Sentences with phrase «modern molecular approaches»

We've used modern molecular approaches to characterize the vaginal microbiome and link specific bacteria to HIV acquisition risk in young women living in Sub-Saharan Africa, where HIV is most profound,» says first author Christina Gosmann, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard.

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Molecular clock approaches allow us to estimate when two closely related modern species split from a common ancestor by comparing their DNA.

«This paper takes advantage of modern molecular biology and genetic approaches to test some of those hypotheses,» said University of Nebraska - Lincoln biologist Kristi L. Montooth, a fruit fly expert who co-authored the new study.

«To better understand safety issues, we are making efforts to employ more modern investigational, molecular approaches to safety assessment — and increase our safety testing work force by about 10 percent,» says Phil Bentley, vice president and global head of preclinical safety at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research in New York City.

The broad area of molecular, cell and developmental biology is a rapidly growing area that has deeply impacted modern biological approaches.

Azim, who is a member of Salk's Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, uses a multidisciplinary approach to identify how neural circuits control skilled movements, taking advantage of modern techniques in neurobiology, genetics and computer vision to investigate how diverse neural pathways are involved in different aspects of motor control.

His approach is based on the rigorous application of state - of - the - art isotopic and organic mass spectrometry to study molecular fossils (biomarkers) derived from organisms across the three Domains of life, accumulated in modern and ancient natural archives from both the marine and terrestrial realm.