Sentences with phrase «lab studying how»

«Laminins function as attractive chemical cues for haptotaxis of axonal growth cones,» explains NAIST Prof. Naoyuki Inagaki, whose lab studies how forces are generated in the cellular microenvironment to create directed axonal migration.

«The physical symptoms that affect people with Parkinson's — including tremors and rigidity of movement — are caused by an imbalance between two types of medium spiny neurons in the brain,» said Dr. Kreitzer, whose lab studies how Parkinson's disease affects brain functions.

Her lab studies how bacteria use one - carbon compounds, such as methane and methanol, as a sole source of carbon and energy.

The Yoder Lab studies how coevolution between interacting species helps to create and maintain biodiversity, and how intimate species interactions can help or hinder adaptation to other factors, including changing climate.

Not exact matches

Fitbit is currently working with sleep labs to study how prototypes perform in detecting sleep apnea.

In the first comprehensive study of its kind, Temple University and the Wisconsin HOPE Lab released a report that sheds light on just how widespread food insecurity and homelessness are for college students in America.

His lab has looked at how the nature of stress in parent - child relationships influences child and family function as well asand has the used longitudinal studies to look at the association between parenting styles and children's emotions and behaviors that may contribute to early mental health issues in children.

Here's an update on a story I shared with you last February: Back then, I told you how a team of researchers had examined four published studies by the Cornell Food and Brand Lab and had raised a number of serious concerns about the studies» data.

«So my lab is currently looking at those other species of borrelia to see if they're found in this area and how common they are and, similar to this study, to see if ticks are co-infected with those at unexpected rates.»

To study how the fruit fly neurons responded to external temperature, Yadlapalli worked with Chang Jiang, a postdoctoral researcher in the labs of Pramod Reddy and Edgar Meyhofer of the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering.

I am a PhD student at the MIT Media Lab and I study materials (both how we can leverage them for technology and how we perceive them).

Her interest was piqued: Upon graduating in 1999 she joined the lab of Ding Xue at the University of Colorado, Boulder, to study how cell death is regulated in the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans.

In a study reported online in Nature, she and her team revealed how the lymphatic system develops in the embryo and for the first time managed to grow lymphatic cells in the lab.

Europe came through: Last year, Cory received a European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Installation Grant for his lab in mitochondrial biogenesis, and Gülayşe won a Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant from the European Commission to study how single genes can yield different protein products in neurons.

«Our lab specializes in developing novel genetic methodologies to study T cell repertoires, but we had never applied this technology to study how the immune system responds to an infection,» says Emanual Maverakis, M.D., associate professor of dermatology at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine.

«Although the effects of light are well studied in adults, virtually nothing is known about how evening light exposure affects the physiology, health and development of preschool - aged children,» said lead author Lameese Akacem, a CU Boulder instructor and researcher in the Sleep and Development Lab.

Her main focus has been studying how the central nervous system develops in embryos: in frogs as a graduate student, then in mice as a postdoc at Duke University starting in 1997, and later at U.C. San Francisco when her lab moved to the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center there in 1999.

For the new study, Dokholyan's team, including lead author Cheng Zhu, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in his lab, conducted complicated experiments to compare how trimers affect neurons to how larger fibrils affect neurons.

The research is part of a growing field called ecoimmunology, which aims to push the study of immunology beyond lab animals like fruit flies and mice and understand how immune systems function in real - world settings outside the lab.

«Other labs were learning how to make engines or studying thermodynamics or fluid dynamics, but this lab was studying a golf swing and how people walked,» Fleisig says.

A new study published in Nature Communications by researchers from the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology (MRC CDN) at IoPPN, carried out in collaboration with the Tian lab at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (USA), unravels how this synchrony is achieved at the molecular level.

«We have a lot of theoretical papers that sort of hint at how parasites could have been fought off, but here we have a lab - based study that shows a potential mechanism,» says Niles Lehman, a chemist at Portland State University in Oregon who wasn't part of the study.

In a separate study, Goray and colleagues illustrated how easily DNA can transfer within and between items from a crime scene during transport to the lab, in a study involving objects such as used cigarette butts and bloodied knives (Forensic Science International Genetics, DOI: 10.1016 / j.fsigen.2011.03.013).

But he wanted the convention to call for greater transparency in how the technology is studied in labs and deployed in the field, for instance by creating a mandatory gene - drive registry.

To study how Amazonian trees responded to drought, Santiago's team plucked branches from the tops of trees in French Guiana's Paracou Research Station and studied them in a lab to determine how readily they develop hydraulic failure, which is a function of their physics, including the dimensions of their plumbing and the pressure their vessels can withstand.

«Our study shows how EB proteins can either facilitate microtubule assembly by binding to sub-units of the microtubule, essentially holding them together, or else cause a microtubule to disassemble by promoting GTP hydrolysis that destabilizes the microtubule lattice,» says Eva Nogales, a biophysicist with Berkeley Lab's Life Sciences Division who led this research.

The Campàs lab is studying several of these questions, including how limbs are built and how mechanical changes in tumors affect the behavior of malignant cells and the growth of the tumor.

«How friction evolves during an earthquake: By simulating quakes in a lab, engineers study the way that friction changes along a fault during a seismic event.»

How these capabilities might play out in the real world is still a big question, says Ring Cardé, whose lab at the University of California, Riverside also studies odor and other cues mosquitoes use to hunt down a meal.

Meanwhile, Dr. Toprak's lab was using a device he had developed to study how bacteria become resistant to antibiotics.

Although this may be bad news for the Baltic Sea and other areas plagued by this dinoflagellate, Kremp also noted that the short duration of most lab studies limits what we can know about how toxic algae may evolve over the next century.

And although there's already «a battery of evidence» for laterality in animals from lab studies, Lesley Rogers of the University of New England in Armidale, Australia, says, «we're only beginning to look at how this laterality manifests itself in the wild.»

The cells will enable researchers to use lab - grown cultures to study how the diseases develop.

In previous studies, Camarillo's lab had outfitted 31 college football players with special mouthguards that recorded how players» heads moved after an impact, including a few cases in which players suffered concussions.

In her lab's mission statement, Wendy sums up how studying sign languages can illuminate how the mind works: «It usually comes as a surprise to the layman to learn that nobody sat down and invented the sign languages of the deaf.

MLVs so dependably cause cancer in lab - bred mice — especially leukemia and lymphoma — that a small fraternity of scientists at the NCI and elsewhere has fruitfully studied these viruses since the 1960s in an effort to understand how human cancer begins.

The researchers, Richard E. Smalley and Robert F. Curl Jr. of Rice University in Houston, and Harold W. Kroto of the University of Sussex in Brighton, United Kingdom, made their discovery in 1985 in Smalley's lab at Rice while working together to study how carbon atoms cluster.

They brought study participants into the lab to describe how it felt when Israr charged the screen with voltages of various frequencies and amplitudes.

The work involved a collaboration between UC Berkeley neuroscientist Diana Bautista, Ph.D., who runs a lab focused on the molecular basis of the sensations of itch, touch and pain, and Buck Associate Professor Rachel Brem, Ph.D., a geneticist who studies how and why traits differ between individuals.

Sharma had developed a new method for studying how tumors with different characteristics respond to different immunotherapies: She would treat patients before their growths were surgically removed, then analyze the tissue in her lab.

«In addition to being used in animal studies to help us understand how the brain works, this new endoscope might one day be useful for certain applications in people,» said Shay Ohayon, who developed the device as a postdoctoral researcher in James DiCarlo's lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The lab is also studying how bees copy each other.

Coffin described how lab workers there had transplanted human prostate tumor cells into an immune - deficient lab mouse, a common procedure for procuring a colony of cells, or a human cell line, for further study.

The Wuhan lab will give his group a chance to study how such viruses cause disease, and to develop treatments based on antibodies and small molecules, he says.

In her lab, she studies rodents to see how genetic variation is generated and maintained in natural populations.

Studying how genes affect different drugs manufactured by different companies gives Poirier greater influence on future drug development, he feels, which would not be possible if he was employed at any one pharmaceutical research lab.

The researchers used the new lab - on - a-chip to study how adult stem cells in adipose tissue develop into mature fat cells, conducting their investigations outside the body.

«A major challenge with understanding how aging impacts autophagy is that researchers have been capturing a dynamic process with static measurements,» explains Jessica Chang, Ph.D., a former postdoc in Hansen's lab and first author of the study.

«This (study) is a great example of how collaboration across labs in the scientific community advances human knowledge.»

Jun and Doyoon Kim, a doctoral student in her lab, studied how miniscule gaps in collagen's fiber structure facilitate the nucleation of calcium phosphate, which is necessary for bone formation and maintenance.