Sentences with phrase «first author of the current study»

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In the current study, Dr. Que and his colleague Ming Jiang, PhD, an associate research scientist in CUMC's Department of Medicine and first author of the paper, genetically altered mice to promote the development of Barrett's esophagus.

The study was conducted with current and former UT Southwestern researchers, including first author Dr. Lu Gao; Dr. Elizabeth Rabbitt; Dr. Jennifer Condon; Dr. Nora Renthal; Dr. John Johnston; Dr. Matthew Mitsche; and researchers from the Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, France, and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

For the new study, researchers in Diamond's laboratory, led by first author Helen Lazear, PhD, now at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, tested five strains of the Zika virus in the mice: the original strain acquired from Uganda in 1947; three strains that circulated in Senegal in the 1980s; and the French Polynesian strain, which caused infections in 2013 and is nearly identical to the strain causing the current outbreak.

Our current research will impact many areas of laser applications,» said Ashok Kodigala, an electrical engineering Ph.D. student at UC San Diego and first author of the study.

In the study, published in the current online edition of Cancer Letters, senior author Karine Cohen - Solal, PhD, and colleagues show for the first time that the RUNX2 transcription factor could also serve as a possible treatment target for melanoma.

«This is the first study to show that current strategies to bolster the effectiveness of flu vaccines protected lean mice from serious illness but fell short of protecting obese mice from infections,» said corresponding author Stacey Schultz - Cherry, Ph.D., a member of the St. Jude Department of Infectious Diseases.

For the current study, first authors Andrew Walton and Jared Muenzer, MD, used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing to detect a range of viruses in blood and urine samples from 560 critically ill patients with sepsis, who were treated in the surgical and medical intensive care units at Barnes - Jewish Hospital.

In the current study, Vanderbilt researchers led by graduate student Andrew Flyak, the paper's first author, used a high - efficiency method they developed to quickly isolate and generate large quantities of monoclonal human antibodies from the blood of survivors of a 2007 outbreak in Uganda who were infected by the Bundibugyo ebolavirus.

«That study identified only a few face - selective cells and not an entire region of the cortex,» says Daniel Dilks, an Emory assistant professor of psychology and the first author of the current dog study.

Their results have been published in the current issue of Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI)-- Davide Calebiro is the first author of the study.

It does not, however, specify when that activity should take place, and as the authors state: «The current study is the first controlled study conducted in free - living adults with T2D that has aimed to determine whether prescribed walking taken for short periods after meals confers longer - term benefits than walking on a single occasion at any time of the day.»

While critics of the plan abound, the study lays clear the authors» belief that «this model will facilitate current efforts toward the first human head transplant.»

«Our study uncovers the first genetic evidence explaining why some people look older for their age,» write the authors of the paper, in the latest issue of the journal Current Biology, «and provides new leads for further investigating the biological basis of how old or young people look.»

But even the authors of the new study don't recommend ditching current recommendations, and the findings may not be as radical as they first seem.

This outcome study is the first of its kind, and all of the authors are proud to display the strengths of gay and lesbian relationships to the scientific community, given the current worldwide political climate toward same - sex relationships.