zhu, Fanben Meng, Sung Hyun Park from the University of Minnesota Department of Mechanical Engineering; Zichen Zhao from the University of Washington WWAMI Institute for Simulation in Healthcare; Badrinath R. Konety from the University of Minnesota Department of Urology; Mingyu He and Chih - Chang Chu from Cornell University Fiber Science and Biomedical Engineering Programs; Didarul B. Bhuiyan and Brenda M. Ogle from the University of Minnesota Department of Biomedical Engineering; Daniel A. Saltzman from the University of Minnesota Department of Surgery; and Paari Murugan from the University of Minnesota Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology.

Haotian Zhao, Ph.D., is the lead author on the study titled «Sonic Hedgehog promotes proliferation of Notch - dependent monociliated choroid plexus tumour cells.»

«Our results suggest that megakaryocytes might be used clinically to facilitate adult stem cell regeneration and to expand cultured cells for adult stem cell transplants,» says Meng Zhao, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at Stowers and lead author on the study.