Sentences with phrase «human models using»

«New therapies for ALS are urgently needed — and our creation of human models using iPS cell technology will hopefully deepen our understanding of how the disease develops — and lead to relevant therapies for patients,» said Senior Investigator Steve Finkbeiner, MD, PhD, who leads ALS research at Gladstone.

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By using our own brain as a model, this technology is able to apply human intuition at machine speed.

As human beings, we frame new phenomenon using our existing mental models, which means we need to think differently in order to succeed in this new era of digital change.

Currently SQZ is developing its technology further using mouse models and human blood experiments to understand its mechanisms of action more fully.

Using an algorithm complete with 3 - D human body modeling, the company then makes a recommendation as to which of its mattresses is the best fit.

Boston Dynamics has produced a number of robots that mimic human and animal movement, including Atlas, a humanoid model that co-ordinates motion and balance using its arms and legs and can pick itself up off the ground when knocked over.

In the early 1990s the models that most economists used to analyze and explain Chinese economic growth were good enough, like the Newtonian bridge in the slow moving world in which humans operate.

«I got really interested in trying to understand how we could model human behavior through social media because there's residue of who we are in everything we do and here we had lots of little behaviors that we could use to try to understand a little bit more about who you are.»

Eco-modernism is about finding new technologies and financing models that allow humans to prosper while using less land, water, fuel, and energy and interfering less with the natural world.

Using human experience as a model to depict the nature of reality, Whitehead argues that every actuality (i.e., every actual event) has both a present subjective immediacy and a past objectivity.

If there is a basic thesis, it is that Whitehead has used the concept of the electromagnetic field in physics as a model for human experience (PW 125/134, 183/201; RL 285).

Kaufman is unafraid to be — to use two of his favorite adjectives — both human and humane, honest about both his caution and his passions, and in that he provides even those of us who disagree with him with an admirable model of how to be a theologian.

Using the Deuteronomic Creed as model, Dalit theology can construct the historical Dalit consciousness which has to do with their roots, identities and struggle for human dignity and «for the right to live as free people created in the image of God.»

The models often used to describe this have been unsatisfactory, to be sure: talk of «substance» has led to much confusion and misunderstanding, as has talk of the union of wills or the association of divine / human consciousnesses.

Although we have limited ourselves in this chapter to the discussion of dialogue within the Church, we must not forget that Vatican II also used the term «dialogue» to refer to communication with separated Christians, 10 with non-Christians and atheists, 11 with the entire human family, and with the world.12 This aspect deserves our attention even more than the use of the dialogue model for exchanges within the Church.

A model which portrays divine initiative would limit the use of a model which portrays human response, and vice versa.

The «revelation model» helps to restore the balance, using the dynamic categories of divine and human activity in place of the more static categories of substances and natures.

Perhaps we shall soon be able to use as our guide and model the fully growing and self - fulfilling human being, the one in whom all... potentialities are coming to full development.»

Using a «gnotobiotic mouse model» — where mice were «colonized with a synthetic human gut microbiota composed of fully sequenced commensal bacteria» — Desai et al reported on the effects of different diets with different fibre content.

Before we established in - house human taste cell (HTC) technologies, it was not possible to use human tongue - derived cells as a model, due to the lack of homogenous, proliferating cell lines with defined properties, which is a prerequisite to establish comprehensive research and screening programs.

The American Association of Pediatricians statement on breastfeeding and the use of human milk (2005) states, «Exclusive breastfeeding is the reference or normative model against which all alternative feeding methods must be measured with regard to growth, health, development and all other short and long - term outcomes.»

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While our work has used mouse models because we can study the process in detail this way, we do know that milk cells cross into human babies as well.»

As well as allowing the use of stem cells grown from established cell lines, the technology could enable the creation of improved human tissue models for drug testing and potentially even purpose - built replacement organs.

Studies show that these models can accurately predict the ways that new drugs will react in the human body and replace the use of animals in exploratory research and many standard drug tests.

In collaboration with Synchrotron Oxford, the University of East Anglia and the University of California, the researchers, using a commonly - found member of human gut microbiota called Ruminococcus gnavus as a model organism identified carbohydrate binding modules with the ability to bind to mucus.

While many humans enjoy a daily caffeine fix, scientists have found that caffeine repels Drosophila melanogaster — a species of fruit fly often used as a model for studying human conditions and genetics.

For the first time, researchers used human cells to build a model of the surface of the eye that's equipped with a fake eyelid that mimics blinking.

Using a mouse model that expresses an altered form of the normal human prion protein, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have determined why the human proteins aren't corrupted when exposed to the elk prions.

Using gene editing to create rodents that are ideal research models could narrow the genetic divide between humans and their animal stand - ins.

These findings allowed researchers to create a chimera virus: a mouse virus with a human viral gene that can be used to test molecules that inhibit human LANA protein in an animal model of disease, treating not only human herpes virus infection but also its associated cancers.

The behavioral tests used here modeled one dimension of the disease — an inability to experience pleasure from normal activities — but not others, such as stress and anxiety, and probably tap into different brain mechanisms in mice than in humans, he says.

The scientists performed pre-clinical trials using experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, a pre-clinical model for human multiple sclerosis.

The new drug - like compounds discovered by Vogel and her co-authors offer hope that using a computer - generated P - gp model, explained here http://bit.ly/1LVmR7a, developed to accurately mimic the physical, chemical and biological functions of the protein in the human body, will speed up the drug discovery process and work in real life as well.

The paper suggests that regulation is the best way to achieve this and highlights the frameworks used to regulate commercial use of organic human remains as a good model to build on.

«Essentially, we are using the human placenta as a model to identify genes that play a key role in invasion in both the placenta and cancer,» wrote Chi Sutherland, a Ph.D. candidate leading the project, in an email.

The cognitive model has been validated using a database of about 1500 input sentences, based on literature on early language development, and has responded by producing a total of about 500 sentences in output, containing nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, and other word classes, demonstrating the ability to express a wide range of capabilities in human language processing.

To demonstrate the effects of bullying, the researchers used an animal model simulating the physical and emotional stressors involved in human bullying — chronic social defeat stress.

Pig brains are remarkably similar to human brains, so they are often used as model systems by neuroscientists.

The study results were found using mouse embryonic stem cells, which are good cell models for the study of processes seen in human stem cells.

«A network of artificial neurons learns to use human language: A computer simulation of a cognitive model entirely made up of artificial neurons learns to communicate through dialogue starting from a state of tabula rasa.»

Using a mathematical model known as the Ising model, invented to describe phase transitions in statistical physics, such as how a substance changes from liquid to gas, the Johns Hopkins researchers calculated the probability distribution of methylation along the genome in several different human cell types, including normal and cancerous colon, lung and liver cells, as well as brain, skin, blood and embryonic stem cells.

Dr Luis Pedro Coelho, commented: «These findings suggest that dogs could be a better model for nutrition studies than pigs or mice and we could potentially use data from dogs to study the impact of diet on gut microbiota in humans, and humans could be a good model to study the nutrition of dogs.

Zebrafish are commonly used to model human diseases, in part because their larvae are transparent, making it easy to see the effects of genetic mutations or drugs.

«Our study validates using fruit flies as a model to discover new genes that may also control aggression in humans.»

The ANNABELL model is a cognitive architecture entirely made up of interconnected artificial neurons, able to learn to communicate using human language starting from a state of «tabula rasa» only through communication with a human interlocutor.

The researchers used information on a reef's habitat, depth, nearby human population and amount of fishing to model how many fish could live at each site.

One of Dozier's evolutionary computation projects uses the human immune system to model a network security system.

A group of researchers from the University of Sassari (Italy) and the University of Plymouth (UK) has developed a cognitive model, made up of two million interconnected artificial neurons, able to learn to communicate using human language starting from a state of «tabula rasa,» only through communication with a human interlocutor.

Using young rhesus monkeys in our model of anxious temperament is critical as brain structure and function in non-human primates closely resembles that of humans.»