Sentences with phrase «other biological studies»

The results are consistent with other biological studies which point to the likely interaction of several genes in producing complex disorders such as autism [36] and schizophrenia [37].

Not exact matches

To support his claim that property is natural, Pipes appeals to biological studies of possessiveness and territoriality among human beings and other animals.

Studies show that it has a significant biological impact to recognize each other's (mom & baby) smell.

Stepfathers are widespread not only in modern industrial societies but also in subsistence - level societies as well.6, 51,52 Many studies have found that, compared with resident biological fathers, stepfathers invest less in the children who live with them, both in the United States37, 39,53 and other cultures.54 - 56 Stepchildren are more likely to have emotional and behavioural problems than resident genetic offspring, 39,40 although there is evidence that children who have close relationships with their stepfathers have better outcomes.41, 57

Another study of 2,900 Australian infants assessed at ages 1, 2 3, 5, 8, 10, and 14 years found that infants breastfed for 6 months or longer, had lower externalizing, internalizing, and total behaviour problem scores throughout childhood and into adolescence than never breastfed and infants fed for less than 6 months.8 These differences remained after statistical control for the presence of both biological parents in the home, low income and other factors associated with poor mental health.

Other colleagues at the INHS, herpetologists Michael Dreslik and Chris Phillips, have been studying eastern massasauga rattlesnakes in the wild for 15 years, and are working closely with Allender to characterize both biological and health factors that lead to infection.

The researchers hope to study the biological contexts of Parkinson's disease and other neurological diseases in the same way.

And a University of Pittsburgh study of youth at risk for hereditary depression found that the one biological predictor of resilience — in other words, not getting depressed — was adequate sleep.

In this study, researchers analyzed throat swabs and other biological samples taken from 22,892 wild ducks and other aquatic birds collected before, during and after a 2014 - 15 H5 flu outbreak in poultry.

Noonan sent me a long list of studies from Biological Psychology and other journals documenting all sorts of effects — an improvement in memory in one study, a better golf swing in another.

Now, in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Thomas Albright and Ricardo Gil - da - Costa of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies describe a model system that completes the bridge between cellular and human studies of schizophrenia, an advance that should help speed the development of therapeutics for schizophrenia and other neurological disStudies describe a model system that completes the bridge between cellular and human studies of schizophrenia, an advance that should help speed the development of therapeutics for schizophrenia and other neurological disstudies of schizophrenia, an advance that should help speed the development of therapeutics for schizophrenia and other neurological disorders.

Wade, on the other hand, tackles controversial subjects — arguing, for example, that studying the biological basis of race is both scientifically valid and medically useful — but says little on the politics of genetics.

Other researchers on the study were Gene R. Stoner and Raynard Fung of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

Within the DOE Office of Science, the biological and environmental research program, which studies climate modeling among other things, faces the steepest cut — 43 percent, a drop from $ 612 million to $ 349 million.

«Biofilms were rampant on the Mir space station and continue to be a challenge on the International Space Station, but we still don't really know what role gravity plays in their growth and development,» said Cynthia Collins, Ph.D., principal investigator for the study and assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «Before we start sending astronauts to Mars or embarking on other long - term spaceflight missions, we need to be as certain as possible that we have eliminated or significantly reduced the risk that biofilms pose to the human crew and their equipment.»

«It also provides a genetic model to study how sleep pressure can be modulated by other biological drives.

«Our study reveals a new mechanism that could be harnessed for biological therapies for lupus and other autoimmune diseases, where the immune system mistakenly targets the body's own cells,» says senior study author Boris Reizis, PhD, professor of Pathology and Medicine at NYU Langone.

Adaptation options «In addition to informing the wine industry of adaptation options, we believe our study is also relevant to many other agricultural and non-agricultural sectors where trends in timing of biological phases have been detected,» Webb said.

Last year, Szyf and researchers from Yale University published another study of human blood samples, comparing 14 children raised in Russian orphanages with 14 other Russian children raised by their biological parents.

Siblings with full biological ties are more likely than others to stay with their family and help day to day, a new Oxford University study has found.

For his Ph.D., he focused on biological questions, for example developing an algorithm to study populations that are mixtures of other populations, which is the result of a process called admixture, and infer properties of the original populations.

«Our findings strongly suggest that the biological underpinnings of the Yeti legend can be found in local bears, and our study demonstrates that genetics should be able to unravel other, similar mysteries,» says lead scientist Charlotte Lindqvist, PhD, an associate professor of biological sciences in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, and a visiting associate professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore).

The tree limb she's straddling is thick with epiphytes — plants that grow on other plants — and they're the reason she's come to this dizzying study site at the La Selva Biological Station in northern Costa Rica.

Dr Crispin Jordan, of the University of Edinburgh's School of Biological Sciences, who led the study, said: «Plants and their flowers exist in all shapes and sizes, and our finding that the arrangement of flowers can influence how bees forage might go some way to explaining how plants, which rely on others species to spread pollen, can influence their own reproduction.»

Taking into account other recent studies, such as the finding that newly hatched domestic chicks show a preference for consonant intervals, this report lends support to the idea that some features of human musical systems may be based, at least in part, on biological principles that are shared with other animals such as songbirds.

Some of the study participants used a biological definition to discriminate native from non-native species («species from a different biogeographic region»), while others referred to culture («species not familiar to local people»).

Her first study on the topic reported that, in biological and physical sciences departments, a collegial climate — an environment where faculty members feel included in the department's informal network and feel that their colleagues value their research, among other factors — increased the number of papers that faculty members produced.

Jordi Mestres, coordinator of the IMIM and UPF research group on Systems Pharmacology at the Biomedical Informatics Program (GRIB) states «With this study we have contributed to complementing the detection of these quite unstable fragments, with information on the mechanism of action of the drug, based on three aspects: similarity to other medicines, prediction of their pharmacological profile, and interference with specific biological pathways.

Specifically, it relies on studies that describe how light, caffeine and food affect the internal clocks which control the rhythms of our sleep, body temperature and other biological processes.

In considering strategies to prevent individuals with evil designs from misusing access to select agents, the board studied Personnel Reliability Programs in effect within the biological labs at the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and other organizations.

The startling feat prompted President Barack Obama to ask his newly formed bioethics commission to examine the implications of the Venter study and other kinds of synthetic biology, such as creating biological circuits by putting components together in a cell.

This work is part of the ongoing Duke Neurogenetics Study (DNS), a comprehensive study linking genes, brain activity and other biological markers to risk for mental illness in young adStudy (DNS), a comprehensive study linking genes, brain activity and other biological markers to risk for mental illness in young adstudy linking genes, brain activity and other biological markers to risk for mental illness in young adults.

That reaction concerns Jonathan Tucker, director of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Washington, D.C. «The smallpox situation sets a troubling precedent for other infectious diseases, such as polio and measles,» he says.

A possible binding site is only functional in less than one percent of circumstances, says the study's other co-corresponding author Rohs, a professor of biological sciences, chemistry, physics, and computer science who is also a faculty member in the new USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience.

One of the key frontier areas of materials science is the study of materials derived from, inspired by, or used to repair human and other biological systems.

In addition to collecting scans of brain structure and function, the research teams at 21 study sites around the country will regularly gather a trove of other information from each youngster, from psychological, cognitive, and environmental data to biological specimens such as DNA.

Using advanced computer analysis techniques designed to study and process biological data, the researchers identified SND1 among a handful of other genes that miR - 184 helps regulate.

«When you start to do systematic studies of biological systems and you gather information from different angles — meaning genomics, proteomics, and other approaches — and combine this information, you end up being able to do discoveries which would not be possible under each individual set of information,» says Figeys.

«Several other studies have also suggested that a diet high in fruits and vegetables is less protective in men, but we do not have a good biological reason for this lack of association,» Miedema said, adding that the study had less power to evaluate men (62.7 percent were female vs. 37.3 percent male).

«On one hand, we saw similarities that reflect biological necessity and, on the other hand, differences that mirrored the organism's history,» said Cristina Sisu, postdoctoral fellow in Gerstein's lab and the first author of the pseudogene study.

Previous studies have shown that white blood cell telomere length can be predictive of biological aging and is linked with telomere length in other cells in the body.

«Studies of many other biological processes could benefit from the use of this system,» says Mooney, who in addition to his role at Harvard SEAS is also a Core Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute.

«This is just one estuary and there are many others that go anoxic in the summertime,» said study author Laura Lapham of UMCES» Chesapeake Biological Laboratory.

This allows the researchers to observe how cells work within these environments and potentially enables them to study biological scenarios such as where cancer grows or how immune cells interact with other cells, which could lead to the development of new drugs.

A study led by PhD candidate Mr K. S. Seshadri from the Department of Biological Sciences at the National University of Singapore's Faculty of Science has revealed that male white - spotted bush frogs (Raochestes chalazodes) dedicatedly guard their fertilised eggs from other cannibalistic male frogs and predators.

The other researchers in the study are Fernando Galvez, associate professor of biological sciences at Louisiana State University; and Charles D. Rice, professor of biological sciences at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina.

«Future studies on maternal smoking and other environmental, genetic, and epigenetic factors, as well as animal models, should allow identification of the biological mechanisms responsible for these associations.

The studies open up new opportunities to uncover microbial genomes from other environments, revealing how microbes alter global carbon and nitrogen cycles, how microbial metabolism evolved, and how so many different kinds of microbes can coexist, says biological oceanographer Paul Falkowski of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

This finding, published in a study in the journal Nature Climate Change, is critical in predicting how much wheat and other crops we'll need to feed the world, said Senthold Asseng, a UF / IFAS professor of agricultural and biological engineering and leader of this study.

«Based on the results of animal studies done by other groups, we hypothesize such differences are due to other biological causes (e.g. sex hormones),» Sun said.