Sentences with phrase «senior author of the current study»

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«Our study suggests that direct current stimulation can compensate somewhat for the loss of dopamine by decreasing the effort the brain has to put into getting its motor neurons to fire,» adds Shadmehr, the senior author of a report on the research published online in The Journal of Neuroscience on Sept. 2.

In the study, published in the current online edition of Cancer Letters, senior author Karine Cohen - Solal, PhD, and colleagues show for the first time that the RUNX2 transcription factor could also serve as a possible treatment target for melanoma.

«Given current levels of health care spending, the only way we can create headroom for innovation is to identify and eliminate low - value care,» said Dr. A. Mark Fendrick, director of the University of Michigan Center for Value - Based Insurance Design, and the study's senior author.

«TWEAK and its signaling receptor, Fn14, have emerged as a fundamental molecular pathway regulating tissue responses after acute tissue injury and in many different contexts of chronic injury and disease» said Linda Burkly, Ph.D., Senior Distinguished Investigator, VP, Biogen, Inc., and co-senior author on the current study.

«Historically, there have always been bacterial strain mix - ups in the course of doing research,» says Paul Keim, executive director of The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff and senior author on the current study.

«This work suggests that we need to tease out the mechanisms by which COPD may increase lung cancer risk in smokers, and to conduct clinical trials to determine whether treating COPD in former and current smokers lessens that risk,» said David Christiani, Elkan Blout Professor of Environmental Genetics at Harvard Chan School and senior author of the study.

Because these networks are based on neuroscientists» current understanding of how the brain performs object recognition, the success of the latest networks suggest that neuroscientists have a fairly accurate grasp of how object recognition works, says James DiCarlo, a professor of neuroscience and head of MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the senior author of a paper describing the study in the Dec. 11 issue of the journal PLoS Computational Biology.

The current study did something similar in the spine, turning scar - forming astrocytes into progenitor cells called neuroblasts that regenerated into neurons,» said Dr. Chun - Li Zhang, assistant professor of molecular biology at UT Southwestern and senior author of both studies.

It may also lead to improved therapies to fight sleeping sickness; current medications used to combat the disease have improved over the past decade but still include an old arsenic - based drug that kills between 5 and 10 percent of the people receiving treatment, said the study's senior author Stephen Hajduk, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.

To deliver the higher currents needed to get the job done, Antal Berényi, senior author on the new study and a neuroscientist at the University of Szeged in Hungary, developed a new TES system.

«Given the alarming trend of resistance to our current antimalarial therapies, this is really an exciting finding,» says Dr. Mota, the senior author of the study, «and we are already working to develop Torin molecules suitable for clinical trials of antimalarial activity in humans.»

«We knew that these genes in the Tbx family are important determinants in whether a limb becomes a hind or fore limb,» said Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, Salk associate professor and senior author on the study, which appears in the current issue of Nature.

«The current standard of care is clearly not sufficient, which highlights the urgent need for new therapeutic approaches,» said Saptarsi Haldar, MD, an associate investigator at Gladstone and senior author of a new study featured on the cover of the scientific journal Science Translational Medicine.

In fact, says Jan A. Staessen, MD, the senior author of the study and the head of the hypertension laboratory at the University of Leuven, in Belgium, the findings «do not support the current recommendations of a generalized and indiscriminate reduction of [sodium] intake at the population level.»