Sentences with phrase «functional studies involving»

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.

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Banaban Nourish Virgin Coconut Oil Powder involved in 3 years Functional Food Study focused on improving the health of the elderly

Chu says the study emphasizes that healthy cells need more than functional mitochondria — they need to support a kind of mitochondrial life cycle that involves continuous genesis, repair and recycling.

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.»

Functional MRI studies indicate that those with auditory hallucinations exhibit hyperconnectivity among brain regions involved in speech production, speech perception, hearing and threats.

The results are intriguing and call for further work, says Thierry Boulinier, an immune ecologist at the Functional and Evolutionary Ecology Center in Montpellier, France, who was not involved in the study.

In a study published December 22 in Stem Cell Reports, researchers developed an alternative approach involving the direct conversion of adult skin cells into functional testosterone - producing cells.

«Our finding of a link between bipolar disorder and the striatum at the molecular level complements studies that implicate the same brain region in bipolar disorder at the anatomical level, including functional imaging studies that show altered activity in the striatum of bipolar subjects during tasks that involve balancing reward and risk,» said TRSI Research Associate Rodrigo Pacifico, who was first author of the new study.

Blue whales need that extra energy because they devote such a small proportion of their lives to feeding, says Ann Pabst, a functional morphologist at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, who was not involved with the study.

A study by researchers at Henry Ford Hospital found «substantial evidence» that a regenerative process involving damaged nerve fibers in the spinal cord could hold the key to better functional recovery by most stroke victims.

In a statement, University College London neurophysiologist Roger Lemon, chair of the Policy Advisory Group of the pro-research advocacy organization Understanding Animal Research, says that the Newcastle group's research is «of the highest quality, and the group involved are also doing fundamental research into the relationship between functional MRI and «invasive» recordings, which is critical to our ability to understand fMRI studies in people.»

In order to ascertain which brain regions are involved in advanced mathematical thinking, neuroscientists (NeuroSpin, CEA / Inserm / Université Paris Sud Saclay, Collège de France) studied the brains of fifteen professional mathematicians using functional MRI (fMRI).

Using a series of electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies, Park plans to go beyond naming the brain region where magnitude processing takes place to identify the anatomy and function of neural pathways involved in magnitude processing and reveal neural mechanisms that support mathematical thinking.

This sheds light on structural and functional studies of other ZIP proteins involved in a variety of cancers, osteoarthritis and other serious diseases.

My ultimate career goal is to enjoy a hybrid position that involves directing a diagnostic laboratory while also performing functional studies dedicated to improving and expanding the identification of pathological genomic variants by leveraging the above research paradigm.

They are missing blood vessels, immune cells and functional connections to other areas of the nervous system,» Jürgen Knoblich, a molecular biologist at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna who was not involved in the study, tells The Scientist by email.

Functional studies are performed to understand the non-traditional mechanisms of somatic PTEN inactivation in breast cancer, chief of which involves nuclear - cytoplasmic trafficking.

In particular, they are focused on studying the functional role and molecular mechanisms of cellular senescence in both of these events, and how a deregulation of normal epithelial stem cell proliferation is involved.

This observation suggests that the bulk of genes involved in Nasonia immune response remain uncharacterized, with the current study being the first identification of additional candidate genes for immunity based on functional response to infection.

Career goals: My goal is to become a scientific researcher involved in the genetic and functional studies of human diseases.

Detailed description of connectivity profiles of subdivisions within the IPL is critical for accurate interpretation of functional neuroimaging studies involving this region.

Technical coordinator of a national convention in France involving industry and universities on the same subject Since 1992: Organizer of a cycle of international conferences on «Heavy scintillators for scientific and industrial applications» First one in Chamonix, France in 1992 (200 participants), 9th one in Winston Salem (NC, USA) in 2007 (300 participants) 1994 - 2007: As Technical coordinator of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter at the LHC Large Hadron Collider, responsible for the technical development and the mass production of 76» 000 Lead Tungstate crystals (100 tons) 1994 - 2000: Organizer of the development and mass production organization of Lutetium Aluminum perovskite crystals, in particular for PET scanner applications Since 2000: Strong involvement in the development of dedicated breast imaging camera combining several modalities for a multiparametric evaluation of breast tumors (anatomic, structural and functional) Since 2002: Feasibility study and setting - up of an international medical imaging research centre, presently being built in Marseille (Cerimed)

The behavioral and neuronal bases of executive function have been well studied in neuropsychological patients (12 ⇓ — 14) and with functional neuroimaging (9, 12, 15 ⇓ — 17), which confirm that executive function is supported by a network of brain regions, primarily involving the frontal lobes and the posterior parietal cortex (9, 12, 15 ⇓ — 17).

Research is beginning to show the connection In a 2005 study, researchers at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which measures activity in different areas of the brain, to see whether subjects could learn to control a brain region involved in pain and whether that could be a tool for altering their pain perception.

The study involved people with chronic, severe «functional» constipation.

In fact, a study by researchers at Stanford University, who used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study brain activity of people, found that the part of our brain involved with paying attention is engaged when we listen to certain types of music.

In her February 2014 Psychology Today article, «Gray Matters: Too Much Screen Time Damages the Brain,» Victoria L. Dunckley, M.D., references various neuroimaging studies that show «internet addiction is associated with structural and functional changes in brain regions involving emotional processing, executive attention, decision making, and cognitive control.»

Similarly, studies of intrinsic connectivity (resting state) explore functional networks that are non-stimulus driven and may inform about the basic functional brain architecture while implicating anatomical connectivity of the regions involved [153].

This work, funded by grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse that run through 2019, involves the study of over 700 twin pairs, and includes structural and functional MRI measures as well as EEG, neuropsychological, and mental health assessments.