Sentences with phrase «laboratory models of»

Studies in two laboratory models of CMT1A not only stopped progression of the disease, but also showed improvement of some symptoms.

Thomas was nominated by Prof. Erica Ryherd, for work simulated and laboratory models of aircraft sound transmission in residences.

NCI's efforts to develop new laboratory models of human cancer includes vastly increasing the number of human cancer cell lines (grown as two - dimensional and three - dimensional cultures) and patient - derived tumor xenografts.

A new study shows that restoring the lipids that help keep lung tissue flexible and inflated can help slow disease progression in laboratory models of pulmonary fibrosis.

He said experiments are under way to test the two - drug combination in laboratory models of metastasis - prone prostate cancer, leading eventually to tests in mouse models.

Combining chemotherapy and birinapant significantly improved disease - free survival in laboratory models of human ovarian cancer compared to using either therapy alone.

Realistic stem cell therapies to replace diseased or damaged tissue may still be years away, but researchers have uncovered a promising new use for these undifferentiated cells: they can be programmed to become patient - specific laboratory models of inherited liver disease.

Precessional states in a laboratory model of the Earth's core.

Researchers have completed the first laboratory model of the human female reproductive cycle

«Our interest in the body's own (innate) immune system as the culprit began when we discovered that immune system agents become activated in a laboratory model of Huntington's Disease,» he says.

A study combining tumor cells from patients with breast cancer with a laboratory model of blood vessel lining provides the most compelling evidence so far that a specific trio of cells is required for the spread of breast cancer.

Yet that's just what researchers have done, using a seemingly simple laboratory model of rifting on the seafloor.

«It's a very complicated picture and the laboratory model of just taking one isolated chemical and giving it to a genetically pure strain of rats in clean cages, clean air and clean water and seeing what it does just doesn't come close to mimicking the human situation,» she said.

Laboratory model of immune system overcomes ethical constraints on studies of hematopoietic stem cells in humans.

Affiliation moderates the effects of social threat on stress - related cardiovascular responses: Boundary conditions for a laboratory model of social support

Not exact matches

Liboiron uses her position as the head of the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research to advocate for open science hardware and lead «a small but growing movement for people who make technology and instruments open source,» something she describes as «very much against the model that runs many universities around the world.»

The machine - learning - based model by Medial EarlySign used data found in EHRs, such as laboratory tests results, demographics, medication, and diagnostic codes, to predict a patient's risk of experiencing renal dysfunction.

Testing that has been completed on components of the system, dubbed KRUSTY, has been «greatly successful — the models have predicted very well what has happened, and operations have gone smoothly,» said Dave Poston, chief reactor designer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Just as Silicon Valley companies are laboratories for new technologies and business models, so Toms is becoming a kind of Darpa for the social - venture set.

It is customary and even ethically mandatory that experimentation that carries with it a substantial degree of risk to human subjects first be tested in an animal laboratory or, at the very least, on a computer model.

The extreme cases of unambiguous wave and particle behaviour occur in mutually exclusive laboratory situations.7 As one physicist puts it, you may have to use a wave model on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and a particle model on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

I have done a little work on developing model behavioral assay procedures for studying the experiences of laboratory rats.

With a laboratory machine designed as a semi-automatic model, containers can be fed into as many as 21 stations which print on four types of bottle...

Some football helmet manufacturers suggest that players who wear their helmets - especially new models - may be at lower risk of concussion than those who wear competitors» models or older helmets, basing their claims on how well the new or newer helmets absorb and lessen some of the impact forces that cause concussion in biomechanical studies performed in the controlled environment of the laboratory.

The study provides what the authors say is good clinical evidence that helmet design can lower the risk of concussion, not in a laboratory, but in games and practices, by showing that a helmet model introduced in 2000 provides better protection against concussion than an older helmet employing 20 - year - old design technology.

The reliability and stability of these methods were described by Wu et al. 27 Illumina tag sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene V4 - V5 hypervariable region was performed at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, using established methods.28, 29 Details of sequencing methods, quality control and filtering, and statistical modeling are presented in the eAppendix in the Supplement.

Study researchers Hélène Seroussi and Erik Ivins of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory built a model of all the known melting and freezing under the ice in the region.

Put simply, the funding model «did not work out as planned,» Rush Holt, who is the CEO of AAAS (which publishes Science Careers), a former member of Congress, and a physicist who served as assistant director of a national laboratory, told the gathering.

You have to be able to see something at the bedside and think of how you can address it in a model organism or some kind of detailed biochemistry experiment in the laboratory.

The new model «came out of left field, but it's very original,» says materials scientist Graham Hubler of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., who saw ball lightning as a teenager during a thunderstorm in upstate New York 40 years ago.

A raft of studies in laboratory animals, molecular models and cancer patients suggest that pain drugs given during and after cancer surgery stimulate the growth and spread of certain tumors.

The model requires so many calculations that it could only be run once — even with more than a year of computer time at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Tennessee.

In another example, Epstein's laboratory at NYU is working with the city's public health department to model potential outbreaks of Zika, a mosquito - borne virus that can lead to catastrophic birth defects.

«Where this model really shines is explaining the late emission,» says Chris Fryer of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico — one of the physicists who first proposed the burrowing black hole theory in the 1990s.

Amandine Aftalion from the Mathematics Laboratory in Versailles (CNRS / University of Versailles - Saint - Quentin - en - Yvelines) and Frédéric Bonnans from the Center of Applied Mathematics (CNRS / Inria / École polytechnique) have produced a mathematical model to optimize running, which could lead to personal e-coaching customized to each individual's physiological state.

The ability to make and study cubic ice in the laboratory could improve computer models of how clouds interact with sunlight and the atmosphere — two keys to understanding climate change, said Barbara Wyslouzil, project leader and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at The Ohio State University.

This realization «pushed one entire laboratory project in the direction of understanding the immunology of pregnancy as a model for immunity of cancer,» Markovic says.

In the laboratory, I could be alone and build things, although now I was building molecules instead of model cars.

So far, however, all of the serious testing has been confined to laboratory chambers and theoretical models.

In the study, which included a series of laboratory experiments, field surveys and mathematical modeling, the presence of various species of dragonfly larvae reduced the infections in frogs caused by parasitic flatworms called trematodes, said Val Beasley, professor and head of the department of veterinary and biomedical sciences, Penn State, who worked with Rohr and whose research group collaborated with Lucinda Johnson, senior research associate and director of the Center for Water and the Environment, University of Minnesota Duluth, to complete the field study.

Called GREAT3, which stands for GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing 3, the event is sponsored by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and a European Union Network of Excellence called Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modeling and Computation Learning 2 (PASCAL2).

The study involved laboratory cell lines of human leukemia and mouse models of the disease.

But the fact that one part of the rings didn't cool as expected allowed us to model what they might be like on the inside,» said Ryuji Morishima of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, who led the study.

The scientists then tested three new mTOR inhibitors currently under development (pp242, AZD8055 and INK128) in combination with the chemotherapies AraC, Etoposide and Cisplatin to see how they affected laboratory lines of leukemia cells and mouse models of the disease.

The ability of the inorganic component of sea spray particles to take up water has been the focus of this international study where a large suite of well - controlled laboratory experiments have shown, for the first time, that the hygroscopicity of the inorganic component of sea spray is significantly lower than pure sodium chloride, a substance routinely used to describe their hygroscopicity in climate models.

The menagerie of exoplanets has provided new natural laboratories for scientists to test out models of planetary formation and evolution.

The team studied a simulated cloak capable of hiding a single frequency of green light, and modelled it moving at various speeds in a laboratory illuminated by that frequency.

Tropsha is the K.H. Lee Distinguished Professor at the School and director of the Laboratory for Molecular Modeling.

The model has already been integrated into the next generation of the global land model used for climate simulations by the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, a major national climate modeling center.

Michael Thoennessen, a professor and associate director of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NCSL) at Michigan State University in East Lansing believes that mentors can help young scientists by modeling the costs and rewards of persistence.