Sentences with phrase «molecular studies»

This model has received a certain amount of support from molecular studies in recent years.
The findings provide a valuable background for molecular studies and research on the interplay of genes and the environment with respect to musical ability.
«There is no evidence of the existence of figs at this time and the most recent molecular study doesn't place figs that far back,» he said.
According to other molecular studies, fish oil actually slows down aging.
«We wanted to provide these valuable data to scientists, and our hope is that this sequenced genome will stimulate new research in molecular studies of insects.»
Based on a new molecular study of tissues biopsied from various parts of the upper digestive tract, researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified significant, if subtle, differences in gene mutations and other factors that could help in developing more tailored treatment options for cancer patients.
Human epidemiological studies and molecular studies show that HTLV - 1 causes adult T - cell leukemia - lymphoma, a rare cancer that infects the body's own T cells, specifically the white blood cells known as CD4 T cells, which help fight off infection.
«This effort moves the community beyond the barriers of most previous molecular studies that focused exclusively on immune cells in the tumor microenvironment, providing a broader picture of how our bodies and immune system respond to the challenges of the presence of a particular tumor,» Dumeaux says.
By combining results from molecular studies of more than 250 species of trees and shrubs in the southern Appalachians, the researchers were able to pinpoint when and where each species and its closest cousin went their separate ways.
They then matched this data with molecular studies of evolutionary relationships, and used statistical modelling to infer the features of the earliest flower.
Last year, UC San Diego nanoengineers led by Professor Y. Shirley Meng published a detailed molecular study addressing this question.
Further molecular study of the remains could identify details about the Spirit Cave individuals — from the foods they consumed to the diseases that afflicted them.
The teams at AFB International and Integral Molecular studied the behavior of two different cat bitter taste receptors in cell - based experiments, investigating their responsiveness to bitter compounds, and comparing these to the human versions of these receptors.
Cause and effect Molecular studies paint a potentially bleak picture, but researchers warn that the effects and causes of these differences are unknown.
Molecular studies published by the first three authors have contributed much to the knowledge of the evolution of these tiny troglobitic snails.
«We have confirmed this earlier appearance of the Iberian lynx based on initial molecular studies that estimate the emergence of this feline during the Early Pleistocene in the Iberian Peninsula,» asserts Alberto Boscaini, a researcher at the Miquel Crusafont Catalan Institute of Palaeontology (ICP) and the main author of this study published by Quaternary Science Reviews.
A new molecular study provides the strongest scientific evidence yet that six foreign medics held in Libya are innocent of charges that they deliberately infected more than 400 children with HIV.
Molecular studies also turn up results that don't fit with a Laurasian origin for placental mammals.
Moffitt researchers performed molecular studies to show for the first time that SETDB1 is constitutively modified by a single ubiquitin molecule.
In a comprehensive and complex molecular study of blood samples from Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, published in Cell Host and Microbe, a scientific team led by the University of Wisconsin - Madison has identified signatures of Ebola virus disease that may aid in future treatment efforts.
Meanwhile, these first genomes — together with less ambitious molecular studies — are yielding a different payoff: They are helping break open silk and venom research.
Jan Janecka, a postdoctoral fellow working with evolutionary genomicist William Murphy at Texas A&M University in College Station, has now jumped into the debate with a two - pronged molecular study, the most comprehensive approach attempted thus far.
Michael Steiper, an anthropological geneticist at Hunter College in New York City who has conducted numerous molecular studies of primate evolution, welcomes the new findings.
Molecular studies revealed that all the T cells contained a DNA signature from the site where the retrovirus vector had integrated itself into the host's genome.
Furthermore, several molecular studies have concluded that whales share a common artiodactyl ancestor with hippos and are thus more closely related to these animals than to any other living artiodactyl or to a mesonychian.
Molecular studies identify new diagnostic and therapeutic concepts to prevent and treat these viral diseases or to prevent the formation of virus - induced tumors.
Contributions of a nationwide molecular study — Aurélie Jayol, European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
A pilot study of neoadjuvant paclitaxel and radiation therapy with correlative molecular studies in Stage II / III breast cancer.
Molecular studies at PsychoGenics and other organizations have demonstrated that the excision of the neomycin resistance cassette results in a modest but significant increase in mutant HTT mRNA levels, and a trend towards an increase in soluble mHTT protein and extranuclear inclusions.
In one of the first molecular studies of the human antibody response to yellow fever, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers and their colleagues have found the crucial bit of virus that...
Research in the Leukemia Program spans from direction of clinical trials to basic molecular studies of leukemia biology, immunotherapy and development of novel agents, and to mitigating the late effects of treatment in long - term survivors.
Building customized chromatin for molecular studies remains a challenge because of its multidimensionality.
Recent molecular studies suggest that several groups of fungi with simple, cleistothecial ascomata belong to the Leotiomycetes, including the Erysiphales, Myxotrichaceae, and Thelebolales (Blackwell et al. 2006; de Hoog et al. 2005; Gernandt et al. 2001).
Human epidemiological studies, clinical studies, and molecular studies show that Epstein - Barr virus can lead to four types of lymphoma — Burkitt, Hodgkin, immune - suppression - related non-Hodgkin, and nasal type extranodal NK / T - cell — and two types of epithelial cancer — nasopharyngeal cancer and some types of stomach cancer.
The research was supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (Grant DK106309), National Cancer Institute (Grant CA168654), and Center for Molecular Studies in Digestive and Liver Diseases (Grant DK050306).
«While previous molecular studies have provided simple snapshots of the gene transcript variations that are associated with the exposure of insects to natural and synthetic chemicals, the genomics approaches used in this study offer a significantly more complex perspective on the biochemical and physiological processes occurring in plant - insect interactions,» Schuler said.
Topics spanned the entire field of cancer research, from molecular studies of cell cycle proteins to the role of vegetable consumption in cancer prevention.
And yet, these little - studied organisms possess the ability to regenerate any part of their bodies and are amenable to molecular studies in the lab, making them a valuable addition to a field keen on understanding how mechanisms controlling regeneration have evolved over millennia and how they might be activated in humans.
WASHINGTON (June 30, 2017)-- Based on a new molecular study of tissues biopsied from various parts of the upper digestive tract, researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified significant, if subtle, differences in gene mutations and other factors that could help in developing more tailored treatment options for cancer patients.
The essential role of «minor» phyla in molecular studies of animal evolution.
Molecular studies of gene expression during long - lasting synaptic plasticity related to memory storage initially focused on the identification of positive regulators.
Diagnostic techniques common in human medicine, such as CT and MRI scanning and molecular studies, are now being used to improve insight into the causes.
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Human epidemiology studies in populations in different geographic locations, as well as clinical and molecular studies, show that Merkel cell polyomavirus causes Merkel cell carcinoma.
And more recently, molecular studies had suggested that caloric restriction — or compounds that mimicked it — might trigger a cascade of changes in gene expression that had the net effect of slowing ageing.
Microbats, the group of bats that emit echolocation signals from the larynx, came under close scrutiny because, surprisingly, some molecular studies divided them into two groups that diverged long ago, suggesting that echolocation evolved twice.
«It combines knowledge from the field of microfluidics, which uses fluids at a microscopic scale to miniaturize biological experiments, with the cellular, biological and molecular studies we conduct in laboratories.»
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