Sentences with phrase «found laboratory evidence»

Researchers at the NIEHS, including Kenneth Korach, Ph.D., a co-investigator for the new study, previously found laboratory evidence that lavender and tea tree oil have estrogenic (estrogen - like) properties and anti-androgenic (testosterone inhibiting - like) activities, meaning they compete or hinder the hormones that control male characteristics, which could affect puberty and growth.

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The Jeffries Committee evaluated all the evidence from various laboratories and vindicated the Bureau's findings, and Astin was finally reinstated.

Then in 2007 came the disheartening news that the Mini Booster Neutrino Experiment (MiniBooNE, pictured) at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, had failed to find evidence of them.

In 1960 a Harvard laboratory measured the warping of time in a gravitational field, and some 20 years later researchers found indirect evidence for the existence of gravity waves.

Their findings shed new light on the physics of black holes with the first laboratory evidence of the phenomenon known as the superradiance, achieved using water and a generator to create waves.

And Suzanne Smrekar, VEXAG co-chair and a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., wants to follow up on a 2010 finding in which she and her colleagues used Venus Express data to identify hot spots on the planet's surface — evidence for volcanism within the past few million years.

McKenna says since the technique works in the laboratory, the findings provide «strong preliminary evidence» it could work in living creatures.

Unencumbered by human frailties, Curiosity — like the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which survived on the Red Planet years longer than expected — will be free to hunt for E.T. «If we find evidence for life on Mars, boy, are we just gonna go wild with speculation about how common it is in the universe,» says Lou Friedman, a former scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and cofounder, with Carl Sagan, of the Planetary Society.

Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have recently found evidence that the moon has a hot, liquid center.

Reich and lab members, Swapan Mallick and Nick Patterson, teamed up with previous laboratory member Sriram Sankararaman, now an Assistant Professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles, on the project, which found evidence that both Denisovan and Neanderthal ancestry has been lost from the X chromosome, as well as genes expressed in the male testes.

So say physicists working at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, who claim to have found conclusive evidence for the existence of so - called pentaquarks within the debris of high - energy proton collisions.

Chris Curtis, an entomologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, says laboratory and field experiments in Britain, the US and Canada have found no evidence that female mosquitoes are repelled or bite less within «earshot» of a wide range of frequencies tested.

A new review published by a joint scientific working group of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC) and the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) finds that current evidence continues to support the potential for bone turnover markers (BTMs) to provide clinically useful information for monitoring osteoporosis treatment.

«Dione has been an enigma, giving hints of active geologic processes, including a transient atmosphere and evidence of ice volcanoes — but we've never found the smoking gun,» Bonnie Buratti, a Cassini science team member at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, said in a statement from NASA.

«Evidence suggests that the temperature - sex relationship found in the laboratory is less tight in nature and verification of sex ratios is often insufficient or absent,» said Wyneken.

New work from the Geophysical Laboratory's high - pressure geophysicists Chuanlong Lin, Jesse Smith, Stanislav Sinogeikin, and Guoyin Shen found evidence of the long - theorized, difficult - to - see low - density liquid phase of water.

While evidence obtained in our and other laboratories strongly suggests that H. pylori triggers a transcriptional response, epigenetic alterations and DNA damage in infected cells, most of the data supporting these findings rest on fragmentary analyses of clinical samples and cells infected in vitro.

Early evidence for the waves was found several decades ago by Princeton astrophysicist Joseph Taylor and Russell Hulse, a former physicist for the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

Results: Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found the first evidence that, when environmental conditions are right, cells «reprogram» to create faster and more efficient cellular machinery.

KAMUELA, Hawaii — With data collected from the mighty W. M. Keck Observatory, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomer Mike Brown — known as the Pluto killer for discovering a Kuiper - belt object that led to the demotion of Pluto from planetary status — and Kevin Hand from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have found the strongest evidence yet that salty water from the vast liquid ocean beneath Europa's frozen exterior actually makes its way to the surface.

We found no evidence of infection with XMRV among persons with CFS or matched healthy controls from the US by testing with multiple serologic and PCR assays performed independently in three laboratories blinded to the clinical status of the study participants.

In our study population of CFS and healthy persons from the US, we did not find any evidence of infection with XMRV using PCR and serologic methods performed independently in three laboratories blinded to the clinical status of the study participants.

The negative PCR findings were confirmed by an independent laboratory with a second nested gag PCR assay which provided additional evidence for the absence of XMRV sequences among CFS cases and controls.

The current findings are «another piece of evidence that what we see in laboratory rodents on caloric restriction translates to humans,» said Richard Weindruch, PhD, of the University of Wisconsin — Madison, who has studied caloric restriction since 1975 but did not participate in Floel's study.

[2] There is also laboratory evidence that the widespread use of no - calorie sweeteners found in diet beverages may actually make it harder for people to control their food intake and body weight.

Here we present evidence from clinical and basic research, including positive and negative findings from our laboratory, identifying ketogenic diets as a platform deserving further optimization and exploration.

A 1996 survey of research studies found substantial evidence that less sleep is associated with a decrease in cognitive performance, both in laboratory settings and through self - reported sleep habits.

(3) To be the basis of a verified positive result for codeine or morphine, the clinical evidence you find must concern a drug that the laboratory found in the specimen.

«It was very compelling because it was multiple laboratories finding the same evidence.

Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory cautioned that the new findings were based on a single, fairly simple simulation and said that while the results matched well with the seabed evidence, they lacked the precision needed to know what will happen over short periods.

A team led by Ala Khazendar of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, found evidence of the ice shelf flowing faster and becoming more fragmented.