Sentences with phrase «authors of the current study»

Dr Lydia Makaroff (International Diabetes Federation, not an author of the current study): «The health cost for diabetes currently exceeds US$ 600 billion, 12 % of the global health budget, and will only increase as diabetes becomes more common.
The only previous demonstration — by researchers led by Shou - Wei Ding, PhD, a professor of Plant Pathology and Microbiology at UC Riverside and co-corresponding author of the current study — was done in embryonic stem cells and in newborn mice.
The authors of the current study hypothesize that these previous trials may have inadvertently selected subjects who would be nonresponsive to the medication and conclude that future efficacy trials may require the identification of subgroups of patient populations.
Researchers now think that irradiation sometimes kills tumor cells in a manner that exposes new antigens to T cells, priming them to target other tumor cells that carry them as well, says Wenbin Lin, a chemist at the University of Chicago in Illinois, and one of the authors of the current study.
In a series of experiments, the authors of the current study tracked the eye movements of individuals with ASD.
A recent study led by Alice Lam, MD, PhD, also of the MGH Epilepsy Service and lead author of the current study demonstrated a novel tool for detecting hippocampal seizures not detectible by scalp EEGs in patients with epilepsy, Cole adds, and his team is working to refine this tool and apply it to Alzheimer's disease.
The authors of the current study represent nine of these countries: Australia, Canada, Europe (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and the UK), Israel, and the United States.
The oceanographer Dr. Marilena Oltmanns is lead author of the current study.
The authors of the current study conducted a randomized, multicenter, clinical trial that included 1,000 Chinese women with PCOS at 21 sites in China.
«Every day human beings make choices among multiple options in how to respond to various social situations,» says lead author of the current study Sergey Gavrilets, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in a statement.
Going back 10 or 15 years, researchers began noting that grateful people had stronger, happier relationships, says Allen W. Barton, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Family Research at the University of Georgia and the lead author of the current study.

Not exact matches

For the New Critics the literary text was considered an autonomous work of art, to be studied independently of its authors intentions and of the sociopolitical currents of the time in which it was produced.
They could be explained, said lead author, John O'Kane, MD, of the University of Washington Sports Medicine Clinic, by differences in methodology (prospective data collection with weekly interviews in the current study versus data reported by athletic trainers in the other studies), and under - reporting in previous studies that captured concussions only in athletes seeking medical attention.
Best was the lead author of a new collaborative study, «Not Missing the Future: A Call to Action for Investigating the Role of Regenerative Medicine Therapies in Pediatric / Adolescent Sports Injuries,» published May 15 in the American College of Sports Medicine's Current Sports Medicine Reports.
«The current messages saying that bed sharing is dangerous only if you or your partner are smokers, have been drinking alcohol or taking drugs that make you drowsy, are very tired or the baby is premature or of low - birth weight, are not effective,» the authors wrote in the study, adding that doctors need to «take a more definitive stance against bed sharing for babies under three months».
Study authors intend to perform additional research in the future to follow up on their estimate of how well the current vaccines protect against HPV - associated cancers.
So, although some responsibility lies with trainees to take charge of their careers and be realistic about the faculty job market, the authors of the study also offer some recommendations about how some of the problems with the current hiring system could be addressed.
«Our corrected calculations show that women just past 65, when current guidelines state that screenings can stop for many women, have the highest rate of cervical cancer,» says the study's lead author, Anne F. Rositch, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., an assistant professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a researcher at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center.
The widget builds on work published 2 June in Current Biology (http://bit.ly/TAZQA8) in which the study's three authors — all early - career computational biologists — used PubMed data to study the influence of some 200 factors on academic scientists» career trajectories.
Additionally, the study authors noted, the number of people who had access to safe — and not just improved — water in 1990 was likely much lower than previously estimated, which means that the 2015 target is even farther away than estimated by the current rubric.
Existing models suggest the current extent of deforestation should reduce rainfall, but researchers have not yet observed the decline, according to the study's authors.
In the current study, Dr. Que and his colleague Ming Jiang, PhD, an associate research scientist in CUMC's Department of Medicine and first author of the paper, genetically altered mice to promote the development of Barrett's esophagus.
The study was conducted with current and former UT Southwestern researchers, including first author Dr. Lu Gao; Dr. Elizabeth Rabbitt; Dr. Jennifer Condon; Dr. Nora Renthal; Dr. John Johnston; Dr. Matthew Mitsche; and researchers from the Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, France, and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
«The current landscape of stem cell tourism should prompt a re-evaluation of current approaches to study cell - based interventions with respect to the design, initiation and conduct of U.S. clinical trials,» the authors wrote.
He said a study he authored on pollinators found that, as of 2015, 5 % to 8 % of current global crop production was attributable to pollinators, translating to an economic value of between $ 235 billion to $ 577 billion.
In the current study, the authors note a few limitations, including that maternal 25 (OH) D levels during pregnancy are not a direct measure of the 25 (OH) D levels to which the developing fetus is exposed.
«If current efficiencies of thermoelectric materials were doubled, thermoelectric coolers might replace the conventional gas refrigerators in your home,» said Cohn, professor and chairman of the UM Department of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences and lead author of the study.
Unlike previous research that only factored spanking and neighborhood conditions separately as precursors of child maltreatment, the current study examined these factors simultaneously, said study lead author Julie Ma, assistant professor of social work at UM - Flint.
Ian S. Pearse, lead author on the study in the current issue of the Royal Society journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, says that, «competition for resources has often been thought to limit invasions in diverse plant communities, but herbivory could also limit these invasions.»
It is critical, says Karolinska Institute gynecologist Anna Möller, the current study's lead author, for rape survivors themselves to understand that their ability to fight was out of their conscious control.
«Current crash data collection forms don't have an explicit section for truck - parking - related crashes, but we can operate under the assumption that specific types of at - fault truck crashes, such as those due to fatigue, may be the result of inadequate parking,» said the study's lead author, Salvador Hernandez, a transportation safety and logistics researcher at Oregon State.
In the current study, the authors describe how they designed THSB's student and teacher materials to increase teachers» knowledge of science ideas and practices and of strategies for teaching them.
To demonstrate the capabilities of SpDamID in the current study, the authors analyzed Notch - mediated transcriptional activation in mouse kidney progenitor cells (mK4 cells).
«Our study suggests that direct current stimulation can compensate somewhat for the loss of dopamine by decreasing the effort the brain has to put into getting its motor neurons to fire,» adds Shadmehr, the senior author of a report on the research published online in The Journal of Neuroscience on Sept. 2.
For the new study, researchers in Diamond's laboratory, led by first author Helen Lazear, PhD, now at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, tested five strains of the Zika virus in the mice: the original strain acquired from Uganda in 1947; three strains that circulated in Senegal in the 1980s; and the French Polynesian strain, which caused infections in 2013 and is nearly identical to the strain causing the current outbreak.
Our current research will impact many areas of laser applications,» said Ashok Kodigala, an electrical engineering Ph.D. student at UC San Diego and first author of the study.
Given the current lack of treatment options, the authors of this study conclude that combined ribavirin and interferon - alpha 2b therapy should be considered as an early intervention.
In the study, published in the current online edition of Cancer Letters, senior author Karine Cohen - Solal, PhD, and colleagues show for the first time that the RUNX2 transcription factor could also serve as a possible treatment target for melanoma.
«This is the first study to show that current strategies to bolster the effectiveness of flu vaccines protected lean mice from serious illness but fell short of protecting obese mice from infections,» said corresponding author Stacey Schultz - Cherry, Ph.D., a member of the St. Jude Department of Infectious Diseases.
Alistair Miles, lead author from the University of Oxford and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, said: «The data we have generated are a unique resource for studying how mosquito populations are responding to our current control efforts, and for designing better technologies and strategies for mosquito control in the future.
«Given current levels of health care spending, the only way we can create headroom for innovation is to identify and eliminate low - value care,» said Dr. A. Mark Fendrick, director of the University of Michigan Center for Value - Based Insurance Design, and the study's senior author.
«Previous studies had correlated increased activity in the primate VTA with positive events experienced by the animal but could not prove that VTA activity actually caused behavioral changes,» says Wim Vanduffel, PhD, of the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at MGH, corresponding author of the Current Biology paper.
This is the result of a current study, led by primary author Peter Ferenci from the University Department of Internal Medicine III at the MedUni Vienna, which has been published in the highly New England Journal of Medicine.
«In the current study, using a genome - wide analysis of DNA methylation, we identified a few PPARα target genes that underwent ligand - activated PPARα - dependent DNA demethylation during the perinatal period and whose DNA methylation status persists into adulthood,» explains a corresponding author Koshi Hashimoto.
«Results from this study are based on current climate projections, and it doesn't necessarily mean that lesser prairie - chickens will experience a population decline,» said Blake Grisham, Texas Tech University scientist and lead author of the study.
«We can use expansion pathology to push conventional light microscopes beyond their current limits, which could have important applications in diagnostic pathology,» said the study's co-lead author, Octavian Bucur, MD, PhD, of the Department of Pathology and Cancer Research Institute at BIDMC, who is also a Ludwig Cancer Center Research Investigator.
«Although hypothermia is a promising strategy to improve resuscitation and brain recovery following cardiac arrest, the results of the current study do not support routine use of cold intravenous fluid in the prehospital setting to improve clinical outcomes,» the authors write.
For the current study, first authors Andrew Walton and Jared Muenzer, MD, used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing to detect a range of viruses in blood and urine samples from 560 critically ill patients with sepsis, who were treated in the surgical and medical intensive care units at Barnes - Jewish Hospital.
As the study's authors wrote, this is where the strong Antarctic current becomes «a mess of swirling eddies» and meanders around its central path.
Elizabeth Heidrich, a PhD student at Newcastle University in England and lead author of the new study, studies microbial fuel cells — devices that generate electrical current by capturing the electrons freed as bacteria break down organic matter in wastewater.
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