Sentences with phrase «researchers know part»

For many moms, pregnancy gets easier the next time around — and now researchers know part of the reason why.

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Part two reports everything we know about America's newest companies and the entrepreneurs behind them; thanks to a rather amazing collection of researchers, we now know a whole lot more than anyone ever did about that difficult, tortuous, imaginative process called starting a business.

The company said it was «building a way» for people to know if their data was accessed by «This Is Your Digital Life,» the psychological - profiling quiz app that researcher Aleksandr Kogan created and paid about 270,000 people to take part in.

The MIT researchers knew their printing method could be used to make metal and ceramic parts, says Sachs.

Two Shedd Aquarium researchers published a study in the Journal of Great Lakes Research last weekend on a little - known amphibian that resides in the Great Lakes region, the mudpuppy (Necturus maculosus), as part of a multi-year research project in partnership with Southern Illinois University's Department of Zoology, Center for Ecology, and Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory.

The researchers believe resveratrol confers its effects by activating the enzyme SIRT1, which is known to play a part in life extension.

As part of a collaborative effort, clinical researchers Rebecca Ashare, PhD, an assistant professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, and Robert Schnoll, PhD, an associate professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction, are studying the effects of metformin on smokers to see if it attenuates negative mood and cognitive deficits during withdrawal — symptoms known to be associated with the ability to quit.

The researchers found that they were able to make nine of the unconscious patients bring their hands up and open their mouths, just by stimulating a part of the brain we know is linked to those actions in non-human primates.

No respectable researcher would be part of an enterprise that hides results that do not support the Coke message, and some of these researchers are well known and quite reputable so I do not think that is on the table.

Many researchers believe that psychedelic effects are driven in large part by expectations of the experience so neither monitors nor subjects knew when they would be given the psychoactive drug.

For decades, researchers have known that the amygdala is associated with fear and anxiety but did not know exactly which neurons in what part of the amygdala played a role.

Specifically, the researchers found that they had a thickening of the cortex in a part of the brain known as the temporal occipital region, which comprises a large network of structures involved in reading.

The researchers detected frequency - following responses (FFR) coming from a part of the brain not previously known to emit them.

In laboratory studies reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the researchers found that these «neutralizing» antibodies prevented a key part of the virus, known as MERS CoV, from attaching to protein receptors that allow the virus to infect human cells.

The vesicles the researchers saw were part of a process known as autophagy, a natural mechanism that breaks down and recycles unwanted cellular components.

The researchers then statistically plotted the genetic distances between the groups based on 326 genomic markers — stretches of DNA with no known functional significance — that are known to vary among people whose ancestors came from different parts of the world.

A new study by MIT neuroscientists reveals how the brain achieves this type of focused attention on faces or other objects: A part of the prefrontal cortex known as the inferior frontal junction (IFJ) controls visual processing areas that are tuned to recognize a specific category of objects, the researchers report in the April 10 online edition of Science.

Researchers know that rigidity and loss of muscle function associated with Parkinson's is linked to a depletion of dopamine in the part of the brain that controls movement.

The researchers studied one kind of pteropod, common planktonic snails known as sea butterflies for the winglike body parts that help them glide through the water.

Now researchers from The University of Manchester and University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust — both part of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre — have investigated the role of a molecule known as FAK in controlling the resistance of DCIS to radiation and in predicting disease recurrence.

The new study, which was recently posted to a preprint repository but has not yet been published in a peer - reviewed publication, was the result of researchers comparing the parts of the genome known as exomes, which code for proteins, from 60,000 people — 10 times more than had ever been attempted.

More than 40 researchers recently visited a sparsely populated part of the western tropical Pacific Ocean — near the island of Guam — known as the «global chimney.»

Finally, what researchers really want to know is what specific part of each gene is essential.

Plunges in energy use could signal decline in brain function, and the researchers decided to focus on the hippocampus, a part of the brain known to be affected in Alzheimer's.

«Though the «blind brain» wiring may change greatly in the blind in its frontal language related parts, it still retains the most fundamental topographical and functional connectivity organizational principles of the visual cortex, known as «retinotopic mapping» — the processing of two - dimensional visual images through the eye,» said co-lead researcher Amir Amedi, associate professor of medical neurobiology at the Hebrew University's Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - Canada.

The researchers are working to understand further the relationship between the heart and the brain; they are using functional MRI to look at the workings of parts of the brain known to be involved in the processing of emotions, reactions, behaviour, decision - making and memory, such as the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex.

Researchers have long known that migratory birds receive information about magnetic fields from a part of their upper beak called the magnetite receptor, which contains iron - based magnetic crystals.

The researchers knew that the death domain of the receptor was responsible, because the same thing happened if they inserted only the sequence that codes for this part of the molecule.

The appearance of these compounds in the wine mainly comes from the solid parts of the grape (skin and seeds) during winemaking,» explains the University of Seville researcher Julio Nogales, who also says that «we already knew this, but now we can relate the structural composition of the skin and the seeds with the ease with which we can obtain phenols and understand the differences in phenol extraction according to whether we use the external or internal surface of the skin.»

In a study appearing May 2 in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers report that two other little - known lemurs — Crossley's dwarf lemur and Sibree's dwarf lemur — burrow into the soft, spongy rainforest floor in the eastern part of Madagascar, curl up and spend the next three to seven months snoozing underground.

Bingham and her colleagues are now part of a major investigation, the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer, better known as the EPIC study, in which teams of researchers are taking blood samples and painstakingly recording exactly what some 400 000 Europeans eat over periods of several weeks.

For the first time, researchers find that decisions based on unconscious learning, or knowledge we don't know we know, may rely on entirely different brain pathways than the parts of the brain we use when we make conscious, rational choices.

Arsenic, the researchers found, stops a gene for an important part of the telomerase enzyme, known as the reverse transcriptase subunit, from being translated.

The bioethics commission, chaired by Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, argues that physicians, researchers, and companies marketing DNA tests need to reframe how they think about all of this: While of course no one knows what will be buried in a given gene sequence, the fact that ancillary findings may be part of it should hardly be a surprise.

Researchers have long known that this part of the brain is involved in the movement of our eyes.

Now, with publication of a study by investigators at the Cedars - Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute, ALS researchers know the effects of the attack are worsened, at least in part, by the aging and failure of support cells called astrocytes, which normally provide nutrients, housekeeping, structure and other forms of assistance for neurons.

Using different environmental temperatures, which are known to affect roundworms» lifespan, the researchers investigated how neurons process information about external temperature and transmit that information to other parts of the body.

More recently, researchers have discovered that molecules can clamp onto DNA and prevent some parts of the sequence from being read, leading to genetic changes through a process that is known as epigenetics.

Geoscientist Will Daniels, a postdoctoral researcher at UMass Amherst's Climate System Research Center, is set to embark on the trip of a lifetime this month as part of an experiment for NASA, spending 45 days away from Earth as he knows it, without ever leaving the ground.

PD -1-blocking agents such as nivolumab, pembrolizumab and atezolizumab are part of a class of drugs known as checkpoint inhibitors, and many cancer researchers are now trying to figure out how to enhance their activity by combining them with other types of drugs.

UNC Lineberger researchers reported at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium they have identified biomarkers they believe can be used as part of a larger model to predict how patients with HER2 - positive operative breast cancer will respond to the targeted treatment trastuzumab, commercially known as Herceptin, and chemotherapy.

The researchers analyzed DNA sequences known as transposons, or «jumping genes,» which can jump from one part of the genome to another, often duplicating themselves in the process.

Yes, he invited gene drive researchers he knows to be part of the forum, but, «So what?»

Researchers discovered in the 1970s and 1980s that three of the forces of nature attain equal strengths and unite into a single force at exactly this energy scale, as long as the known laws of physics are rounded out with a few missing parts.

«For more than a century, it's been known that plants influence the makeup of their soil microbiome, in part through the release of metabolites into the soil surrounding their roots,» said Berkeley Lab postdoctoral researcher Kateryna Zhalnina, the study's lead author.

But instead of «ewwwwws» and twinging faces, the students from Decatur's Renfroe Middle School were excited to know even more about each part of the brain — asking Black, a postdoctoral researcher, more about the parts controlling speech, taste and sight, for example.

According to the researchers, this means that a massive part of the Milky Way — known as the Extreme Inner Disk — contains no young stars.

Researchers have unraveled the molecular basis of many human disorders, and a very large part (over 80 percent) of the genes we know to be associated with human disease (e.g. Parkinson's and addiction) have homologues in zebrafish.

However, using Anton, researchers were able to simulate only a small part of the chemoreceptor containing the Phe396 pair known as a dimer, meaning two identical molecules.

Knowing that blastema formation is a key part of limb regeneration in animals with this capability as adults, researchers Benjamin L King and Voot P Yin looked at three regenerative species — the zebrafish, axolotl and the bichir — with the aim of finding out what genes control this event.