Sentences with phrase «mysteries for researchers»

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On any given day, Canada's leading researchers unravel the mysteries of biology in state - of - the - art labs throughout the Toronto Medical Discovery Tower and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research; early - stage science and technology companies put business plans into action in the MaRS Incubator; organizations across the innovation spectrum grow their businesses in the Heritage Building — the original brick façade of the old Toronto General Hospital.

The mysteries of the brain may be virtually endless, but a team of researchers from two institutes in Göttingen, Germany now claim to have an answer for at least one question that has remained a puzzle: just how fast does the brain forget information?

Mar. 12, 2013 — A century old mystery as to why, for some animals, it's the father rather than the mother that takes care of their young has been cracked by researchers at the University of Sheffield.

How Children Succeed introduces us to a new generation of researchers and educators who, for the first time, are using the tools of science to peel back the mysteries of character.

Researchers have long known that sleep is important for forming and retaining memories, but how this process works remains a mystery.

The work helps explain a biological mystery and could open scientific doors to studies of novel treatments for neurological disease, said lead researcher Jason Slot, an assistant professor of fungal evolutionary genomics at The Ohio State University.

Most of us steer well clear of halitosis, body odour, farts and smelly feet — but these researchers have a keen nose for their biological mysteries

Researchers now can tackle the mystery of why the winds create sooty waves of dust particles for only a few months during each 8 - year orbit, Williams says.

Researchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in collaboration with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center researchers have identified an unprecedented genetic survival strategy that would be right at home in an Agatha Christie murder mysResearchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in collaboration with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center researchers have identified an unprecedented genetic survival strategy that would be right at home in an Agatha Christie murder mysresearchers have identified an unprecedented genetic survival strategy that would be right at home in an Agatha Christie murder mystery novel.

Researchers hunt for clues to a 3 - million - year - old mystery on Ellesmere Island.

With the end - date for the St. Paul mammoths now confidently established, the researchers can use it to solve the biggest part of the mystery: What finally killed the animals?

Researchers have identified the genetic mutation responsible for one patient's serious health problems, finally solving a medical mystery that has endured for over 30 years.

How parasites «decide» to produce sexual stages has been a mystery that has puzzled malaria researchers for years.

Researchers at Houston Methodist have solved a 100 - year - old mystery, providing them a possible key to unlock a pathway for treating diseases caused by flesh - eating bacteria.

For now, the most tantalizing clue to the mystery may have come from a separate team of researchers working in a lab far from Lomekwi.

But what happened in between was a mystery which for a long time puzzled apoptosis researchers.

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But residue analyses on pots found there may explain the mystery, as Peyronel and his colleagues described in a paper last year: The researchers found traces of wild plants often used for medicine, such as poppy for opium to dull pain, heliotrope to fight viral infections, and chamomile to reduce inflammation.

This mystery has now been solved by researchers at MIT — and while this phenomenon might seem trivial, the finding's ramifications could be significant: Understanding such flowing fluids is essential for processes from the lubrication of gears and machinery to the potential sequestration of carbon dioxide emissions in porous underground formations.

Acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, is among the world's most popular pain medicines, but, agonizingly enough for researchers, how it works has been largely a mystery.

Just why our bodies respond so strongly to fake medicine has long been a mystery, but researchers are a step closer to solving that riddle, having picked out a particular gene that may be responsible for one type of placebo effect.

Now researchers at MIT and other institutions have solved that mystery, potentially opening the way for the development of synthetic materials that could have similar light - blocking properties.

How these self - promoting genes jump to these prime locations remains a mystery, but the researchers believe it may have to do with the DNA's three - dimensional structure in particular areas that allows for genetic rearrangement when the genome is being copied or when certain genes are active.

For their next act, the two researchers turned to another mystery, the much larger number of semiconscious brain - injured patients who are severely disabled but not truly vegetative.

Ending a long - standing mystery that once set the unidentified flying object community abuzz, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of a strange, 15 - centimeter - tall human skeleton and identified mutations that may be responsible for its odd appearance.

«In spite of their colossal diversity today, the origin of mandibulates had largely remained a mystery,» said Cédric Aria, lead author of the study and recent graduate of the PhD program in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at U of T, now working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Nanjing Institute for Geology and Palaeontology, in China.

To further address the mystery, the researchers are planning to acquire more X-ray data on the ULX in M51 and look for more cyclotron lines in other ULXs.

That has made it possible for researchers to delve into the basic mysteries of life.

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

12/8/2008 From Mother to Daughters: A Central Mystery in Cell Division Solved Researchers from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a key step required for cell division in a study that could help improve therapies to treat cancer.

«It took our team of researchers and collaborators more than 15 years of diligent effort to unravel the genetic cause of FOP that had been shrouded in mystery for so long,» says Fred Kaplan, MD, the Isaac & Rose Nassau Professor of Orthopaedic Molecular Medicine, of the 2006 discovery of the mutation that causes FOP.

Genetic Mystery Solved for Type of Brain Cancer Researchers identified the specific mutated genes that allow the brain cancer oligodendroglimoma to develop.

He encouraged support for researchers like myself from around the world who are driven to solve the mysteries that are neurodegenerative diseases and discover cures.

LONDON, 22 August, 2014 − For years, researchers have puzzled over the temperature rises that haven't happened — but scientists in China and the US believe they have cracked the mystery of the missing heat.

Joining forces with the game industry, international teams of researchers have for the past few years been deciphering this data, diving into the mysteries of how people play games.

James Clarkson is an Investigator who has stood in two worlds for many years — a career professional investigator in the criminal justice field and as a lifelong researcher of the UFO Mystery.

Dr. John Gottman, the country's preeminent researcher on marriage, is famous for his Love Lab at the University of Washington in Seattle where he deciphers the mysteries of human relationships through scientific research.

Whether the credit markets, and the commercial mortgage - backed securities (CMBS) sector in particular, will begin to thaw in the near future and how much their behavior will affect the number of retail foreclosures remains a mystery for most researchers.