Sentences with phrase «by his lab identified»

Previous research by his lab identified zinc's impact on another immune regulating pathway called NF - kappaB.

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Finkelstein and Piasetzky refined the technique for their work at Megiddo, tapping the latest mass spectrometry equipment (to identify chemicals by their mass and charge), the top labs and samples likely to yield the most accurate results.

Leaving the Lab Behind by Career Doctor, 25 October 2002 Considering the wider research process allows you to identify a great many alternative careers related to research.

An international team led by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed a new technique for identifying gene enhancers — sequences of DNA that act to amplify the expression of a specific gene — in the genomes of humans and other mammals.

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Species for which we still could not identify markers were examined further by performing general Internet searches and looking at the Web sites of wildlife forensics labs and other relevant organisations.

Only by identifying and analyzing the hazards present in a lab and its work can leadership «determine what hazard controls need to be put into place to allow the work to be performed safely,» the report continues.

Through a combination of high - resolution cryo - electron microscopy (cryo - EM) and a unique methodology for image analysis, a team of researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley has produced an atomic view of microtubules that enabled them to identify the crucial role played by a family of end - binding (EB) proteins in regulating microtubule dynamic instability.

In addition to running his own lab, he directs the Applied Neurotherapeutic Research Group, a collaborative research initiative funded jointly by SFI and Wyeth, to understand the molecular underpinnings of changes in behavior and to identify new drug targets for diseases such as schizophrenia.

Ebright: Future work with lab - generated transmissible avian influenza viruses should be performed only at the highest biosafety level, only at the highest biosecurity standard, and only after approval by, and under the oversight of, a national or international review process that identifies risks and benefits, weighs risks and benefits, mitigates risks, and manages risks.

In addition, using methods for the analysis of regulatory networks developed by the Califano lab in the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Department of Systems Biology, the researchers identified a number of transcription factors (gene regulators) that have the potential to mimic the environmental signals that trigger papillae to induce new hair growth.

New Scientist magazine reports that Jet Propulsion Lab researcher Adrian Stoica told a meeting in England last month that gait analysis from satellites should make it possible to identify people by their walk and because of the angle of the satellite you have a better chance of getting the image of the shadow than of the actual walk.

Using SHIMS, the lab greatly improved the human X reference sequence, accurately assembling three large amplicons, identifying previously unknown palindromes, and ultimately shortening the entire length of the sequence by eliminating four major gaps.

Novitch's UCLA lab group has likewise used its brain organoids to pinpoint additional receptors by which the virus may gain entry into neural stem cells, and identified a few other drug leads for blocking infection.

John Hobbie, director of the Arctic Long - Term Ecological Research Project at the Marine Biological Lab, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, notes that the widespread changes identified by the researchers began after millennia of biotic constancy.

Stored there on freezer shelves behind a series of locked lab doors is an array of bacterial pathogens that have been caught and identified by the unit's crack detectives over the years.

Last month, Lu's lab reported a different approach to combating resistant bacteria by identifying combinations of genes that work together to make bacteria more susceptible to antibiotics.

The team led by John Hogenesch, PhD, a professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics in the Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania and Jason DeBruyne, PhD, a former postdoctoral fellow in the Hogenesch lab and now an assistant professor at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, applied their new method to identifying other clock partners that target a multipurpose cell nucleus receptor for disposal.

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.

They have also identified 10 spectral lines at each location that correspond to the lines created by glycine in the lab; before they had just two.

«This one - two punch of discoveries underscores the critical value of basic science — by uncovering the major cause of CD4 T cell depletion in AIDS, Dr. Greene's lab has been able to identify a potential new therapy for blocking the disease's progression and improving on current antiretroviral medications.»

Though no approved FDA therapies exist specifically for NPC, several years ago two labs, headed by John Dietschy of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Steven Walkley of Einstein, independently identified a compound with promise.

New research from a team led by Wolf Frommer, director of the Plant Biology Department, Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, in collaboration with the Carter lab in Minnesota and the Baldwin lab at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, now identified key components of the sugar synthesis and secretion mechanisms.

Traditionally, scientists identified human skin bacteria by swabbing volunteers and culturing the samples, but those results skewed toward microbes that grow well in the lab.

The approach enabled a wide range of studies of human brain development, including implicating a new class of neural stem cell recently discovered by the lab in the evolutionary expansion of the human brain and identifying how the mosquito - borne Zika virus may contribute to microcephaly in infants infected in utero.

A Georgetown University undergraduate working to develop the first microbial collection device of its kind was named the winner of the Lab to Launch competition, a new program created by AAAS to identify and support young technology innovators in the Washington, D.C., area.

After Rao's lab identified IGF2BP3 as one of the top dysregulated genes in these cases, they began working with Sanford's lab to figure out which genes were being directly regulated by IGF2BP3.

Originally identified as a protein essential for mitosis in fungi, kinesin - 5 was first purified about 20 years ago by Scholey's lab who found that it is unusual because it has motor units at both ends, allowing it to link two microtubules and walk them past each other.

Previous work by Freeman's lab identified another enzyme, a gene called SARM, which was the first shown to activate a process that causes axons to disintegrate when damaged.

In addition to facial expressions, we radiate a panoply of involuntary «honest signals», a term identified by MIT Media Lab researcher Alex Pentland in the early 2000s to describe the social signals that we use to augment our language.

A companion paper published in BMC Evolutionary Biology by colleagues at the EPA lab in Narragansett, RI, that used a «candidate gene scan» approach — examining SNPs from 42 genes associated with the AHR pathway — also identified AHR2 as a gene that appears to be under selection and is likely to be involved in the resistance.

Now a team of researchers, led by a biomedical scientist at the University of California, Riverside, reports in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that it has identified just such a drug in the lab: indazole chloride (Ind - Cl).

The Harvard Woolly Mammoth Revival team headed by George Church (the Church Lab) is working to identify cold climate adapted alleles of the mammoth genome and edit them into living elephant cells.

This gene is identified by an investigational FLT3 Mutation Assay companion diagnostic a specific lab test of their blood or bone marrow, which is used to see if they have a mutation of the FLT3 gene.

The MacArthur Lab specializes in identifying neuromuscular diseases by looking at long strands of genetic sequences using software they've written and open - sourced.

We have identified another family required for RNA editing by immunoprecipitating ORRM1 and performing proteomic analysis in collaboration with the Van Wijk lab.

It was while he was working on his doctoral project, wing formation in fruit flies, that a discovery made by other investigators in the lab — of the first microRNA (a small RNA important in the regulation of gene expression) identified in the fly — captured his attention and has held it ever since.

By comparing the whole genome sequence of the lab - cultured resistant strain with a sibling strain that had not been exposed to the drug, they were able to identify several mutations of interest in a number of genes.

This investigational new cancer therapy was developed from the exciting research done by Dr. Zheng Cui MD., Ph.D. who identified that a particular strain of lab mouse (SR / CR mice) was cancer resistant.

Berkeley Lab's Len Pennacchio (left) and Axel Visel led the development of a new technique for identifying gene enhancers called SIF - seq, for site - specific integration fluorescence - activated cell sorting followed by sequencing.

Their work encompasses several strategies, including: developing FL - HCC animal models to characterize tumor - immune interactions, exploring if a mutated protein associated with FL - HCC could be targeted by immunotherapy, identifying immune checkpoints that could potentially serve as targets for immunotherapy as well as biomarkers for analyzing patients, and evaluating the effectiveness of immunotherapy strategies against FL - HCC patient samples in the lab.

Two related studies led by the Pagliarini lab, published consecutively in today's (Aug. 4) issue of the journal Molecular Cell, identify functions for three little - known mitochondrial proteins that play either a direct or potential role in disease.

Thanks to innovations in sequencing technology that have produced a cornucopia of genomes, plus some tweaks to the computational methods by different labs, the combined list of identified HARs now includes nearly 3,000 genome segments.4 But the original trend still holds; nearly all HARs are outside genes, some quite far away from any gene in the genome.

By examining the results of genome - wide association studies (GWAS) in conjunction with experiments on mouse and human red blood cells (RBCs), researchers in the lab of Whitehead Institute Founding Member Harvey Lodish have identified the protein cyclin D3 as regulating the number of cell divisions RBC progenitors undergo, which ultimately affects the resulting size and quantity of RBCs.

Multipotent stem cells with neural crest - like properties have been identified by our lab and others in the dermis of human skin.

Previously, the Barton lab identified several small non-coding RNAs whose activation was mediated by p53.

Gradually eliminating low - affinity binding sites identified by the new algorithm results in a gradual reduction (from left to right) of gene expression (white) in fruit fly larvae.MANN LAB / COLUMBIA»S ZUCKERMAN INSTITUTE

Rhesus macaques, which were the first primate the virus was identified in, are currently being used by Dr. Nelson's lab.

For interpreted genomes, the ordering physician will receive a report that identifies and interprets variants of clinical significance and is signed by a lab director.

Thus, the analytical tools developed by the Schroeder lab to identify structures and functions of biogenic small molecules will be transferable to other animal models.