Sentences with phrase «biology research study»

«Systems biology research study reveals benefits of vacation, meditation.»

2003 University of Denver, Health Sciences Center, Psycho - biology Research Study Group.

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This field of research which marries economics with biology and psychology studies certain types of investing decisions — including those made on emotional or speculative grounds, often made hastily without all the facts or because of what others are doing.

In an accompanying editorial, Theodore Slotkin, a professor of pharmacology and cancer biology at the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina, writes that it's undeniable that smoking while pregnant contributes to later behavior problems in children, based on the new study and past research.

, Advances in experimental medicine and biology; integrating population outcomes, biological mechanisms and research methods in the study of human milk and lactation (2002/05/25 ed., pp.207 - 216).

Studies done by the Touch Research Institute in Miami, the first scientific center to study the biology of touch and its effects on health and development, have shown that premature infants who are massaged for 15 minutes three times a day gain more weight and are able to be released from the hospital sooner than those who are not massaged.

Their education is not limited to basic breastfeeding help, but also includes the health sciences such as biology, human anatomy and physiology, infant / child growth and development, nutrition, clinical research, intensive lactation studies, and basic life support (among many others).

Frustrated by the lack of information available about industry research at the university, Gervais's first insight into pharmaceutical research came toward the end of his PhD studies at McGill University when he attended a seminar given by invited speaker Don Nicholson, a senior director and head of biology at Merck Frosst Canada [Merck Frosst is sponsor of Next Wave Canada].

Related space biology research continues aboard the space station, including recently selected studies that are planned for future launch to the orbiting laboratory.

A whole set of data has come out of this — which is now to available to the scientific community — which will be significant for research into mammalian biology as well as the study of human illness mechanisms.

According to Izpisúa Belmonte, who is also a professor at the gene expression laboratories of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, California, CMRB aims to become «a research centre of excellence in south Europe in the line of world - recognized institutions such as the Salk or the Whitehead institutes, where both pre - and postdoctoral researchers receive multidisciplinary training of the highest quality» in stem cell biology and cell regeneration.

Dmitry Royhman, currently studying to get his PSM in cell and molecular biology at IIT, says, «The reason I chose to do the PSM instead of the traditional Master's degree was because the M.S. would have restricted me more toward research, and I was not sure that was the path for me.»

Susan Howitt, deputy head of biology teaching and learning, Research School of Biology, Australian National University, studies cell transporters in addition to her administrative and teaching duties.

Jaroslav Flegr, a professor of biology at Charles University in Prague in the Czech Republic who was not involved in the study, said this was a confirmation of observations made by his research team over the last two decades.

The study published in the Biology Letters journal is part of a research project on human evolutionary biology led by Academy Professor Virpi Lummaa.

In addition to Belote and Pitnick, the article was co-authored by William T. Starmer, professor of biology at SU; Manier, a former SU research associate who is assistant professor of biology at the George Washington University; Stefan Lüpold, an SU research assistant professor; Kirstin S. Berben, an SU lab technician; Outi Ala - Honkola, a former SU postdoctoral fellow who is a biologist at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland); and William F. Collins» 12, a former student of Pitnick's who is a master's candidate at the Johns Hopkins» School of Advanced International Studies.

«It's been known for a long time that these kinds of slips occur, and they are viewed as the Barnum and Bailey of evolution,» said the study's senior researcher Ehad Abouheif, Canada research chair in evolutionary developmental biology at McGill University.

«Studying human islet cells has been a major challenge in the field of diabetes research for decades because the pancreas essentially digests itself shortly after a person's death,» said professor of developmental biology Seung Kim, MD, PhD.

At the September workshop, the teachers became the students as they read a research article under the guidance of Sally Hoskins, a professor at City College of New York who studies such educational methods and teaches biology courses that use primary literature in lieu of traditional textbooks.

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Miranda Hart, an associate professor of biology at UBC's Okanagan campus, her PhD candidate Taylor Holland, along with Agriculture Canada research scientist Pat Bowen, has spent the better part of three years studying soil samples from more than 15 vineyards throughout the Okanagan.

Robert Paine, professor emeritus in the University of Washington's biology department and chairman of the National Academy of Sciences study, has called for more research.

The organization funds postdoctoral research that «promotes molecular biology studies in Europe,» and prefers that fellows move between member countries.

It's a standard practice of study sections to say, in effect, this proposal is submitted by a physicist, hence is not worthy of NIH funding, regardless of the importance to biology of the proposed research.

The research draws from previous findings by molecular biology and genetics professor and study co-author Mariana Wolfner on how Drosophila females» gene expression, behavior and physiology are changed by mating.

The St. Laurent Institute, a non-profit medical research institute focused on the systems biology of disease, today announced in a study published in the July edition of Genome Biology, that genetic matter, previously ignored by the scientific community, may play an important role in cancer.

A former research fellow of the Royal Society, he was director of studies in biochemistry and cell biology at Clare College at Cambridge University and a Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard.

«By learning more about how these cells work, we are one step closer to understanding the disease states in which these cells should be studied,» said Cagla Eroglu, an assistant professor of cell biology and neurobiology at the Duke University Medical Center, who led the research.

In the new study, Dangl and colleagues delved more deeply into this relationship, using mutant versions of Arabidopsis thaliana, a weed that has long been the standard «lab rat» of plant biology research.

Authored by Charles Stewart, a third - year graduate student studying plant biology at Cornell, the article focuses on four very critical areas: research versus coursework, reading the literature, attending conferences, and networking with your peers.

On a positive note: «Our research indicates that if a student can structure a consistent schedule in which class days resemble non-class days, they are more likely to achieve academic success,» said study co-lead author Aaron Schirmer, an associate professor of biology at Northeastern Illinois University.

«It really reinforces the idea that evolution of the code itself was a progressive process,» said Paul Schimmel, a professor of molecular and cell biology at the Scripps Research Institute, who was not involved in the study.

Dr. Benedetti's research methodology employed in this article transcends the traditional division between psychology, the study of the mind and how it works, and biology, the study of all living things.

Environmental scientists and synthetic biologists have for the first time developed a set of key research areas to study the potential ecological impacts of synthetic biology, a field that could push beyond incremental changes to create organisms that transcend common evolutionary pathways.

«Humans are crazy for Facebook, but our research suggests that primates have been relying on the face to tell friends from competitors for the last 50 million years and that social pressures have guided the evolution of the enormous diversity of faces we see across the group today,» said Michael Alfaro, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the UCLA College of Letters and Science and senior author of the study.

Research will continue to look at classifying and studying the biology of the many mite species that could be used in pest management, the first step toward developing them as biological control agents, he said.

He subsequently obtained a Ph.D. at the University of Sydney studying cancer cell biology, and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to undertake postdoctoral research at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

«This study opens an entirely new area of discovery for many aspects of cell biology and biomedical research — how cancer cells metastasize, for example — and provides many new therapeutic targets,» said senior author Jack Dixon, PhD, professor in the UC San Diego School of Medicine and associate vice chancellor of Scientific Affairs.

In a 2011 meta - analysis, Beery and Irving Zucker, professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, dug into 10 areas of biological research, such as biology and pharmacology, to see just how bad the sex bias was in animal studies.

Dr. Kubicek studied synthetic organic chemistry for his undergraduate degree at the Vienna University of Technology and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and received his Ph.D. in in molecular biology at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna.

According to Craig Morris, research associate at Binghamton University and lead author on the study, the differences boil down to biology.

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

«Previous research has shown that CTCF acts as a key insulating barrier to prevent mistakes in cells as they multiply and differentiate,» says Varun Narendra, the study's lead author, and a fifth - year graduate PhD student in developmental biology at NYU Langone and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

«This year's Nobel Laureates have been studying this fundamental problem and solved the mystery of how an inner clock in most of our cells in our bodies can anticipate daily fluctuations between night and day to optimize our behavior and physiology... since the paradigm shifting discoveries by Hall, Rosbash and Young, circadian biology has developed into a highly dynamic research field with vast implications for our health and well - being.»

Jeff Smith, a first - year postdoc at OISB who studies cell signaling using proteomics, notes that with no specific categories for systems biology on research - grant applications, he has no choice but to place himself in direct competition with biochemists and biologists in other fields.

In a recent study, Alexandre Courtiol from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin (Germany) and his collaborators from the Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution in Montpellier (France) conclude that how choosy animals are is something that emerges predictably from the biology of each species and sex.

«Darwin's finches are one of the best examples we have of speciation,» says the new study's first author, Jennifer Koop, who did the research as a University of Utah doctoral student and now is an assistant professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

This study, led by Garret D. Stuber, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and cell biology & physiology, and Jenna A. McHenry, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in Stuber's lab, identified a hormone - sensitive circuit in the brain that controls social motivation in female mice.

Rangamani started this research as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of George Oster, professor emeritus of cell and developmental biology at the University of California, Berkeley and senior author of the study.

«The worm was initially used as a model to study embryology and neurobiology, and starting in the late 1990s research expanded into stem cell biology, tissue homeostasis, and regeneration, topics that are still very actively studied today,» he says.