Sentences with phrase «co-first author of this work»

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«Basically, we used the modified guide RNA to bring a transcriptional activator to work together with the Cas9 and delivered that complex to the region of the genome we were interested in,» says co-first author Hsin - Kai Liao of the Belmonte laboratory.

To test the TG - 18 hydrogel, we exposed the gel to several different kinds of environments mimicking conditions in arthritic joints,» said Nitin Joshi, co-first author on the work an Instructor of Medicine at BWH.

«We found that migratory beekeeping influences the lifespan of bees, but how this impacts health and honey bee aging is more complicated and often more influenced by the environment these colonies are in,» said Michael Simone - Finstrom, an NC State postdoctoral researcher during this research and co-first author of the study who currently works at the USDA honey bee research lab in Baton Rouge, La..

«We see a dose - response relationship between frequency of night shift work and type 2 diabetes, where the more often people do shift work, the greater their likelihood of having the disease, regardless of genetic predisposition,» said co-first author Céline Vetter, PhD who conducted this work while at the Channing Division of Network Medicine at BWH, along with co-first author Hassan S. Dashti, PhD, RD. Vetter is now an assistant professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

«In the future, such efforts could allow us to much better understand human - microbiome interactions, model malnutrition disorders and inflammatory diseases of the gut, and perform personalized drug testing,» said co-first author Alessio Tovaglieri, a Graduate Student at the Department of Health Science and Technology at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, who performs his thesis work on Ingber's team.

Thorold Theunissen, a postdoctoral fellow in Jaenisch's lab and co-first author of the study, says «Our work provides a rigorous set of criteria for comparing naïve human stem cells to their counterparts in the early human embryo.

«In our mouse experiments, olive oil produced essentially identical effects as Plenish — more obesity than coconut oil, although less than conventional soybean oil — and very fatty livers, which was surprising as olive oil is typically considered to be the healthiest of all the vegetable oils,» said Poonamjot Deol, an assistant project scientist working in Sladek's lab and the co-first author of the research paper.

«At present, there is no clinically approved glucose - responsive modified insulin,» says Matthew Weber, Ph.D., co-first author with Chou and Benjamin Tang, Ph.D., who performed the work together while postdoctoral fellows at MIT in collaboration with senior authors and MIT professors Robert Langer, Ph.D., and Daniel Anderson, Ph.D. «The development of such an approach could contribute to greater therapeutic autonomy for diabetic patients.»

Jianhong Chen, PhD, a Senior Research Specialist in the Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, is co-first author on this work.