«What we've shown in the monkey model matches a lot of what people have observed in epidemiological studies of humans,» says Emma Mohr, a pediatric infectious disease fellow at UW — Madison and
first author on the study with Matthew Aliota and Dawn Dudley, research scientists in UW — Madison's schools of Veterinary Medicine and Medicine and Public Health, respectively.
Not exact matches
Most
studies have revealed protective effects of breastfeeding
on common infections in the
first 8 to12 months of life.8, 27,29,30 One
study, which distinguished between infectious diseases until and from the age of 6 months, revealed results similar to those from our
study.24 Although the
authors used exclusive breastfeeding for 3 months as the reference group, exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months reduced the risk of gastrointestinal tract infections between the ages of 3 and 6 months but not between the ages of 6 and 12 months.24 We can not explain why breastfeeding duration was only associated
with lower risks of lower respiratory tract infection from 7 to 12 months.
«The idea that someone would cyberbully themselves
first gained public attention
with the tragic suicide of 14 - year - old Hannah Smith in 2013 after she anonymously sent herself hurtful messages
on a social media platform just weeks before she took her own life,» said Sameer Hinduja, Ph.D.,
study author, a professor in FAU's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the College for Design and Social Inquiry, and co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center.
Researchers Bence György and Cyrille Sage,
first authors on the
study, injected exo - AAV preloaded
with the missing gene into the inner ears of mouse pups, shortly after birth.
«When we hear a sound, the normal aging brain keeps the sound in check during processing, but those
with MCI have lost this inhibition and it was as if the flood gates were open since their neural response to the same sounds were over-exaggerated,» says Dr. Gavin Bidelman,
first author on the
study, a former RRI post-doctoral fellow and assistant professor at the University of Memphis.
«Identifying the correct, specific diagnosis often can be challenging for physicians who do not see a high volume of patients
with spinal cord impairment,» says Nicholas Zalewski, M.D., a clinical fellow in the Department of Neurology at Mayo Clinic and
first author on the
study.
«Our work demonstrates one of the most advanced designs to date of a self - contained flapping - winged aerial robot
with bat morphology that is able to perform autonomous flight,» explained Alireza Ramezani, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois who is the
first author of the cover article, «A Biomimetic Robotic Platform to
Study Flight Specializations of Bats,» appearing in AAAS Science Robotics
on February 1.
«
With our results of a negative relationship between predation pressure and longevity that is largely independent of other key life history traits we were able to confirm the universality of the 50 year old evolutionary theory of aging
on a broad geographical scale» concludes Mihai Valcu,
first author of the
study.
According to the
authors, this is the
first study to examine long - term outcomes of patients
with low - vs. intermediate - risk prostate cancer managed
on active surveillance.
He and his Hutch team wrote up the
study with researchers in Kenya and
with University of Washington colleagues led by physician and epidemiologist Dr. Scott McClelland, who is
first author on the paper.
«We've had luck
with other types of cancer in removing the brakes
on the immune system to allow it to fight the tumors, but this has not been the case
with glioblastoma,» said
study author Anhua Wu, MD, PhD, of the
First Hospital of China Medical University in Shenyang, China.
«These adhesives take the form of thin flexible films
with bioinspired mushroom - shaped micropillars uniformly spread
on the surface of microstructure,» says Hyun - Ha Park in the Ph.D. program of Mechanical Engineering, the
first author of the
study.
Based
on more than 16 years of follow - up among 120,000 men and women from three long - term
studies of U.S. health professionals, the
authors first found that diets
with a high glycemic load (GL) from eating refined grains, starches, and sugars were associated
with more weight gain.
Boehme conducted the
study with fellow University of Utah physicists:
first author and postdoctoral fellow Hans Malissa; research professor and co-senior
author John Lupton, who also is
on the faculty of the University of Regensburg, Germany; distinguished professor Z. Valy Vardeny; professor Brian Saam; graduate students Marzieh Kavand and David Waters; and postdoctoral fellow Kipp van Schooten.
«This
study is the
first to offer evidence that intensive and continued meditation practice is associated
with enduring improvements in sustained attention and response inhibition,
with the potential to alter longitudinal trajectories of cognitive change across a person's life,» said
first author Anthony Zanesco, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Miami, who began work
on the project before starting his Ph.D. program in psychology at UC Davis.
Study lead
author Mojca Kristan from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: «This is the
first time that effects of pyrethroids
on the parasite have been observed in a malaria endemic setting,
with wild - caught mosquitoes and parasites.
The
authors believe theirs is the
first study to show that mouse mammary gland tissues are sensitive to a mixture of 23 commonly used UOG chemicals,
with dose - specific effects
on tissue morphology, cell proliferation and induction of intraductal hyperplasias, an overgrowth of cells considered a marker for future breast cancer risk.
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.»
The
study shows that better coordination of care between surgeons and primary care physicians is important to help reduce hospital readmissions within 30 days for those high - risk surgery patients who have post-operative complications or live
with a chronic disease, according to Benjamin S. Brooke, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of surgery at the University of Utah School of Medicine and
first author on the
study.
«The
first supernovae are especially interesting not only to people who
study stars but also those doing cosmology,» said Ken Chen, an astrophysicist at the East Asian Core Observatories Association (EACOA) and lead
author on a paper in The Astrophysical Journal that examines how the
first supernovae influenced star formation and, along
with it, the evolution of the universe.
It adds a reliable character, increases the utility of available samples, identifies the sex of the turtle without the need to sacrifice imperiled species, and does not make assumptions about the relationship between incubation conditions and the sex ratio,» said Jeanette Wyneken, Ph.D., co-
author of the
study and a professor of biological sciences in FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Science who collaborated
on the
study with Boris M. Tezak,
first author and a FAU graduate student, and Kathleen Guthrie, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical science in FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine.
This would stop a cell
with a mutation cold in its tracks right after it is born,» said Alejandro Chavez, Ph.D., a
first and co-corresponding
author on the
study, who as a Postdoctoral Fellow at HMS was co-mentored by Church and Collins and is now Assistant Professor at Columbia University.
Together
with Sylvia Ritter (
first author of the article), the team supporting Martin Wiemers, Walter Durka, Josef Settele and Stefan Michalski has conducted
studies on the Scarce Large Blue (Phengaris teleius) and the Dusky Large Blue (Phengaris nausithous) across their entire Eurasian distribution range.
The
study,
with first author Georg Ehret, M.D., a research associate at Johns Hopkins, was a so - called genomewide association
study involving information gathered
on 342,415 people of both European and non-European descent.
«We hope our findings reassure women
with epilepsy and clinicians who are counseling these women
on family planning,» says Jacqueline French, MD, professor of Neurology and Director of Translational Research and Clinical Trials at NYU Langone's Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, and the
study's
first author and co-principal investigator.
«Experiencing conflict or making an error is something that normally gets us worked up, perhaps by activating our fight - or - flight response, which can interfere
with our ability to focus
on a task,» said
first author R. Becket Ebitz, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University who conducted this
study as a graduate student at Duke.
However, our
study has shown that this other type of degradation is having a severe impact
on the forest,
with enormous quantities of previously stored carbon being lost into the atmosphere,» said Erika Berenguer, researcher from the Lancaster Environment Centre at Lancaster University, in the United Kingdom,
first author on the
study.
«This is the
first demonstration of chunking in a scatter - hoarding animal, and also suggests that squirrels use flexible strategies to store food depending
on how they acquire food,» said
study lead
author Mikel Delgado, a post-doctoral researcher who conducted the
study along
with UC Berkeley psychology professor Lucia Jacobs.
«People have been measuring two - way contacts for a long time,» says Robert Beagrie, joint
first author on the paper, who was a PhD student
with Ana Pombo at the LMS when he collected the data for the
study and is now based at the University of Oxford.
«In contrast
with the widely held assumption that an individual specialization provides social advantages, we have found that specialization can in fact have a negative impact
on the propagation and the chances of survival and growth of a colony,» summarized Jongepier,
first author of the
study.
In the new
study, Cook and two members of his laboratory,
first author Bela S. Desai, a postdoctoral fellow, and graduate student Abhishek Chadha, sought to shed some light
on this mystery
with a
study of Drosophila fruit flies.
«It is very striking that when we compare the size and shape of the Big Bird beaks
with the beak morphologies of the other three species inhabiting Daphne Major, the Big Birds occupy their own niche in the beak morphology space,» said Sangeet Lamichhaney, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and the
first author on the
study.
The samples were grown
with single atomic layer precision using molecular beam epitaxy at Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, by postdoctoral researcher and
first author on the
study Jason Hoffman.
The University of Queensland's Dr Juan Ortiz, lead
author on a
study of the reef released today, said the research was the most detailed to date and the
first to show definitively that the reef could be preserved if emissions were reduced,
with visible benefits within 20 years.
She was a key collaborator
on GVHD biomarker
studies conducted within the overarching GVHD research theme of the Michigan BMT Program, including a
first -
authored paper demonstrating that elevations of CXCL9 are associated
with new onset de novo chronic GVHD.
«This is the
first demonstration using such a vesicle fusion process for delivering insulin that employs insulin - containing vesicles like those found in a beta cell and can reproduce the beta cell's functions in sensing glucose and responding
with insulin «secretion»,» says Zhaowei Chen, lead
author on the
study.
«Our work sheds light
on the nature of CD32 as a molecule associated
with transcriptionally active HIV and proves that targeting CD32 - positive cells is unlikely to hit the HIV latent reservoir,» said Mohamed Abdel - Mohsen, Ph.D., assistant professor in The Wistar Institute Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center and
first author of the
study.
«We
studied BCAs in 111 patients
with congenital neurodevelopmental conditions and 36
with other conditions and mapped where the breakpoints were,» explained Claire Redin, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute, and
first author on the new
study.
According to Dr William S Yancy Jr (Duke University, Durham, NC), lead
author on the
study, this is the
first time the low - carb diet has been pitted against a diet drug in combination
with a different diet.»
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«The
authors write that North Pacific Decadal Variability (NPDV) «is a key component in predictability
studies of both regional and global climate change,»... they emphasize that given the links between both the PDO and the NPGO
with global climate, the accurate characterization and the degree of predictability of these two modes in coupled climate models is an important «open question in climate dynamics» that needs to be addressed... report that model - derived «temporal and spatial statistics of the North Pacific Ocean modes exhibit significant discrepancies from observations in their twentieth - century climate... conclude that «for implications
on future climate change, the coupled climate models show no consensus
on projected future changes in frequency of either the
first or second leading pattern of North Pacific SST anomalies,» and they say that «the lack of a consensus in changes in either mode also affects confidence in projected changes in the overlying atmospheric circulation.»»
The present
study was based
on a Master's thesis completed by the
first author under the supervision of Hy Day along
with the assistance of committee members Neil Weiner and Gordon Flett.