Sentences with phrase «of hair samples»

She can be blunt and authoritative because she is basing her opinion on years of this work and hundreds of hair samples.

But after a cleaning lady accidentally tossed out the samples that had been left on a lab bench, James substituted a collection of hair samples, rather than go to the x-ray facility empty - handed.

After creating a stir last October with preliminary results, an international research team has published an analysis of dozens of hair samples from mystery animals around the world.

This finding supports the use of hair samples as a tool for assessing cortisol levels during pregnancy.

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We're told Daniels is planning on having the dress forensically tested to search for any DNA that proves she isn't lying about her tryst with Trump, including samples of skin, hair or... anything.

For example, members of Herboris, a Chinese hair and skin care brand, can book an appointment on Herboris» Tmall store to receive skincare services in selected Herboris» physical stores and receive samples and coupons reserved for members.

Had the Plaintiff gone to Sparrow's ER on the morning of the 12th and had a SANE nurse do a rape kit there might have been pubic hair samples or semen samples, both which might produce DNA evidence which would strengthen the prosecution case.

Each trimester the mothers underwent a series of tests that evaluated their stress and psychopathological symptoms while simultaneously taking hair samples from which the researchers extracted the cortisol corresponding to the last three months.

«Long - term stress linked to higher levels of obesity, hair samples show: People who suffer long - term stress may also be more prone to obesity.»

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I sampled some of this civet paste and found it to be a murky, light brown paste, like a hair pomade.

Now an analysis of bone and hair samples from the notorious duo has backed the theory that scarcity drives dietary specialisation, and shows that food preferences can diverge within co-operating groups.

The team also found higher amounts of the protein in hair follicle tissue from people with alopecia areata than in samples from people free of it, providing additional evidence of its involvement (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature09114).

Using electrodes, European researchers in 2015 measured the facial movements of volunteers who sniffed sweat samples of people who had watched either pleasant or scary videos — happy - go - lucky scenes from Disney's The Jungle Book versus hair - raising clips from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.

About the size of «a hair on a bumblebee,» he says, with a circuit the size of a dime, it contains no optical lenses and works by allowing a small volume of fluid to flow across a microchip, which then sends images of the sample to a computer.

Ancient DNA could potentially reveal much more: When compared to other Bronze Age samples from around Europe at this time, it could point to the homelands of the warriors as well as such traits as eye and hair color.

DNA samples taken from grizzly bear hair may help resolve a bitter dispute over the size of the bear population in and around Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The proposal would have waived an often - cumbersome permitting process for handling samples of everything from hair and DNA to cell lines derived from endangered species.

«We hope hair samples will help establish the role that changes in cortisol levels throughout pregnancy have on the health of women and their children,» said study co-author Laura Smy, a PhD student at the University of Toronto.

To investigate whether hair samples could be used to assess the effects of asthma on cortisol levels during pregnancy, a research team led by Gideon Koren, MD, a clinical pharmacologist at the University of Toronto, and Bruce Carleton, PharmD, at the University of British Columbia, collected hair samples from 93 pregnant women, of whom 62 had asthma and 31 did not.

The Criminal Justice Act allows the police to take a sample of saliva or hair without a court order.

Hair samples can be used to measure the effects of asthma on the cortisol levels of women during pregnancy, according to research presented today at the 2015 AACC Annual Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo in Atlanta.

Scientists often spend days tracking rare animals such as snow leopards or orangutans for samples of DNA, for instance from hair or faeces, to understand their movements, monitor their populations and propose ways to protect them.

Completed last June, the Ancient Biomolecules Centre keeps a computer registry of all its employees» DNA, drawn from hair samples.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, researchers at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, found high levels of mercury (above the maximum recommended by the World Health Organization) in hair samples from 40 % of the Madre de Dios residents that they tested.

Currently, researchers at the Museum Zoology, UM are comparing the successful mammal detection from guts of blowflies collected in forest with mammals detected in cage traps, mist nets, camera traps, hair traps and scat samples.

The same effect that attracts your hair to a balloon when you rub it on your head pulled enough collagen onto eraser «crumbs» to yield results in a mass spectrometer, a machine that determines the type of chemicals in a sample.

They analyzed these samples along with hair samples from 76 living humans of European American and African descent.

The researchers were able to examine bioarcheological hair samples from six individuals that were up to 250 years old, demonstrating the robustness of these proteins.

Analysis of isotope ratios in hair samples showed how much of the bears» diets came from human food.

The material Professor Barber tested was almost 100 times thinner than the diameter of a human hair so the techniques used to break such a sample have only just been developed.

Each trimester the mothers underwent a series of tests that evaluated their stress and psychopathological symptoms while simultaneously taking hair samples from which the researchers extracted the cortisol corresponding to the last three months.

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, were able to estimate the proportion of human - derived food in bears» diets by analyzing chemical isotopes in hair and bone samples.

He also needed data representing a 100 percent human food diet, for which he turned to the Smithsonian Institution for samples of human hair from different periods over the past century.

He teamed up with coauthor Paul Koch, a professor of Earth sciences and dean of physical and biological sciences at UC Santa Cruz, to do the isotope analysis of hair and bone samples.

Dr. Charlier argues that human remains in museums and scientific institutions can be divided into four categories, «ethnographical elements» such as hair samples with no certain identification; anatomical remains such as whole skeletons or skulls; archaeological remains; and more modern collections of skulls, used in now discredited studies in the early 20th century.

There they thrive alongside of bacteria, as seen in this picture of a hair shaft (yellow) sampled from a back (bacteria, pink; fungus, blue - green).

So in 2012 Sykes and his colleague Michel Sartori of the Museum of Zoology in Lausanne, Switzerland, posted a call for hair and other samples thought to be from yetis, Bigfoot or any other «cryptid» species unknown to science.

Previous genetic analyses of a couple of «yeti» hair samples collected in India and Bhutan suggested that a stretch of their mitochondrial DNA resembled that of polar bears.

Eighty - eight of the women also provided hair samples for the measurement of cortisol.

The sample was taken from one of four clumps of hair collected in Greenland by Danish archaeologists in the 1980s.

For $ 150 to $ 500 you can now send off a cheek swab or hair sample and find out if you have American Indian ancestry, if you're related to others who share your surname, or if you're part of the Jewish priestly Cohanim line.

The study will involve doing an analysis not only of benzene biomarkers and other volatile organic compounds, but also of certain heavy metals in urine and hair samples.

But electron spins tend to have quite brief usable lifetimes; even in optimal conditions — in pure samples held just a hair above absolute zero — the information encoded on an electron spin is lost on timescales of seconds, if that.

David Coltman, a wildlife geneticist at the University of Alberta, decided to analyze the fabled hair sample using DNA analysis techniques.

The hair proved to be that of an agouti, the fecal samples did not reveal any DNA aside from, in one case, that of a giant anteater, and the casts don't hold any scientific weight, as Oren readily points out, «because they can be easily faked.»

When the researchers excluded permed samples, focusing on pubic hair instead, they found the same diffuse ring on the scatter patterns from all 23 women with various stages of breast cancer.

«Our recent work has demonstrated that we can determine what mammals are in a protected area without hunting, without trapping, without the use of scat or hair samples, and especially without camera traps - all of which are problematic methods for one reason or another,» said study author Mark Siddall, a curator in the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology.

So far, the evidence Oren has gathered on these hunts — a clump of hair, several fecal samples from different areas, and some casts of footprints — has led to naught, fading like tracks in the forest.

The mostly nameless profiles will also include hair samples, dental records and a photo of the corpse.