Sentences with phrase «identify chemical compounds»

Hell, I've used IR innumerable times to identify chemical compounds!

Drug discovery for genetic diseases: Screening technologies are applied to identify chemical compounds able to inhibit REST function, a major target gene in Huntington's disease, and will serve as a paradigm for high - throughput screening approaches applied to neurological disorders.

Eventually, to identify the chemical compounds birds actually use for home - finding, we will need real birds again.

Eventually, scientists might even be able to learn how to re-modify damaged genes to reduce the risk for diseases, and the finding could help researchers identify chemical compounds and foods that fight disease by repairing those genes.

Johns Hopkins researchers, working with mice, say they have identified a chemical compound that reduces the risk of dangerous, potentially stroke - causing blood vessel spasms that often occur after the rupture of a bulging vessel in the brain.

Early research with UTA graduate student Austin McDonald identified a chemical compound called FLUO - 3 that not only works with calcium ions but is also sensitive to barium.

«We identified chemical compounds that have drug - like qualities and effectively lower tau levels in cultured brain cells,» explained Mucke, who is also a professor of neuroscience and neurology at UC San Francisco.

[Poitou & Bréon] The first results published in Nature (2011 and 2013) then in Science (2014) have identified some chemical compounds that are present in the air and may lead to cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) in quantities similar to those observed.

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The objective of the research project led by Marko Kallio, Principal Scientist at VTT, was to accelerate the drug development process by identifying new compounds that would possess similar binding properties and cellular phenotype, but a different chemical structure, as the selected drugs in clinical use or investigational compounds in development.

In recent years, scientists have identified a host of compounds called chemical elicitors — found, for example, in insect saliva — that can limit plant defenses, including the production of bad - tasting compounds that ward off herbivores.

Through a brute - force chemical screen in the midst of the 2014 Ebola epidemic, NCATS researchers also identified 53 compounds that block that virus from entering cells.

Over a three - year period, the team developed a preliminary screen with more than 500 chemical compounds to see if they could identify one that would bind covalently and «tether» with K - Ras G12C.

The researchers tested the ability of participants to identify, via body odor, their partner's or a stranger's chemosensory emotional cues — chemical compounds released by the body that have no noticeable odor but nonetheless transmit information about emotional states.

When the sample produced a chemical compound they were not able to identify, the researchers tried high - resolution mass spectrometry to determine the chemical compound's components but were unable to figure out its exact molecular structure.

The bracelets «can identify both chemicals and mixtures, and this could easily be applied to larger groups to see which compounds are showing up most commonly,» he said.

«I have developed methods for chemical analysis that for the first time make it possible to identify fragrance compounds that have been exposed to air and thus become potent allergens in small amounts and that people may come in contact with in consumer products,» says Johanna Rudbäck at the Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg.

The researchers figured out analytical methods to identify about 500 different compounds in the samples — a «first library» of dolphin - breath chemicals — they reported online before print in Analytical Chemistry.

The chemical composition of promising compounds can then be identified, the researchers say, by taking the relevant bead and exposing it to a strong oxidising agent.

USDA scientists have identified two chemical compounds found in catnip that stable flies really hate.

But Derbyshire and her team are testing chemical compounds in the lab to see if they can identify ones that inhibit malaria during the short window when the parasite is still restricted to the liver, before symptoms start.

The «mouth - sniffer» system has already picked out flavour compounds that were added in known quantities to food, and has identified the chemical that gives raspberries their «floral» flavour.

Next we use such assays to identify LEAD chemical compound (s) with therapeutic potential for HD or to validate drug or gene - based therapeutic approaches developed by our collaborators (Pr.

This isn't the first research conducted on the durian's unique scent; in 2012, a team of German researchers identified dozens of chemical compounds that create to combine the smell, publishing their analysis in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

SCIEX is a leading manufacturer of mass spectrometers used to identify and characterize chemical compounds in a variety of industrial and academic fields.

Many new complex chemical compounds were identified for the first time in interstellar gas clouds thanks to the collaborative effort.

Dr. Mahley, along with Gladstone Investigator Yadong Huang, MD, PhD, will use the funding to identify new chemical compounds that can target apolipoprotein E4 (apoE4)-- the strongest genetic risk factor for developing Alzheimer's.

In a screen of nearly 200,000 compounds, Tardiff and collaborators identified one chemical entity that not only reversed alpha - synuclein toxicity in yeast cells, but also partially rescued neurons in the model nematode C. elegans and in rat neurons.

Screen novel chemical compound libraries to identify effective drugs to treat active disease.

With the recent success of identifying selective inhibitors targeting CSCs, we believe that the newly isolated cycling hypoxia - selected subpopulation may present a new opportunity for chemical screening and discovery of compounds with selective toxicity for metastatic breast CSCs.

«If we could identify harmless chemical compounds able to transiently turn off MPK4 activity, they could be used to spray crops and make them resistant at any time they face a microbial attack.»

high - throughput screening: which allows scientists to test thousands of potential targets with thousands of diverse chemical compounds to identify a new drug - target combination.

Tech red, an enigmatic technetium compound that has resisted characterisation for half a century, has been identified using chemical detective - work and computer modelling.

To create the Hub, the researchers — led by Broad chief scientific officer Todd Golub and postdoctoral scholar Steven Corsello, an oncologist at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute — scoured public and proprietary databases to identify compounds representing a diverse range of targets and chemical structures.

To identify more suitable compounds, the team developed a computer simulation method to screen almost half a million chemical compounds in search of structures that might interact with the receptor.

Cosford had been investigating ULK1 using medicinal chemistry and chemical biology, and had identified some promising lead compounds using rational design.

Best of all, they have identified certain natural nutrients and compounds which are able to stop or slow down those fat storage causing chemicals and processes.

There are over 100 chemical compounds in black cumin seeds (some of which are yet to be identified).

... This brings up the nightmarish thought that if the chemical industry had developed organobromine compounds instead of the CFCs — or alternatively, if chlorine chemistry would have run more like that of bromine — then without any preparedness, we would have been faced with a catastrophic ozone hole everywhere and at all seasons during the 1970s, probably before the atmospheric chemists had developed the necessary knowledge to identify the problem and the appropriate techniques for the necessary critical measurements.

Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.

Presently, the natural gas industry does not have to disclose the chemicals used, but scientists have identified volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene.»

``... the nightmarish thought that if the chemical industry had developed organobromine compounds instead of the CFCs — or alternatively, if chlorine chemistry would have run more like that of bromine — then without any preparedness, we would have been faced with a catastrophic ozone hole everywhere and at all seasons during the 1970s, probably before the atmospheric chemists had developed the necessary knowledge to identify the problem and the appropriate techniques for the necessary critical measurements.