Sentences with phrase «agent researchers at»

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«Confirming an earlier study by researchers in Germany we found that some commercial grapefruit seed extracts contain benzethonium chloride, a synthetic antimicrobial agent commonly used in cosmetics and only approved for topical use, at relatively high levels of 8 %.»

In tomorrow's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, two researchers point the finger at chemical changes in the molecule transurocanic acid — which at one time was thought to protect against ultraviolet (UV) radiation damage — as a possible controlling agent in the process.

Keith Brown, an epigenetics researcher at the University of Bristol, UK, says that de-methylating agents already treat some blood cancers successfully, but it is not clear how they work.

Dr. Aplin and Jessica Teh, PhD, his senior postdoctoral researcher at Jefferson (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University), examined the effects of a combination of two FDA - approved targeted agents on human melanomas grafted onto mice.

Instead of looking at the number of individuals using M - PESA, the researchers measured the rise in the number of service agents within 1 kilometer around each household — or «agent density» — during early rollout of the mobile - money services.

In testing with hydrogen peroxide, a strong oxidizing agent, the researchers found their most effective cerium oxide III nanoparticles performed nine times better than a common antioxidant, Trolox, at first exposure, and held up well through 20 redox cycles.

Kingsbury pointed out that an increase in the number of researchers handling select agents would «inevitably» lead to an amplification of the insider threat: the risk of an attack masterminded by a scientist working at a biocontainment facility.

In 2006, researchers at Chonnam National University in Gwangju, South Korea, were looking to create a new cancer - fighting agent.

Researchers at Oregon State University are pursuing a new concept in treatment of epithelial cancer, especially head and neck cancer, by using two promising «analogs» of an old compound that was once studied as a potent anti-tumor agent, but long ago abandoned because it was too toxic.

Despite these limitations, researchers are taking advantage of a variety of methods to better discern how anesthetic agents induce an anesthetic «state» at the molecular level.

«Currently, less than 1 % of the marine species are known and not even 10 % of the pharma products contain agents from this origin,» says Thomas Schweder, a researcher at the Greifswald - based Institute for Marine Biotechnology (ImaB).

Researchers from NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) presented the preliminary study results at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) meeting in Denver in September 2013.

Perhaps the most important contribution by the researchers at Fort Detrick is the insistence that rooms in level - three and level - four labs, which contain lethal agents, must be at negative pressure compared with the outside, so that if there's a breach, air will flow in.

A reversal agent works by restoring the drug's access, but most of these agents only work at high doses, which would increase the risk of neurological side effects, says Jane Kelly, a malaria researcher at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Oregon.

Lead researcher Dr Sarah Kingsbury, from the University of Leeds and NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre at Chapel Allerton Hospital, said: «There is some scientific basis as to why hydroxychloroquine could be an effective drug agent.

In a publication presented in RSC Advances, researchers from the division of Nanotechnology and Functional Materials at Uppsala University in collaboration with researchers from Stockholm University for the first time show that it is possible to tailor the pore structure of a mesoporous material, Upsalite ®, without using organic templates or swelling agents, and instead by merely controlling the energy input in the production process.

The panel's report, released on 14 June, makes a host of recommendations aimed at reducing the so - called «insider threat» — the possibility that a rogue researcher might use select agents to cause deliberate harm, as U.S. Army researcher Bruce Ivins allegedly did with anthrax.

«We have evidence that the stem cells did in fact convert the prodrug to an active chemotherapeutic agent in the brain,» says Karen Aboody, the translational researcher at City of Hope who developed the therapy.

At the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy in Chicago, Illinois, this weekend, researchers reported preliminary results from tests of a novel treatment in 15 HIV - infected people designed to free them from the need to take antiretroviral drugs.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have overcome this limitation by combining ultrasound with a contrast agent made of micro-sized bubbles that pair with an antibody produced at elevated levels by many cancers.

Researchers in the Doyle lab at Princeton have developed a direct and selective cross-coupling reaction that employs a chiral nickel catalyst and an activating agent at low temperatures to couple nucleophilic arenes, common motifs in bioactive compounds, with a feedstock chemical known as pyridine.

Researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) and Virginia Tech have discovered a new mechanism in the continual arms race between plants and pathogenic bacteria, which tomatoes use to detect the causal agent of bacterial speck disease.

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are developing a medical instrument that will be able to quickly detect a suite of biothreat agents, including anthrax, ricin, botulinum, shiga and SEB toxin.

«From our present work we hope to one day identify a specific inhibitor of endogenous TORC2 which could also find use as an effective anti-cancer agent,» concludes Taiana Oliveira, a researcher in the group of Christiane Schaffitzel at the European Laboratory of Molecular Biology, in Grenoble, France, and third co-lead author of the study.

October 21, 1994 Immortalizing agent of tumor cells found in yeast Researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center have isolated the gene for a component of the elusive molecular machinery that plays a key role in making cancer cells immortal.

A team of researchers from Harvard Medical School and Whitehead Institute report that, at least in the case of one variety of cavefish, one agent of evolutionary change is the heat shock protein known as HSP90.

The researchers at JAX, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, University of Michigan and other institutions also report that three other agents (17 - a - estradiol, nordihydroguaiaretic acid and methylene blue) increased lifespan to lesser degrees that vary by gender.

The use of two drugs never tried in combination before in ovarian cancer resulted in a 70 percent destruction of cancer cells already resistant to commonly used chemotherapy agents, say researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida.

In a finding that supports a new mechanism of inheritance and the leading theory as to the mysterious causative agent of «mad cow» disease and human Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease, researchers at the University of Chicago's Howard Hughes Medical Institute have shown that a defective cell trait can be propagated by a faulty protein, without any DNA or RNA serving as the genetic blueprint.

«Cancer occurs only when a cancer - causing agent has occurred in a very specific window of development,» says Irma H. Russo, MD, chief of the molecular endocrinology section of the Breast Cancer Research Laboratory at Fox Chase Cancer Center, in Philadelphia, and a researcher into the impact of hormone disrupters on female development.

A laboratory study in 2009 has found clove oil and its active component to be effective antifungal agents against Candida and other fungal pathogens Researchers at the University of Porto, Portugal, studied the composition and antifungal activity of clove essential oil.

German researchers at University of Georg - August concurred, finding that artichoke phytochemicals were helpful in blocking cancer agent proliferation.

A study conducted at the University of California at Santa Barbara found that sulforaphane inhibited the growth of human breast cancer cells, causing researchers to praise it is a «promising» protective agent against breast cancer.

The conference, sponsored by The Cultural Agents Initiative, the Provost Office at Harvard University, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Study, attracted 96 artists, educators, and researchers, who identified and exchanged best photography practices to promote children agencies and civic participation.

At a panel discussion this Friday, education researchers, change agents, community - and thought - leaders, and policy makers will discuss what we've learned about the country's views on K - 12 education over the past decade.

Researchers at the Center for Immunology and Microbial Diseases and in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at Albany Medical College, N.Y., report that the protein, alpha - fetoprotein (AFP), may serve as a viable, well - tolerated agent for the treatment and prevention of breast cancer.

Researchers group generations together to better understand trends, but agents and brokers serve clients best when they park stereotypes at the door.

Researchers found that Knoxville, Tenn. (which ranked 34 overall out of 150 cities) had the highest number of sales per agent at 120 — about 20 times more than Houston, which had the lowest at an average of 6 sales per agent.