Sentences with phrase «lead authors of the current study»

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.

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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.