Sentences with phrase «human samples which»

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But you won't hear it in what the experts tell you about Gadamer's greatness» for instance (to sample recent tributes), that Gadamer has revealed «the structure of hermeneutic understanding» and «described the way in which human beings come to terms with themselves.»

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.

Witkowski discusses the benefits of HUMAN partner operator - hosted sampling events, which introduces kids to the healthy products offered in the machines.

All purchased samples did contain human milk, but 11 also contained bovine DNA, 10 of which had results consistent with more than minor, accidental contamination with cow's milk.

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.

Higham's team collected and radiocarbon - dated about 20 samples of artifacts and animal bones with cut marks, which presumably were discarded by ancient humans.

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.

They furthermore found that the M. leprae DNA was far better preserved compared to the human DNA, which may explain this unusually high amounts of bacterial DNA in these skeleton samples.

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.

They developed a computer game in which human players are placed in a virtual kitchen and asked to follow a set of sample instructions, much like the robot would.

«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.

Kanost and the Kansas State University team prepared and purified the DNA of the tobacco hornworm and sent the samples to the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center in Houston, which performed the genome sequencing.

We will develop multiplexed assays that will allow us to measure multiple proteins at a time in human samples, thus increasing the speed with which we can test candidate biomarkers.

The newly discovered vessels, which were also identified in human samples, could explain the long - standing conundrum of how the immune system manages to contribute to neurological and psychiatric disease.

When Burch and Gallup tested samples of human semen, they found luteinizing hormone and follicle - stimulating hormone, both of which can induce a woman to release eggs earlier than normal.

The researchers next will turn to analyzing the presence of myoferlin in samples from numerous human tumor types available in an Ohio State tissue bank, which will allow them to compare protein levels in tumors to clinical outcomes for the patients who provided the samples.

He also needed data representing a 100 percent human food diet, for which he turned to the Smithsonian Institution for samples of human hair from different periods over the past century.

By analyzing genetic samples for over half a million individuals as part of the GIANT research project, which aims to identify genes that regulate human body and size, researchers found more than 100 locations across the genome that play roles in various obesity traits.

The gift accompanies a paper published online today in Nature from researchers at Broad and worldwide, which identifies more than 100 areas of the human genome associated with schizophrenia, based on samples from almost 37,000 people with schizophrenia and about 113,000 without the disease.

The researchers also found that human - associated Bacteroides species, which thrive in the guts of mammals, persisted in some of the soil samples a whopping 198 days after the cadavers were placed.

To test the hypothesis, she spent eight hours rubbing baboon and human tooth samples with grass stalks, which, unlike wooden picks, contain hard deposits of abrasive silica.

The samples produced evidence of 57 different chemicals, 45 of which they believe have some potential for affecting human health.

Indeed, the current backbone of CDC foodborne - illness investigations is its PulseNet laboratory network, which stores the DNA fingerprints of half a million bacterial samples from food, humans and the environment.

The research, which was conducted in mouse models and human skin samples, could yield a way to combat sunburn and possibly several other causes of pain.

They then conducted biochemical analyses to identify neuroligin - 3, confirm that the protein could stimulate tumor growth in cultured samples of several kinds of human high - grade gliomas and study which signals the protein uses within glioma cells to promote their growth.

Using all the existing data that was available, Andrechek, along with MSU doctoral student Daniel Hollern, analyzed 1,172 mouse mammary tumor samples from 26 different preclinical models and was able to compile one of the largest databases to show which strains of mice were best suited to study a particular type of human breast cancer.

As the team reports July 1 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, supposed yeti and bigfoot samples turned out to come from bears (brown, black and polar), horses, raccoons, one human, some canines (the test didn't narrow down if they were wolves or dogs), cows, sheep, a North American porcupine, a Malaysian tapir and a serow, which is a known animal similar to a goat or antelope.

A chance conversation alerted University of Copenhagen researcher Eske Willerslev, who was just back from two unsuccessful months in Greenland searching for human remains to test for DNA, to the sample, which had been stored at the National Museum of Denmark for more than 20 years.

The team also collected blood samples, which confirmed that more than 25 percent of the monkeys had been infected with human astroviruses.

The use of muscle tissue in post-mortem studies is a novel approach which presents several advantages: first, muscle tissue is the most abundant tissue of the human body and can therefore be sampled easily.

But only one of them — Serratia marcescens, which resides in the guts of humans and other animals as well as in soil and water — is capable of causing whitepox in healthy coral samples, the team reports.

The study, which included 40 sites from Spain to Russia and employed the most recent sample preparation and statistical techniques to increase dating accuracy, found that Neandertals and modern humans did overlap for 2600 to 5400 years, depending on the exact region they inhabited.

Collaborators at Human Longevity, Inc. sequenced the microbial genes extracted from each participant's stool sample and used that information to determine which species were living where, and the relative abundance of each.

Meanwhile, Memish says he had sent samples to the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, U.K., which sequenced the complete human virus and managed to sequence some small fragments of the camel virus.

After doctors found a number of HAT cases in two villages there, French and Cameroon scientists visited the villages, sampling thousands of humans but also taking blood samples from pigs, goats, crocodiles, antelopes, and primates, which they tested for Trypanosoma DNA.

In Peru, the National Institute of Health's urine samples reflect elemental mercury — mainly vapor inhaled within the past several days — but not methylmercury accumulated in human tissue, which shows up in blood or scalp hair.

The use of the modern human reference samples for stature estimates are inappropriate because they assume body proportions akin to modern humans, which are not possessed by australopithecines.

The IMI could also control and organize access to metadata (the associated host disease phenotype data, for a human gut microbiota sample, for instance) without which meaningful interpretation of the data is not possible.

At Kingasani Hospital, he is looking to cast an even wider net by sampling human patients for viruses (a process that has been approved by both the local and U.S. Institutional Review Board, which assesses any experiments on humans for both efficacy and ethics).

In animal models joint research activity, PHE will contribute to studies in non-human primates where stored samples from BCG - vaccinated subjects (with a regimen comparable to human immunisation) will be used to generate data which will be comparable to humans.

To test this, frozen samples of human and bull sperm were sent to the station and the plan is for the crew on board to thaw the samples before adding a chemical that can activate the sperm movement, which occurs before the space sperm can fuse with an egg.

Nine samples from four sites were found to contain sufficient quantities of hominin DNA to merit further analysis, which revealed eight of them contained Neanderthal DNA and the other had DNA from Denisovans — a mysterious group of humans whose existence has only been gleaned from the DNA analysis of a few finger bones and teeth found in a Siberian cave.

The researchers claim that the discovery — which is the largest sample discovered at a single African site, and one of the largest anywhere in the world — is significant enough to change our understanding of human evolution.

These mouse models will help the interpretation of multi-parameter human studies which, in part, need to be conducted with mixed samples.

Here we report a public database of common variation in the human genome: more than one million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for which accurate and complete genotypes have been obtained in 269 DNA samples from four populations, including ten 500 - kilobase regions in which essentially all information about common DNA variation has been extracted.

«If we can pinpoint which genes control the development of each neuron type, we can generate them in the petri dish from a single sample of human skin cells,» said Dr. Huang.

Biobanco.pt is a national biomedical research infrastructure which aims at promoting national and international collaborative research projects using human samples, and the respective detailed clinical information Biobanco.pt commits to:

S.J. Gould, in «The Mismeasure of Man», reviewed a 19th century study by Morton of 600 skulls which ranged from 950 to 1870 cc (and 25 % of this sample was of small - statured Peruvians, so the figure of 950 cc is, if anything, lower than it might be for 600 randomly selected humans).

To better constrain the range of temperature of bone modification, we heated recent human and horse (Equus caballus) bone samples to temperatures that range from 100 ° to 800 °C (see data in Table 4), which are typical conditions for PDCs.

Although the newest edition of the authoritative textbook, Vitamin D, claims that in humans calcidiol binds with equal affinity to the DBP whether it is derived from vitamin D2 or vitamin D3, 37 the citation for this statement is the author's own PhD thesis, in which he reported results obtained from testing the DBP of a mere two people.48 Since the gene for the DBP is one of the most polymorphic known (meaning it exists in many forms), existing in three common alleles and 124 known rarer alleles (alleles are specific forms of the same gene), each allele itself having many polymorphisms, 37 a sample size of two is rather unconvincing.