Sentences with phrase «stopped researchers from»

But that hasn't stopped researchers from combining them with other elements to make short - lived chemical compounds.

That negative result, however, didn't stop researchers from laughing in delight at the sight of a scientist splashing away with the toy octopus — or sending out numerous tweets and e-mails about Kim's droll and often hilarious talk.

Not exact matches

Using open data from 7,236 cities, researchers looked at factors like affordability, access to jobs, frequency of service, quality, and number of stops.

As a result, once - eliminated diseases are making a comeback (to stop a disease from spreading, researchers estimate around 95 % of the population must be immune).

Last year, a team of A.I. researchers, including one from Google's DeepMind, published a paper outlining the plans for a «big red button» that could stop a dangerous A.I. system in its tracks.

Researcher and professor of medicine Michael F. Holick told the site that a vitamin D deficiency can not only cause rickets (a bone deformity and fractures disease), but it can also stop a toddler from getting to their «genetically programmed height and peak bone mass.»

The researchers also isolated an antibody from this cow that had a long HCDR3 of 60 amino acids and stopped infection by 72 percent of the HIV types.

Researchers from the University of Southampton have discovered a potential way of stopping one of the most aggressive types of brain tumor from spreading, which could lead the way to better patient survival.

Specifically, the Mount Sinai study was designed to test whether pharmacological compounds designed to block the function of XPO1 / CRM1 could stop disease progression in mouse models that exhibit some of the characteristics of MS. Researchers found that two chemical agents (called KPT - 276 and KPT - 350) prevented XPO1 / CRM1 from shuttling cargo out of the nucleus of nerve cells, which protected them from free radicals and structural damage.

A novel needle devised by researchers at Harvard Medical School and their colleagues automatically stops itself from going too far.

If researchers could develop drugs that target those proteins, perhaps they could stop nerve cell death and prevent MS from progressing, the two scientists say.

Now researchers in California and Virginia have identified symbiotic bacteria living on amphibians» skins that protects them from the deadly fungal disease, and later this summer the scientists will collect some of the microbial samples, culture them in the lab, and use the product to inoculate some frogs in California's Sierra Nevada to see if the approach stops chytrid in the wild.

Still, that won't stop U.S. researchers from formally brainstorming solutions — and on Uncle Sam's dime.

Researchers at the Health Behaviour Research Centre at UCL analysed data from the Smoking Toolkit study — which provides the latest information on smoking and smoking cessation in England — and data on the percentage of the smokers who set a quit date with Stop Smoking Services.

The researchers found that PQQ protected adult mice from fatty liver, even when it was stopped after three weeks when the mice quit breastfeeding.

Loss of either GSTO1 or RYR1, the researchers report, decreased the number of cancer stem cells in the primary tumor, blocked metastasis of cancer cells from the primary tumor to the lungs, decreased the duration of chemotherapy required to induce remission and increased the duration of time after chemotherapy was stopped that the mice remained tumor - free.

Breeders can produce more affable birds, says a researcher from Indiana, eliminating the need to «de-beak» birds to stop them pecking each other to death.

To quantify the benefits that alpha females gain from such behavior, researchers gave subordinate female meerkats contraceptive shots that stopped their reproduction for 9 months.

Researchers may have found a way to make opioids safer by separating the drugs» pain relieving effects from their most dangerous side effect, respiratory suppression, which, in very severe cases, causes patients to stop breathing and to die.

Not long after the heavy rains stopped, crews of researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey fanned across Texas, dropping sensors into streams.

The researchers calculated the quantity of ultrafine particles and other traffic - related pollutants transit users would inhale if the stop was farther from the intersection.

In urban areas, moving the stops farther away reduces the amount of pollution transit users breathe, as long as the stop is not so far that it gets pollution from the next street, researchers said.

The organization's researchers wrote algorithms that use signals from the collars to automatically detect when an animal stops moving (indicating it may be dead), slows down (suggesting it may be injured) or heads toward a danger zone, such as an area known for rampant poaching.

«This gentle laser didn't burn the skin or damage tissue, so it could be dosed multiple times and more thoroughly stop the cancer cells from being able to travel,» said researcher Ronghu Wu.

«Relocating bus stops would cut riders» pollution exposure, study finds: Researchers» healthy solution: Move the sites 120 feet away from intersections.»

Researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de València, in collaboration with the company C - Robots, S.L., have developed a new safety system for city and school buses that detects the presence of pedestrians in the surroundings of the bus stop, warns the driver of dangerous conditions and, ultimately, directly affects the vehicle.

Each of 3,222 British people with Pakistani heritage carries, on average, mutations in 140 genes that stop those genes from working, researchers report online March 3 in Science.

Then the molecules pounce, stopping the mold from producing a key protein responsible for making aflatoxins, researchers report March 10 in Science Advances.

Suppliers are secretive to stop others muscling in on their business, says Christian Lukhaup, an independent researcher from Germany.

Researchers know that the protein stops cells from dividing; without it, most large moles would probably become skin cancer.

Arsenic, the researchers found, stops a gene for an important part of the telomerase enzyme, known as the reverse transcriptase subunit, from being translated.

Several years ago, researchers showed that injecting mice with a drug that stops new proteins from forming can block an old memory as it is recalled.

Working with researchers at the University of Tübingen, Germany, they mutated Arid1b in mice and human cells, and this stopped the cells from entering senescence.

The researchers then offered the rats alcohol with the bitter compound quinine added to see if they could stop the rats from drinking.

The researchers harvested satellite cells from both healthy and injured muscle tissue of young mice and from healthy tissue of old mice; extracted these cells» DNA with the histone coatings intact; and used tagged antibodies targeting the different kinds of marks to find which spots on those histones were flagged with either «stop» or «go» signals.

And as the participants imagined their way through the virtual room, the researchers found that the strength of the signal from this region was directly related to navigational performance, providing some new insights into why some people never need to stop for directions and others can't even navigate their way out of a parking garage.

By stymieing three genes in cells infected with HIV, researchers stop the virus from spreading to other cells

The researchers discovered that mice with genetic mutations that stop this endocannabinoid system from working properly age faster than normal mice, and show more cognitive decline.

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed a method that stops allergic reactions by removing a key receptor from mast cells and basophils.

While the new study did not assess the effectiveness of preventive treatment in stopping these serious bacterial infections, it does provide important information that may help policymakers determine who could benefit from preventive treatment, researchers said.

Army doctors in the First World War were helpless to stop soldiers who lost limbs from suffering in pain, according to researchers.

Knowing how this protein works may now help researchers devise new ways to stop the plasmids from spreading antibiotic resistance in staph by preventing the plasmids from copying themselves.

Co-author Dr Friederike Otto, a senior researcher in Oxford's Environmental Change Institute and scientific coordinator of climateprediction.net, said: «For the first time ever, this study doesn't stop at rainfall and river flow but attributes the change in risk from the meteorology down to the direct impact of flooded houses in the river catchment zones.»

Several strains continued to sleep for several hours even after they turned off the neurons, stopping them from firing and suggesting that the researchers triggered sleep drive in these flies, which led to the persistent sleepiness.

Researchers might be less likely to register a poorly designed animal study if they know other scientists will see it, and that might stop them from conducting the study.

The anti-HIV effect of deferiprone persisted after the drug was stopped — «an effect quite different from all current antiretrovirals,» the researchers said.

Researchers from the University of Iowa studied how people stopped an action — first by measuring participants» brain waves and second by clocking the amount of time it took participants to stop an action when prompted to do so.

The Salk researchers stopped the cells from differentiating further, but each germ layer was theoretically capable of giving rise to specific tissues and organs.

May 12, 2016 Stopping cancer in its tracks Researchers from the University of Chicago have shown that inhibiting autophagy, a self - devouring process used by cells to degrade large intra-cellular cargo, effectively blocks tumor cell migration and breast cancer metastasis in tumor models.

By introducing them to the body, the researchers found that they were effective in stopping the immune cells from destroying the beta cells and rendered the body able to tolerate their presence.