Sentences with phrase «human research where»

«We are at a point in human research where we are making huge strides in overcoming a lot of neurologic disease,» says neurologist Christianne Heck, associate professor of neurology at USC and co-director of the USC Neurorestoration Center.

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(The study is titled «Enhanced Protein Translation Underlies Improved Metabolic and Physical Adaptations to Different Exercise Training Modes in Young and Old Humans,» proving yet again that research paper titling is where fun goes to die.)
Chancellor remains listed as an employee at Facebook research, working on human computer interaction & UX, where his biography confirms he also used to be a researcher at the University of Cambridge...
Prior to his role with Knowledge Infusion, Jason was a research director at Yankee Group, leading the company's human capital management and talent management advisory and consulting services.He also spent six years with Flextronics International, where he worked with large, multi-national clients in developing their outsourced manufacturing and supply chain strategies.
A medical school, for instance, is a research and often also a healing center, directly concerned with the increase of knowledge about the human organism and with its health; but it is also a training center where men are prepared to work in many other institutions of the society, from private practice to public health offices.
But it might also mean the attempt to clone human embryos for research purposes - and this, in fact, is where the real focus of scientific interest is at the moment.
Kim was born and raised in Miami, Florida, and currently resides in Chicago, where she is pursuing her interest in user experience research and design through DePaul's M.S. in Human - Computer Interaction program.
He is currently working towards a PhD in Psychology at Washington State University where his research interests focus on play therapy, animal assisted interventions, and the human - animal relationship.
Among the bill's most controversial sections is legal clarification allowing research on so - called hybrid embryos, where a human nucleus is inserted into an animal egg.
The Directorate for Science and Policy Programs, one of three program directorates, furthers AAAS's objectives in six program areas where the interests of science, government, and society intersect: Science, Technology and Government; the Center for Science, Technology, and Congress; Research Competitiveness; Science and Human Rights; the Dialogue between Science and Religion; and Scientific Freedom, Responsibility, and Law.
The authors argue for the development of more complicated models of human dispersals and for conducting new research in the many areas of Asia where none has been done to date.
In the early 1970s, I majored in human biology at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where my faculty adviser's research interest was in the biochemistry of schistosomes.
LaLueza - Fox sees such research as an indication that scientists can reliably collect ancient DNA from hotter climates, where much of human prehistory played out.
After receiving her Ph.D. in immunology from the Open University, United Kingdom, where she researched the identification of transcriptional factors regulating the unique phenotype of the human blood — brain barrier, she joined the Roche Brain Shuttle program as a postdoctoral fellow.
«It's an exciting development, and we await the outcome over the next year to see how well these cells integrate, and if there are any potential adverse reactions,» says Mike Cheetham of the Institute of Ophthalmology at University College London, one site where research is under way into a human embryonic stem - cell treatment for AMD.
«We need to know where there are inadequacies in these surveys to identify nutrition and food policy and research needs,» said the study's corresponding author, Mary Cluskey, an associate professor in OSU's College of Public Health and Human Sciences and a registered dietitian.
The contest involves writing a 500 - word essay in English, or 1,500 characters in Japanese, about translational medicine, which is a relatively new scientific field where human health is promoted by facilitating communication among those dedicated to basic and clinical research and its application.
Today, their work, which earned them the Nobel Prize, also informs advanced computer science, especially «machine vision» — research intended to help computers improve their visual processing, an area where they remain well behind human capabilities.
In a world perfumed by freshly popped popcorn and exhaust fumes, where sea breezes can mingle with the scents of sweet flowers or wet paint, new research shows that humans are capable of discriminating at least one trillion different odors.
«The when and where of the Y: Research on Y chromosomes uncovers new clues about human ancestry.»
The multinational research group utilized a model system where human retinal pigment epithelial cells were infected with Zika virus strain they isolated earlier from fetal brain [T1].
The tool will help not only the investigation and intervention of potential traffickers, «but also to support prosecution efforts in an arena where money moves with rapidity across financial instruments and disappears from the evidence trail», says Carrie Pemberton Ford at the Cambridge Centre for Applied Research in Human Trafficking.
Meanwhile, another advance on the cloning front occurred yesterday in the United Kingdom, where two research teams have at long last gained permission from the government to culture «hybrid» embryos from injecting human DNA into cow or rabbit eggs.
In a decades - long game of hide and seek, scientists from Sydney's Westmead Institute for Medical Research have confirmed for the very first time the specific immune memory T - cells where infectious HIV «hides» in the human body to evade detection by the immune system.
The study is part of a larger field of research that aims to understand when, where and how humans turned wild plants and animals into the crops, pets and livestock we know today.
Unfortunately, the mealybug is equally capable of traveling via a human vector — and it is now devastating the cassava (aka manioc or yucca) crop on some 200,000 hectares in Thailand, where some 60 percent of global exports (worth $ 1.5 billion) are grown, according to the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), a Colombia - based research nonprofit focused on reducing hunger and poverty via sustainable agriculture.
«Given the key similarities to human infections, a marmoset model of Zika may be useful for testing of new drug and vaccines,» said Texas Biomedical Research Institute virologist Jean Patterson, Ph.D. «Having an animal model of Zika infection to study may help us identify places where we might be able to block transmission.»
She also served as Assistant Scientific Program Director of the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, an independent federal agency, where she managed the research program and developed a model of environmental research for monitoring human impacts in Antarctica.
In South Asia, a region of deep poverty where one - fifth of the world's people live, new research suggests that by the end of this century climate change could lead to summer heat waves with levels of heat and humidity that exceed what humans can survive without protection.
An international research team led by University of Otago scientists has documented prehistoric «sanctuary» regions where New Zealand seabirds survived early human hunting.
This barrier has been highly visible in the field of human embryonic stem cell research, where researchers in the United States must adhere to legislation and funding limitations that researchers in European countries have not faced.
This research achievement may help to pinpoint exactly where complex - disease traits reside in the human genome.
Dr. Feilotter is an associate professor in the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine at Queen's University, where she maintains an active research program dedicated to biomarker discovery and validation in a variety of human diseases.
«There is no sort of lower standard or different standard used for pesticide products,» says Angus Cameron, a former manager of the firm Inveresk Research International in Scotland, where many of the human tests have been conducted.
Previous research had established the wolf as the ancestor of today's dog, but when and where humans first domesticated the animals remained unclear.
«Looking back on 2500 years, there are examples where climate change impacted human history,» says the study's lead author, Ulf Büntgen, a paleoclimatologist at the Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape in Zurich.
No one can say in advance exactly where the remains of the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) will hit, but history and intensive calculations show that the risk to humans is extremely low.
«It's a really nice example of a key study where humans and climate seem to be intersecting in some way,» says Paul Koch, a paleontologist and geoscientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who wasn't involved in the research.
«We are in an era where the primary issues are not federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research,» wrote CAMR President Amy Comstock Rick, who is also CEO of the Parkinson's Action Network, in an e-mail to the more than 100 patient advocacy, scientific, and other groups that belong to CAMR.
Associated genetic variations can serve as powerful pointers to regions of the human genome where disorder - causing problems reside, according to the National Human Genome Research Instihuman genome where disorder - causing problems reside, according to the National Human Genome Research InstiHuman Genome Research Institute.
This research has shown that these early human - like people were very clever about how they opened these large freshwater mussels; they drilled a hole through the shell using a sharp object, possibly a shark's tooth, exactly at the point where the muscle is attached that keeps the shell closed.
A print of that first micrograph of a two - celled human embryo is now framed and hangs on the wall above the desk in David Albertini's small, crowded office at Tufts University where, 30 years after he cleaned the monkey cages in Southborough, he conducts research trying to figure out how the fate of those two cells is determined.
To find out if these medicines had the same effect on humans, the researchers at Harvard University started to collaborate with the Norwegian research team, and their unique resource of having access to the unique and large Norwegian database, where all Norwegian prescriptions are registered.
«We are at a point in our research where we have validated the efficacy of this combination treatment approach in preclinical animal models, and we now need to define its safety through toxicology and pharmacology studies,» says Fisher, Thelma Newmeyer Corman Endowed Chair in Cancer Research and co-leader of the Cancer Molecular Genetics research program at VCU Massey, chairman of VCU School of Medicine's Department of Human and Molecular Genetics and director of the VCU Institute of Molecular Mresearch where we have validated the efficacy of this combination treatment approach in preclinical animal models, and we now need to define its safety through toxicology and pharmacology studies,» says Fisher, Thelma Newmeyer Corman Endowed Chair in Cancer Research and co-leader of the Cancer Molecular Genetics research program at VCU Massey, chairman of VCU School of Medicine's Department of Human and Molecular Genetics and director of the VCU Institute of Molecular MResearch and co-leader of the Cancer Molecular Genetics research program at VCU Massey, chairman of VCU School of Medicine's Department of Human and Molecular Genetics and director of the VCU Institute of Molecular Mresearch program at VCU Massey, chairman of VCU School of Medicine's Department of Human and Molecular Genetics and director of the VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine.
A chance meeting with Dr. James R. Lupski, the Cullen Professor and Vice Chair of Molecular and Human Genetics and professor of pediatrics at Baylor, at a medical meeting in Istanbul, Turkey would lead to Karaca's recruitment as a trainee in Lupski's lab where the research took off and eventually the team unveiled new clues about the genetic malfunction that may be causing the disorder in these families.
This is the centrepiece of an extensive and continuing programme of research into hypoxia and human performance at extreme altitude, aimed at improving the care of the critically ill and other patients where hypoxia is a fundamental problem.
One would hope that such research will be done openly in the U.S., Canada, Europe or Japan, where established government agencies exist to provide careful oversight of the implications of the studies for human subjects.
They therefore have a significant impact on the ecology and evolution of all organisms, from bacteria to humans,» says co-author Welkin Johnson, Professor of Biology at Boston College where his team carried out the research.
«When the June cluster of cases was first detected, the initial expectation of investigators was that it likely originated from a re-introduction of the virus from Sierra Leone or Guinea, where human - to - human transmission was active,» explained study co-first author Jason T. Ladner, Ph.D., of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID).
This corresponds to a previous study by Professor Vainio's research group, where it was found that dogs prefer viewing conspecific faces over human faces.
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