Sentences with phrase «on blood samples of»

They are investigating indoor emissions in other areas of Tibet and plan to link these measurements to a biomarker study based on blood samples of people living in the households.

Not exact matches

His claim about a clean comeback «is a direct attack on the credibility of the USADA [U.S. Anti-Doping Agency] report, which maintains that blood samples from those years indeed suggest he continued to use banned substances,» note Red and O'Keeffe at the Daily News.

Now for some more caveats: The sample, while large, was overwhelmingly made up of white people, and the measure of vitamin intake was based on surveys rather than blood draws (which could potentially lead to some misleading results).

«I can get pictures on my phone and samples of blood work.

Indeed, the 25 - person company has now tested thousands of blood samples, and it says its tests outperform current screening tests on the market for four types of cancer: prostate, breast, colorectal, and lung.

On the other hand, the gluten - free beer studied was shown not to induce a response in any of the blood samples tested.

The blood tests require just one quick prick of a needle on your baby's heel to collect a blood sample.

Dr. Ojabo said: «We were lucky to have gotten blood sample from the sick person before he passed on, but we are privileged to tell you that the report was negative of Lassa fever.»

She said one of the pregnant women was confirmed positive when her blood sample was sent to a specialist hospital in Irua in Edo State, while the other died on her way to the hospital after testing positive for Lassa fever at Federal medical center Makurdi.

With the promise and pitfalls of umbilical cord blood samples in mind, how should parents decide whether to put their baby's blood on ice, either for their own family's future use or as a donation for the greater good?

Many tumors release cells with distinctive antigens on their surfaces, and affinity - based techniques can pull these cells out of the blood sample relatively easily.

Larger biomarker signatures can be detected with technology from CDI Laboratories, which offers microarrays of functional human proteins (over 20,000 on a single array) to test the antibodies present in human liquid biopsy samples, such as blood, serum, plasma, CSF, or tissue lysates.

Crimson receives daily feeds of information on biosamples — mostly blood, but also urine, tissue, cerebrospinal fluid, and bacterial collections — from patients in Harvard - affiliated clinical laboratories and the pathology laboratory, which includes some 5000 blood samples collected daily at Brigham and Women's and Massachusetts General hospitals.

In a study published in the May 29, 2014, edition of Molecular Ecology Resources, Duke researchers Peter Larsen, Ryan Campbell and Anne Yoder used high - throughput sequencing on sifaka blood samples to generate sequence data for more than 150,000 different sifaka antibodies — protective molecules that latch on to bacteria, viruses and other foreign invaders in the body and fight them off before they cause infection.

Blood samples for the research came from the innovative Pediatric Bipolar Registry at the UTHealth Center of Excellence on Mood Disorders.

Blood, however, has been the focus of research and care because it is easy to sample and broadly represents what is going on throughout the entire body.

Researchers theorized that something similar might be going on in obese humans, but when they began taking blood samples, they found that obese people show very high levels of leptin.

They performed the heel prick procedure on the babies, which is used routinely to obtain blood samples, and applied low - intensity forces to the surfaces of their feet, a mildly painful experimental procedure that feels a bit like being gently poked with a blunt pencil.

In blood samples from 1005 patients with eight types of tumors that had evidently not yet metastasized, the test detected between 33 % and 98 % of cases, depending on the tumor type (see graph, above).

A skin biopsy on the girl's larger leg found 5 % of cells in that sample had the same abnormality, even though her blood sample was clean.

These techniques include: human tissue created by reprogramming cells from people with the relevant disease (dubbed «patient in a dish»); «body on a chip» devices, where human tissue samples on a silicon chip are linked by a circulating blood substitute; many computer modelling approaches, such as virtual organs, virtual patients and virtual clinical trials; and microdosing studies, where tiny doses of drugs given to volunteers allow scientists to study their metabolism in humans, safely and with unsurpassed accuracy.

The method rapidly screens blood samples for fragments of DNA and DNA - repair complexes; exposures are calculated based on the number of fragments.

Researchers are developing many different versions of CAR - T cell therapies, but the basic premise is the same: Doctors remove a patient's T cells (immune system cells that attack invaders) from a blood sample and genetically modify them to produce artificial proteins on their surfaces.

Lead author Professor Debra Skene from the University of Surrey, said: «Our results show that if we want to develop a diagnostic test for a disease, it is imperative to take the time of day when taking blood samples into account, since this has a significant effect on metabolism.

«It's obvious that there is some continuing exposure on some level... If you look at their body burdens, they still had a fair amount of the short - term PCBs in their blood at the time we took the sampling in 2005.»

The test is run on a sample of the woman's blood and cheek swabs from possible fathers.

PreOvar was the forerunner of the current KRAS - variant test, which is also based on saliva or blood samples.

Gene expression profiling was performed on blood samples taken from 70 RA patients: 50 of whom had shown a good response to the anti-TNF biologic treatment adalimumab, 20 of whom had shown no response to this drug.

Schiffman and his team conducted another series of experiments in the laboratory on blood samples from adult African elephants to find how these genes respond to DNA damage in the elephant cells.

Using a new technique for closely studying host blood DNA, the team determined the host origin for three - quarters of these samples, showing that the flies had fed on over 20 different species ranging from elephants and hippopotamuses to reptiles and birds.

«The ability to detect infection using urine rather than blood avoids needle stick and blood sample collection, greatly reduces the cost and necessary clinical infrastructure for screening and diagnosis, helping to promote widespread adoption of the test on a global scale,» Hu said.

When Michael Tift, a comparative physiologist at Scripps, analysed blood samples from 24 elephant seals on a California beach, he found high levels of haemoglobin.

On the television version of The Journey of Man, for which Wells traveled the world in 2002, retracing some of his earlier steps, he visits a man in southeastern Kazakhstan whose blood had been sampled on the 1998 expedition and who has turned out to have an important Y chromosome marker called M4On the television version of The Journey of Man, for which Wells traveled the world in 2002, retracing some of his earlier steps, he visits a man in southeastern Kazakhstan whose blood had been sampled on the 1998 expedition and who has turned out to have an important Y chromosome marker called M4on the 1998 expedition and who has turned out to have an important Y chromosome marker called M45.

The blood samples taken show that the cortisol levels of cows handled in the usual way was on average 60.4 ng / mL.

Each bird was classified based on its appearance as a Saltmarsh Sparrow, Nelson's Sparrow, or a hybrid, and then a blood sample was taken so that the accuracy of this identification could be double - checked with DNA.

Now, a new study lead by Assistant Professor Kristine Bohmann from the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, describes a new DNA method to efficiently screen many vampire bat blood meal and faecal samples with a high success rate and thereby determine which animals the vampire bats have fed on blood from.

Filter paper is currently used for the storage and transport of dried blood samples, however there is very little research on similarly simple and inexpensive methods for the transport of other diagnostic fluids.

The team's next avenue of research will be focused on identifying a «biomarker» that can identify this distinct suppressive cell elsewhere in the body — for example, in blood or other samples — as a potential predictive clinical tool to determine when these cells are present in patients, which currently can not be done.

So far the biological passport has been applied primarily to detect instances of blood doping, but the same strategy could be used on urine samples to identify users of anabolic steroids.

Ozcan begins by mounting a glass slide containing a blood sample on the phone, right in front of the camera sensor, so that light shines through the blood.

A study based on blood samples from more than 55,000 Danes conducted by the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen University Hospital shows a direct correlation between smoking and mortality.

«In the past, science has focused on identifying the pathogen someone is infected with in the blood or other sample,» said lead author Thomas Burke, Ph.D., director of technology advancement and diagnostics at the DCAGPM.

This study was conducted as part of the Swedish birth cohort BAMSE, and is based on analyses of omega - 3 and -6 fatty acids in blood samples from 940 children.

A total of 83 men completed the study, including giving blood samples, for hormone and cholesterol testing, on the first and last days of the study.

He may find clues in the samples of air, water and blood from the crew that were «exported» from Biosphere 2 before the oxygen was turned on last week.

The study was based on genomic and metabolomics data obtained from blood samples of 24 individuals.

They went on to test 850 blood samples from people living in three locations in the US and Israel, and found the mutation in 1 per cent of the samples.

Capture experiments were also performed on whole blood samples, and the capture efficiency was in a high range of 81 - 95 %, at different tumor cell concentrations.

Dr. El Khoudary and her team evaluated clinical data, including blood samples and heart CT scans, on 456 women from Pittsburgh and Chicago enrolled in the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN).

In the science - fiction movie Gattaca, visitors only clear security if a blood test and readout of their genetic profile matches the sample on file.