Sentences with phrase «from developmental studies»

The new approach builds on information gleaned from developmental studies of embryonic stem cells (see story # 16) and one day may be used to create healthy replacements for harmed or diseased tissue.

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Dennis has a PhD in genetics / developmental biology from the University of British Columbia and a special interest in studying pattern formation and cell - cell communication during tissue development using fruit flies as a model organism.

Dr. Laugeson has been a principal investigator and collaborator on a number of studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigating social skills training for youth with developmental disabilities from preschool to early adulthood and is the co-developer of an evidence - based social skills intervention for teens and young adults known as PEERS.

Before pregnant women with NVP get too excited that they are carrying a genius, it's important to note that the link with intellectual developmental outcomes come from a single, small study — this is hardly conclusive evidence.

Several reviews have concluded that home visiting can be an effective strategy to improve the health and developmental outcomes of children from socially disadvantaged families.2 - 4 However, effects have not been found consistently and some studies have reported no impact.

The study's senior author, Associate Professor Natasha Nassar from the University of Sydney Menzies Centre for Health Policy said: «While the association between being born earlier — lower gestational age — and poorer developmental outcomes is well established, our results revealed that poor development is further exacerbated in the case of planned birth, where a considered decision made to deliver an infant determines gestational age.

In addition, human milk - fed premature infants receive significant benefits with respect to host protection and improved developmental outcomes compared with formula - fed premature infants.13 — 22 From studies in preterm and term infants, the following outcomes have been documented.

She holds a bachelor's degree with honors from the University of Washington, Department of Psychology, where she studied developmental psychology.

The studies do not base protein recommendations on overall survival and on developmental outcomes from use of their fortifiers.

In collaboration with Anna Pyle, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale, Patrizio and his team studied samples from 20 cumulus cells in 15 patients younger than age 35 and in those age 40 and older.

According to the study results, YAP is excluded from the nucleus on the soft gels, and its depletion there helps drive the stem cells onto a brain cell developmental pathway.

«Turtles are interesting because they offer an exceptional case to understand the big evolutionary changes that occurred in vertebrate history,» explains Dr. Naoki Irie, from the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, who led the study.

His influential studies have spanned diverse disciplines, from developmental biology to paleontology to optical physics.

The study, published online in Developmental Psychobiology, was conducted by Marguerite O'Haire, Ph.D., from the Center for the Human - Animal Bond in the College of Veterinary Medicine of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, and colleagues in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.

For the study, the researchers incubated eggs from the Trachemys scripta elegans, a semi-aquatic turtle, under different temperature and moisture regimes to study the effect of the two environmental factors on developmental rate, egg mass, embryo mass and length, and sex ratio.

But in a clever study published in 2008 in Developmental Psychology, evidence from childhood home videos validated this retrospective method.

The study was conducted by a team headed by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Driever and Prof. Dr. Thomas Brabletz and including researchers from the Department of Developmental Biology, the Department of Visceral Surgery at the University Medical Center, and the Cluster of Excellence BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies.

A new study published in Nature Communications by researchers from the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology (MRC CDN) at IoPPN, carried out in collaboration with the Tian lab at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (USA), unravels how this synchrony is achieved at the molecular level.

Preterm babies perform as well as their full - term counterparts in a developmental task linking language and cognition, a new study from Northwestern University has found.

«The basic tendency to pick out a face as being different from other things in your environment, and then to actually look at it, is the first step to learning who the important people are in your world,» says Scott Johnson, a developmental psychologist at UCLA who was not involved in the study.

The study also showed that the main activator of artemisinin is haem, a specific iron - containing compound, either biosynthesised by the parasite at its early developmental ring stage, or derived from haemoglobin digestion in the later stages.

Cathi Propper, a developmental psychologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her colleagues studied infants at several periods over their first year of life, inducing stress by separating them from their mothers.

The new study, led by researchers from the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Children's National Health System, was published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

A study in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology asked 64 pre-schoolers from ages 3 - 5 years to categorize a series of characters, like monsters, fairies, dragons, knights, dinosaurs as well as Santa Claus, Superman and Michael Jordan — into either real, pretend, or not sure categories.

In a new study published in Molecular Psychiatry the researchers describe how cells from patients with the severe developmental disease lissencephaly differ from healthy cells.

«We think this could be one way cancer cells actually migrate from one place to another to induce metastasis,» says Besim Ogretmen, Ph.D., senior author for this study, director of the Developmental Cancer Therapeutics Program at the Hollings Cancer Center and professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at MUSC.

The study used 2010 data from five of eleven US sites participating in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network.

But this is the first time, to my knowledge, that the direct link is established from a novel gene to a novel structure to the invasion of a completely new ecological opportunity,» said Abderrahman Khila, an evolutionary and developmental genomicist at the Institute of Functional Genomics of Lyon, who led the study on the delicate insects called water striders.

Deppmann and his graduate student, Kanchana Gamage, the study's lead author, believe that axons communicate the death message to each other during injury as a leftover activity, «borrowed» from the nervous system's developmental period when axons are overproduced and then improper or unnecessary connections are eliminated by a similar communication between axons.

A study to be published in the April 2016 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) reports that eye tracking can differentiate children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) from children without ASD but with other developmental problems (non-ASD).

At ABclonal, we have nearly 100 existing chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)- validated antibodies with a higher specificity than most commercial antibodies, which are used for a wide range of epigenetics studies, from those investigating developmental processes to those researching various diseases.

«Information from this study could help lay the groundwork for therapies that address developmental missteps tied to Hox genes and their regulators.»

Using the Drosophila melanogaster fruit fly as a model organism, the team led by Prof. Dr. Ingrid Lohmann at Heidelberg University's Centre for Organismal Studies was able to show how a special developmental gene from the Hox family influences germline stem cells.

The 2001 SBS textbook cites two studies (from the journals Annals of Emergency Medicine and Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology) showing that between 15 percent and 33 percent of SBS - symptomatic infants died, while one - third to one - half suffered permanent injury such as paralysis or mental retardation.

Led by researchers at Duke University, the study offers clues to a longstanding question in developmental biology, namely how plants and animals make so many types of cells from the same set of instructions.

Finally, the researchers recruited cisgender children from a database of families interested in participating in developmental psychology research studies.

Either way, previous studies have shown that proteins made from Jumonji genes work to control many other genes that orchestrate developmental processes — and that environmental stress, such as from heat, can change the way these genes turn on and off.

So when Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, a developmental biologist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, California, heard from NIH earlier this year that his was among the top - ranked applications, he was thrilled — but there was a catch.

It may be possible in future studies, he suggests, to determine whether children with developmental disorders like autism have brain structures that differ from the norm in a similar way.

The study was based on a massive linkage of different kinds of records from the California Birth Master Files for 1997 through 2007, the California Department of Developmental Services autism caseload for 1997 through 2011, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National ART Surveillance System for live births in 1997 through 2007.

A review of neuroimaging studies of young relatives of individuals with schizophrenia: a developmental perspective from schizotaxia to schizophrenia.

Previously the company reported data from this study on event - free survival, measures of muscle function and assessments of developmental milestones.

Dr Véronique Azuara has worked for several years in the field of developmental biology and genetics moving from lymphocyte development (PhD training at the Pasteur Institute — Paris) to epigenetic studies (post-doctoral training at the MRC / Clinical Sciences Centre — London) to explore how chromatin shut down contributes to lineage restriction and maintenance of cell fate identity through development.

He and his lab study stem cell biology to provide insights into many areas, such as developmental biology, homeostasis in the normal adult and recovery from injury.

Reykjavik, ICELAND, October 19, 2004 — deCODE genetics (Nasdaq: DCGN) today announced the principal results from its Phase IIa information - rich clinical trial ™ of DG031, the company's developmental compound which is being studied for the prevention of heart attack.

Funding: The study was supported by grants from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KSCX2 - YW - R - 46), the Shanghai Science & Technology Developmental Foundation (06DJ14001, 07DZ22919 and 08DJ1400502), the National Natural Science Foundation (30730051) and the Ministry of Science and Technology (2006CB943901, 2007CB948004, 2007CB947904, 2009CB941100 and 2010CB945200).

Shomyseh Sanjabi received an Innovative, Developmental, Exploratory Award grant from the California HIV / AIDS Research Program to study how HIV hides in the gut.

Prof Muzlifah Haniffa, from Newcastle University, said: «This research is possible due to the Human Developmental Biology Resource, which provides human embryonic and fetal tissues to ethically approved scientific studies such as the HDCA.

Dr. Rapoport was a pioneer in studying the pathophysiology of ADHD and neuropharmacological approaches to its treatment, and she was the first to discover that some childhood psychiatric symptoms result from autoimmune reactions to streptococcal infection, the first to establish the link between obsessive - compulsive behaviors in children and OCD in adults, and the first to use longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging to uncover developmental abnormalities in brain size and structure in children with schizophrenia.

We discuss the recent advances to address the question and characterize the developmental constraint in evolution, by integrating approaches from cell, and evolutionary biology, bioinformatics, and theoretical biophysics, and provide the future perspective in the quantitative evo - devo studies.