Sentences with phrase «lab samples from»

This is especially helpful when looking at the heart, kidneys, urinary bladder and other organs and when collecting special lab samples from within the body cavities.

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For Theranos to take lab - testing business from the two major lab companies used by doctors, Quest and LabCorp, and to partner to run tests for more hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies, it has to show it can get it right at every stage, from the preparation before it pricks someone's finger to the accurate processing of hundreds of thousands of samples.

For example, labs take DNA samples from patients being tested for cancer and runs tests to detect if mutations typically associated with cancer are present; a diagnostician then examines those genetic mutations and compares them to known instances; finally, based on that information a physician recommends a course of treatment.

In two independent lab tests, researchers found that the other alleged primary ingredient — soy — made up less than 1 % of the sample, according to a statement from Subway.

Sending a representing sample from every bin to the lab for testing using the R5 ELISA R7001 assay (testing occurs prior to the crop being shipped to the mill).

In addition to camp curriculum, campers receive: Pair of New Balance training shoes Camp shirt Camp notebook Daily pre and post-run nutrition from GU Energy Labs + fresh produce from Robert's Market Portola Valley Goodie bag containing sample products and discount offers from our Community Partners.

This might include reading a chapter from a book to prepare for the class discussion the next day, or interviewing a community member for a school project, or collecting real data, such as water samples from a local source for a science lab.

Pick up product samples from Mead Johnson Enfamil & Abbott Labs Similac, Beechnut, Mary Kay, and Happy Baby Food.

A breast biopsy involves the removal of a small tissue sample from the breast for lab testing to determine if any cancerous cell changes are present.

After his father's death from cancer, Hickey took his own water samples from sources around town and sent them to a lab out of state that confirmed elevated levels of PFOA.

As with the ComRes marginal poll in the week the seats polled were mostly ultra-marginal seats — in this case, the 12 most marginal Con - Lab seats, the 12 most marginal Lab - Con seats, but whereas the ComRes poll was a single sample representing the most marginal 40, these were 24 individual samples, one from each seat.

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.

But researchers barely tried to protect Lacks» identity, treating her cells as no different from a sample collected from a lab rat.

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.

Over two years, a rotating team from my lab and six other institutions collected most of the samples that we're still working on today.

Media revelations about the scale of doping first appeared in May based on evidence from Grigory Rodchenkov, former director of the lab in Moscow where athletes» samples were handled, which was accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

The microbes — most from the common genus Penicillium — could confound the search for life in off - world specimens, just as the lab is preparing to receive samples from Mars and the carbon - rich asteroid Bennu.

«If a clinical lab finds G. vaginalis in a UTI sample, perhaps they shouldn't assume it's just a contaminant from the vagina,» Gilbert said.

Since then, Freeze's lab has created cell lines using samples collected from 10 NGLY1 patients, and he hopes the crowdsourcing campaign will yield testable new hypotheses.

George Preti's lab is lined with fume cupboards, machinery for analyzing gases, and freezers packed with saliva and sweat samples and even archived T - shirts worn by people during experiments into scents produced from our underarms while we're stressed.

A team of researchers led by Jeff Tza - Huei Wang, PhD, from the Johns Hopkins University BioMEMS Lab, Baltimore, Maryland have developed the first low - cost NAAT platform that can diagnose chlamydia at the point - of - care and that integrates sample preparation, DNA amplification, and data processing all in one coffee mug - sized instrument.

In the lab, Lyda tests samples of materials found in products on the market and screens promising materials the Shiflett group is considering for removing sulfites from wine (and other products like fruit juices that also can contain sulfites).

Returning to the lab, he examined DNA in tissue samples taken from the children.

Sometimes I was able to use samples from athletes who tried (or not) to cheat during the Olympic summer games in Atlanta, but sometimes I had to resort to using samples from my poor lab colleagues.

To grow these microorganism cultures in the lab, researchers house samples in petri dishes lined with a nourishing gel mixture derived from algae called agar growth media.

«When we analyzed tissue samples in the lab, we found that exposing white fat to macrophage cells from the immune system inhibited the transformation.»

The insight from Sudbury is complemental, the geologists say, because you can directly observe the rocks with your own eyes and collect loads of samples for detailed study in the lab.

To study the role of sweet taste receptors, Cohen and lead study author Robert J. Lee, PhD, a post doctoral researcher in his lab, partnered with colleagues from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Monell Chemical Senses Center to analyze cultures and tissue samples from the upper respiratory tract of patients who were undergoing sinonasal surgery for a variety of conditions.

Back in the lab, Nifong and his colleagues teased out what they could find in those stomach contents, and looked for more clues about the animals» diet from in the blood samples.

Starting in three weeks, he and his colleagues will collect cutaneous bacteria from mountain yellow - legged frogs in the isolated Dusy basin area of the Sierras: «We'll go in with skin swabs, take samples, culture bacteria, grow it in the lab at San Francisco State, then wait a week, go back out and inoculate a bunch of frogs,» Vredenburg says.

Zipping back down from the canopy to the ground, leaf and soil samples carefully stashed in backpacks, the researchers head to the lab.

To probe whether the Toronto lab's test is prone to this problem when there is no Y chromosome DNA in a woman's blood, we submitted a sample from a woman who claimed to be seeking a prenatal paternity test, but in reality had never been pregnant.

When we presented Melekhovets with our findings, his representative said that the lab generally receives samples from pregnant women and questioned the relevance of our samples to its everyday operations.

As night goes on, the makeshift lab fills with urine and blood samples from hammer - headed fruit bats.

Now researchers in California and Virginia have identified symbiotic bacteria living on amphibians» skins that protects them from the deadly fungal disease, and later this summer the scientists will collect some of the microbial samples, culture them in the lab, and use the product to inoculate some frogs in California's Sierra Nevada to see if the approach stops chytrid in the wild.

While Dorfman and other scientists may never see mantle core samples firsthand, the observations and measurements from the lab will help scientists interpret what seismic waves may be telling them.

We asked Syndercombe Court's lab, which is experienced in SNP typing, to test samples from the same three adults.

Using tumor samples from a patient, they do lab tests to determine which substances can first make the different types of cancer cells uniform and then effectively kill them.

Tissue engineers have been unable to grow epidermis with the functional barrier needed for drug testing, and have been further limited in producing an in vitro (lab) model for large - scale drug screening by the number of cells that can be grown from a single skin biopsy sample.

In lab experiments using tissue samples cultured from cystic fibrosis patients, scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and the UNC Marsico Lung Institute have shown that a new CF drug counteracts the intended beneficial molecular effect of another CF drug.

A sample is taken from the production line to be analysed in a lab.

Indeed, U.K. labs have reported 21 similar poliolike cases in cattle and sheep over the last 10 years, and samples from some of those animals are now being studied.

Looking at 250 samples in the lab (116 from cotton swabs of the conjunctiva, 114 from cotton swabs of skin under the eye, and 20 contact lenses), researchers found a higher diversity of bacteria on the ocular surface than on the skin under the eye or on the contact lenses, which was a surprising result, Dominguez - Bello said.

In the lab, the researchers were able to regrow bryophyte samples representing four different taxa from the glacier, they report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (inset).

Environmental microbiologist Jed Fuhrman of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles calls the situation a «nightmare» adding that his lab paused a 10 - year project of collecting monthly virus samples from the waters between Los Angeles and nearby Catalina Island.

From tissue and cell samples from five glioblastoma patients, the scientists obtained 33 individual cancer cells capable of reproduction, which grew into very different tumors in the From tissue and cell samples from five glioblastoma patients, the scientists obtained 33 individual cancer cells capable of reproduction, which grew into very different tumors in the from five glioblastoma patients, the scientists obtained 33 individual cancer cells capable of reproduction, which grew into very different tumors in the lab.

The mtDNA sequence the researchers claimed to have obtained from the fossil is quite common in Europe today, making it difficult to rule out the possibility that someone not on the team touched the sample or the lab equipment used in the analysis, says evolutionary geneticist and ancient DNA expert Hendrik Poinar of McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada.

At the National Lacrustine Core Facility in Minnesota, samples from the St. Paul Island sediment cores are divided into plastic containers that will be sent to labs at institutions across the country.

At Darwin's lab, eight sequencing machines ran around the clock, decoding the DNA samples that had been collected from Ginger and the others, while Schellenberg and George Martin and their colleagues combed through the results for suspect genes.

When Froese's lab identifies a core sample layer of volcanic ash from a known eruption in the area 3,595 years ago, it gives added confidence to the teams» timeline.