Sentences with phrase «fewer human studies»

There are even fewer human studies.

There have been fewer human studies, so definitive benefits for human population are less clear.

There have been fewer human studies, so definitive benefits for a human population are less clear.

This is because there are very few human studies on the topic.

A few human studies suggest it reduces blood levels of a protein associated with inflammation that may be produced by RA.

There have been few human studies on astaxanthin, but experts believe it may be safer than beta - carotene.

Also, in the few human studies on it, weight loss (CR) but not fasting (IF) has been shown to induce autophagy.

«Environmental chemicals have long been suspected causes of breast cancer, but until now, there have been few human studies to support this idea,» she said.

Not exact matches

While some studies indicate that harsher punishments deter certain crimes, few show this effect for major human - rights violations, and the ones that do are much disputed.

Since you were too lazy to actually study gays have been with us throughout human history, we are doing just fine, actually more than fine we are about to have too many people and too few resources.

In one of those interesting accidents of timing only a few months before Magic Johnson put human sexuality on the national agenda, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) tried to correct this institutional paralysis over sexuality when it considered a study document designed to confront the inadequacy of both an empty moralism and an arrogant secularity.

In studies comparing raw and pasteurized human milk, there were fewer infections and better growth in children receiving raw human milk (see Pasteurization Does Harm Real Milk).

Although a few reports of late onset GBS in infants whose mothers also expressed GBS in their breastmilk are described in the literature, with the standard medical treatment of breastmilk as just some infectious bodily fluid, no studies are to be found specifically comparing overall GBS infections in infants to presence or absence of exclusive human milk feeding.

We do know that tea tree oil has been studied as an effective remedy for a few common human ailments including acne and athletes foot.

However, despite the financial success of these videos, one study reported that for babies from 8 to 16 months old, every hour spent watching these videos rather than experiencing human interaction resulted in their having six to eight fewer words in their vocabularies compared to other babies their age.

AAAS developed the questionnaire because serving society is part of the mandate for many professional societies and funding programs, and its importance is often cited in public statements and international conventions — but few agree on what those social responsibilities are or ought to be, said Mark Frankel, director of the AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law program, which conducted the study along with the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition.

Unbiased evidence is hard to come by, but the few peer - reviewed studies carried out indicate that the risks fracking poses to human health and the environment are small.

«If you have an overwash event, all of a sudden, you're salinating that fresh water; you basically kill the agriculture due to salt loading, and if you get [salt concentrations] over a few parts per thousand, it's no longer fit for human consumption,» said Curt Storlazzi, a research oceanographer at the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center and lead author of the study.

The human brain undergoes a remarkable transition in utero, but until recently scientists have had few tools to study how this process unfolds.

«Ninety to 95 percent of cervical cancer cases are HPV - related, and there are very few studies of this type of cancer in mice because HPV is a human virus,» Schwarz said.

Researchers also included a human genetics study of approximately 188,000 people, which found that carriers of mutations that disable ANGPTL3 had nearly 40 percent fewer incidents of coronary artery disease as compared to those with fully functioning ANGPTL3.

Seismologists studying the recent dramatic upswing in earthquakes triggered by human activity want to clear up a few common misconceptions about the trend.

And scientists who conduct human challenge studies, which typically involve a few dozen participants, say they have critical benefits: In addition to saving time and money, they can reveal harm caused by a potential drug or vaccine before it enters large - scale human efficacy trials.

The study also confirmed that in the last few years nearly all the region's overall seismicity of magnitude 3 or larger has been induced by human activity.

«The influenza field is largely fixated on studying pandemic or potential pandemic viruses, but those viruses only infect a few dozen people every year whereas seasonal flu infects millions — and yet we don't study human influenzas closely enough.»

It's also a far - reaching and revealing digital «petri dish» to study human behavior that may help predict disease outbreaks, like HIV, and inform public health efforts, as several studies and social media experts have shown over the last few years.

If additional studies are successful within the next few years, MU officials will request authority from the federal government to begin human drug development (this is commonly referred to as the «investigative new drug» status).

«This is one of the few studies to explore how pollution from human activity impacts schooling behaviour in fish.

According to a widely - held view, fewer than one in three embryos make it to term, but a new study from a researcher at the University of Cambridge suggests that human embryos are not as susceptible to dying in the first weeks after fertilisation as often claimed.

«In the last few decades, genetic information has become an important source for the study of human history,» says Prof. Keinan, the study's senior author.

«But hopefully this rare opportunity to study Ebola virus in humans leads to fewer lives lost in the future.»

Blue eyes have their hue because of a single genetic mutation that occurred fewer than 10,000 years ago in one individual and swept rapidly through the European population, according to a study published in the journal Human Genetics in January.

Varki studies siglecs, small groups of receptors that thickly stud the immune T cells of monkeys and apes but are few and far between in humans.

Over the past few years, researchers have increasingly turned to stem cells to study various diseases in humans.

While the majority of climate change scientists focus on the «direct» threats of changing temperatures and precipitation after 2031, far fewer researchers are studying how short - term human adaptation responses to seasonal changes and extreme weather events may threaten the survival of wildlife and ecosystems much sooner.

Since few great ape fossils have been found in Africa so far, «some scientists have forcefully suggested that the ancestors of African apes and humans must have emerged in Eurasia,» said study senior author Gen Suwa, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Tokyo.

«Very few studies have investigated Alzheimer's disease pathology in chimpanzees, the species closest in phylogeny and most genetically related to humans,» said senior author Mary Ann Raghanti, Ph.D., associate professor and interim chair of anthropology at Kent State.

«Creating images improved participants» memories and helped them commit fewer errors, regardless of what kind of list we gave them,» said Merrin Oliver, lead author of the study and a Ph.D. student in the educational psychology program in the College of Education & Human Development at Georgia State.

Those few studies that have systematically compared individual gene sequences have shown that genes and the human genome may be much more variable than previously thought.

Human challenge studies, which only involve a few dozen volunteers, speed the process of deciding whether to scrap or pursue a promising lead, saving time and money.

«Although many reports have addressed the effect of lactic acid bacteria on skin properties in subjects with skin diseases, such as atopic dermatitis, few studies have involved healthy humans,» explains lead investigator Hiromi Kimoto - Nira, PhD, of the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science (NILGS), Tsukuba, Japan.

Studies over the past few years have suggested that toxoplasmosis infections in humans, too, may cause behavioral changes — from subtle shifts to outright schizophrenia.

Steven Grant, a researcher at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, says that the new findings will help untangle a «chicken and egg problem» with human addiction studies: Previous research found a correlation between the D2 - family receptors and drug abuse, but it was unclear whether fewer receptors contributed to addiction or if chronic drug use led to a drop in the number of receptors.

«In general, life gets better as you age in the sense that older adults on average have fewer hassles — and respond to them better — than younger adults,» said Carolyn Aldwin, a gerontology professor in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State University and lead author on the study.

An antibody engineered to prevent excessive bleeding in patients with severe hemophilia A may be safe and effective, and require fewer injections than existing options, according to a first - in - human study of the treatment published online today in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology (ASH).

Within a million years, most of the large carnivores in the region — from saber - toothed cats to bear - size otters — had gone extinct, leaving just a few «hypercarnivores» alive, according to a study presented here last week at a workshop on climate change and human evolution at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.

While significant research has explored the environmental impacts of climate change, far fewer studies have considered its psychological effect on humans, said UA researcher Sabrina Helm, an associate professor of family and consumer science in the UA's Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

According to the study, which will be published in next month's issue of Evolution and Human Behavior, pride arises from a positive self - assessment a few moments after combat, generally producing a small smile and an easy, open stance.

Animal studies have shown some of the adverse effects of PAE on placental development, but few studies have examined these effects in humans.

We carefully studied issues raised by skeptics: biases from urban heating (we duplicated our results using rural data alone), from data selection (prior groups selected fewer than 20 percent of the available temperature stations; we used virtually 100 percent), from poor station quality (we separately analyzed good stations and poor ones) and from human intervention and data adjustment (our work is completely automated and hands - off).