Sentences with phrase «pioneering studies on»

The Ellerby lab is known for its pioneering studies on Huntington's disease (HD), and Karen is now using human stem cell models of HD to understand why important molecular signaling pathways, such as the TGF - β pathway, are dysregulated in HD.

Richard C. Thompson is a professor of marine biology at Plymouth University in the UK who has conducted some of the pioneering studies on microplastics in the marine environment.

Today is the 70th birthday of Elizabeth Hay, an embryologist at Harvard Medical School who, through pioneering studies on regeneration of amphibian limbs, has shed light on the cellular mechanisms that transform normal cells into tumors.

The Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission's science and knowledge service, has published a pioneering study on the role of the chemical and petrochemical industry in reaching the EU climate targets.

In the 1980s Caroline and Robert Blanchard, working together at the University of Hawaii, carried out a pioneering study on the natural history of fear.

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«This is pioneering content,» deadpanned Chris Sacca, a noted investor in Twitter (which owns Periscope), as Professor Fuzzlepants snacked on hay, planted firmly in the «Study» section.

Dr. Attig pioneered a corporate governance study on expropriation and protection of minority shareholders in Canada and their effects on corporate valuation and stock market liquidity.

In that light, Raddon explores the influence of social media on consumers» financial decision process in our recent study, Payments Insights: Rise of the Digital Pioneers.

His early research on medieval Bulgaria was innovative and original, while his Byzantine studies, often claimed as pioneering, followed paths mapped by French scholars such as Charles Diehl (1859 — 1944) and Louis Bréhier (1868 — 1951) a generation earlier.

The first chapter is a pioneering study of the local impact of the Oxford Movement in London, focusing on a reconstruction of Wood's Tractarian activities.

He pioneered numerous studies on wine aroma chemistry, microbiology and oxygen management.

Alan is also a founding team member of Media Bureau Networks, a pioneer in streaming media services; a contributing editor to PoliticsOnline.com; serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals dedicated to the study of the Internet, politics, and government; and is a member of the board of directors for E-Democracy.org.

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Cao hopes the study, which was funded in part by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), will pioneer future research on details within the hippocampus as a marker for precise diagnosis and positive treatment response of bipolar disorder.

Studies of hydrogen molecules in the Venusian atmosphere by NASA's Pioneer - Venus probe indicate that the planet once had liquid water on its surface, perhaps even expansive oceans.

The study, published this week Science, builds on pioneering work from the»80s which is at the interface between theoretical computer science and physics.

About one in 20 people, and possibly many more, harbor C. difficile in their gut, said study co-author Justin Sonnenburg, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology, who has conducted pioneering research on the trillions of microbes constituting our intestinal ecosystems.

Based on the pioneering work of Dr. Claire Lugassy and Dr. Raymond Barnhill at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, a new study provides additional support for a process by which melanoma cells, a deadly form of skin cancer, can spread throughout the body by creeping like tiny spiders along the outside of blood vessels without ever entering the blood stream, and that this process is exacerbated by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light.

A recent study carried out by the researchers at Newcastle University pioneering the techniques estimated that 2473 women in the UK, and 12,423 women in the US, aged between 15 and 44 years, are at risk of passing on potentially lethal mitochondrial DNA to their children.

There's no reason that we shouldn't have a significant number of people living and working on the moon, doing geological studies of asteroids and pioneering the path to Mars.

The idea builds on the work of renowned neuroscientist Endel Tulving, who pioneered the study of human episodic memory — the recall of our autobiographical past.

Engineer Daniel Sperling, of the University of California, Davis, joins the roster of Blue Planet laureates for research on the impact of transportation on the environment and pioneering studies leading toward more efficient and environmentally friendly transportation systems.

«We have focused our efforts on the oxidation of α - pinene, because it accounts for about half of global monoterpene emissions,» explains Dr. Mikael Ehn from the University of Helsinki, who is the first author of this study and did the pioneering work for the discovering of ELVOCs.

A pioneering method, developed at Chalmers University of Technology, has demonstrated its potential in a large study, showing that metabolic fingerprints from blood samples could render important new knowledge on the connection between food and health.

The spacecraft pioneered the detection of aurorae at mid latitudes, provided estimates on the rate at which Mars» atmosphere escapes into space, and studied the Martian moon Phobos at close quarters.

I would also tell him that his pioneering work on master regulatory factors in muscle inspired me to change my course from being an orthopedic surgeon to the study gene regulatory biology in the cardiovascular system.

Prof. Vijay Pande and his group have pioneered several areas of simulation methodology (including large - scale distributed computing via the Folding@home program, Molecular Dynamics on GPUs, and Markov State Model approaches) as well as applications of these tools to the study of protein folding.

(That finding, by the way, comes from Thomas Hunt Morgan, who gave up on planarian regeneration studies in frustration and turned to his pioneering work in the genetics of fruit flies.)

«Yi qi lived in the Jurassic, so it was a pioneer in the evolution of flight on the line to birds,» study author Zheng Xiaoting of Linyi University said in a statement.

On this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Sara Seager, who started out as a painfully shy, friendless child and grew up to become a MacArthur Foundation genius grant winner for her pioneering work studying the atmospheres of planets orbiting stars lightyears from Earth.

Made major contributions to the field of immunology through his studies on immune tolerance in animal models, with particular focus on transplantation tolerance and autoimmunity, in addition to pioneering the use of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies against T cells, resulting in the development of Campath - 1H, the first humanised monoclonal antibody to be used therapeutically.

While laser treatments based on work pioneered at Joslin in the 1960s have helped to minimize this damage, injecting a drug called ranibizumab can be more effective, according to results from a major clinical study by the Diabetes Retinopathy Clinical Research Network (DRCR.net) announced today.

James Kasting is one of the pioneers of planetary habitability studies and in this book he provides an insider's view on what makes a planet habitable and how can we find planets suitable for life.

In 1980 Maramorosch was awarded the Wolf Prize in Agriculture for «his pioneering and wide - ranging studies on interactions between insects and disease agents in plants.»

Rhesus monkeys 27 - year - old Canto, on a restricted diet (left), and 29 - year - old Owen, a control subject on an unrestricted diet (right), were among the subjects in a pioneering long - term study of the links between diet and aging.

Dr. Collin Campbell a pioneer in the plant based revolution brought this to life with his book the China Study, a book i would recommend to anyone who wants to see the research on animal foods and their many affects on our overall health.

According to Dr. Edward Howell, an early pioneer in the field of human nutrition who spent his entire professional life studying enzymes, if you don't have enough enzymes to digest your food, great strain is placed on your entire body to «pick up the slack.»

John R. Lee, M.D. was internationally acknowledged as a pioneer and expert in the study and use of the hormone progesterone, and on the subject of hormone replacement therapy for women.

Dr. Galland is a pioneer in studying the impact of intestinal microbes (the gut microbiome) and intestinal permeability («leaky gut») on health and disease.

His most popular book, The Seven Principles, has sold more than a million copies, and is based on his pioneering work studying real marriages and what makes them succeed — or fail.

Dozens of Pioneering Studies Dig into on personality types and their impact on our lives social attitudes, relationships, and much more.

Thus, Bingham positions his study as a follow - up to and update of the much - revered first major research on the biographical genre, George Custen's pioneering and influential Bio / Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History (1), which mainly covered the Hollywood studio years.

His comment was based on a pioneering study by Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff, published in this issue (see «Great Teaching,» Research), which for the first time combines tax data that reveal earnings at age 28 with information on student learning when that person was in elementary school.

The study on which this blog entry is based «Getting Classroom Observations Right: Lessons on how from four pioneering districts,» by Grover J. «Russ» Whitehurst, Matthew M. Chingos and Katharine M. Lindquist, was published by Education Next on September 16, 2014.

These pioneering studies are sobering, albeit limited both by their focus on «marginal» students (those barely over and just under the schools» entry - score cutoffs) and by their reliance on short - term measures of effectiveness.

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He is now leading a pioneering study of the impact of charter schools on civic participation.

A study published in the Winter 2015 issue of Education Next, «Getting Classroom Observations Right: Lessons on How from Four Pioneering Districts,» looked at the strengths and weaknesses of different teacher evaluation systems.

He has published numerous studies on educational choice programs with organizations such as the Heritage Foundation, the Texas Public Policy Foundation, the Pioneer Institute, the Show - Me Institute, and the Caesar Rodney Institute.

During his tenure, he spearheaded significant educational reforms, pioneering a new model of multidisciplinary legal studies, enlarging the clinical education program, revamping to foster a public service ethos, and developing the international law program to support a growing emphasis on globalization in legal practice.