Sentences with phrase «lab pioneered the study»

Without enough oxygen, the yeast may be unable to produce the metabolic changes scientists think are necessary to prolong life, say MIT molecular biologist Leonard Guarente, whose lab pioneered the study of caloric restriction in yeast.

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To better determine the role of specific chemoattractants in type III hypersensitivity, lead author Yoshishige Miyabe, MD, PhD, a research fellow in Luster's lab, used multiphoton intravital microscopy — an imaging technology pioneered for studies of immune cell movements in living animals by CIID investigator and co-author Thorsten Mempel, MD, PhD — to follow in real time the development of IC - induced arthritis in a mouse model of rheumatoid arthritis.

This study was led by Robert Ritchie, a materials scientist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and Caltech's William Johnson, one of the pioneers in the field of bulk metallic glass fabrication.

Our group is helping Rafael Yuste's lab to pioneer the use of Hydra vulgaris, a small, freshwater polyp that attaches itself to underwater surfaces in lakes, rivers and ponds and uses its tentacles to capture prey, as a model organism for studying neural function.

And she's something of a pioneer: Although interest in the microbiome is booming, Liang estimates that just a handful of labs in the U.S. study the interactions she's investigating.

The Ellerby lab is known for its pioneering studies on Huntington's disease (HD), and Karen is now using human stem cell models of HD to understand why important molecular signaling pathways, such as the TGF - β pathway, are dysregulated in HD.

The John lab was a pioneer in using mouse for glaucoma studies and was among the first to show that mice have a Eyeing the eyeSchlemm's canal is critical in maintaining proper fluid flow from the eye.

His research lab in the mid-1980s pioneered the social scientific study of how people forgive one another.