Sentences with phrase «researchers advance understanding»

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Lead researcher Joan Cook - Mills, a professor of allergy - immunology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, described the findings as a «major advance in our understanding of how food allergy starts early in life».

Beatrix Ann Hamburg, a renowned psychiatrist and academic researcher whose pioneering work advanced understanding of mental health for children and adolescents and shaped public policies related to improving the health of minorities, died on April 15.

But a better understanding of the gut environment will be necessary to achieve the next level of advances in comprehending the disease and fashioning better interventions, researchers said last Wednesday at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston.

Last September researchers at Washington State University made a notable advance in understanding the chemical trigger that allows that shift to happen.

To understand why, just turn to this month's Think Tank (page 66), the first of a yearlong series, where 11 of today's leading medical and biological researchers talk about the greatest advances in their field over the past quarter century.

Each of these researchers is creating new knowledge and advancing understanding of the world around us.

«Studies of the effects of mixtures are still in the early stages, and it may take years for researchers to attain major advances in understanding the actual potential for effects.

«Understanding this previously ignored part of the human genome, its role in human development, and how it may be taken over by disease, opens a new frontier in science with important implications for medical advances,» said Philipp Kapranov, Ph.D., lead researcher at the St. Laurent Institute.

Many researchers now believe that real advances in genomics will come not from simple X-causes-Y correlations but from a rich statistical understanding that emerges out of the sequences of millions of genomes — a set that reveals how our genetic code is likely to interact with the environment to make us who we are.

The researchers say that more samples of the house shrews are necessary, particularly from the Arabian Peninsula and India, in order to advance the understanding of the distribution and hybridization of the species.

By tying substances like this in knots, the researchers hope to understand how their intricate configurations and unique properties can be harnessed in the next generation of advanced materials and photonic devices.

«These findings advance our understanding of DNA repair mechanisms common among all organisms and may also have practical applications,» said co-corresponding author Ogun Adebali, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in the Sancar lab.

This advance in understanding was, says Lukas, due to the volume of information they collected and the availability of genetic information that allowed the researchers to determine the sequence in which different traits evolved.

Each investigation will use the unique conditions aboard the space station to advance researchers» understanding in those areas of study.

Apart from advancing our understanding of how plants regulate their growth and shape, this research presents new questions for stem cell researchers in regards to cell size checkpoints and their importance during organism development.

And the insights the researchers gleaned constitute a significant advance in the fundamental understanding of protein folding.

«Understanding such an invisible ecosystem requires advanced technology and concepts,» explained Emlie Villar, a CNRS researcher and a senior author on one of the five research articles.

Understanding how common brain circuits for decision - making contribute to seemingly unrelated disorders will allow researchers to focus on core disturbances and leverage treatment advances across different disorders.»

«This paper is important in that it advances our understanding of the relation of sleep to substance use problems to include not only problems sleeping, that is, trouble falling asleep and / or staying asleep, but also insufficient sleep, addressed here as hours of sleep,» added Tim Roehrs, director of research at the Sleep Disorders and Research Center at the Henry Ford Hospital, and one of the first researchers to identify sleep insufficiency as a clinical issue in the 1990s.

The researchers also hope that by advancing the understanding of which genes play a role in DLB, their results will aid in the development of targeted therapies.

Researchers from LSU, Fudan University, the University of Florida and the Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures in Nanjing, China, conducted research on materials that separate into different regions through a process called electronic phase separation, which is poorly understood.

This marks only the second time researchers have generated a whole organ from a single stem cell, representing major advances for stem cell research and our understanding of prostate development, experts say.

Performing experimental weather forecasts using the Stampede supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, researchers have gained a better understanding of the conditions that cause severe hail to form, and are producing predictions with far greater accuracy than those currently used operationally.

The achievement, say researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center who led the research, represents a critical advance in the effort to understand the origin and drivers of this puzzling cancer — the most common in men.

But roboticists worry that deep learning can't give machines the other visual abilities needed to make sense of the world — they need to understand the 3D nature of the objects and learn new ones quickly on the fly — so researchers are already looking beyond deep learning for the next big advance.

To understand the current performance and potential of this assay, the researchers first tested it in advanced cancer, an area where circulating tumor DNA has been previously characterized.

Within the last five years, the development of sophisticated sequencing techniques has enabled researchers to make sweeping advances in the understanding of the fundamental role that tags like N6 - methyladenosine play in biology.

The results of their work, the researchers say, may advance scientific understanding of how genes linked to the risk of human bipolar disorder change neuronal circuits in the brain, and may offer an animal model for testing new treatments.

«Advances in lung cancer therapy require a greater understanding of the molecular origins of this deadly disease,» said last corresponding author Levantini, who is also a researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Technologies at the Italian National Research Council (ITB - CNR).

Thanks to modern advances in brain imaging and the ability to monitor brain activity, researchers now understand more about the sleep - wake cycle, the different stages of sleep, and the different states of consciousness.

University of Melbourne researchers have been awarded more than $ 15 million to improve the lives of people suffering from neurological conditions, cardiac illnesses, cancer and to advance our understanding of life - threatening Influenza.

«Our decision to procure these knockout mouse lines and data and make them available to the research community will yield tremendous benefits, both in the short and long terms,» said NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. «This trans - NIH initiative will place important mouse models into the hands of researchers, speeding advances in the understanding of human disease and the development of new therapies.

The grant, one of the largest ever awarded to the university, will allow researchers to advance the scientific understanding of naturally occurring methane... Read more →

By looking at the DNA in your samples, researchers can make discoveries that will ultimately lead to a better understanding and faster advances in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer.

Researchers at The Jackson Laboratory and the MDI Biological Laboratory have separately made recent advances in understanding the basics of two of the leading causes of deaths in the United States, colorectal cancer and heart disease, respectively.

The mission of the ALCC is to award time for special situations of interest to the Department with an emphasis on high - risk, high - payoff simulations in areas directly related to the Department's energy mission in areas such as advancing the clean energy agenda and understanding the Earth's climate, for national emergencies, or for broadening the community of researchers capable of using leadership computing resources.

Researchers here are advancing understanding of autism, addiction and mood disorders, improving the treatment of Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia, and finding new ways to help children succeed in school.

The CRISPR / Cas technology applied to mouse genetic engineering could quickly advance scientific understanding of disease mechanisms by allowing researchers to ask complex questions and find answers much faster than with traditional gene targeting approaches.

1/17/2008 Rapid Effects of Intensive Therapy Seen in Brains of Patients with OCD In a study that may significantly advance the understanding of how cognitive - behavioral therapy affects the brain, researchers have shown that significant changes in activity in certain regions of the brain can be produced with as little as four week... More...

By combining advanced approaches such as cell sorting and single cell analysis, researchers will gain a better understanding of the complex genetic landscape of disease.

«This discovery will advance our understanding of stem cell epigenetics and chromatin structures, provide potential mechanisms on maintaining the hallmark properties of ES cells, and help researchers with the rich source of information to better understand some of the unique features — such as self - renewal and pluripotency — of human embryonic stem cells,» said Ng Huck Hui, Ph.D., senior group leader at GIS and a member of the Singapore team that conducted this research.

In a new study published in PLoS Computational Biology, researchers at Maastricht University and the Gladstone Institutes tackled this challenge to improve the integration of disparate sources and types of data and advance scientists» understanding of disease.

Researchers at Maastricht University and the Gladstone Institutes tackled the challenge of improving the integration of disparate sources and types of data and advance scientists» understanding of disease.

Alex Pico, PhD, collaborated with researchers at Maastricht University to improve the integration of disparate sources and types of data and advance scientists» understanding of disease.

Yet as technological advances allowed researchers to observe chromatin at ever - finer scales, that understanding was overturned.

This work, which will allow researchers to better study and understand Alzheimer's, highlights the power of collaboration between institutions in advancing cures for disease.

As technology advances and the cost of genome sequencing drops, researchers will have more data to work with and our understanding of genomics will improve.

In his role as chair of Structural Biology, Kalodimos will continue building a world class department that will provide researchers with the most advanced technologies to tackle important biological systems with the overarching goal to understand health and disease at a molecular level.

Gladstone's research centers bring together researchers across institutes to advance its mission to better understand, prevent, treat, and, ultimately, cure some of mankind's most intractable diseases.

The Lupus Foundation of America established, in 2005, the Evelyn V. Hess, MD, MACP, MACR, Award, to be given annually to a clinical or basic researcher whose body of work has significantly advanced understanding of the pathophysiology, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, or treatment of lupus.