Sentences with phrase «researchers said their goal»

With miglustat therapy available off - label in the U.S. and potential therapies in clinical trials, the researchers said their goal is to see the test added to the recommended uniform screening panel defined by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Not exact matches

The goal of immunotherapy, researchers like Stanton say, is to target precancerous lesions or, of course, to prevent the disease altogether.

However, board member Luis Reyes, a researcher at Hunter College in Manhattan, said the graduation goal would prove «delusional» unless the state provides more equitable funding for schools in poor neighborhoods.

«The goal of this meeting is to bring basic researchers and risk assessors together in the same room and to provide the venue for a collaborative discussion on how these two communities can work together to address critical questions in the field,» says Dr. McCullough.

Andrew Schiff, CEO, Rhode Island Community Food Bank, a researcher on the study, said, «Our goal is to provide those we serve with the most nutritious food possible and help them prepare healthy meals, understanding that the household budget is limited.»

She prides herself on her analytical skills and says that she and her supervisor, UW Madison geoscientist John Valley, share the goal of providing researchers with exceptionally accurate analyses.

The researchers said the main goals of their study were to better understand generational differences related to tablet use and to predict individuals» behavioral intention to use the devices.

Regardless of the geographic setting, the goals and challenges of translational research are the same, says Liu: Getting funding and infrastructure support from the government, training young investigators, creating a multidisciplinary community of researchers who can effectively communicate with each other, and finding ways to systematically implement translational research results into clinical practice.

«The elegant studies here provide proof of concept that targeting LMPTP in the liver improves glucose control and liver insulin signalling in animals,» says Daniel Drucker of the Lunenfeld - Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto, Canada, who says that targeting enzymes like LMPTP has long been a goal for researchers tackling diabetes.

Measuring galaxies at extreme distances and characterizing their properties will be a major goal of astronomy over the next decade, the researchers said.

Targeting enzymes like LMPTP has long been a goal for diabetes researchers, says Daniel Drucker of the Lunenfeld - Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto, Canada.

The broader goal, say the researchers, is for the limbs and their users to work seamlessly so that «humans may perceive them as part of their own bodies».

«I don't think there are any cons,» says Tiedje about hosting guest researchers, «although it's good to have clear goals.»

It should now be possible to achieve the same goal by segmenting 3D conducting materials into stacks of 2D conducting layers separated by insulating layers, the researchers say in their study published in the journal ACS Nano.

«The growth rate is portrayed as dramatic, but it's not dramatic at all if the goal is 100 % open access,» says Stevan Harnad, a cognition researcher at the University of Southampton, UK.

The researchers» next goal is «to manipulate and control a single electron and its spin on double - dot single - electron devices by using asymmetric side-gate electrodes to demonstrate spin qubits,» said Majima.

«As researchers, our goal is to understand the details of how these molecules are locked,» says Thompson, adding that they will be using animal models to conduct this research.

A couple of other research groups have also sorted stem cells based on gene expression, but they have not done so specifically with the goal of enriching cell populations for a specific tissue, the researchers said.

«The goal of the toolkit is to advance the field of soft robotics by allowing designers and researchers to build upon each other's work,» says Conor Walsh, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and a Core Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.

Sun Joo «Grace» Ahn, an assistant professor of advertising in the Grady College and one of the lead researchers on the project, said one of the goals for designing the pet was to make sure that it didn't just have a «cool effect.»

Researchers say a wandering mind may be important to setting goals, making discoveries, and living a balanced life.

But to achieve that goal, Zeng says, researchers may need to reconstruct hundreds of thousands of neurons.

Now that researchers know it's possible to fairly divide cake in a bounded number of steps, the next goal, Procaccia said, is to understand the huge gulf between Aziz and Mackenzie's upper bound and the existing lower bound on the number of cuts needed to divide a cake.

The ultimate goal is a liver cell model, researchers said, because the liver is where the majority of drugs are metabolized and where many drug side effects are manifested.

«Just like their matriarch, the Lacks family continues to have a significant impact on medical progress by providing access to an important scientific tool that researchers will use to study the cause and effect of many diseases with the goal of developing treatments,» said NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D..

Black said the researchers will aim to replicate these findings in additional patients and determine if and how the brain regions they identified may contribute to Tourette's syndrome, with a goal of developing more effective therapies.

«Our goal was to eliminate any pre-existing conditions of the children or families that could throw a different light on our results,» said the researcher.

«The goal is to assess the overall health of the babies (birth weight, pre-term births, head circumference and the prevalence of certain congenital birth defects) in relation to their proximity to natural - gas well sites and the number of active wells in their environment,» the researcher said.

«The overarching goal of our research is to create an innovative, yet sustainable and accessible, low cost solution to combat the global threat of West Nile virus,» said Chen, a researcher at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute and professor in the Department of TEIM.

«My main goal really was to make sure that we are rigorous in the science before we are political,» says Carl Hart, a substance abuse researcher at Columbia who was the lead author on the Neuropsychopharmacology paper.

Mele says that the goal of SCOAP3 is to switch the discipline's journals to open access without researchers noticing any effect on their grant funding or on the way they publish papers.

The goal of streamlining useful but clunky bioelectronics actually drives the whole industry right now, says Ludwig, who has since left CVRx and is now the program director for neural engineering at the National Institutes of Health, where he allocates money to other bioelectronics researchers to develop smaller, more effective devices.

To ensure both objectives are met, the need of the hour is to include conservation goals in regional developmental plans, a nationally important exercise which is seriously lacking,» says Srinivas Vaidyanathan, a researcher from FERAL, and co-author of the paper.

The goal is achievable, she says: «Researchers have long known that after a few years of infection, a minority of HIV - positive people produce antibodies that can neutralize a broad spectrum of HIV variants.»

Withdrawal from the accord and the EPA's plan to repeal the Clean Power Plan will only make the chances of achieving the goal more remote, the researchers say.

Identifying these barriers allows researchers to develop and implement new solutions, with the goal of improving the rate of use of the genomic results, the authors said.

The researchers say the key to reaching the goal of zero transmission between mothers and infants is to engage hard - to - reach populations in health care and allow them to access prenatal care, HIV testing and cART treatment.

«Our goal in the project is to enable the wider sharing of data while protecting privacy,» Vadhan said, «and to make sharing easier for a non-expert researcher without experience in computer science, law or statistics.»

While these techniques tested techniques for keeping the brain alive in the absence of a blood supply, authors of the study said their goal, in contrast to that of Chinese researchers, was not the long - term viability of the specimen.

'' Managing systemic diseases like HLB is a difficult challenge that has faced plant pathologists for many years,» said Johnson «It is a privilege to work with an excellent team of researchers from many different disciplines with the goal of developing new tools that are both effective and safe.»

«Our goal is to put hard numbers on soft matter,» says Ernst - Ludwig Florin, a researcher at the University of Texas at Austin in the US, who led this latest research.

Researchers say flexible goals with a forgiving margin decrease the chance of «failure» and promote a sense of achievement integral to motivation, the Journal of Consumer Research reported.

Diet, exercise, and testing blood sugar While researchers are debating how low is too low, getting hemoglobin A1C lower than 7 % is a goal that's attainable, says Elizabeth Hardy, a 47 - year - old nurse from Dallas who has type 2 diabetes.

The task force, which met here for the first time last week, will «draw a blueprint to enable us to use this [technology] to reach our national goals,» said its chairwoman, Pamela Keating, a researcher at the University of Washington.

Researchers say the early warning indicator system emerged as a way to measure whether students were on track to reach stages along the way to the project's goal: measuring true college readiness, meaning that students would not need a remedial course when they arrived at college.

«I look forward to assisting them in achieving their goal of creating the Nigerian Center for Reading Research,» FCRR researcher and Assistant Professor of Education Laura Steacy said.

Real evaluations are vital to meet the goal of getting quality teachers in each classroom, said Raegen Miller, an education researcher with the Center for American Progress.

«Score variation is necessary for the FFL to differentiate between high - and low - performing school leaders, a basic goal for any evaluation tool,» researchers said.

«As Oregon works towards the goal of 80 percent of adults having a postsecondary degree by 2025, it is important to understand which groups of students are less likely to access postsecondary education and which groups are less likely to persist in college,» says Ashley Pierson, Education Northwest Senior Researcher and lead author of the study.

When researchers for Franklin Templeton's 2017 Retirement Income Strategies and Expectations Survey asked 2,013 adults earlier this year what concerned them more — market volatility or not reaching their long - term retirement investment goals — the respondents were almost equally split: 47 % expressed more apprehension about short - term risks, while 53 % said they were more anxious about not about achieving their long - term goals.