Sentences with phrase «study in lab»

«We conducted a study in our lab on the differences between apology and restitution and the effects they have on forgiveness,» Tsang said.

The bacteria that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum, is difficult to study in the lab, as it can't be grown in a test tube or Petri dish.

One of the advantages of conducting the study in a lab was that it allowed the researchers to closely monitor changes in the volunteers» body fat percentage and appetite hormones.

In another study in a lab surfers lay on a bench and simulated ocean paddling by turning paddles attached to a flywheel.

«The majority of all vector - borne diseases in the US are actually tick - borne, and 6 of the 15 distinct tick diseases are transmitted by the Ixodes tick we study in our lab,» says Pal.

So he, Caldwell and a colleague collected mantis shrimp off the coast of Australia to study in the lab.

The nematode species that scientists typically study in the lab has two sexes — males, which constitute less than 1 % of the population, and hermaphrodites, which produce sperm and eggs.

For instance, a study in her lab suggested that PDK4, which contributes to glucose regulation, may play a role in thoroughbred performance.

The exciting thing is that RNase E is found in many pathogenic bacteria as well as the harmless strain of E. coli we study in the lab.»

His suit could be crawling with any of several dozen nasty bugs that scientists study in this lab, so for a full five minutes he is blasted with Lysol.

Antonio Pusceddu of the Polytechnic University of Marche in Italy and other scientists don scuba gear and jump right in with the foul globs, using large syringes to collect jugs of the material to study in the lab.

This is one of the diseases whose development researchers will now be able to study in the lab.

The new discovery suggests that other creatures, including some that have been difficult to study in the lab because they fail to mate, may need a little bacterial aphrodisiac to get it on.

The insight from Sudbury is complemental, the geologists say, because you can directly observe the rocks with your own eyes and collect loads of samples for detailed study in the lab.

Flu is hard to study in the lab because virtually no lab animals get it the way humans do.

No, new question asker, the thing you study in your lab is not the answer to the problems they're studying in the speaker's lab.

The duo admits they have little evidence to back up their proposal, but they point to studies in their lab on mice, which were altered to be susceptible to both BSE and scrapie prion infection.

From slavery to Napoleon, many phenomena can't be studied in the lab — but we can still do experiments, say Jared Diamond and James Robinson

In 2011, chemical and biochemical engineer Jessica Winter learned that she had breast cancer — ironically just 3 months after she had begun breast tumor studies in her lab at Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus.

The biomedical device company CryoLife, Inc. is now using the researchers» design to build ring implants for further studies in lab animals, Karp says.

But he wanted the convention to call for greater transparency in how the technology is studied in labs and deployed in the field, for instance by creating a mandatory gene - drive registry.

To study how Amazonian trees responded to drought, Santiago's team plucked branches from the tops of trees in French Guiana's Paracou Research Station and studied them in a lab to determine how readily they develop hydraulic failure, which is a function of their physics, including the dimensions of their plumbing and the pressure their vessels can withstand.

In a new study, Murphy, a molecular biologist at Princeton University, showed that long - lived bodily, or somatic, cells in Caenorhabditis elegans, a one - millimeter nematode commonly used as a model for aging studies in labs, activate genetic pathways completely separate from those found in long - lived egg, or oocyte, cells.

In controlled studies in the lab, I found that people who were more altruistic — more likely to give away money to strangers in a game — were also more likely to vote.

Ongoing studies in his lab are evaluating if any of the vaccines can protect against vertical transmission.

Previous studies in lab rats have shown that this type of nongenetic inheritance can influence traits like fur color and obesity.

Recent studies in lab animals and humans show that the much - maligned material can be a source of cells useful for treating a wide range of ills.

Six years ago, Dr. Monje started to create and share cell cultures of patients» DIPG cells that could be studied in labs.

Tufts University neuroscientist Jamie Maguire, based in Boston, got interested in neurosteroids during her postgraduate studies in the lab of Istvan Mody at UCLA.

So the researchers used the genomic data to synthesize the relevant bits of DNA and inserted them into Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis, which can both be grown and studied in the lab.

Previous studies in the lab showed that once HCMV is inside the cell, it quickly becomes latent by entering the cell's nucleus and co-opting a cellular protein called Daxx — part of the intrinsic immune system — to shut down its own replication, the process of reproducing its genetic material to make more copies of itself.

Across two studies in the lab and field, women observed images and real life situations that varied in the risk of crime, such as crime hotspots and safespots, and were asked to rate their perceived risk of victimisation — a measure of fear of crime — of various crimes.

Our work, both in the current paper and ongoing studies in the lab, has the potential to inform how designers create new and better artificial faces for a range of applications.»

Researchers are still working to understand just how some of these pathways and hormones can influence disease risk, primarily through animal studies in the lab.

Astronomers can't just cook up planetary nebulas to study in their labs, so they let high - speed supercomputers do it for them.

Almost every animal behavior studied in the lab, from the effectiveness of experimental drugs to the ability of monkeys to do math, is affected by stress, notes Paul Flecknell, a veterinary anesthesiologist at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom who researches ways to alleviate pain in animals.

«Upcoming studies in our lab will be looking to confirm that this relationship can become the foundation of new treatment strategies.»

«Many mechanisms of resistance to Bt proteins have been proposed and studied in the lab, but this is the first analysis of the molecular genetic basis of severe pest resistance to a Bt crop in the field,» said Bruce Tabashnik, one of the paper's authors and the head of the Department of Entomology in the UA College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Kashi completed her undergraduate degree in cognitive sciences at BGU, and is now embarking on her graduate studies in the lab.

Ongoing studies in her lab attempt to characterize the relations between sex and brain structure and function; other studies focus on gender identity and sexuality.

She pursued her interest through a collaborative graduate training program between her university and Harvard Medical School, where she arrived in 2005 to begin PhD studies in the lab of molecular biologist Jae Jung.

The researchers focused on a process — known as «homeostatic scaling down» — that has been well - studied in lab neurons but not before in living animals.

Studies in my lab combine behavior, neurophysiology and acoustics to investigate the mechanisms of auditory, visual and somatosensory information processing, natural scene perception, spatial memory and navigation, acoustic communication, sensorimotor integration and flight control.

Finding it in people's bodies meant taking tissue samples, so scientists mostly stuck to studying it in lab animals.

Preliminary studies in the lab suggest echinacea may help inhibit colon tumors when combined with cichoric acid.

The amount of acrylamide you'd get from potatoes is much lower than the quantities studied in lab animals.

The gorgeous looking «The Shape of Water» tells the story of a mute janitor who befriends a mysterious sea creature being studied in a lab.

She assists students who perform shelter medicine research studies in the lab and is their daily go - to person.

Which vaccine and what has been studied in lab trials determines how often a vaccine needs to be boostered or how often it needs to be repeated in an adult animal to be effective.

The aim of these labyrinth battles is to capture the dusk spawner into a matryoshka so it can be studied in the lab.