Sentences with phrase «scale human studies»

We expect to see future, large - scale human studies demonstrating the benefits of quinoa for risk reduction in this area of cardiovascular disease.

One of these factors is the lack of large - scale human studies.

(We should add that we have yet to see any large - scale human studies examining the relationship between these health problems and cheese made from the whole milk of 100 % grass - fed cows.)

«This is one of the first large - scale human studies to look at how these powerful bioactive compounds might reduce the risk of diabetes.

However, we have yet to see any large - scale human studies that specifically link intake of winter squash to antioxidant benefits in the body.

To date, the association between yogurt or fermented milks and depression has not been investigated; however, probiotic consumption was previously reported to be associated with reduced anxiety and depressive - like behaviors in some small - scale human studies (17).

(21 - 22)(39) Three previous large scale human studies revealed increased breast cancer with progestin use.

«This is one of the first large - scale human studies to look at how these powerful bioactive compounds might reduce the risk of diabetes.

Evidence from animal and small - scale human studies suggests that pioglitazone may prevent or reverse Alzheimer's - related pathology and symptoms.

Although we would expect the unique collection of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory phytonutrients found in blueberries to provide cardiovascular benefits well beyond blood pressure regulation (including decreased risk of atherosclerosis), we need large - scale human studies to document these benefits.

One gel has shown hints of working in a large - scale human study (ScienceNOW, 9 February), but the rest have failed or even caused harm.

A large scale human study called the Rotterdam Study showed that people with the highest dietary intake of vitamin K2 had a 50 % reduced risk of aortic calcification and cardiovascular death than those with the lowest dietary intake.

We have yet to find a large - scale human study that links green bean intake to support of the digestive tract, but we would definitely expect to see health benefits in this area.

Not exact matches

Low levels of physical activity and inefficient sleep patterns intensify the effects of genetic risk factors for obesity, according to results of a large - scale study presented at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2017 Annual Meeting in Orlando, Fla..

That's «a real exceptional feature of Homo sapiens,» notes Kim Hill, a human behavioral ecologist also at ASU who has studied small - scale tribal societies in South America.

To maintain its foothold in large - scale, world - class research, Japan has launched its own Brain Mapping by Integrated Neurotechnologies for Disease Studies (Brain / MINDS) project, in line with the increasing interest in brain - mapping projects around the world, such as the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative project in the United States and the Human Brain Project (HBP) in Europe.

And scientists who conduct human challenge studies, which typically involve a few dozen participants, say they have critical benefits: In addition to saving time and money, they can reveal harm caused by a potential drug or vaccine before it enters large - scale human efficacy trials.

In a previous related study published in the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, the same team of NTU scientists found that fish scale - derived collagen would induce human umbilical vein endothelial cells to express 2.5 times more of a specific type of collagen responsible for blood vessel formation, as compared to endothelial cells cultured on bovine collagen.

That's one of several conclusions reached by University of Nebraska - Lincoln ecologist John DeLong, who has co-authored the first study to quantify the relationship between human population growth and energy use on an international scale.

In a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers have now assessed the impacts of human interventions on water scarcity at a global scale.

«This is a very large scale study using a new, innovative statistical method,» said study co-senior author Kenneth S. Kendler, M.D., professor of psychiatry, and human and molecular genetics in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, and an internationally recognized psychiatric geneticist.

The study, «Scaling and Sustaining Effective Early Childhood Programs Through School - Family - University Collaboration,» was conducted by Dr. Arthur Reynolds, a University of Minnesota professor of child development, and colleagues in the Human Capital Research Collaborative (HCRC).

Forthcoming in the Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, the study offers the earliest known archaeological evidence for human construction of large - scale levees and other flood - control systems in China.

Sood and colleagues looked at samples from 80 cases of human ovarian cancer grouped according to patient stress using the National Institutes of Health's Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale as a surrogate marker.

«The scale of human impact is astonishing,» says Thomas Crowther, an ecologist now at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology in Wageningen who led the study while at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

Studies of human mobility usually focus on either the small scale — determining the origins, destinations and travel modes of individuals» daily commutes — or the very large scale, such as using air - travel patterns to track the spread of epidemics over time.

Chaput's method of studying such sequences on a genome - wide scale involves first generating a DNA library of the entire human genome.

Previous studies have revealed that human hair, reptile scales and bird feathers evolved from a single ancestor — a reptile that lived 300 million years ago — but this new study from the Fraser Lab at Sheffield has found that the skin teeth found on sharks also developed from the same genes.

Michael Huerta, associate director of the National Institute of Mental Health, was instrumental in starting, in 1993, the Human Brain Project (HBP), a large - scale, multi-institute initiative that combined informatics with basic research and clinical studies in neuroscience.

«The fact that this relationship was established in a large - scale, clinical human study is very important,» Przybelski says, «but there's still a lot we don't know.»

Future large - scale studies of TMAdV seroepidemiology will be needed to better understand transmission of TMAdV between monkeys and humans.

Although sequencing of PCR amplicons for human adenoviruses is not performed routinely in diagnostic virology, TMAdV would presumably have been detected previously in large - scale studies of hexon sequencing of Ad field isolates if it were circulating in the community [46], [47].

Those studies revealed both the huge scale of human impacts on the sea, and the means of protecting marine ecosystems from such effects.

«Our study reveals a spectrum of methods that nature uses to allow organisms to adapt to different environments,» said senior author Kerstin Lindblad - Toh, Scientific Director of Vertebrate Genome Biology at the Broad Institute: «These mechanisms are likely to be also at work in humans and other vertebrates, and by focusing on the remarkably diverse cichlid fishes, we were able to study this process on a broad scale for the first time.»

Finally, recent large - scale human genetic studies have implicated mutations in the NMDAR itself and serine racemase, as well as many genes associated with the postsynaptic density, with increased risk for schizophrenia.

Associate Professor D'Amato said: «Primarily a proof - of - concept investigation, our pilot study reinforces the idea that large - scale analyses should be undertaken to unravel how variation in the entire human genome relates to variation in the human microbiota.»

Ageing research and more generally the study of the functional basis of human diseases profit enormously from the large - scale approaches and resources in mouse functional genomics: systematic targeted mutation of the mouse genome, systemic phenotyping in mouse clinics, and the archiving and distribution of the mouse resources in public repositories.

For many human diseases, large - scale genomic studies have identified common genetic variants that occur more frequently in people with cardiovascular, autoimmune, inflammatory and infectious diseases, diabetes and asthma than in those without these diseases.

Theoretical and empirical studies on the emergence of human large - scale cooperation have shown that one of the important mechanisms is the existence of punishment, either directly or through externalized «pool - punishment» forces [75].

«Our study reveals a spectrum of methods that nature uses to allow organisms to adapt to different environments,» said co-senior author Kerstin Lindblad - Toh, Co-Director of SciLifeLab, scientific director of vertebrate genome biology at the Broad Institute and professor in comparative genomics at Uppsala University «These mechanisms are likely also at work in humans and other vertebrates, and by focusing on the remarkably diverse cichlid fishes, we were able to study this process on a broad scale for the first time.»

This consortium realises both quality and critical mass for studying human language at a scale not easily found anywhere else.

Recently, a large - scale genetics study examined DNA from 215,000 participants to determine how and where the human genome might be...

This resource constitutes an important infrastructure and tool for the study of complex genetic traits, the positional cloning of disease genes, the cross-referencing of mammalian genomes, and validated human transcribed sequences for large - scale studies of gene expression.

David Reich and colleagues report genome sequences of 300 people from 142 different populations usually under - represented in large - scale studies to describe a range of human variation.

CIRELLI: Another task for the future is to bridge the gap between animal studies, in which we look at memory over very short time scales, perhaps 24 hours, and human studies.

Despite the significant insights gained from large - scale studies designed to interpret this instruction book, including HapMap, Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE), and genome - wide association studies (GWAS), our knowledge of the human genome remains far from complete.

However, in larger scale studies on humans and risk of human cancers, greater intake of flavonoids has not been consistently associated with decreased risk of cancer.

Several human studies show that vinegar can increase satiety, help you eat fewer calories and lead to actual pounds lost on the scale.

We have not seen large - scale, human research studies showing benefits of soy miso consumption for the digestive tract, but we would expect such studies to show digestive benefits based on the above factors.

By comparing individuals» subjective interpretations and feelings (through interviews) with large scale data (in reports) and laws (outlined by human rights and Thai national laws), the research utilizes the triangulation approach to come up with a study that attempts to respect both the micro (individual) and macro (context) and therefore paint the human faces of displaced persons affected by factors beyond their control (conflict in Myanmar and Thai politics and law).