Sentences with phrase «other molecular studies»

According to other molecular studies, fish oil actually slows down aging.

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Also there is evidence of molecular mechanisms in the cell membranes that can amplify small changes in the field to produce large changes in neural activity.13 On the other hand, earlier tests of Kohler's theory found that interference with electrical gradients over the cortex had no effect on behavioral measures (see note 11 for reference to these studies).

>> Read the complete research study: Endocrine disrupting chemicals and other substances of concern in food contact materials: An updated review of exposure, effect and risk assessment in the Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

In the new study, led by graduate student Steven Briscoe, the team found that other populations of neurons in the bird DVR share molecular signatures with neocortical intratelencephalic cells, or IT neurons.

Other areas of study include tinkering with nanoparticles» shape (a more elongated design could more easily navigate the body) and materials that have a lower molecular weight but pack the same punch.

Other molecular information from patients may reveal these so - called «hidden responders,» according to a Penn Medicine study in Cell Reports this week.

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.

Scientists knew that fruit flies, cockroaches, and other simple organisms have sensory processors that resemble a cortex, but these were «always interpreted as a striking example of convergent evolution of unrelated structures,» says molecular biologist Raju Tomer, who led the study at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory inmolecular biologist Raju Tomer, who led the study at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory inMolecular Biology Laboratory in Germany.

Other Dana - Farber contributors to the study include Levi Garraway, MD, PhD, a co-senior author, Mary - Ellen Taplin, MD, Mark Pomerantz, MD, and Massimo Loda, MD, director of Dana - Farber's Center for Molecular Oncologic Pathology.

Neurobiologist Erich Jarvis has spent the last 25 years studying the molecular mechanisms underlying the capacity for spoken language, one of the crucial traits that differentiates humans from other animals.

Hazen says that he and his colleagues are currently extending their studies to see if similar conditions help give rise to amino acids and other more complex molecular precursors of life.

They trip each other up, which prevents the axons from fully extending through the brain and delivering the usual doses of serotonin, says Tom Maniatis, a study coauthor and molecular neuroscientist at Columbia University.

This pre-clinical study from Professor Mazzone and his colleagues reveals a new molecular axis that may offer interesting therapeutic opportunities for the treatment of pancreatic cancer, breast cancer and lung cancer, among others.

A novel molecular imaging technique could be the key to understanding how best to treat these and other devastating diseases, according to a recent study presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imagingmolecular imaging technique could be the key to understanding how best to treat these and other devastating diseases, according to a recent study presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular ImagingMolecular Imaging (SNMMI).

A new study supported by the Milstein Medical Research Program at The Rockefeller University, however, has uncovered the molecular roots of skin discoloration that is often associated with psoriasis, suggesting the possibility of new treatments for pigmentation changes seen not only in psoriasis, but also in other conditions such as eczema and acne.

Lydia Villa - Komaroff, a molecular and cellular biologist and co-founding member of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos / Hispanics and Native Americans in Science, underscored the value of basic research, noting that her work studying strains of infection - resistant bacteria led to a discovery that «made it possible to make insulin and other treatments in bacteria.

The study provides evidence for how FGF23 signals to cells by forming a complex with a-Klotho and the two other molecular partners.

Alexander Parker, who studies the molecular epidemiology of kidney cancer at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, adds that if the diuretic hypothesis by itself were correct, there should be some protective effect with other diuretics.

«Studies currently running indicate that we can apply the principle of the birch pollen allergen directly to other allergens with similar molecular structures.

«This is the first study to offer an unbiased profile of novel imprinted genes in a mammal other than mice,» said lead author Xu Wang, a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Andrew Clark, professor of molecular biology and genetics and the study's senior author.

The study, published online in the Aug. 21, 2015, issue of Nature Communications, was led by Zheng - Rong Lu, Ph.D., CWRU M. Frank Rudy and Margaret Domiter Rudy Professor of biomedical engineering and an expert in molecular imaging for cancer and other diseases.

«Our team studied thousands of molecular clues in each of these samples, sifting through extensive data on the activity of genes, proteins and other molecules to identify those of most interest,» says Katrina Waters, a biologist at PNNL and a corresponding author of the study.

«Our team studied thousands of molecular clues in each of these samples, sifting through extensive data on the activity of genes, proteins, and other molecules to identify those of most interest,» said Katrina Waters, the leader of the PNNL team and a corresponding author of the paper.

The researchers hope their new cell lines will be a useful resource for studying the cellular and molecular intricacies of Huntington's further, and suggest they may provide a model for examining other diseases of the brain that are specific to humans.

Consistent with most previous molecular and contemporary morphological studies (15), they divided modern birds (Neornithes) into Palaeognathae (tinamous and flightless ratites), Galloanseres [Galliformes (landfowl) and Anseriformes (waterfowl)-RSB-, and Neoaves (all other extant birds).

«Although this was a small, preliminary study, it suggests that marijuana may affect individuals at high risk for psychosis differently than other marijuana users, by briefly inducing psychotic - like experiences and impairing their cognition,» said Nehal Vadhan, PhD, a psychologist and associate professor in Psychiatry and Molecular Medicine at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine and first author of the paper.

«The work demonstrates that our methodology is accurate and also well suited to study the functionality of other enzymes at the molecular level,» says Ville Kaila.

Postdoc Janne Thirstrup from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, has studied the genetic correlations between behaviour and other financially important traits in mink.

Previous research, including pioneering work at MD Anderson by this study's senior author Ignacio Wistuba, M.D., and others, has shown normal - appearing tissue close to lung premalignant and cancer lesions may have tumor - associated molecular abnormalities.

Dr Margaret O'Hara, from the Molecular Physics Group and primary investigator on the project, said: «Previous studies have found potential biomarkers for liver disease, such as isoprene and acetone, but they are not specific enough because they are possible biomarkers for other diseases or can arise from numerous normal metabolic processes.

Now researchers studying the teeth, jaws, and other physical features of living and extinct species have challenged these molecular data, offering new insight into when and where the world's most common furry creatures arose and began to diversify.

There are many ways of studying the atomic bonds and molecular interactions that give materials their strength and other fundamental properties.

But together, Cappellini and others argue, the papers have the potential to transform dinosaur paleontology into a molecular science, much as analyzing ancient DNA has revolutionized the study of human evolution.

«Clearly, estrogen regulates TLR8 and other TLRs in ways that change the threshold of an inflammatory response, and female cells are hard wired to be more sensitive to this change,» said Nicholas Young, PhD, a molecular biologist with Ohio State's department of immunology who worked on the study.

One study extends a strategy for editing DNA, whereas the other breaks new ground by base editing its molecular cousin, RNA.

Otto, who works with yeast, was excited to see that these rotifers look to be a promising new model system that other researchers can now examine at the molecular level to study what prompts — and what is selected for in — sexual reproduction.

Although researchers knew that CONSTANS production levels varied, the new study shows that the protein is subject to «a whole other level of regulation... that's controlled by these photoreceptors,» says molecular biologist Mark Doyle of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

After the funding for Eurage expired, Clark, Knook, Franceschi, and other colleagues won a grant from the European Commission (E.C.)-- the executive branch of the newly formed European Union — to support Molgeron, a network of 12 European research labs that were studying the molecular basis of aging.

He recognized that the study of aging had lacked robust scientific inquiry, and he conjectured that molecular biology tools could fuel real progress in the field — a forward - looking viewpoint that few others espoused at the time, says immunologist Claudio Franceschi, director of the Italian National Research Center on Aging in Ancona.

Senior toxicologists say the field of toxicology is undergoing a big change as pressure mounts to reduce animal use and genomics, proteomics, and other cell - based and molecular techniques supersede whole - animal studies.

The study's other senior author, Dr John O'Neill of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, said: «Although the clinical relevance of magnesium in various tissues is beginning to garner more attention, how magnesium regulates our body's internal clock and metabolism has simply not been considered before.

«Such a mosaic anatomical evolution may well be related to the somewhat similar molecular mosaic evolution between the three species revealed by previous genetic studies: each of the chimpanzees species share about 3 percent of genetic traits with humans that are not present in the other chimpanzee species.»

Other researchers on the study were Ahmet Denli, Christopher Benner, Thomas Lazzarini, and Apuã Paquola of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies; Jason Nathanson and Gene Yeo of the University of California San Diego, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine; Keval Desai of the University of California San Diego, Division of Biological Sciences; Roberto Herai and Alysson Muotri of the University of California San Diego, School of Medicine; Matthew Weitzman of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine; and senior and corresponding author Fred H. Gage of the Salk Institute and Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny.

Furthermore, several molecular studies have concluded that whales share a common artiodactyl ancestor with hippos and are thus more closely related to these animals than to any other living artiodactyl or to a mesonychian.

The other half of the samples was used for molecular biology studies.

Other study contributors include scientists from the Institute for Molecular Science at the Laser Research Centre in Japan and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Iowa State University in the United States.

Yet the order in which those three other groups appeared has been a mystery and has stymied molecular clock studies.

Next, they hope to study exactly how PER1 controls appetite and eating behavior — whether its molecular actions work through the liver, fat cells, brain or other organs.

Knowles, along with the study's other lead author, SDSU postdoctoral researcher Cynthia Silveira, and an international team of collaborators with expertise ranging from mathematics, physics and statistics to ecology and molecular biology, decided to put this model to the test.

The study is the first to reveal the molecular processes that may help coral reef fishes and other marine species adjust to warmer conditions in the future.