Sentences with phrase «for functional studies»

The strong interaction with the Institute of Genetics, Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC), one of the most prestigious biomedical research center in Europe, greatly contributes to the design and development of new techniques and tools for functional studies.

Our results demonstrate the existence of a perilipin - related regulation of fat metabolism in nematodes and provide new possibilities for functional studies of lipid metabolism.

Our results demonstrate that perilipin - related regulation of fat metabolism is conserved in nematodes and provide new possibilities for functional studies of lipid metabolism.

This discovery offers promising possibilities for functional studies of lipid metabolism in a nematode model system.

This HDG genome represented the most complete de novo genome assembly to date, and with other omics data resources available from this individual, the work can be used as a benchmark for developing new sequencing and assembly techniques, and for functional studies involving RNA or protein analysis.

Not exact matches

A leading mind in creating functional, beautiful, and simple wearable technology, and a visionary for the future of human - computer interaction, Matthew studied mechatronics engineering at the University of Waterloo and robotics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich).

If the disease appeared to be simply functional, the applicant was registered for treatment and directed to the rector's study.

For while, to the popular mind, natural selection conveyed a sanctioning of competitiveness and assertiveness in the interest of survival, to the more specialized mind in psychology and sociology and in the study of religion, it revealed the decisive role of environment and the importance of functional adaptation.

Many types of groups exist, e.g., a depth Bible study group to stimulate the maturing of functional theologies; groups to aid preparation for normal crises such as retirement, middle age, marriage, childbirth (Caplan calls these «emotional innoculation groups»).

The method identifies gene sets that show evidence for positive selection in comparison with matched controls, and thus highlights genes for further functional studies.

For those not familiar with many recent studies, however, from perspectives other than my own I present a kind of summary — but it is, of course, from a functional point of view.

The «functional» approach to the scientific study of religion, for example, identifies a particular behaviour as «religious» not necessarily by its supernatural referent, but rather by the distinctively «religious» functions being served by that behaviour.

The study found a similar result for emotional well - being (P =.04, partial η2 =.01) and functional well - being (P =.06, partial η2 =.01).

And for those concerned about functional and substantive definitions of religion, Geertz basically settled the issue by suggesting that symbols themselves might vary greatly in substance but could be studied usefully in terms of their subjective functions, such as creating moods and supplying meaning and motivation.

RBT contracted Medicus Research, the premier contract research organization for the Dietary Supplement, Functional Foods and Botanical Drug industries, to perform a comprehensive analysis of independent studies conducted on behalf of RBT to substantiate numerous important health claims for its proprietary and process patented rice bran derivatives and products.

A study shows, for the first time, how these functional impairments arise: Social isolation during early life prevents the cells that make up the brain's white matter from maturing and producing the right amount of myelin, the fatty «insulation» on nerve fibers that helps them transmit long - distance messages within the brain.

In the wake of this lobbying, the provision calling for further study of functional ingredients was dropped from the Senate version of the bill.

A study in the journal Science Translational Medicine details a new procedure for making damaged, donated lungs functional, potentially doubling the number of lungs available for transplant.

«What has emerged from our study as well as from other work on introgression is that interbreeding with archaic humans does indeed have functional implications for modern humans, and that the most obvious consequences have been in shaping our adaptation to our environment — improving how we resist pathogens and metabolize novel foods,» Kelso says.

Using data from National Database for Autism Research (NDAR), lead author Kristina Denisova, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at CUMC and Fellow at the Sackler Institute, studied 71 high and low risk infants who underwent two functional Magnetic Resonance imaging brain scans either at 1 - 2 months or at 9 - 10 months: one during a resting period of sleep and a second while native language was presented to the infants.

Both the KUDOS (Kansas DHA Outcome Study), directed by Carlson and Colombo, and the DOMinO (DHA to Optimize Mother Infant Outcome) study directed by Maria Makrides, professor of human nutrition and Healthy Mothers, Babies and Children theme leader for the South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute, and Robert Gibson, professor of functional food science at the University of Adelaide, saw a small overall increase in gestation length, but this increase was found to be related to a decrease in deliveries at higher risk for early preterm bStudy), directed by Carlson and Colombo, and the DOMinO (DHA to Optimize Mother Infant Outcome) study directed by Maria Makrides, professor of human nutrition and Healthy Mothers, Babies and Children theme leader for the South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute, and Robert Gibson, professor of functional food science at the University of Adelaide, saw a small overall increase in gestation length, but this increase was found to be related to a decrease in deliveries at higher risk for early preterm bstudy directed by Maria Makrides, professor of human nutrition and Healthy Mothers, Babies and Children theme leader for the South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute, and Robert Gibson, professor of functional food science at the University of Adelaide, saw a small overall increase in gestation length, but this increase was found to be related to a decrease in deliveries at higher risk for early preterm birth.

In this new study and for the first time, scientists used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) combined with a standard clinical trial design to derive an unbiased brain - based neurological marker to predict analgesia associated with placebo treatment in patients with chronic knee osteoarthritis pain.

«Moving forward, we'll need to conduct additional studies of many more patients to show that getting functional scans in the first hours or days after a stroke could provide valuable information for predicting outcome and tracking recovery.»

The study, published by the journal Science via First Release on April 12, paves the way for determining the structures of other functional states of the ATP synthase, which has been the subject of structural studies for decades in labs across the globe.

«Our study adds to a growing body of evidence that suggests diet can influence the course of the disease,» said Simon Knott, PhD, associate director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics at Cedars - Sinai and one of two first authors of the study.

For the present study, researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess brain response to sensory stimulation in 35 women with fibromyalgia and 25 healthy, age - matched controls.

«We discovered surprising and never - before - seen evolution and degradation patterns in two key battery materials,» said Huolin Xin, a materials scientist at Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) and coauthor on both studies.

The proteins we identified seem to be involved in fundamental developmental processes and we hope that functional studies will show that some of them are ideal candidate targets for the design of new and selective inhibitors.»

For patients with gender dysphoria undergoing male - to - female transformation, a stepwise approach to facial feminization surgery (FFS) leads to good cosmetic outcomes along with psychological, social, and functional benefits, according to a study in the February issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery ®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

«Our results demonstrate for the first time that human adult skin cells can be used to efficiently and rapidly generate functional pancreatic cells that behave similar to human beta cells,» says Matthias Hebrok, PhD, director of the Diabetes Center at UCSF and a co-senior author on the study.

Earlier, for his Ph.D., he used his physics training to study biological interactions at the molecular resolution — but for his postdoc he changed approaches dramatically, turning to cell biology and applying his skills to the development of high - resolution functional imaging of DNA transcription in living cells.

Johnson, along with study co-author and post-doctoral researcher Jingyun Ye at the University of Pittsburgh, examined a series of eight different functional groups of Lewis acid and base pairs (Lewis pairs for short), which are highly reactive compounds often used as catalysts.

«However, studies have shown that HDL doesn't work as well in people at high risk for heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular diseases, and that the functional ability of HDL matters as much as its quantity,» said senior study author Montserrat Fitó, M.D., Ph.D., and coordinator of the Cardiovascular Risk and Nutrition Research Group at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute in Barcelona and at the Ciber of Physipathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBEROBN), Spain.

«Our study suggests that ALDH1A3 is a potentially functional biomarker for mesenchymal glioma stem cells, and that inhibiting that enzyme might offer a promising therapeutic approach for high - grade gliomas that have a mesenchymal signature,» says principal investigator Ichiro Nakano, MD, PhD, associate professor of neurosurgery at the OSUCCC — James.

«Our study sets the stage for further research to identify which additional cues could induce these neurons to fully mature and incorporate into functional circuits, thereby allowing this approach to potentially be used in the clinic,» Berninger says.

However, Holt's study also showed that gene therapy with TMC2 could compensate for loss of a functional TMC1 gene, restoring hearing in the recessive deafness model and partial hearing in the dominant deafness model.

Ione Fine, a neuroscientist at the University of Washington, Seattle, who studies brain changes and did not work on the project, says Amedi's work is the best evidence yet for functional constancy — the idea that areas of the brain do the same job even with different kinds of input.

A team of researchers led by Rodrigo Lacruz, MSc, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Basic Science and Craniofacial Biology at NYU College of Dentistry, has published a paper in Scientific Reports (5:15803) titled «Dental enamel cells express functional SOCE channels,» which reports the results of a study showing for the first time the mechanism of calcium transport essential in the formation of dental enamel.

50 out of 66 and categorized them as having «mild to moderate» functional deficits for the purposes of the study, and 10 other patients with FMA scores of < 50 out of 66 and categorized them as having «moderate to severe» impairment.

Dr Leonardo Guasti added: «It represents an entirely new concept for the study of the adrenal gland as the ability to generate donor - specific and functional adrenal - like cells will facilitate the next generation of cell - based treatments for adrenal insufficiency, the modelling of adrenal specific diseases, and the testing of personalised interventions on cells derived from patients.»

«Over the last decade, geneticists have identified hundreds of genetic risk factors for several human diseases, but the functional consequences of those factors on relevant cells are largely unknown,» said Towfique Raj, PhD, BWH Department of Neurology and a postdoctoral scholar at the Broad Institute, lead study author.

The structure of RuO2 (110) and the mechanism for catalytic carbon monoxide oxidation on this surface were studied by low - energy electron diffraction, scanning tunneling microscopy, and density - functional calculations.

In recent years, songbirds» similarities to human vocal learning have piqued researchers» interests in using them as a functional animal model to study the neurological basis for Huntington's disease.

In a new study the PhD students Jan Hoeber, Niclas König and Carl Trolle, working in Dr.Elena Kozlova's research group transplanted human stem cells to an avulsion injury in mice with the aim to restore a functional route for sensory information from peripheral tissues into the spinal cord.

In a study published in the journal Functional Ecology, researchers warn that people capturing rainwater in drought - ridden areas are also providing breeding grounds for disease - carrying insects.

«One of the main takeaways for researchers and practitioners is that wearable technology, unlike traditional technology, is a «fashnology» because they are both fashion accessories as well as functional technology,» says Dr. Fiona Fui - Hoon Nah, a professor of business and information technology at Missouri S&T and one of the study's co-authors.

«This study demonstrates the potential of combining functional profiling of cells with the characterizations of cancer genomes via next generation sequencing,» said co-senior author Jill P. Mesirov, PhD, professor and associate vice chancellor for computational health sciences at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

For patients with osteoarthritis of the knee, a minimally invasive procedure called cooled radiofrequency ablation (CRFA) provides better pain reduction and functional improvement compared to steroid injection of the knee, concludes a study in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, published by Wolters Kluwer.

Building on this research in their latest study, the team analysed liver samples from 2000 patients with Hepatitis C, using state - of - the art genetic and functional analysis, to determine the specific IFNL protein responsible for liver fibrosis.

This hypothesis is supported by EEG and functional MRI scans, which revealed in previous studies that just before insight takes place, the occipital cortex, which is responsible for visual processing, momentarily shuts down, or «blinks,» so that ideas can «bubble into consciousness,» Kounios says.