Sentences with phrase «bioarcheological hair samples»

He hopes DNA tests on 15 alleged hair samples will provide proof that there's a gorilla, or something like one, in our midst.

Had the Plaintiff gone to Sparrow's ER on the morning of the 12th and had a SANE nurse do a rape kit there might have been pubic hair samples or semen samples, both which might produce DNA evidence which would strengthen the prosecution case.

Each trimester the mothers underwent a series of tests that evaluated their stress and psychopathological symptoms while simultaneously taking hair samples from which the researchers extracted the cortisol corresponding to the last three months.

«Long - term stress linked to higher levels of obesity, hair samples show: People who suffer long - term stress may also be more prone to obesity.»

The resins and embalming materials used to prepare the artificially mummified bodies were not found in the hair samples, suggesting that the hair was protected during embalming and then styled separately.

Now an analysis of bone and hair samples from the notorious duo has backed the theory that scarcity drives dietary specialisation, and shows that food preferences can diverge within co-operating groups.

This finding supports the use of hair samples as a tool for assessing cortisol levels during pregnancy.

«We hope hair samples will help establish the role that changes in cortisol levels throughout pregnancy have on the health of women and their children,» said study co-author Laura Smy, a PhD student at the University of Toronto.

To investigate whether hair samples could be used to assess the effects of asthma on cortisol levels during pregnancy, a research team led by Gideon Koren, MD, a clinical pharmacologist at the University of Toronto, and Bruce Carleton, PharmD, at the University of British Columbia, collected hair samples from 93 pregnant women, of whom 62 had asthma and 31 did not.

These findings, which will be discussed during an oral poster presentation, suggest that hair samples may provide scientists with a simple, non-invasive tool for determining if and how cortisol is linked to poorer pregnancy outcomes.

Hair samples can be used to measure the effects of asthma on the cortisol levels of women during pregnancy, according to research presented today at the 2015 AACC Annual Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo in Atlanta.

«Hair samples may offer new insights into the relationship between asthma, cortisol, and complications in pregnancy.»

Completed last June, the Ancient Biomolecules Centre keeps a computer registry of all its employees» DNA, drawn from hair samples.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, researchers at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, found high levels of mercury (above the maximum recommended by the World Health Organization) in hair samples from 40 % of the Madre de Dios residents that they tested.

They analyzed these samples along with hair samples from 76 living humans of European American and African descent.

The researchers were able to examine bioarcheological hair samples from six individuals that were up to 250 years old, demonstrating the robustness of these proteins.

Analysis of isotope ratios in hair samples showed how much of the bears» diets came from human food.

Each trimester the mothers underwent a series of tests that evaluated their stress and psychopathological symptoms while simultaneously taking hair samples from which the researchers extracted the cortisol corresponding to the last three months.

Contemporary hair samples were collected during bear management actions and from barbed - wire hair snares deployed throughout Yosemite.

Dr. Charlier argues that human remains in museums and scientific institutions can be divided into four categories, «ethnographical elements» such as hair samples with no certain identification; anatomical remains such as whole skeletons or skulls; archaeological remains; and more modern collections of skulls, used in now discredited studies in the early 20th century.

After creating a stir last October with preliminary results, an international research team has published an analysis of dozens of hair samples from mystery animals around the world.

Researchers collected pine marten feces and hair samples from areas with and without gray squirrels.

Previous genetic analyses of a couple of «yeti» hair samples collected in India and Bhutan suggested that a stretch of their mitochondrial DNA resembled that of polar bears.

Eighty - eight of the women also provided hair samples for the measurement of cortisol.

But two hair samples point to a possible new and (you guessed it) mysterious species: a bear roaming the Himalayas that may be related to ancient polar bears.

But two hair samples from the Himalayas were a surprise.

It's become routine in wildlife biology to identify animals through the DNA in hair samples and scat.

For $ 150 to $ 500 you can now send off a cheek swab or hair sample and find out if you have American Indian ancestry, if you're related to others who share your surname, or if you're part of the Jewish priestly Cohanim line.

The study will involve doing an analysis not only of benzene biomarkers and other volatile organic compounds, but also of certain heavy metals in urine and hair samples.

Their 38 - page report (including appendices) contains sections on environmental samples such as soil and swipes from rockets; interviews with more than 50 survivors and with medical staff members; and blood, urine, and hair samples from survivors.

David Coltman, a wildlife geneticist at the University of Alberta, decided to analyze the fabled hair sample using DNA analysis techniques.

But after a cleaning lady accidentally tossed out the samples that had been left on a lab bench, James substituted a collection of hair samples, rather than go to the x-ray facility empty - handed.

«Our recent work has demonstrated that we can determine what mammals are in a protected area without hunting, without trapping, without the use of scat or hair samples, and especially without camera traps - all of which are problematic methods for one reason or another,» said study author Mark Siddall, a curator in the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology.

The mostly nameless profiles will also include hair samples, dental records and a photo of the corpse.

Darimont and his co-workers collected 550 hair samples this year from their study area near the town of Bella Bella, which lies halfway up British Columbia's coast.

Last year, working with a local doctor, Stanford University graduate student Katy Corrigan Ashe took hair samples from residents of Puerto Maldonado and several mining communities.

Now an analysis of bone and hair samples from the notorious duo has backed the theory that scarcity drives dietary specialisation, and shows that food preferences can diverge within cooperating groups.

By the time millions of people had discovered the world of forensic science through TV programs such as «CSI» and «Forensic Files,» Heather Mahalik was already busy studying blood spatters and collecting hair samples.

Function lme in the nlme package was used to estimate the effect of the study area (with nest box identity as a random effect) on the pre-experiment baseline hair sample mass.

Pre-experiment baseline hair sample masses of the hair on the great tit eggs.

When the approach was extended to bioarchaeological hair samples, these individual measures of discrimination and likelihood of biogeographic background, were also obtained.

Linear mixed - effects models (function lme)[34] in the nlme package [35] was used to estimate the factors affecting the response variables, hair sample mass and clutch coverage 24 hours after the playbacks.

The pre-experiment baseline hair sample mass, i.e. the amount of hair on the eggs before the first playback, predicted the mass of the new hair brought to the nest (Table 1).

Another way to test, is to analyze a hair sample, but its value in indicated overall toxicity has not been demonstrated.

«The occipital hair samples of patients with diffuse alopecia and the frontal hair counts of those with androgenetic alopecia also showed an increase of anagen hair, but differences were not significant.»

I recently got my Magnesium and other things tested by a hair sample.

You simply send your hair sample to me and get your results over the phone.

Here's the mercury levels in hair samples from healthy people; here's the levels in patients with diabetes or hypertension.

She can be blunt and authoritative because she is basing her opinion on years of this work and hundreds of hair samples.

Of course, if the client does not follow hair sampling instructions correctly, the results can be skewed, for instance if they use a dandruff shampoo with zinc.