Sentences with phrase «effort by researchers»

March 23, 2006 Efforts to replicate controversial diabetes therapy bring partial success An effort by researchers at the University of Chicago to confirm the results of a high - profile study that brought extraordinary hope to diabetes researchers and patients worldwide has met with considerable, but not complete, success.

The new project is a joint effort by researchers in Costa Rica, the University of Pennsylvania, the Smithsonian, and Kew Gardens in the United Kingdom.

The convergence of several factors explains the trend: cheaper genetic sequencing technologies, the discovery of new oncogenes (genes that can cause a normal cell to become cancerous), a new generation of computers and bioinformatics that can analyze vast amounts of data, and a multibillion - dollar effort by researchers inside and outside the pharma industry to develop targeted drugs and companion diagnostics for cancer.

My reaction was one of sadness, frustration, and worry: sadness that a young athlete simply assumed that he had CTE as a result of a single concussion and considered it to be a death sentence; frustration that, despite concerted efforts by researchers and clinicians, along with some in the media, to set the record straight on CTE, the prevailing media narrative continues to be that concussions or repetitive subconcussive blows «cause» chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), that CTE «causes» former athletes to commit suicide, and that such causal links are proven scientific fact (they're not); and, finally, worry: concern about the consequences of the football = CTE and CTE = suicide memes in the real world.

The discovery was made in a large collaborative efforts by researchers in Sweden at Umeå University, SciLifeLab in Solna, Gothenburg and Örebro universities, and in Belgium, Germany, France, UK, Ireland, Greece, Ukraine, India and the United States.

Despite efforts by researchers to identify and remove such biases, they can not be entirely discounted.

My prior post discusses efforts by researchers to develop a more consistent approach for patients arriving in emergency rooms with reported head trauma.

Despite herculean efforts by researchers, the efficacy of parenting has still not been proved.

Not exact matches

Separate work by Wellesley University researchers details dozens of past efforts to influence Google search results and Facebook news feeds.

The researchers concluded that the over-performance by Grillo and under - performance by Monti were «clear signals» of the anti-austerity message conveyed by voters, which could make further fiscal consolidation efforts «very difficult to implement».

A new study by researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York suggests that bondholders still don't believe the government would ever let the firms collapse into bankruptcy — after a decade of efforts by regulators to convince them otherwise.

By measuring out the sentiment of consumers» attitudes toward Amazon Prime Day, researchers were able to learn that 34 percent of people were not aware of the event last year, and 12 percent cited personalized promotional efforts as the key to luring them in.

Examining a large employee wellness program offered by PepsiCo, researchers found that efforts to help employees manage chronic illnesses saved $ 3.78 in health care costs for every $ 1 invested in the effort.

ASU researchers highlight one effort to counter a video by al Qaeda's leader Ayman al - Zawahiri as a better approach to fighting extremist rhetoric.

India strengthened its rice production capacity through concerted efforts by India and IRRI to develop rice varieties with resistance to pests and diseases and stresses such as drought and flooding; to commercialize hybrid rice; to streamline production practices so they would be profitable, sustainable, and environment - friendly; and to extensively exchange information with Indian scientists and researchers along with capacity building.

This has led to an active effort by educators, researchers, and policy makers to analyze and categorize noncognitive skills in the same way we would reading and math skills.

But, I'm working as we speak on finishing up my newest book, «Baby Poop,» and I've put lots of time and effort into this section, covering all of the most recent info I can find, and speaking by phone with a couple of the researchers to answer my questions.

In case anyone missed the cover story of last Sunday's New York Times magazine, it described groundbreaking efforts by one intrepid researcher, Dr. Kari Nadeau, to desensitize highly food - allergic kids against multiple allergens.

By Yahoo! Canada Sports (blog) University of Alberta researcher Dr. Dhiren Naidu's findings suggest concussion education... Concussions are a key issue facing the CFL, but new research from the University of Alberta suggests that some of the league's efforts on that front are having... See all stories on this topic»... read more

That was part of a broader effort, prosecutors alleged, to have Anatabloc studied by state researchers or included in the state's health plan.

«All three of the researchers said pretty much the same thing,» Landers said, explaining that while no one wants the turtles to die, protection efforts are based on whether the population — which in this case is threatened but recovering — will be affected by a certain number of deaths caused by operations such as harbor dredging.

Her tenure was marked by efforts to broaden the pool of candidates from which the institute selects the researchers it supports.

In an effort to address such challenges, researchers working in the field known as the physics of living systems (or biophysics), which has emerged only in the last few years as a discipline with a distinct identity, decided to help themselves by creating their own professional network.

These discoveries were made by oncologist Dr. Michael Kühn from the Department of Internal Medicine III, which is a part of the University Center for Tumor Diseases (UCT) at the Mainz University Medical Center, in a collaborative effort with researchers from the Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center in New York and Harvard University in Boston.

Responding to recommendations made in 2011 by an international review panel, the agency launched a three - pronged reform effort that revamped its funding streams, the way researchers submitted proposals, and the way proposals are reviewed.

Current federal efforts to revive the coal industry will likely do more harm than good to fragile Appalachian communities transitioning from coal as a major source of employment, according to a study conducted by Indiana University researchers.

Today, one group of researchers is launching a crowdsourcing initiative to pave the way, by harnessing the efforts of lay volunteers who will scan papers for key terms to help create a powerful searchable database.

Bartelle, whose work was spared by the disaster, says that he won't forget the efforts made that night to get patients out of harm's way — especially by students and researchers at the Smilow who knew they were facing disastrous losses to their work.

BOSTON — Efforts to close the word gap — the vast difference in the number of words heard by children from low - income and higher - income homes — by working with the parents and caregivers of very young children have shown promising new results in the behavior of parents and children, according to three researchers at a Feb. 17 briefing at the 2017 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston.

Led by Indonesian scientists and involving researchers from Griffith University's Research Centre of Human Evolution (RCHE) the team found problems with prior dating efforts at the cave site, Liang Bua.

A groundbreaking discovery from Tel Aviv University researchers may strengthen efforts by the medical community to fight this looming superbug pandemic.

Researchers suggest intensifying efforts to develop alternatives for PET scans, which are now the only FDA - approved diagnostic to confirm brain changes caused by Alzheimer's.

The researchers found that total fishing efforts in the area expanded by more than 240 per cent between 1960 and 2010 because of an increase in damaging fishing practices and number of fishers.

In an effort to create a power source for future implantable technologies, a team led by Michael Mayer from the University of Fribourg, along with researchers from the University of Michigan and UC San Diego, developed an electric eel - inspired device that produced 110 volts from gels filled with water, called hydrogels.

If, on the other hand, the response is negative, that could also help young researchers by keeping them from investing much time and effort into pursuing dead ends, Nosek continues.

The complaint, filed in a federal district court by two prominent heart researchers, offers the first indication of just what is amiss in two papers they co-authored, which describe the heart's natural regenerative ability, and an effort to heal damaged hearts with stem cells.»

«[O] ne group of researchers [has launched] a crowdsourcing initiative,» called Mark2Cure, to help researchers «find those needle - in - haystack connections» in the rapidly growing biomedical literature «by harnessing the efforts of lay volunteers who will scan papers for key terms to help create a powerful searchable database,» Esther Landhuis wrote in a Thursday ScienceInsider.

A major new finding that will significantly advance efforts to create the world's first antibody - based AIDS vaccine was published today by researchers from the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology.

This latest smell prediction effort began with a recent study by olfactory researcher Leslie Vosshall and colleagues at The Rockefeller University in New York City, in which 49 volunteers rated the smell of 476 vials of pure odorants.

«This new report from RAND researchers highlights both the need to confront stigma, and the opportunity to promote mental health in our state with the statewide stigma reduction efforts offered by CalMHSA,» said Wayne Clark, executive director of CalMHSA.

Lake Erie has become increasingly susceptible to large blooms of toxin - producing cyanobacteria since 2002, potentially complicating efforts to rein in the problem in the wake of this year's Toledo drinking water crisis, according to a new study led by University of Michigan researchers.

Some academic researchers, pharma executives, and other experts have decried this explosion of trials as a counterproductive glut motivated more by the race for money than good science and warned that many of these efforts may not finish because of a lack of participants.

The researchers calculated that this leakage effect would reduce the effectiveness of European mitigation efforts by up to 20 %.

The camp is run by the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP), a collaborative effort administered by the Smithsonian Institution and Brazil's National Institute for Research in the Amazon, and is maintained for researchers year round.

Despite setbacks in targeting mutant Ras genes, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) recently emphasized the continued importance of this elusive drug target by announcing a focused $ 10 million effort, dubbed the RAS project, to bring together researchers to develop new ideas for blocking Ras.

A team led by researchers at the National Institutes of Health has overcome a major biological hurdle in an effort to find improved treatments for patients with a rare disease called methylmalonic acidemia (MMA).

In their study, the researchers provide a visual framework of how relationships may be maintained by staving off threats or moved forward by relationship enhancement strategies, which involve putting effort into the relationship for the pleasure of it.

The reports are based on the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2010 (GBD 2010), a collaborative effort of researchers from 50 countries around the world led by IHME at the University of Washington in the United States and supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The effort, undertaken by physician - researcher Fabrizio Benedetti of the Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin Medical School, and National Institute of Neuroscience, Turin, Italy, provides an in - depth biological and evolutionary approach to examining the placebo effect in relationship to the doctor - patient relationship.

The letter — so far signed by more than 900 researchers, including many prominent scientists — represents the latest salvo against a controversial reform effort launched roughly 4 years ago by CIHR President Alain Beaudet.