Sentences with phrase «in hair samples»

Here's the mercury levels in hair samples from healthy people; here's the levels in patients with diabetes or hypertension.

It's become routine in wildlife biology to identify animals through the DNA in hair samples and scat.

Analysis of isotope ratios in hair samples showed how much of the bears» diets came from human food.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, researchers at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, found high levels of mercury (above the maximum recommended by the World Health Organization) in hair samples from 40 % of the Madre de Dios residents that they tested.

The resins and embalming materials used to prepare the artificially mummified bodies were not found in the hair samples, suggesting that the hair was protected during embalming and then styled separately.

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For example, members of Herboris, a Chinese hair and skin care brand, can book an appointment on Herboris» Tmall store to receive skincare services in selected Herboris» physical stores and receive samples and coupons reserved for members.

«Sidney Adelstein recalls going into one chain, shoes shined, hair combed, smiling and eager with samples in hand,» the company says.

He hopes DNA tests on 15 alleged hair samples will provide proof that there's a gorilla, or something like one, in our midst.

I have my Matt and Nat wallet, sample Clinique lipstick in Angelic, hair elastic, house keys, some delicious smelling lemon custard hand lotion from Philosophy, cell phone, Kashi granola bar, no name sunglasses, juice box, Ben's soother.

The team also found higher amounts of the protein in hair follicle tissue from people with alopecia areata than in samples from people free of it, providing additional evidence of its involvement (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature09114).

Using electrodes, European researchers in 2015 measured the facial movements of volunteers who sniffed sweat samples of people who had watched either pleasant or scary videos — happy - go - lucky scenes from Disney's The Jungle Book versus hair - raising clips from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.

DNA samples taken from grizzly bear hair may help resolve a bitter dispute over the size of the bear population in and around Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

«We hope hair samples will help establish the role that changes in cortisol levels throughout pregnancy have on the health of women and their children,» said study co-author Laura Smy, a PhD student at the University of Toronto.

Hair samples can be used to measure the effects of asthma on the cortisol levels of women during pregnancy, according to research presented today at the 2015 AACC Annual Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo in Atlanta.

«Hair samples may offer new insights into the relationship between asthma, cortisol, and complications in pregnancy.»

Currently, researchers at the Museum Zoology, UM are comparing the successful mammal detection from guts of blowflies collected in forest with mammals detected in cage traps, mist nets, camera traps, hair traps and scat samples.

The same effect that attracts your hair to a balloon when you rub it on your head pulled enough collagen onto eraser «crumbs» to yield results in a mass spectrometer, a machine that determines the type of chemicals in a sample.

Now that we know to look for them, hairs have been found in other soil samples as well,» explains Tuija Kirkinen.

Since the hairs were found in the sample collected from the feature in question, it can be assumed that they are connected with a goat skin placed in the grave.

The animal from more than four thousand years ago was identified by its fossilised hair, found in an archaeological soil sample.

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, were able to estimate the proportion of human - derived food in bears» diets by analyzing chemical isotopes in hair and bone samples.

Dr. Charlier argues that human remains in museums and scientific institutions can be divided into four categories, «ethnographical elements» such as hair samples with no certain identification; anatomical remains such as whole skeletons or skulls; archaeological remains; and more modern collections of skulls, used in now discredited studies in the early 20th century.

There they thrive alongside of bacteria, as seen in this picture of a hair shaft (yellow) sampled from a back (bacteria, pink; fungus, blue - green).

So in 2012 Sykes and his colleague Michel Sartori of the Museum of Zoology in Lausanne, Switzerland, posted a call for hair and other samples thought to be from yetis, Bigfoot or any other «cryptid» species unknown to science.

Previous genetic analyses of a couple of «yeti» hair samples collected in India and Bhutan suggested that a stretch of their mitochondrial DNA resembled that of polar bears.

The sample was taken from one of four clumps of hair collected in Greenland by Danish archaeologists in the 1980s.

Willerslev and colleagues, who report their findings tomorrow in Nature, went to great lengths to show that the sample was not contaminated by modern DNA — a concern because the hair had been handled by archaeologists and stored in a museum.

The study will involve doing an analysis not only of benzene biomarkers and other volatile organic compounds, but also of certain heavy metals in urine and hair samples.

But electron spins tend to have quite brief usable lifetimes; even in optimal conditions — in pure samples held just a hair above absolute zero — the information encoded on an electron spin is lost on timescales of seconds, if that.

In samples from the same individuals, stem cells that had matured into so - called «progenitor cells» were 10 to 100 times as abundant on hairy patches as on bald ones, suggesting they are the key to hair growth.

The hair proved to be that of an agouti, the fecal samples did not reveal any DNA aside from, in one case, that of a giant anteater, and the casts don't hold any scientific weight, as Oren readily points out, «because they can be easily faked.»

«Our recent work has demonstrated that we can determine what mammals are in a protected area without hunting, without trapping, without the use of scat or hair samples, and especially without camera traps - all of which are problematic methods for one reason or another,» said study author Mark Siddall, a curator in the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology.

So far, the evidence Oren has gathered on these hunts — a clump of hair, several fecal samples from different areas, and some casts of footprints — has led to naught, fading like tracks in the forest.

They analyzed the DNA profiles from hair, scat, and tissue samples collected in Bulgaria and found seven individuals — from three different mountainous regions — that had genetic patterns unlike the rest.

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 haiIn 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 haiin human tissue, which shows up in blood or scalp haiin blood or scalp hair.

Finally, information on the bears» hormonal states is extracted from the samples: Cortisol gives a picture of stress levels, thyroxin provides an index of protein depravation or starvation, and sex hormones provide insight as to whether a female had cubs in the past year — all this from a clump of hair.

Results: A team of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists developed a technique that can take dozens of samples from a single piece of hair and distinguish between the signatures in each sample.

The evidence for the presence of a mycelial fungus in affected areas of the infected bats was obtained when tissue samples from the Williams Hotel Mine were examined by SEM; this imaging method revealed abundant fungal growth on skin and hair shafts (Fig. 1Ci - iv).

Function lme in the nlme package was used to estimate the effect of the study area (with nest box identity as a random effect) on the pre-experiment baseline hair sample mass.

Linear mixed - effects models (function lme)[34] in the nlme package [35] was used to estimate the factors affecting the response variables, hair sample mass and clutch coverage 24 hours after the playbacks.

At some point between 1999 and 2008, each of the participants also provided at least one blood and urine sample which the scientists analyzed for the presence of various chemicals, including dioxins contained in pesticides, phthalates found in fragrance, plastics, cosmetics and hair spray, plant - derived estrogens, and polychlorinated biphenyls, among others.

Another way to test, is to analyze a hair sample, but its value in indicated overall toxicity has not been demonstrated.

We recently received some samples from Morrocco Method Products, a hair care company that specializes in natural vegan products for skin and hair, as well as chemical - free shampoos and conditioners for cats, dogs and horses.

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Levels of lead, cadmium and nickel in scalp hair, blood and urine samples were significantly higher in groups of exposed workers compared to those of a control group.

My three favorite dry shampoos in order, Redken, Clairol hair food, and Klorane (PR sample but really like it).

But I received a sample of Living Proof's Perfect Hair Day product in my Birchbox last month and love it!

/ Clutch: Kate Spade or similar / Watch: Michael Kors / Bracelets: top to bottom: Simple Addiction, Birthday gift / Hair pin: Deepa Gurnani -LCB- received in Sample Society box -RCB- / Earrings: Anthropologie

In fact, all the products smell amazing (a girl friend of mine had a few of their products which I've sampled), and since it's in your hair the smell lingers all daIn fact, all the products smell amazing (a girl friend of mine had a few of their products which I've sampled), and since it's in your hair the smell lingers all dain your hair the smell lingers all day.

Upon sitting we eagerly peeked inside our gift bags which contained: an Anthro hairpin (a different one in each bag), peppermint chocolate wrapped with a sequined Anthro hair band, some skin product samples, and various information from vendors located around the store.