Sentences with phrase «number of laboratory studies»

A number of laboratory studies on cancer cells have shown that curcumin does have anticancer effects.

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Michael Dillon, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researcher, crunched the numbers and helped figure out just that in a 2014 study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

V: At Brookhaven [National Laboratory] I was doing these studies on cocaine abusers, and after I'd seen a number of brain images, I realized I could distinguish a cocaine abuser from a control.

Adds Harold Brooks, senior scientist at NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory, who was not involved with this project, «The study is important because it addresses one of the hypotheses that has been raised to explain the observed change in number of tornadoes in outbreaks.

Laboratory studies suggest that explosive development of ice crystals can occur in these conditions, at temperatures between -4 and -8 degrees Celsius, and this «rime - splintering» mechanism is often invoked to explain past observations of the rapid development of large numbers of ice crystals in cumuli.

By studying infected cells grown in a laboratory, the team found that a large number of CMV's genes help it hide from the immune system by allowing it to destroy many of the proteins produced by the body during virus infection and preventing them from activating immune cells to destroy the virus.

Studying laboratory rats, Rutgers scientists found, however, that within a month after experimental brain injury, the number of new brain cells declined dramatically, below the numbers of new neurons that would have been detected if an injury had not occurred.

Bruce Buchholz of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory used cellular markers for a study in which he concluded that we're more or less stuck with the number of fat cells we have at about age 20.

Sandia leads a number of other hydrogen research efforts, including the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project co-led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a maritime fuel cell demonstration, a development project focused on hydrogen - powered forklifts and a recent study of how many California gas stations can safely store and dispense hydrogen.

This enabled them to greatly reduce the number of laboratory animals, because usually different groups of animals have to be used for such comparative studies.

Special diets, under study in a number of laboratories, have extended the lives of rats by up to half.

Thus, these waters have naturally occurring high CO2 and low pH» [an acidity / alkalinity scale; the lower the number the greater the acidity], says Derek Manzello, a biologist from the University of Miami and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, lead author of the study appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

Empa's Laboratory of Automotive Powertrain Technologies headed by Christian Bach has been studying such systems for a number of years and set up a special high - temperature flow lab.

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A secondary goal of the study was to develop laboratory protocols to improve the throughput of massively parallel genomic sequencing for handling large sample numbers.

Analyzing this woman's virus for their current study, the researchers found that it contained mutations in four amino acids in the envelope protein, two of which, when introduced into unrelated strains of HIV in the laboratory, rendered each virus sensitive to a number of antibodies produced in people infected with HIV, including those directed to more conserved regions.

Results: The number of days of extreme fire risk in California might be six times the current number by the end of the century, according to a study led by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Cobb called the paper «an astounding accomplishment in terms of showing us what we can do with these natural laboratories» while emphasizing that the study's specific numbers «probably shouldn't be extrapolated.»

A team of scientists led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory atmospheric researcher Dr. Susannah Burrows and collaborator Daniel McCoy, who studies clouds and climate at the University of Washington, reveal how tiny natural particles given off by marine organisms — airborne droplets and solid particles called aerosols — nearly double cloud droplet numbers in the summer, which boosts the amount of sunlight reflected back to space.

The finding, based on a study performed at the University of Chicago sleep laboratory published early online by the journal Diabetes Care, could affect large numbers of people who work long hours.

Thus, BPRC is fully compliant with the international demands on animal studies and welfare as set forth by the European Council Directive 2010 / 63 / EU, and Convention ETS 123, including the revised Appendix A as well as the «Standard for humane care and use of Laboratory Animals by Foreign institutions» identification number A5539 - 01, provided by the Department of Health and Human Services of the United States of America's National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Dutch implementing legislation.

«Basically, this study shows that the genetic makeup of individual human embryonic stem cell lines is unique in the numbers of copies of certain genes that may control traits and things like disease susceptibility,» said Teitell, who also is an associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and a researcher at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

His laboratory has developed a number of techniques to study the molecular profiles of circulating and airway immune cells from patients with asthma and other diseases, using fewer cells than was possible previously.

«A number of these assays and associated bioinformatics software have been validated for use in Invivoscribe's own «LabPMM» clinical laboratories, and they are currently being used by leading cancer treatment centers and pharmaceutical partners, both to optimize treatments for patients, and to stratify, enroll, and track residual disease in patients in international phase II and phase III clinical studies.

And while the human and T cells they studied in the laboratory were not specifically skin T cells they were isolated from mouse cell culture and from human blood — the skin has a large share of T cells in humans, he says, approximately twice the number circulating in the blood.

«The results seem pretty dramatic,» says Mark P. Mattson, PhD, a senior investigator at the National Institute on Aging in Bethesda, Md. «Even though the number of subjects in the study was not really high, they had really high, statistically significant improvements in their performance on the memory test,» added Mattson, who studies caloric restriction and the brain in his role as chief of the Cellular and Molecular Neurosciences Section at the Laboratory of Neurosciences but was not involved in Dr. Floel's investigation.

«Laboratory studies on the effects of BA [biogenic amines] face a number of methodological problems.

Washington — About 98 percent of Principal John C. Hoffman's students go on to college, even though they only go to classes from 6:15 A.M. to 10 A.M. each day, hold down full - time jobs that often keep them up (and away from studies) until midnight, take no laboratory courses, and attend a school judged by a number of its former students to be «inferior» in many respects.

As Dr. Dodds points out, since the testing of vaccines is performed primarily in controlled laboratory situations and a very small number of field studies, it's impossible to reproduce the kinds of reactions we see in the real world.

While it is virtually impossible to know or estimate how many cases of heartworms can be prevented by the use of the Double Defense approach, it is quite obvious from our laboratory study that the number of infected dogs and the number of worms per infected dog would be greatly reduced by this approach.

We designed and carried out a number of new laboratory experiments to study energy transmission within the atmosphere.

While that's a small number, «Small changes in sea levels in certain places mean very big changes in the kind of protection of infrastructure that you need to have in place,» said Erik Ivins, a geophysicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and one of the contributors to Thursday's study.

Lab Technician — ABO Laboratories — May 2012 — Present • Execute a variety of laboratory assays and tests in accordance with established procedures, policies, and regulations; ensure samples are properly labeled and stored • Study blood samples for transfusions and record the blood group, number of cells, blood type, cell morphology, and other blood type compatibility • Perform procedural and instrument calibrations, document all quality control activities, and perform regular equipment maintenance • Identify problems that may negatively affect test results or performance; correct issues immediately and properly notify supervisor • Maintain meticulous records and demonstrate that the testing of samples is done in the same manner as patient specimens; promote cost - effective testing practices and reduce waste by 10 percent

Southwest Educational Development Laboratory: Research Syntheses This site lists a number of research syntheses that review numerous studies on school - family - community partnerships.