Sentences with phrase «other labs studying»

The lapses at the world - renowned infectious disease research agency are sure to raise questions about safety at other labs studying highly pathogenic agents, including university labs that are modifying influenza strains to make them more virulent.

While they could theoretically increase breast cancer risk, at this point the risk is just that — theoretical — «and based on animal and other lab studies,» says Janet Gray, PhD, director of science, technology and society at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., who researches environmental impacts on breast cancer.

Not exact matches

One of the three experiments in the study had 30 university students refraining from eating and drinking between 11 p.m. and the time they arrived to the study lab the next day, which was either 8:30 a.m. or 9:15 a.m. Half of the participants were served breakfast before the experiment, the others went straight to the Iowa Gambling Task.

He said that his research should not be called «modeling» because it is based on the combined findings of thousands of lab results, as well as several other studies he has published.

The study found that results from Theranos differed from those of Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp, the other two labs in the study.

«So my lab is currently looking at those other species of borrelia to see if they're found in this area and how common they are and, similar to this study, to see if ticks are co-infected with those at unexpected rates.»

«We could apply the strategy used in this study to quickly identify and design small molecule drugs for other RNA - associated diseases,» explained study first author Sai Velagapudi, a research associate in the Disney lab.

Michael Kaplitt, a neurosurgeon at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, whose lab develops gene therapies for brain disorders, teamed up with Greengard and other colleagues in the new study.

Now at UCLA, Liu is launching his own lab to study the way the inorganic components of soil influence bacteria's ability to run these and other important chemical reactions.

In lab tests, prototype multilayer lenses have shown they can release ciprofloxacin (an antibiotic often used to treat eye and other infections) for up to 100 days, according to a study published in the July issue of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science by researchers from Children's Hospital Boston, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary's (MEEI) ophthalmology department, Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (M.I.T.) chemical engineering department.

Almost 40 percent of self - identifying DIY biologists (most of whom are unaffiliated with a conventional research institutions) work in community labs — more than any other setting, including hackerspaces, professional labs and homes — according to a forthcoming study I coauthored at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

The study, published by the journal Science via First Release on April 12, paves the way for determining the structures of other functional states of the ATP synthase, which has been the subject of structural studies for decades in labs across the globe.

«Other labs were learning how to make engines or studying thermodynamics or fluid dynamics, but this lab was studying a golf swing and how people walked,» Fleisig says.

The country's newest space lab, Tiangong - 2, for example, hosts a number of scientific payloads, including an advanced atomic clock and a $ 3.4 - million detector called POLAR for the study of γ - ray bursts — blasts of high - energy radiation from collapsing stars and other sources.

To find out, the team looked at several hundred human mu opiate genes, lumping together their own studies of several dozen volunteers from pain or opiate addiction clinics with studies from other labs.

The team also looked at changes in the genetic sequence of the Zika NS1 protein over time, noted David L. Akey, a research scientist in Smith's lab and the study's other lead author.

«To find other materials with similar properties, we focused on the feasibility of exfoliation,» explains Nicolas Mounet, a researcher in the THEOS lab and lead author of the study.

Dipak Das, director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at the University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) in Farmington, and his lab studied the beneficial health effects of wine (including one component resveratrol, which has been linked to life extension and other health benefits) and other foods, as well as cardiology.

«There have been a lot of lab studies looking at silver nanoparticles showing that they are highly toxic to bacteria, fungi, other microorganisms,» explains Ben Colman, a postdoctoral researcher at Duke University who led the study.

In the Pfanner lab, Chacinska studied the communication between translocases in the outer membrane, called TOM, and others in the inner membrane, called TIM.

In addition to Hong and Sotiropoulos, other University of Minnesota researchers who were part of this study include civil engineering assistant professor Michele Guala, mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Mostafa Toloui, civil engineering Ph.D. student Kevin Howard, mechanical engineering student Sean Riley, St. Anthony Falls Lab engineer James Tucker, and former post-doctoral researcher Leonardo Chamorro who is now at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.

At times White has done the work for the U.S. team for no charge, but he keeps his lab going with funding from other projects, such as a study he did for an elliptical bike maker to examine whether the product maintained fitness in high - level athletes, working with collegiate teams, and donations from former rowers.

The opportunity to work together with other scientists is another consideration to factor in when choosing a lab, argues Nicolas Carayol, a professor of economics at the University of Bordeaux in France, who was not involved with the study.

(The researchers wanted to study the behavior of the P. morrisi they had collected, but they were killed in the lab by other ants.)

As his research progressed and he and others began unraveling the sophisticated mechanism by which the Ebola virus enters cells, he was «bitten by the Ebola bug» and made studying the virus a key focus of his lab, which he started up in 2007.

After a series of studies confirmed the activity and lack of toxicity, Lee sent double - blinded samples of the compound and control to a colleague at the BSL - 4 lab at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston who tested it against Nipah, Ebola and other viruses.

How these capabilities might play out in the real world is still a big question, says Ring Cardé, whose lab at the University of California, Riverside also studies odor and other cues mosquitoes use to hunt down a meal.

Interestingly, other studies in the Goodale lab have shown that blind expert echolocators are also subject to illusions, for example the size - weight illusion in which the perception of mass is influenced by the size of an object.

The new discovery suggests that other creatures, including some that have been difficult to study in the lab because they fail to mate, may need a little bacterial aphrodisiac to get it on.

Although this may be bad news for the Baltic Sea and other areas plagued by this dinoflagellate, Kremp also noted that the short duration of most lab studies limits what we can know about how toxic algae may evolve over the next century.

The study builds on earlier work by Kuhl's team, which found that babies from English - speaking households could learn Mandarin from live tutors, but not from video or audio recordings of Mandarin and from other work at I - LABS establishing the importance of infant eye gaze for language learning.

The new multisite study analyzed 84,010 hospitalizations reported for heart attacks from 2003 through 2006 (88 percent of which were confirmed with an electrocardiogram or other lab test).

The lab is also studying how bees copy each other.

Within a decade, the lab is expected to move to a brand - new biosafety level 4 facility in Kansas, where scientists can study Nipah virus encephalitis and other livestock diseases that could be fatal to humans.

Around 2000, then - postdoc Wagers and other researchers in Irving Weissman's and Thomas Rando's labs at Stanford revived the method, known as parabiosis, to study the fate of blood stem cells and muscle cells.

A handful of other teams are taking an immersive, multivariable approach to studying human responses to indoor conditions, using flexible facilities — from the Total Indoor Environmental Quality Lab at Syracuse University in New York, to the SenseLab at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, which should open in December.

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.

Now, a preclinical study, from the lab of Olivier Berton, PhD, an assistant professor in the department of Psychiatry, in collaboration with Sheryl Beck, PhD, a professor in the department of Anesthesiology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, found that bullying and other social stresses triggered symptoms of depression in mice by activating GABA neurons, in a never - before - seen direct relationship between social stimuli and this neural circuitry.

To see if their findings matched those of other labs around the world, the team scoured the literature and turned up 15 studies of cancer - specific survival from Europe, Asia and the United States.

«Nevertheless, this gene will be useful in combination with other STB resistance genes, and our study provides tools for rapid lab - based tracing of Stb6 in wheat breeding lines,» says Kanyuka.

In another study of mice injected with GDF11, postdoc Lida Katsimpardi and others in the lab of Harvard neuroscientist Lee Rubin found that GDF11 also encourages growth of new blood vessels and olfactory neurons in the mouse brain.

Previous studies in Hansen's lab and others have suggested an increase in APs with age, but since the measurements were taken under steady - state conditions, it's not clear what step (s) in the process led to increased levels.

«Because of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, we were able to work with other researchers to make patient cells into any type of neuron,» said Young - Pearse, whose lab spent two years fine - tuning protocols with collaborators to generate the neurons needed for her early onset Alzheimer's study.

«We've developed something other labs can replicate,» said Whiteley, who has used this method of studying the bacterium for over five years.

A PETA study conducted earlier this year found that there has been a 73 % rise in the use of these animals in U.S. labs over the past 15 years, obviating the need for other types of animals.»

Antonio Pusceddu of the Polytechnic University of Marche in Italy and other scientists don scuba gear and jump right in with the foul globs, using large syringes to collect jugs of the material to study in the lab.

Scientists at other institutions studying the bacterium and its effect on people with CF said the research was important and indicated others will follow the lead of Whiteley's lab.

Today, the UNC School of Medicine lab of 2015 Nobel laureate Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD, has published an exquisite study of this powerful DNA repair system in plants, which closely resembles a repair system found in humans and other animals.

«This could postpone the development of age - related diseases,» said Mark Y. Jeng, the study's other first author and former graduate student in Ott's lab.

To begin to grapple with those questions, the researchers involved in the new study first selected as «seeds» the nine genes that have been most strongly tied to ASDs in recent sequencing research from their labs and others.