Sentences with phrase «biochemical studies of»

The Laboratory of Protein Structure (LPS) started its activities in 2008 and focuses on structural and biochemical studies of proteins (e.g.: nucleic acid enzymes) using protein crystallography as the primary method.

Unfortunately the Australian work did not use standard ancient DNA authentication tests, such as independent replication by other laboratories, biochemical studies of bone preservation, and cloning of DNA sequences (to reveal amplification artefacts).

His thesis was entitled «Structural and biochemical studies of Argonaute reveal the slicing mechanism of RISC - RNAi effector complex.»

Research in this area spans several disciplines, from the biochemical study of basic mechanisms of alcohol metabolism, to the neuroscience of dependency, to demographic and clinical studies on at - risk populations.

At Berkeley, Emily completed her graduate studies with Prof. Michael A. Marletta where she focused on the biochemical study of an enzyme relevant to human health.

Not exact matches

The Chinese government financed nationwide studies into cockroaches» medical value that, after more than two decades of laboratory investigation and clinical trials, had discovered or confirmed dozens of disease - fighting proteins and biochemical compounds with huge potential value in medicine.

In contrast, positive expectations of treatment doubled the natural physiological or biochemical effect of the opioid drug among the healthy volunteers in the study.

biochemical evidence such as Cytochrome - cyto - C is just one of the thousands of sequences and is not proof of common ancestry, as there are more variations than similarities in the genetic code, on the other hand a study of the amino acid make - up reveals that man is closer to lamprey than are fish.

In a related study, rats were fed large amounts of Tabasco ® Sauce and suffered «no gross or microscopic pathological changes or any significan biochemical changes in the animals.»

Then, with an emphasis on Western society, they cover topics like marriage, fertility, paternity, cross-cultural studies of father involvement, stepfathering, sexuality, health, and the biochemical changes that babies make to a father's brain.

Studies show that early nurturing from parents or caregivers helps combat the biochemical effects of stress.

Now we need to study how, in the real world, and in the long - term, the processes of biochemical efficiency and lifespan will change.

In a new study, published today in the journal Advanced Functional Materials, researchers used a combination of 3D imaging and 3D printing techniques to create a custom silicone guide implanted with biochemical cues to help nerve regeneration.

Investigators studied liver tissue from patients with steatohepatitis, who were heavy alcohol drinkers, and from ethanol - fed mice to identify biochemical markers of cellular senescence.

The long - term objective of Stahelin's research is to apply principles learned from biochemical and biophysical studies to generate novel therapeutics to combat Ebola.

To link, at a molecular level, a gene variant with biochemical changes and clinical symptoms related to a heritable psychiatric disorder, as in this present study, is therefore something of a breakthrough.

I studied the biological and biochemical journals to keep up to date with the recent developments within my area of research.

In a report on the study, published Feb. 5 in Nature Neuroscience, researchers say the biochemical receptor, known as a G protein - coupled receptor, was present on nerve cells in the lower respiratory tracts of lab mice.

Chuyang Cheng, a fourth - year graduate student in Stoddart's laboratory and first author of the paper, has spent his Ph.D. studies researching molecules that mimic nature's biochemical machinery.

And we have done many validation studies where we compared our diet assessments to biochemical measures, say of, tansfat in the fat tissue of a person or the level of beta - carotene in the blood, and we found pretty good correlations — not perfect but they are pretty good — and that means that we are able to pick up meaningful differences in people, among people that we can tell someone who is eating a large amount of transfat from a person eating low amount of transfat.

In particular, he studies the emergence of the genetic code, the biochemical interface by which organisms translate genetic instructions into living bodies.

A global analysis of metabolites and small molecules in urine samples from patients with adrenal cancer has identified four biochemicals that, when measured together, can distinguish malignant from benign adrenal tumors, according to study results presented at the 2015 Annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.

The researchers then used a battery of behavioral and biochemical tests to study the mice after weaning.

The study examined the effects of smoking on various biochemical processes in the blood and vessels of 20 healthy non-smokers who volunteered to smoke three cigarettes.

The discovery of an unexpected biochemical link within tumor cells should lead to clinical trials for experimental drug treatments that indirectly target myc and that already are being evaluated in human studies, the researchers said.

In the study, the researchers show that after two to four weeks of 3 - D culture, the resulting muscle cells form muscle fibers that contract and react to external stimuli such as electrical pulses and biochemical signals mimicking neuronal inputs just like native muscle tissue.

The team of researchers was the first in the world to use modern genetic, molecular and biochemical methods to study tooth enamel defects in detail.

Nucleic acid and protein sequences, as well as three - dimensional structures of proteins, are frequently the objects of study, but gene expression as well as the simulation of pathways and biochemical networks are attracting more and more attention.

In an effort to tease out a biochemical pathway that might account for the clinical effects that Kaplan, Popper, and others had described, he ran a series of rat studies.

According to Dr Won Park, Inha University Hospital, Korea, and lead investigator of the PLANETAS study, «the challenge for biosimilars is to demonstrate similarity in therapeutic effectiveness, safety and immunogenicity to their reference product, not just biochemical and pharmacokinetic equivalence.»

Bioprocess engineer Rafael Garcia of ARS and biochemical engineer Zhiyou Wen of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg are designing a study to grow EPA - and DHA - producing microbes using low - cost by - products of other processes, such as glycerol from biodiesel production and rendered animal protein from slaughterhouses.

The beneficial effect of SSRIs that has been shown in many studies should thus, according to this theory, not be due to the fact that these drugs exert a specific biochemical antidepressant action in the brain, but that the side effects of the drugs enhance a psychological placebo effect.

A new Journal of Neuroimaging study provides insights into the biochemical mechanisms by which Tai Chi — a mind - body exercise — may provide both physical and psychological benefits.

«This may reduce breast cancer risks by at least a half over 10 years,» says Mitch Dowsett, professor of biochemical endocrinology at the Royal Marsden, and director of the study.

«Days after sockeye passed through extremely fast - moving water, we started to see fish dying only a short distance from their spawning grounds,» said Nicholas Burnett, a research biologist at UBC and lead author of the study, published in Physiological and Biochemical Zoology.

Mirror - image versions of such proteins would have the identical chemical characteristics as the natural protein (enabling detailed biochemical studies), but will generally be non-toxic to natural organisms.

His current research uses a variety of molecular, biochemical, and genetic approaches to study the basic biology of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs).

As part of ENCODE, 32 institutions did computer analyses, biochemical tests, and sequencing studies on 147 cell types — six fairly extensively — to find out what each of the genome's 3 billion bases does.

The researchers studied the adhesion mechanisms using detailed biochemical analyses and state - of - the - art genetic systems, combined with unique H. pylori clinical strains and biopsy - materials collected from individual patients and animals over a span of many years.

With VEGF - A and CEA, we believe we may have invented a test that can help that group of patients who don't have a risk of cancer get off the testing cycle and avoid surgery which, in and of itself, has a risk of mortality or complications,» said C. Max Schmidt, MD, PhD, FACS, study author and professor of surgery and biochemical / molecular biology, Indiana University School of Medicine.

They then conducted biochemical analyses to identify neuroligin - 3, confirm that the protein could stimulate tumor growth in cultured samples of several kinds of human high - grade gliomas and study which signals the protein uses within glioma cells to promote their growth.

Forward - looking studies are examining other possible information couriers: glial cells (poorly understood brain cells that are 10 times as common as neurons), other kinds of signaling mechanisms between cells (such as newly discovered gases and peptides), and the biochemical cascades that take place inside cells.

There he studied the fundamental cellular and biochemical mechanisms required for immune cell activation and clearance of infections.

The scientist Prof. Rupert Palme of the Institute of Medical Biochemistry at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, was responsible for the biochemical analysis of the faecal samples in the study.

Clark had always liked the idea of international cooperation; he had been active since 1969 in planning summer school courses about molecular biology on the Greek island of Spetses, which were funded by the Advanced Study Institutes program of NATO, the European Molecular Biology Organization, and the Federation of European Biochemical Societies.

«This is a significant example of how knowing details of potential mechanisms and the basic science of redox active compounds in cancer versus normal cells can be leveraged clinically in cancer therapy,» says co-senior author Douglas Spitz, who focused on the biochemical studies.

This study revealed a way to indirectly mitigate the bad effects of VEGF by activating a biochemical chain of events, or pathway, that suppresses the protein.

«While previous molecular studies have provided simple snapshots of the gene transcript variations that are associated with the exposure of insects to natural and synthetic chemicals, the genomics approaches used in this study offer a significantly more complex perspective on the biochemical and physiological processes occurring in plant - insect interactions,» Schuler said.

Our study represents another piece in the puzzle, since we provide an explanation for the protective biochemical changes induced by physical exercise that prevent the brain from being damaged during stress,» says Mia Lindskog, researcher at the Department of Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet.

The elegant feedback system discovered in this study links the regulation of contraction to the shape and function of epithelial tubes via mechanical and biochemical signalling.