Sentences with phrase «human samples from»

The Barcode database provides gene expression information about thousands of mouse and human samples from different normal and cancerous cells / tissues obtained pre - or postnatally.

UNISI will receive murine or human samples from users.

Sarvetnick now hopes to collect some human samples from patients to see whether her theory holds up there.

The coincidence allowed the doctor to obtain a rare human sample from the area of the shoulder operation.

Not exact matches

Thus Wimberley and his associates have found in the 1970s, among a large if not absolutely representative sample of North Carolinians, 74 percent agreement with the statement: «Human rights come from God and not merely from laws.»

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has allowed a contract for the dissemination of embryonic stem cell lines approved for US government funding to lapse, shuttering a key stem cell bank, and doubling the price researchers pay for samples of some human embryonic stem cell (hESC) line... from $ 500 per vial of frozen cells to $ 1,000.

By analysing 599 samples of chimp droppings (P. T. troglodytes are a highly endangered and thus protected species that can not be killed or captured for testing), the researchers were able to obtain 34 specimens that reacted to a standard HIV DNA test, 12 of which gave results that were virtually indistinguishable from the reactions created by human HIV.

By analysing samples of the two different subtypes of HIV - 2 (A and B) taken from infected individuals and SIV samples taken from sooty mangabeys, Dr Vandamme concluded that subtype A had passed into humans around 1940 and subtype B in 1945 (plus or minus 16 years or so).

This came from a recent sampling of human milk purchased online.

Fatty acid profile comparisons in human milk sampled from the same mothers at the sixth week and the sixth month of lactation.

A reduction in the incidence rates of sepsis among human milk - fed infants admitted to an intensive care nursery has also been recently reported.20 The study sample included 178 infants ranging in gestational age from 25 to 40 weeks.

One of the three major classes of immunoglobulin occurring in human colostrum and milk, secretory IgA, has been found in significantly higher concentrations in the milk of mothers of preterm infants compared with milk from mothers of term infants.3Skin - to - skin contact between mothers and preterm infants in this sample may have promoted maternal production of protective antibodies specific to the nosocomial flora of the NICU.9 The provision of human milk may enable preterm, VLBW infants to compensate for their inherently immature immune status.

The team also tested human milk samples from subjects with mastitis, an infection of the breast tissue that causes pain and inflammation.

Research into the biology of human lactation has been seriously impeded by the impracticality and ethical concerns of obtaining systematic samples of mammary tissue from lactating woman.

In the Capital Region, concerns about PFOA found in water supplies in Rensselaer County erupted in 2014 when Michael Hickey, a former village trustee whose father died of cancer, sent samples from the Hoosick Falls water system to a Canadian lab that reported levels of PFOA that the EPA had advised were not safe for human consumption.

To determine how the cells switch from one type to another, they took three human uterine carcinosarcoma samples and sequenced the genomes of cells in two parts of each tumor: the carcinoma and sarcoma components.

The researchers detected this SMN long noncoding RNA, or lnc - RNA (pronounced «link RNA») for short, in human embryonic kidney cells, brain cell samples and neurons derived from the stem cells of healthy people and those with spinal muscular atrophy type I and II.

«If the law had been brought into force, Kuwait would have been the first country in the world to require the compulsory collection of DNA samples from all citizens,» the European Society of Human Genetics said in a statement.

To establish the relevance of their findings, the team tested blood samples from healthy humans, as well as those with a variety of inflammatory bowel diseases, including Crohn's.

This study built on previous research from the Sundrud lab, which showed that when TH17 cells entered the intestine in human tissue samples, they increased the expression of a gene called MDR1.

The search for more of these factors is complicated by the rarity of brain samples from suicide victims and the lack of an animal model — humans are unique in their wilful ability to end their lives.

Larger biomarker signatures can be detected with technology from CDI Laboratories, which offers microarrays of functional human proteins (over 20,000 on a single array) to test the antibodies present in human liquid biopsy samples, such as blood, serum, plasma, CSF, or tissue lysates.

This study was conducted in samples taken from rat brains, but sleep is thought to induce backward firing in human neurons, too.

A recent and exhaustive meta - analysis of scientific data shows that top psychology studies tend to make conclusions about human nature based on samples taken solely from Western undergraduate students.

An analysis of the HPV16 genome from 5,570 human cell and tissue samples revealed that the virus actually consists of thousands of unique genomes, such that infected women living in the same region often have different HPV16 sequences and variable risks to cancer.

This opens the door to connecting human microbiome samples between databases, which has the potential to expose sensitive subject information — for example, a sexually - transmitted infection, detectable from the microbiome sample itself,» said lead author Eric Franzosa, research fellow in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard Chan.

When they analyzed microbes found in fecal samples collected from mice and humans at different times of day, they discovered rhythmic fluctuations in the abundance of microbes and their biological activities.

When the team looked for it in data from the Human Microbiome Project, a large - scale project to sequence the DNA of all the microbes that live in and on our bodies, they found that it was present in 73 per cent of all 466 faecal samples.

It is interesting that the most similar skulls in our sample come from recent Africans on the one hand, and on the other hand from those modern humans that lived in Europe between 20 - 30,000 years ago as, for instance,... [in one location] in the Czech Republic.»

HBI member V. Wee Yong, PhD and research associate Susobhan Sarkar, PhD, and their team including researchers from the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and the university's Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute, looked at human brain tumor samples and discovered that specialized immune cells in brain tumor patients are compromised.

To more accurately reflect the mechanisms driving oligodendrogliomas, the researchers used RNA sequencing to study directly, on a single - cell level, gene expression in samples from six early - stage human tumors.

Denisova Cave (Altai Mountains 50,000 - 100,000 years ago) Samples of aDNA from one finger fragment and three teeth found in Siberia revealed Denisovans, a newly discovered type of extinct human.

The next step will be to gather more ancient samples from before and after a major environmental change — the end of a glaciation, for example, or the arrival of humans in the New World — to see whether any epigenetic changes correlate with the environmental transition.

Senior author Madhav Dhodapkar, M.D., the Arthur H. and Isabel Bunker Professor of Medicine and Immunobiology, and chief of Hematology, said the study, using tissue and blood samples from humans and mice, shows that chronic stimulation of the immune system by lipids made in the context of inflammation underlies the origins of at least a third of all myeloma cases.

These techniques include: human tissue created by reprogramming cells from people with the relevant disease (dubbed «patient in a dish»); «body on a chip» devices, where human tissue samples on a silicon chip are linked by a circulating blood substitute; many computer modelling approaches, such as virtual organs, virtual patients and virtual clinical trials; and microdosing studies, where tiny doses of drugs given to volunteers allow scientists to study their metabolism in humans, safely and with unsurpassed accuracy.

The authors could only infer from the autopsy samples that a similar migration of neurons from the SVZ to the prefrontal cortex had taken place in the human infants.

Puzzlingly, the insects containing human DNA that the researchers sampled were caught far from U.S. homes.

At Cox's urging, Mash set out to conduct an independent study of ALS and Alzheimer's brains using samples from her own human brain bank.

Last year, Szyf and researchers from Yale University published another study of human blood samples, comparing 14 children raised in Russian orphanages with 14 other Russian children raised by their biological parents.

But their inference is strongly supported by findings from autopsy samples of human infants who died in the first few months of life from a variety of causes, published in Science last fall.

Genetic similarity across the sequenced 2014 samples suggests a single transmission from the natural reservoir, followed by human - to - human transmission during the outbreak.

«We can now obtain meaningful human, pathogen and dietary DNA from a single sample, which minimizes the amount of ancient material required for analysis,» said Warinner.

In one test, 120 chickens were randomly selected from the 1,006 - bird sample and placed one by one in a box with a human «predator» sitting visibly nearby.

«Our approach does not rely on model systems but on DNA samples and clinical data from human patients.

But that study extracted ancient DNA from liver and intestinal samples using a method susceptible to contamination with modern human and bacterial DNA, Drosou's team argues.

To that end, in collaboration with the University of Zurich and MD Anderson Cancer Center, the researchers tested melanoma tumor samples from human patients undergoing treatment with the same targeted therapies.

Using a mouse model of HSV - 1 as well as autopsied samples of human adult and fetal tissues, investigators from Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine found that antibodies against HSV - 1 produced by adult women or female mice could travel to the nervous systems of their yet unborn babies, preventing the development and spread of infection during birth.

It was difficult to capture an image through thicker samples, such as a human arm, because too much light was scattered back from the tissue.

The Genographic Project, launched in April 2005, is a five - year genetic anthropology study that aims to map historical human migration patterns by collecting and analyzing DNA samples from over 100,000 people across five continents.

«The findings reported are derived from an artificial in vitro experimental system and do not appear to be consistent with the data obtained by two independent groups utilising samples from the human clinical trials of the actual Merck Ad5 HIV vaccine.»