Sentences with phrase «landmark study led»

A landmark study led by UNC School of Medicine researchers has identified the first genetic locus for anorexia nervosa and has revealed that there may also be metabolic underpinnings to this potentially deadly illness.

The Global Down Syndrome Foundation has funded a landmark study led by scientist Dr. Joaquín Espinosa, Associate Director for Science at the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome.

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In 2007, a landmark British study published in The Lancet medical journal found that artificial food colors and preservatives increase hyperactivity in children, leading the European Union to require warning labels on foods containing any of six specific food colors.

A landmark 30 - year - long UNSW Sydney study of wetlands in eastern Australia has found that construction of dams and diversion of water from the Murray - Darling Basin have led to a more than 70 per cent decline in waterbird numbers.

Sinervo led a landmark study published in 2010 documenting the widespread extinction of lizard populations around the world due to climate change.

A landmark new study, led by scientists at Bowdoin and the California Academy of Sciences, explores the fascinating, little - known natural history of the face mite species Demodex folliculorum, using genetic testing to link the microscopic animal's evolution to our own ever - evolving human story.

«Discovery of genes linked to preterm birth in landmark study: Study based on data from more than 50,000 women, published today in The New England Journal of Medicine, could lead to new ways to prevent leading cause of infant mortality.&rstudy: Study based on data from more than 50,000 women, published today in The New England Journal of Medicine, could lead to new ways to prevent leading cause of infant mortality.&rStudy based on data from more than 50,000 women, published today in The New England Journal of Medicine, could lead to new ways to prevent leading cause of infant mortality.»

Earlier dating work by Lepre and Kent helped lead to another landmark paper in 2011: a study that suggested Homo erectus, another precursor to modern humans, was using more advanced tool - making methods 1.8 million years ago, at least 300,000 years earlier than previously thought.

«Although this study is a landmark moment in a substantial chapter of work, it is just the beginning,» says Wei - Chung Lee, Ph.D., Instructor in Neurobiology at Harvard Medicine School and lead author on the paper.

Research builds on a series of recent landmark studies, at JCVI, which have led to transformative new methodology for synthetic biology and functional genomics

In a landmark study that could lead to new therapies for sickle cell anaemia and other blood disorders, UNSW Sydney - led researchers have used CRISPR - gene editing to introduce beneficial natural mutations into blood cells to boost their production of Read more about Solution to 50 - year - old mystery could lead to gene therapy for common blood disorders - Scimex

Reykjavik, ICELAND, May 10, 2005 — deCODE genetics (Nasdaq: DCGN) today announced the publication of a landmark article by a team of its scientists presenting the results of Phase II clinical studies of DG031, the company's lead compound being developed for the...

MHRP is proud to have led a large group that executed the landmark RV144 vaccine trial, the first study to show efficacy in preventing HIV infection.

In his landmark book, Beyond Burnout (Routledge), Cary Cherniss used intensive case study research to identify factors most likely to lead to teacher burnout:

In this landmark study, leading scholars focus on how particular objects tell the history of life under British rule.

To note: Prairie Pulp & Paper commissioned a landmark life cycle comparison research study which was conducted by Offsetters, Canada's leading carbon management solutions provider.

Prof. Julie Macfarlane was the leading author of the landmark study on self - represented litigants in 2014.

McCrae's and Costa's early landmark findings from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging showed that individual differences in personality traits are stable over time and predictive of important life outcomes such as health and coping, leading to a strong resurgence of the entire field of personality psychology in the 1980s and the establishment of the five - factor model as the dominant paradigm for personality.

Coupled with this research is the landmark Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE)(Felitti, et al., 1998) which reviewed the health of more than 17,000 mid-life adults and confirmed that early exposure to negative childhood experiences of abuse, neglect and witnessing violence leads to lifelong, debilitating mental and physical health problems, and ultimately, early mortality.

Another landmark set of studies regarding the fates of British war orphans led him to conclude that infants raised in institutions without stable and continuous relationships with caregiving adults grew up with deficits in cognition, language, attention, and the capacity for durable interpersonal relationships.