Sentences with phrase «at emory»

«Our paper shows that it's possible to attenuate RSV without losing any immunogenicity,» says senior author Martin Moore, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and a Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Research Scholar.

In Atlanta, researchers at Emory University have helped a man severely disabled by a stroke communicate by having his brainwaves power a computer cursor.

The electron microscopy work was a collaboration with Elizabeth Wright, PhD, Emory associate professor of pediatrics and co-senior author on the paper, and her colleagues at Emory's Robert P. Apkarian Integrated Electron Microscopy Core.

Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine were testing whether GM - CSF (granulocyte - macrophage colony stimulating factor), already used to restore white blood cell numbers during cancer treatment, could help heal blood vessels damaged by atherosclerosis.

In this month's Physics World, Sidney Perkowitz, Candler Professor of Physics Emeritus at Emory University, explains how applied physics led to the innovation of flameless cooking in the late 19th century and addresses the challenge of feeding a rapidly growing population in a cleaner, more efficient way.

«The results are striking,» says Gonzalo Vazquez - Prokopec, a disease ecologist at Emory and first author of the study.

«We saw a modest increase in treadmill walking time for patients treated with GM - CSF, compared to placebo,» says study leader Arshed Quyyumi, MD, professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and co-director of the Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute.

He grew up and went to medical school in Michigan, and came to Georgia for his orthopedic surgery residency at Emory.

During eye - tracking experiments with toddlers, Warren Jones, a pediatrician at the Emory University School of Medicine, found that the children were strategic about when they blinked.

Working with Jan Hendrik Bruinier of Darmstadt Technical University in Germany, Ono has developed the first exact formula for calculating p (n) for any n. And in a separate paper with Zachary A. Kent, also at Emory, and Amanda Folsom of Yale University, he has identified patterns that probably even Ramanujan could not have dreamed of.

She did her postdoctoral training at Emory University and the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia.

«It would be interesting to see if they get the same effects by engrafting chimpanzee or macaque glia,» adds evolutionary neuroanatomist Todd Preuss of the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University in Atlanta.

Justin Gallivan, a synthetic biologist at Emory University in Atlanta, says in an e-mail that the study «nicely illustrates» how synthetic bacteria can perform complex tasks.

Scott O. Lilienfeld is a psychology professor at Emory University.

«While our study determined differences in post-transplant outcomes between minority and white pediatric liver transplant recipients, we were unable to fully explain the reason for these disparities,» concluded senior author Rachel Patzer, PhD, MPH with the Division of Transplantation at Emory University.

Public health policy and research must overcome several barriers to developing vaccines for pregnant women, say authors Saad B. Omer, MBBS, PhD, professor of global health, epidemiology and pediatrics at Emory University and Richard H. Beigi, MD, MSc, associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and chief medical officer at Magee - Womens Hospital of UPMC.

Steve M. Potter, a biomedical engineer at Georgia Tech and at the Emory University School of Medicine, is giving rat neurons a chance to draw pictures.

Burd is director of clinical microbiology lab at Emory University Hospital and Farley is director of the Department of Medicine's Division of Infectious Diseases.

Related sites Bali Pulendran's laboratory Web site at the Emory Vaccine Center The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's anthrax Web site

Robert Liu at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and his colleagues chose to study pair - bonding in prairie voles because this species is one of the few to mate for life.

«If there was some way to prevent the loss of oocytes in aging women, you could simply let the ovaries do their job instead of doing hormone replacement therapy,» says Grant MacGregor, a developmental geneticist at Emory University in Atlanta.

Copyright © 2009 by Frans de Waal, a primatologist at Emory University.

Psychologist Drew Westen led the study, conducted at Emory University, and the team presented the results at the 2006 annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

As a result, «you are vulnerable to diseases you shouldn't be vulnerable to,» says Michael Mina, lead author of the new paper and a medical student at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.

«With four lines of evidence, I think they've really nailed the interpretation» that this is fossilized ambergris, says Anthony Martin, an ichnologist (a specialist in trace fossils) at Emory University in Atlanta.

Instead of dilating and increasing blood flow to the heart during stress, in women the tiny blood vessels are constricted, leading to areas of reduced blood flow,» said Vaccarino, who is also chair of the department of epidemiology at the Emory University School of Public Health.

«We see an ecological cascade of effects across the whole pollinator community, fundamentally changing the structure of plant - pollinator interaction networks,» says Berry Brosi, a biologist at Emory University and lead author of the study.

We viewed the lack of an evidence - based guideline regarding nutrition management of GI symptoms in children with ASD as unacceptable,» said co-author William Sharp, PhD, director of the Pediatric Feeding Disorders program at Marcus Autism Center and assistant professor of pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine.

«You certainly can't do a $ 100 million study for every candidate vaccine that appears safe and immunogenic,» says Mark Mulligan, a molecular virologist who heads the vaccine center at Emory University in Atlanta and does human challenges with norovirus and tuberculosis.

Ceramides can act as a double - edged sword, says lead author Jack Arbiser, MD, PhD, professor of dermatology at Emory University School of Medicine.

«It is a very nice demonstration of deferred imitation in dogs,» says Frans de Waal, a primatologist at Emory University in Atlanta who suggests that now that this ability has been found in our canid pals, it's likely to be found in many other animals.

«This research is important because previous studies have shown that a reduction in blood supply to the heart (ischemia) during mental stress doubles the risk of heart attack or death from heart disease,» said Viola Vaccarino, M.D., Ph.D., senior author of the study and professor of epidemiology and medicine at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, Georgia.

«This research highlights the potential role of individual differences in verbal abilities during childhood as a risk factor for the subsequent development of alcohol use during adolescence and young adulthood,» said Michael Windle, professor and chair of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.

Given that male bonobos almost never leave the community of their birth, they tend to be «mama's boys,» according to Frans de Waal, a primatologist at Emory University in Atlanta, who was not part of the study.

Dr. Paul Root Wolpe, director of the Center for Ethics at Emory University, will discuss the implications of emerging neuroscience and neurodevelopment on morality, culpability, and free will.

Scahill is a pediatrics professor at Emory University who studies children with specialized forms of ADHD seen with autism and Tourette's syndrome.

Much of this «bee team» was made up of Emory undergraduate students, funded by the college's Scholarly Inquiry and Research at Emory (SIRE) grants and NSF support via the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program.

«I see that frantic search for money in other junior professors, and it makes me appreciative that I can focus on my research program,» says Manns, now in his first year as an assistant professor studying neuroscience and animal behavior at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

«It just emphasizes that there are still a lot of technical difficulties to doing precision editing in human embryo cells,» says Xiao - Jiang Li, a neuroscientist at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

«The performance is really exciting,» said Pandarinath, who now has a joint appointment at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology as an assistant professor of biomedical engineering.

Ira Longini, a modeler at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and his colleagues simulated an imaginary population of 500,000 people in a rural part of the country; Michael Ferguson of Imperial College London built a model based on the 85 million people living in Thailand and a 100 - kilometer - wide border zone in neighboring countries.

Dias and Kerry Ressler, also at Emory, inseminated females with sperm from these mice.

Eri Saikawa, who studies air pollution and its health impacts at Emory University, and wasn't involved in the new study, plans to use Wiedinmyer's data in a model to see how it matches observations in China and Southeast Asia, and to see how trash burning might be contributing to the substantial amounts of air pollution there.

Mary Delong, director of the Office of Postdoctoral Education at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, says that postdocs tend to see industry as a place where they have less independence — where they can not do «their own thing.»

«It's possible that microRNAs go into the bloodstream and affect the potential transcription of these genes in the sperm,» says Brian Dias at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, who led the work in mice.

«Palliative care programs are increasingly prevalent in U.S. hospitals but the financial incentives for hospitals to deploy them are not well - understood,» explains lead author Ian McCarthy, Ph.D., an assistant professor of economics at Emory.

Yan was trained in the Li Lab as a visiting PhD student at Emory.

At Emory, the pause has halted not only the CEIRS project with the lab - attenuated PR8 strain, but also a research grant project headed by Anice Lowen that is looking at how the cell types targeted by two different influenza viruses affect their propensity to exchange genes.

By the time Anna sought me out at Emory University's Sleep Center in 2005, she was devoting at least 12 hours a day to sleep.

The new technique, pioneered by Wilson and fellow researchers at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, saves time by using antibodies produced by so - called B cells (white blood cells that produce and then ferry them to infection sites to battle invading germs) in response to vaccines instead of to actual infections.