Sentences with word «neurobiologist»

The new study was inspired in part by video footage of chickens, geese, and ducks collected in Laos by researchers working with the World Health Organization's surveillance program, says senior author Richard Smeyne, a developmental neurobiologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.

«To treat most forms of hearing loss, we need to find a delivery mechanism that works for all types of hair cells,» said neurobiologist David Corey, co-senior investigator on the study and the Bertarelli Professor of Translational Medical Science at HMS.

«We're inspiring these neurons, in the molecular sense, to navigate their way back to their correct location in the brain,» says Andrew Huberman, the Stanford University neurobiologist who led the study.

At Stanford, a team led by neurobiologist Ben Barres discovered that synapses in the developing brain produce two other immune proteins, C1q and C3, associated elsewhere in the body with complement proteins, which work in concert with antibodies to destroy invading microbes.

To address that concern, John Brigande, a developmental neurobiologist at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, and colleagues injected embryonic mice with DNA containing several copies of Atoh1.

Porter and Sobel's findings suggest that smell has played a more important role in human evolution than is commonly assumed, says Gordon Shepherd, a Yale University neurobiologist who studies human smell.

Sacks depicts these and other conditions in human portraits that include the story of Lilian, a concert pianist who can no longer read music, but can still play beautifully by ear; Howard, a «man of letters» and novelist who can no longer read, but painstakingly finds a new way to read and write; and «stereo» Sue, an academic neurobiologist with monocular vision, who gradually gained and self - improved her normal stereoscopic vision.

A new paper published in Neuron by a team of neurobiologists led by Professor Andreas Nieder at the University of Tübingen gives insight into just how the brain manages this problem.

Dennis Grayson, a molecular neurobiologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago, says this finding could shift schizophrenia treatment to the «pharmacology of chromatin biology rather than the pharmacology of receptors.»

The «simple but smart» experiment, as neurobiologist James Bower of the California Institute of Technology calls it, suggests that human smell is more sophisticated than previously thought.

Zhicheng (Carl) Lin, PhD, associate neurobiologist in McLean's Laboratory of Psychiatric Neurogenomics and assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, has been awarded a US Fulbright Scholar...

Enter a team from the California Institute of Technology, under the leadership of neurobiologist David J. Anderson.

«It is a little pathetic,» says Harvard neurobiologist Jeff Lichtman, looking at a dense 3 - D map of a mouse's neocortex.

As described here, these advances create opportunities for neurobiologists as well as physicists and chemists.

UC Irvine neurobiologist Hans Keirstead and his research team today launched a project to develop stem cell lines that genetically match human patients.

The Novartis Institute for Functional Genomics, to be based in La Jolla, California, should be up and running in 2 years and will be home to some 100 researchers, says neurobiologist Paul Herrling, head of research for Novartis.

These are «very interesting findings [that] strongly suggest that human astrocytes have an enhanced ability to control synapses,» says neurobiologist Ben Barres of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

This finding, reported two years ago in collaboration with neurobiologist Eric Kandel at Columbia University, complemented unexpected aspects of prion activity in yeast.

This finding suggests that neurotrophic factors «may be in a large part what is responsible» for the sculpting of dendrites, says developmental neurobiologist William Snider, of Washington University in St. Louis.

University of California, Irvine neurobiologists Leslie Thompson and Joseph Ochaba with the Departments of Neurobiology & Behavior and Psychiatry & Human Behavior and their colleagues from UCI and from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have shown that reducing the aberrant accumulation of a particular form of the mutant Huntingtin protein corresponds to improvement in symptoms and neuroinflammation in HD mice.

Wolynes said many neurobiologists have followed up on that pioneering work with sea slugs.

«These findings are of considerable interest,» says neurobiologist James McGaugh of the University of California, Irvine.

To study how the tau protein goes awry, Marie Luise Schmidt, working in the lab of University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine neurobiologists John Trojanowski and Virginia Lee, created a set of antibodies designed to bind to different sections of tau molecules.

«This is a beautiful little study,» says molecular neurobiologist Ron Davis at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

«It's an amazing result,» says Harold Zakon, an evolutionary neurobiologist at the University of Texas, Austin, who was not involved with the work.

2018-04-08 17:20 Ben A. Barres (born Barbara Barres, in 1955) is an American neurobiologist at Stanford University.

In 2005, when neurobiologist Herwig Baier of the University of California, San Francisco, was screening thousands of zebrafish for vision problems, he found one that seemed a bit «off.»

Likewise, Michael Meaney, a McGill neurobiologist, had been talked into attending by the same colleague, who thought Meaney's research into animal models of maternal neglect might benefit from Szyf's perspective.

The Prize is intended to encourage and support the work of promising young neurobiologists who are not older than 35 years.

So neurobiologist Edward Kravitz and his colleagues at Harvard Medical School in Boston — who had previously studied aggression in lobsters — decided to critique fly fights.

Study co-author and neurobiologist Craig Stark says the more immersive, exploratory games are kind of like a workout for the brain.

That doesn't explain why a few people who are exposed to an infection in the womb go on to develop schizophrenia while most don't, however, says Urs Meyer, a behavioral neurobiologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and co-author of the study reported online today in Science.

The finding, described in this week's Nature, may help neurobiologists screen for drugs that bind to the human version of this brain receptor.

University of California, San Diego neurobiologist Nicholas Spitzer, who did not participate in this study but has studied the brain's electrical signaling extensively, finds the research convincing and notes that this mechanism - level understanding helps clarify ongoing questions about electricity's part in shaping the brain.

This suggested that «microglia were not eating and clearing the amyloid from the brain — a role they are traditionally thought to play,» says neurobiologist Kim Green of the University of California, Irvine.

In the early 2000s, researchers led by UCLA neurobiologist Ronald M. Harper detected brain - cell death and white matter injury in adult humans with OSA, in areas controlling not only cognitive functions but also mood, breathing, blood pressure and the nervous system's ability to coordinate sensory information and movement.

Researchers from the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) in Heidelberg worked with neurobiologists from Switzerland to develop the method.

In all likelihood, they figured out where they were by estimating the distance they had already traveled and their orientation in space — what neurobiologist Larry Cahill calls «dead reckoning.»

Duke University neurobiologists Gustavo Arriaga (left) and Erich Jarvis watch a mouse sing its ultrasonic tune in the lab.

Working with Duke University neurobiologist Erich Jarvis, Mouritsen compared his birds» brains to Zebra Finches and Canaries, which don't migrate.

Following up, a team led by neurobiologist Martin Giurfa of the Free University of Berlin in Germany investigated the ability of bees to make decisions based on abstract concepts.

«It's amazing,» says neurobiologist Alcino Silva, codirector of the UCLA Integrative Center for Learning and Memory.

The best experimental research I know that bears on this topic comes out of the lab of neurobiologist Binyamin Hochner of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

In the 1940s, the Nobel prize — winning neurobiologist Roger Sperry performed some of the most important brain surgeries in the history of science.

Now neurobiologist Michelle Cheng and colleagues from the University of California, Irvine, have discovered a protein that appears to play a key role.

For now, neurobiologists hope to use the device, described this week at the meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in New Orleans, for a humbler purpose: understanding how nerve cells grow and communicate with each other.

In July neurobiologist Hans Keirstead of the University of California at Irvine announced that the breakthrough experiment by his research team could lead to treatment of traumatic spinal injuries in humans.

But it wasn't until years later, when he teamed up with fruit fly neurobiologists Emre Yaksi and Bassem Hassan, that the story finally came together.

Still, neurobiologist Constance Scharff of the Free University of Berlin in Germany notes that to really make the case for a role of FOXP2 in echolocation, functional studies are necessary, such as knocking out the gene.