A recent study led by Alice Lam, MD, PhD, also of the MGH Epilepsy Service and
lead author of the current study demonstrated a novel tool for detecting hippocampal seizures not detectible by scalp EEGs in patients with epilepsy, Cole adds, and his team is working to refine this tool and apply it to Alzheimer's disease.
The oceanographer Dr. Marilena Oltmanns is
lead author of the current study.
«Every day human beings make choices among multiple options in how to respond to various social situations,» says
lead author of the current study Sergey Gavrilets, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in a statement.
Going back 10 or 15 years, researchers began noting that grateful people had stronger, happier relationships, says Allen W. Barton, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Family Research at the University of Georgia and
the lead author of the current study.
Not exact matches
They could be explained, said
lead author, John O'Kane, MD,
of the University
of Washington Sports Medicine Clinic, by differences in methodology (prospective data collection with weekly interviews in the
current study versus data reported by athletic trainers in the other
studies), and under - reporting in previous
studies that captured concussions only in athletes seeking medical attention.
Best was the
lead author of a new collaborative
study, «Not Missing the Future: A Call to Action for Investigating the Role
of Regenerative Medicine Therapies in Pediatric / Adolescent Sports Injuries,» published May 15 in the American College
of Sports Medicine's
Current Sports Medicine Reports.
«Our corrected calculations show that women just past 65, when
current guidelines state that screenings can stop for many women, have the highest rate
of cervical cancer,» says the
study's
lead author, Anne F. Rositch, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., an assistant professor
of epidemiology and public health at the University
of Maryland School
of Medicine and a researcher at the University
of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center.
«If
current efficiencies
of thermoelectric materials were doubled, thermoelectric coolers might replace the conventional gas refrigerators in your home,» said Cohn, professor and chairman
of the UM Department
of Physics in the College
of Arts and Sciences and
lead author of the
study.
Unlike previous research that only factored spanking and neighborhood conditions separately as precursors
of child maltreatment, the
current study examined these factors simultaneously, said
study lead author Julie Ma, assistant professor
of social work at UM - Flint.
Ian S. Pearse,
lead author on the
study in the
current issue
of the Royal Society journal Proceedings
of the Royal Society B, says that, «competition for resources has often been thought to limit invasions in diverse plant communities, but herbivory could also limit these invasions.»
The only previous demonstration — by researchers
led by Shou - Wei Ding, PhD, a professor
of Plant Pathology and Microbiology at UC Riverside and co-corresponding
author of the
current study — was done in embryonic stem cells and in newborn mice.
It is critical, says Karolinska Institute gynecologist Anna Möller, the
current study's
lead author, for rape survivors themselves to understand that their ability to fight was out
of their conscious control.
«
Current crash data collection forms don't have an explicit section for truck - parking - related crashes, but we can operate under the assumption that specific types
of at - fault truck crashes, such as those due to fatigue, may be the result
of inadequate parking,» said the
study's
lead author, Salvador Hernandez, a transportation safety and logistics researcher at Oregon State.
For the new
study, researchers in Diamond's laboratory,
led by first
author Helen Lazear, PhD, now at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, tested five strains
of the Zika virus in the mice: the original strain acquired from Uganda in 1947; three strains that circulated in Senegal in the 1980s; and the French Polynesian strain, which caused infections in 2013 and is nearly identical to the strain causing the
current outbreak.
Alistair Miles,
lead author from the University
of Oxford and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, said: «The data we have generated are a unique resource for
studying how mosquito populations are responding to our
current control efforts, and for designing better technologies and strategies for mosquito control in the future.
This is the result
of a
current study,
led by primary
author Peter Ferenci from the University Department
of Internal Medicine III at the MedUni Vienna, which has been published in the highly New England Journal
of Medicine.
«Results from this
study are based on
current climate projections, and it doesn't necessarily mean that lesser prairie - chickens will experience a population decline,» said Blake Grisham, Texas Tech University scientist and
lead author of the
study.
Elizabeth Heidrich, a PhD student at Newcastle University in England and
lead author of the new
study,
studies microbial fuel cells — devices that generate electrical
current by capturing the electrons freed as bacteria break down organic matter in wastewater.
«Despite having good treatments available,
current reports suggest that fewer than half
of individuals who need therapy are actually getting appropriate HIV medicine to control their virus,
leading to more transmission
of disease,» says
lead study author Maunank Shah, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor
of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine.
In the
current study, Vanderbilt researchers
led by graduate student Andrew Flyak, the paper's first
author, used a high - efficiency method they developed to quickly isolate and generate large quantities
of monoclonal human antibodies from the blood
of survivors
of a 2007 outbreak in Uganda who were infected by the Bundibugyo ebolavirus.
Although numerous
studies have examined the potentially detrimental effects
of restrictive feeding practices on children, the
current study was novel in that it focused on the interplay
of the parent's emotions with their controlling the child's food intake, said
lead author Jaclyn A. Saltzman, a doctoral researcher in human development and family
studies and scholar in the Illinois Transdisciplinary Obesity Prevention Program.
On a hunch, Bradley Lang, Ph.D., the
lead author of the
study and a graduate student in Dr. Silver's lab, came up with the idea
of designing a drug that would help axons regenerate without having to touch the healing spinal cord, as
current treatments may require.
«We showed that Zika virus can kill the kind
of glioblastoma cells that tend to be resistant to
current treatments and
lead to death,» said Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD, the Herbert S. Gasser Professor
of Medicine at Washington University School
of Medicine and the
study's co-senior
author.
The results, published in the
current issue
of Human Molecular Genetics, open the door for pursuing gene editing in nonhuman primates as models for new therapies, including pharmacological, gene - and stem cell - based therapies, said Keith Latham, MSU animal science professor and
lead author of the
study.
«We attached the polyethylene film to one
of the battery electrodes so that an electric
current could flow through it,» said Chen,
lead author of the
study.
It may also
lead to improved therapies to fight sleeping sickness;
current medications used to combat the disease have improved over the past decade but still include an old arsenic - based drug that kills between 5 and 10 percent
of the people receiving treatment, said the
study's senior
author Stephen Hajduk, a professor
of biochemistry and molecular biology in the UGA Franklin College
of Arts and Sciences.
The
authors found that this «health halo» encouraged overconsumption and underestimation
of calories consumed, adding that the
current study could
lead to important changes in advertising regulations — for example, limiting how much information about its social programs a company may include on its food packaging.
«Knowing the approximate position
of the Loop
Current can be an indicator if a bloom will be sustained, and provide a warning for possible hazardous conditions,» said UM Rosenstiel School Ph.D. student Grace Maze,
lead author of the
study.
- The
study led by researchers from the University
of Zurich and published in
Current Biology, has among its
authors researchers from the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG - CRG) and from the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE (CSIC - UPF)-RRB-.
«Our
study uncovers the first genetic evidence explaining why some people look older for their age,» write the
authors of the paper, in the latest issue
of the journal
Current Biology, «and provides new
leads for further investigating the biological basis
of how old or young people look.»
«If you discover something which, according to
current scientific wisdom should be extremely improbable, you can come to one
of two conclusions: either you just got very lucky, or you need to modify your theory,» Joseph Hennawi, an astronomer from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, and
lead author if the
study, said in a statement.
The findings could
lead to improved effectiveness
of current treatments for IBD, as well as the discovery
of new drug targets, the
study authors said.
The
lead author, Dr Will Gray, from the School
of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University
of St Andrews but formerly
of University College London, said the new
studies showing that ocean
currents in the North Atlantic were slowing down were «worrying».
«Natural droughts like the 1930s Dust Bowl and the
current drought in the Southwest have historically lasted maybe a decade or a little less,» said Ben Cook, climate scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space
Studies and the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in New York City, and
lead author of the
study.
«Natural droughts like the 1930s Dust Bowl and the
current drought in the Southwest have historically lasted maybe a decade or a little less,» said Ben Cook, climate scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space
Studies and the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in New York City, and
lead author of the paper, in a statement.
But «at
current rates, the carbon budget would... be exhausted in about 15 to 30 years,» said Joeri Rogelj,
lead author of the
study that was published in the journal Nature Climate Change.
«It goes to show the power
of «thank you,»» said the
study's
lead author Allen Barton, a former doctoral student in the College
of Family and Consumer Sciences and
current postdoctoral research associate at UGA's Center for Family Research.