Sentences with phrase «senior author of a paper on»

«My work has focused on developing technology that translates electrical signals in human muscle into signals that control powered prosthetic limbs — such as decoding muscle signals to tell a prosthetic leg that it needs to walk forward or step up onto a staircase,» says Dr. Helen Huang, senior author of a paper on the work and an associate professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

«Most software programs rely, in part, on code in external «libraries» to perform some of their functions,» says Chris Parnin, an assistant professor of computer science at North Carolina State University and senior author of a paper on the work.

«Our approach reduces the cost of nanolithography to the point where it could be done in your garage,» says Dr. Chih - Hao Chang, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State and senior author of a paper on the work.

«Some of the differences in disorder rates are truly remarkable,» said Ronald Kessler, McNeil Family Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and senior author of the paper on mental disorder prevalence.

«The main achievement was the fact that we used the inhibition of the inhibitory neurons» to stimulate the memory patterns, says physicist Eshel Ben - Jacob, senior author of a paper on the findings published in the May issue of Physical Review E. «We probably made [the cell culture] trigger the collective mode of activity that... [is]... possible.»

«This could be used to scale current semiconductor technologies down to the atomic scale — lasers, light - emitting diodes (LEDs), computer chips, anything,» says Dr. Linyou Cao, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at NC State and senior author of a paper on the work.

«The ultimate goal is to use these atomic - layer semiconducting thin films to create devices that are extremely flexible, but to do that we need to transfer the thin films from the substrate we used to make it to a flexible substrate,» says Cao, who is senior author of a paper on the new transfer technique.

«This mechanism may offer the potential to develop an entirely new therapeutic approach,» says C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., Joslin's chief academic officer, Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and senior author of a paper on the research published in the journal Nature.

«This should not only expedite scientific discovery, but help us better engineer microbial organisms to further biotechnology and medicine,» says Dr. Chase Beisel, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at NC State and senior author of a paper on the work.

Griffith is one of the senior authors of a paper on the study, which appears in the open - access Nature journal Scientific Reports.

Not exact matches

«We've always known that caffeine has cognitive - enhancing effects, but its particular effects on strengthening memories and making them resistant to forgetting has never been examined in detail in humans,» Yassa, senior author of the paper, told Johns Hopkins» news network.

«Increasing access to capital for small businesses, and getting rid of Dodd - Frank — it's not a one - to - one,» adds Mills, now a senior fellow at Harvard Business School and the lead author of a comprehensive 2014 working paper on the state of small - business lending.

This is PFC's second paper on D7 embryos — and one of only a few in the literature, said senior author, Philip Chenette, MD..

«We have discovered a small molecule compound that shows a profound and prolonged effect on autism - like social deficits without obvious side effects, while many currently used compounds for treating a variety of psychiatric diseases have failed to exhibit the therapeutic efficacy for this core symptom of autism,» said Zhen Yan, PhD, professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB, and senior author on the paper.

HDL with a small proinflammatory protein called apolipoprotein C - III (apoC - III) on its surface may nearly double the risk of heart disease in healthy men and women, according to Frank Sacks, professor of cardiovascular disease prevention at the Harvard School of Public Health and senior author on a paper in the April Journal of the American Heart Association.

«We can control whether the carbon forms one or two monolayers on the surface of the material by manipulating the intensity of the laser and the depth of the melting,» says Jay Narayan, the John C. Fan Distinguished Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at NC State and senior author of a paper describing the work.

Palkovacs and graduate student David Fryxell are senior author and first author, respectively, of a paper on the new findings published October 21 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

The key to solving these micronutrient deficiency problems is early detection and early intervention,» said David Erickson, the Sibley College Professor at Cornell's Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, a senior author on the paper.

While nomograms are common in prostate cancer research, the one developed by the Fred Hutch and UW researchers is the first to determine the likelihood of over-diagnosis on an individual level, said Ruth Etzioni, Ph.D., the paper's senior author.

The senior author on the paper is Louis Tay, an assistant professor of psychological sciences.

This approach greatly simplifies manufacturing, and also makes batteries that are flexible and resistant to damage, says Chiang, who is senior author of a paper in the Journal of Power Sources analyzing the tradeoffs involved in choosing between solid and flow - type batteries, depending on their particular applications and chemical components.

«Understanding how the brain recognizes visual objects is important not only for the sake of vision, but also because it provides a window on how the brain works in general,» says Tatyana Sharpee, an associate professor in Salk's Computational Neurobiology Laboratory and senior author of the paper.

Dr Gareth Law, Senior Lecturer in Analytical Radiochemistry at the University of Manchester and an author on the paper, says: «Our research strongly suggests there is a need for further detailed investigation on Fukushima fuel debris, inside, and potentially outside the nuclear exclusion zone.

«It hit me that we've been calculating chlorophyll profiles from surface measurements for more than thirty years, but we don't know what the depth profiles of other biogeochemically - important materials look like,» said Barney Balch, a senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory and lead author on the paper.

«Knowing how cells respond to mechanical cues in the living embryo and how they physically sculpt tissues and organs in the 3D space will transform the way we think about developmental processes,» said Otger Campàs, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UCSB and senior author on the paper that reports this novel technique in Nature Methods.

Stuart Sandin, a professor of marine ecology at Scripps, who is Edwards» PhD advisor and senior author on the paper, says the mosaic technology can help scientists» understanding of marine ecology catch up with their knowledge of terrestrial ecology.

«Outlier practice patterns in health care, and specifically Mohs surgery, can represent a burden on patients and the medical system,» says John Albertini, M.D., immediate past president of the American College of Mohs Surgery and the paper's other senior author.

«Instead of using non-targeted drugs that have lots of collateral damage we thought we could take advantage of the precision of the immune system, in particular, antibodies,» said David Scadden, MD, Co-director of HSCI, the Gerald and Darlene Jordan Professor of Medicine at Harvard University, and senior author on the paper.

Marcia Ward, PhD, professor and director of the Rural Telehealth Research Center (RTRC) at the UI, served as senior author on the paper.

«New Yorkers tend to focus on rats because they are larger and we see them scurrying around in streets or subways; however, from a public health vantage point, mice are more worrisome because they live indoors and are more likely to contaminate our environment, even if we don't see them,» says senior author W. Ian Lipkin, MD, senior author of both papers, John Snow Professor of Epidemiology, and director of CII.

«It's a «best of both worlds» approach,» says Wong, senior author on the paper, who is a principal investigator in the Boston Children's Hospital Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and an associate faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.

Professor Armand Leroi of Imperial College, senior author on the paper, said: «It's exciting to be able to study the evolution of popular music scientifically.

Professor Henrik Friis, the senior author on the paper, points to the importance of the collaboration between university researchers and humanitarian organizations:

«Our findings show that the gene mutation that causes Werner syndrome results in the disorganization of heterochromatin, and that this disruption of normal DNA packaging is a key driver of aging,» says Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a senior author on the paper.

Wall was the senior and corresponding author on a paper, titled «Cell Rejuvenation and Social Behaviors Promoted by LPS Exchange in Myxobacteria» that was published in the May 18 online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Clint Perry, senior author on the paper, said: «These correlations suggest that bees with more synaptic complexes in the visual association areas of their brain were predisposed to better memory and faster learning.

«One area we are focused on is the identification and characterization of novel viruses,» said the paper's senior author Gustavo Palacios, Ph.D., who directs USAMRIID's Center for Genome Sciences.

«The chemistry of cells, unlike more traditional chemistry in test tubes, is highly dependent on where a chemical reaction is occurring,» said Christine Payne, an associate professor in the Georgia Tech School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and one of the paper's senior authors.

«We have been working on mechanisms that could be used to disrupt HIV latency,» said Satya Dandekar, chair of the UC Davis Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology and senior author on the paper.

Brian Langerhans, an assistant professor of biological sciences at NC State and a senior author on a paper describing the study, says the research could help scientists learn about the connectedness of what seem to be disconnected animal traits.

«If you looked at metal under a microscope you'd see that it is composed of millions of closely - packed grains,» says Yuntian Zhu, a professor of materials science and engineering at NC State and senior author of two papers on the new work.

Professor Gianni Liti, a senior author on the paper from the Institute for Research on Cancer and Ageing, Nice, said: «We were able to study the evolution in time by combining genome sequences of the cell populations and tracking the growth characteristics of the yeast cells.

«In most solifuge families, species identification is based primarily on features of the jaws, yet no comprehensive survey of these character systems has ever been done,» said Tharina Bird, a senior curator at the National Museum of Namibia and lead author of the paper.

Boulanger was senior author on a 2013 paper in the journal Learning and Memory that found that mice bred to produce less functional MHCI proteins exhibited striking changes in the function of the hippocampus, a part of the brain where some memories are formed, and had severe memory impairments.

«All humans grow up listening to tens of thousands of speech examples, with the result that our brains contain a comprehensive mapping of the likelihood that any given pair of mouth movements and speech sounds go together,» said Dr. Michael Beauchamp, professor of neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine and senior author on the paper with John Magnotti, postdoctoral research fellow at Baylor.

«We found that 20 percent of MS patients over the age of 50 have cerebral microbleeds compared to 7 percent of healthy controls,» said Ferdinand Schweser, PhD, assistant professor of neurology in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB and senior author on the paper.

Senior author on the paper, Deepak Srivastava, MD, director of cardiovascular and stem cell research at Gladstone and a pediatric cardiologist at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), had previously discovered that disruption of one of two copies of a master gene called NOTCH1 can cause valve birth defects and CAVD.

«This really glues together everything we know about J147 in terms of the link between aging and Alzheimer's,» says Dave Schubert, head of Salk's Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory and the senior author on the new paper.

Lien, who was senior author on the paper, is also an assistant professor at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.

«Our hair follicles are constantly recycling: when a hair falls out, the whole hair follicle has to grow back,» said Michael Rosenblum, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of dermatology at UCSF and senior author on the new paper.