Sentences with phrase «for human samples»

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Rather than using the samples to screen for illegal drug use or preexisting medical conditions, TAT hopes to use its recently developed human - cloning technology to address a critical lack of available talent.

But you won't hear it in what the experts tell you about Gadamer's greatness» for instance (to sample recent tributes), that Gadamer has revealed «the structure of hermeneutic understanding» and «described the way in which human beings come to terms with themselves.»

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has allowed a contract for the dissemination of embryonic stem cell lines approved for US government funding to lapse, shuttering a key stem cell bank, and doubling the price researchers pay for samples of some human embryonic stem cell (hESC) line... from $ 500 per vial of frozen cells to $ 1,000.

By analysing 599 samples of chimp droppings (P. T. troglodytes are a highly endangered and thus protected species that can not be killed or captured for testing), the researchers were able to obtain 34 specimens that reacted to a standard HIV DNA test, 12 of which gave results that were virtually indistinguishable from the reactions created by human HIV.

The authors» responsibilities were as follows — GT: designed the study, supervised the data collection, analyzed the data, and wrote the manuscript; JQ: collected and analyzed the samples; GGD: supervised the mass spectrometric analysis and revised the manuscript; RMR: supervised the human study as the study physician and revised the manuscript; and MAG: designed the production methods for the labeled Golden Rice, harvested the labeled Golden Rice for the study, and revised the manuscript.

6) Lab Testing - Human milk samples are taken during the pasteurization process and cultured to check for bacterial growth.

The team compared the purchased samples with their own preparations of human milk diluted with cow's milk to approximate the amount of contamination required in order to test positive for bovine DNA.

One of the three major classes of immunoglobulin occurring in human colostrum and milk, secretory IgA, has been found in significantly higher concentrations in the milk of mothers of preterm infants compared with milk from mothers of term infants.3Skin - to - skin contact between mothers and preterm infants in this sample may have promoted maternal production of protective antibodies specific to the nosocomial flora of the NICU.9 The provision of human milk may enable preterm, VLBW infants to compensate for their inherently immature immune status.

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In the Capital Region, concerns about PFOA found in water supplies in Rensselaer County erupted in 2014 when Michael Hickey, a former village trustee whose father died of cancer, sent samples from the Hoosick Falls water system to a Canadian lab that reported levels of PFOA that the EPA had advised were not safe for human consumption.

The researchers detected this SMN long noncoding RNA, or lnc - RNA (pronounced «link RNA») for short, in human embryonic kidney cells, brain cell samples and neurons derived from the stem cells of healthy people and those with spinal muscular atrophy type I and II.

They rejected wood samples that could be hundreds of years older than their use by humans, for instance, in favor of short - lived pits and seeds.

The search for more of these factors is complicated by the rarity of brain samples from suicide victims and the lack of an animal model — humans are unique in their wilful ability to end their lives.

The biobank of MedUni Vienna and Vienna General Hospital is a central service facility dedicated to the storage of human tissue, cell material and body fluids for more in - depth diagnosis, academic research projects and clinical tests, as well as working - up samples by way of a medical service.

This opens the door to connecting human microbiome samples between databases, which has the potential to expose sensitive subject information — for example, a sexually - transmitted infection, detectable from the microbiome sample itself,» said lead author Eric Franzosa, research fellow in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard Chan.

When the team looked for it in data from the Human Microbiome Project, a large - scale project to sequence the DNA of all the microbes that live in and on our bodies, they found that it was present in 73 per cent of all 466 faecal samples.

It is interesting that the most similar skulls in our sample come from recent Africans on the one hand, and on the other hand from those modern humans that lived in Europe between 20 - 30,000 years ago as, for instance,... [in one location] in the Czech Republic.»

For example, calcified portions of a human arterial sample looked markedly brighter than adjacent healthy areas.

In all the samples, the pesticide levels were below what's been established as safe for human exposure.

The next step will be to gather more ancient samples from before and after a major environmental change — the end of a glaciation, for example, or the arrival of humans in the New World — to see whether any epigenetic changes correlate with the environmental transition.

«Overall the turnaround for sample analyses fit a relevant clinical window for future comparative oncology trials to model human PMed advancements,» said Dr. William Hendricks, a TGen Staff Scientist and another author of the study.

But examining blood samples in humans is routine, and Szyf has gone searching there for markers of epigenetic methylation.

In the largest watershed study of its kind, MSU researchers samples 64 rivers in Michigan for human fecal bacteria.

«I was carrying out sampling for my Masters Degree studies, but I had no idea that new dung beetles could be found in a forest that is disturbed by human activities, such as livestock grazing and land - use change,» recalls Moctezuma.

The new study, led by Johannes Krause, a geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, used next - generation sequencing methods to read stretches of any DNA present in a sample and fish out those that resembled humanHuman History in Jena, Germany, used next - generation sequencing methods to read stretches of any DNA present in a sample and fish out those that resembled humanhuman DNA.

By testing all those samples, I identified microbes inhabiting the animal reservoirs and focused on those that showed up in the hunters» blood, making them candidates for firing up human disease.

Individual samples are a valuable tool for mapping the trends over time of human exposure to pollutants.

The interdisciplinary project team is made up of eco - and human toxicologists, physicists, chemists and biologists, and they have just managed to take their first major step forward in achieving their goal: they have developed a method for testing a variety of environmental samples such as river water, animal tissue, or human urine and blood that can detect nanomaterials at a concentration level of nanogram per liter (ppb — parts per billion).

The researchers used source - tracking markers, a novel method Rose calls «CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) for water,» to sample 64 river systems in Michigan for E. coli and the human fecal bacteria B - theta.

«We can now obtain meaningful human, pathogen and dietary DNA from a single sample, which minimizes the amount of ancient material required for analysis,» said Warinner.

He contacted Susan Murch, a biochemist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and an expert in finding biomolecules in human tissues, to test the samples in a double - blind study.

9 But sometimes humans strike back: Alexander Fleming, famous for his serendipitous discovery of penicillin, also chanced upon an antibiotic enzyme in nasal mucus when he sneezed onto a bacterial sample and noticed that his snot kept the microbes in check.

Baxter spokesman Christopher Bona said the samples were never meant for human or commercial use and blamed the incident on technical error.

«Despite the relatively low sample size of frozen products in our study, it is clear that commercial RMBDs may be contaminated with a variety of zoonotic bacterial and parasitic pathogens that may be a possible source of bacterial infections in pet animals and if transmitted pose a risk for human beings,» say the researchers.

The next NASA mission planning to use an MMRTG is the Mars 2020 rover, due to be launched as part of NASA's Journey to Mars, to seek signs of past life on the Red Planet, test technology for human exploration, and gather samples of rocks and soil that could be returned to Earth in the future.

Thus, shorter calls — whether human or dog — were regarded as more emotionally positive than longer calls; and higher pitched samples were rated as more emotionally intense than lower pitched sounds for both species, the team reports online today in Biology Letters.

In this instance, Cohen started with human stool samples in his hunt for gut bacteria with DNA he could engineer.

The researchers next will turn to analyzing the presence of myoferlin in samples from numerous human tumor types available in an Ohio State tissue bank, which will allow them to compare protein levels in tumors to clinical outcomes for the patients who provided the samples.

Researchers have used radioimmunotherapy (RIT) to destroy remaining human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)- infected cells in the blood samples of patients treated with antiretroviral therapy, offering the promise of a strategy for curing HIV infection.

In tests performed on human samples, the device was more than 96 percent accurate for cancer diagnosis.

We have now shown that this is possible to perform such measurements in real human samples, opening up the potential for meaningful early diagnosis.»

The advent of large - scale genome sequencing has helped scientists identify DNA bacteriophages in the human gut, skin and blood as well as in the environment, but few researchers have looked for RNA bacteriophages in those samples.

ARM will demonstrate advanced, high - power, high - throughput solar electric propulsion; advanced autonomous high - speed proximity operations at a low - gravity planetary body; controlled touchdown and liftoff with a multi-ton mass from a low - gravity planetary body, astronaut spacewalk activities for sample selection, extraction, containment and return; and mission operations of integrated robotic and crewed vehicle stack — all key components of future in - space operations for human missions to Mars.

He also needed data representing a 100 percent human food diet, for which he turned to the Smithsonian Institution for samples of human hair from different periods over the past century.

By analyzing genetic samples for over half a million individuals as part of the GIANT research project, which aims to identify genes that regulate human body and size, researchers found more than 100 locations across the genome that play roles in various obesity traits.

There, astronauts will be able to select, extract, collect and return samples from the multi-ton asteroid mass, and conduct other human - robotic and spacecraft operations in the proving ground that will validate concepts for NASA's journey to Mars.

Evolutionary geneticists Svante Pääbo, Johannes Krause, and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, ground up a 30 - milligram sample and extracted and sequenced all of the 16,569 base pairs of its mtDNA genome, using new techniques Pääbo's group has successfully employed to sequence both Neandertal and prehistoric modern human DNA.

He and Firpo have banked human samples of IPMN for many years and shared some with Hebrok for his research.

The samples produced evidence of 57 different chemicals, 45 of which they believe have some potential for affecting human health.

One uses primary hepatocytes obtained from livers donated for transplant; the second uses stem cells derived from human skin samples and guided into hepatocyte - like cells, Bhatia says.