Sentences with phrase «small human tests»

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Whether you're a young mom struggling to fit in with your kid - free peers, or you're one of a growing number of stay - at - home dads, or you're a working mom figuring out how to balance work and kids, you know that no matter your circumstances, this business of being responsible for a small (and disastrously naive) human (or humans, bless your heart) is going to test your patience, your limits, and your soul.

But plenty of smaller earthquakes, most not even felt by humans, occur across the world every day due to detonations, such as nuclear weapons testing or mining, or rising magma linked to volcanic activity.

To test this hypothesis, Sigurdson and her team developed a transgenic mouse that expresses a prion protein that's identical to the human version — except for a small loop, which they swapped out for the elk prion sequence.

Preliminary studies of ampakines on healthy human subjects have shown small to moderate improvements in their performance on memory tests.

With between 80,000 and 150,000 different synthetic chemicals manufactured regularly, it might be too much to expect that a small number of laboratory tests could be used to judge their effect on humans.

Funded by the National Zoological Gardens of South Africa, Rufford's Small Grants for Nature, and the National Geographic Society, Parusnath is developing and testing microsatellite markers similar to those used in human parentage tests to establish the genetic relatedness of Sungazers in different populations across the species» distribution.

The first changes to the human genome, Harris believes, will happen within small test populations.

In order to speed the process and reduce the financial burden on small companies that dominate small tech start - ups, U.S. and Canadian researchers suggest that the United States should prioritize which materials should undergo the most rigorous testing based on what is already known about their toxicity as well as the potential human exposure.

Not only could their new construction, dubbed «Sleeping Beauty,» slip into chromosomes, but a small test gene spliced into the transposon was also imported into the DNA of fish and human cells.

The first human trials testing genetically engineered cells missing the CCR5 receptor, begun in 2009, have been small but impressive.

Despite ever - cheaper and faster sequencing technologies that now allow even a small lab to sequence an entire human genome, there is still a need for the big centers to explore genome biology, test out new technologies, and find better ways to analyze the data, say NHGRI officials.

His group is testing the mini-motor in silicone models of human arteries and planning even smaller versions.

Scientists at the University of York have discovered that very small chemical changes to dietary flavonoids cause very large effects when the plant natural products are tested for their impact on the human immune system.

Further testing found these mice had lower - than - expected growth hormone and insulin - like growth factor (IGF1) levels in the blood, potentially explaining the small stature and delayed development seen in human patients.

The Teop people were selected to test Grimalda's theories on human cooperation for the small size of their communities (populations of around 50 inhabitants) and low levels of social complexity, though also because they present very different characteristics to those found in Western societies: they are horticulturists and gatherers; they use rudimentary tools to grow their food; they have no mechanised industry; and retribution for manual labour is infrequent.

Specifically, they tested new drugs in zebrafish, a small, tropical fish genetically similar to humans, whose brains can develop seizures in a manner similar to patients with epilepsy.

In another experiment, a more direct test of druggability, the researchers used a library of small molecules — broadly representing potential drug molecules — to see which could compete with the probe in binding covalently to reactive lysines on human proteins.

To build upon the encouraging early discoveries, Helmsley renewed and expanded its Crohn's funding for the Institute in 2013 to begin new work with three major aims: 1) continue studies of individual genes to determine how genetic differences between Crohn's patients and healthy individuals contribute to the disease; 2) evaluate promising small molecules in disease - relevant studies and prioritize insights from genetics to help develop novel therapeutics; and 3) begin basic experimentation in animal models with Crohn's disease to provide the data necessary to begin testing new therapies in humans.

Xue Liang puts human feces and an experimental small molecule together in a test tube.

Such a similarity makes TNFΔARE a unique model of a complex human pathology appropriate for the simoultaneous testing of novel therapeutics and small molecule inhibitors on two different pathologies.

In collaboration with Warner Greene, MD, PhD, the researchers tested the small molecules that inhibit SMYD2 in human cells.

In the early 1970s, Swedish researchers showed vitamin D3 to have a substantially higher affinity for human DBP than vitamin D2.49 Their sample size was not reported and probably very small, and they unfortunately could not test the calcidiol forms of these vitamins because 25 - hydroxyvitamin D3 was at that time not yet commercially available.

But Segal's team went further, testing the association directly in a small group of lean and healthy human volunteers who normally eschewed artificial sweeteners.

Concocted by the chemist Dr. Maru (Elena Anaya) under the direction of General Ludendorf (Danny Huston), we see their lethal clouds being tested on human laboratory subjects and later, on the population of a small community.

Recognizing the cost of human - graded assessment There's a good reason why standardized tests — such as the SAT, ACT, and state end - of - year exams — are usually composed of a long string of multiple choice questions followed by only a small handful of constructed response questions.

Natalie Jerimijenko, the California - based artist - engineer, for example, in a follow - up to her ingenious pigeon - inspired objects and consumables in this spring's Whitney Biennial, recently created an aviary of human proportions on the rooftop of Postmaster's gallery in New York, where pigeons and smaller birds were videotaped engaging in various forms of «work» and «play» to test their patterns and preferences.

I recently spoke to a small gathering of environmental journalists in Portland, Ore., about the need to test new ways of conveying information revealing the growing human influence on the Earth, for better or worse.

You seem to think that the cosmic ray / cloud effect postulated by Svensmark et al. and now being tested at CERN will be small (compared to that of human CO2).

The technology essentially breaks down images in smaller «windows» and proceeds to select one or more locations inside the image to «test for presence of human faces.»