Sentences with phrase «study in the lab because»

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

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.

Not exact matches

«We suspected that the young are most vulnerable because of their immature immune systems, but we didn't have a lot of hard evidence to show that before,» said study lead author Bo Hang, a Berkeley Lab staff scientist who previously found that thirdhand smoke could lead to genetic mutations in human cells.

Because his wife, Lisa Teodecki, was still working on her neuroscience Ph.D. at WSU, he worked as a research technician in Kramer's lab for another year while considering his options for graduate studies.

Jacobs, who was not involved in the study, says: «This method is powerful because it does not rely on access to a microscope and lab facilities.

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.

«Interestingly, we found that magnetic anisotropy is an inherent property in the 2 - D material we studied, and because of this characteristic, we were able to detect the intrinsic ferromagnetism,» said study lead author Cheng Gong, a postdoctoral researcher in Zhang's lab.

A strange and rare mold, Penicillium notatum, happened to be floating around in Fleming's lab because another researcher was studying it.

That's unfortunate because using citizen science in studies would not only highlight volunteers» role in science, it could also could attract more investment into future research, said Rick Bonney, director of program development and evaluation at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, who reviewed Cooper's study.

Because injuries and surgeries can trigger rapid bone formation in FOP patients, obtaining tissue samples for extensive lab study is extremely difficult.

Studies about parenting often are biased in the lab because participants give answers that they think are expected of them or are not aware of their own behavior.

The protein's role in cancer was an unexpected finding in Kniss's lab because only a handful of studies had described the connection before his group pursued this line of research.

The combo may work somewhat in patients because the dose of VX - 770 is probably lower than in the lab work, he suspects, dampening the negative impact the cell studies report.

The findings were unexpected because previous studies, done with small numbers of people in the lab, concluded that people's minds wander less often.

Unable to make his case in studies with lab mice (because H. pylori affects only primates) and prohibited from experimenting on people, Marshall grew desperate.

«Because the fish are so committed to their role as fathers, we're able in the lab to dissociate their parental behavior — the fanning and the nipping — from behaviors associated with courtship, territory defense and nest defense,» said University of Illinois graduate student Ross DeAngelis, who led the study with psychology professor Justin Rhodes.

WPI staunchly stood by Mikovits's work, even after one of the labs she collaborated with in the Science study retracted its contribution to the paper because contamination had tainted data it supplied.

We found that the neural reaction to pain in children of depressed mothers stops earlier than in controls, in an area related to socio - cognitive processing, so that children of depressed mothers seem to reduce mentalizing - related processing of others» pain, perhaps because of difficulty in regulating the high arousal associated with observing distress in others,» said Prof. Ruth Feldman, director of the Developmental Social Neuroscience Lab and the Irving B. Harris Early Childhood Community Clinic at Bar - Ilan University and lead author of the study.

That's a good idea, because discrepancies between labs are common, says David Griffiths, a virologist at Moredun Research Institute in Midlothian, United Kingdom, who has studied previous claims for retroviruses as the cause of chronic diseases.

Since the 1970s, for instance, Loftus has been able to implant false memories in individuals in lab studies — that they were lost in a mall as children or that they hugged Bugs Bunny at Disneyland (where there is no Bugs Bunny, because he's not a Disney character).

The center of our own galaxy offered the team an excellent lab for studying such questions because, as Wang says, «we know the kind of stars that are here in our own downtown.»

The project received considerable attention when it started in 2011, partly because the extra calories were ingested in the form of muffins with high fat content, baked in the lab by Fredrik Rosqvist, a doctoral candidate and first author of the study.

The lab includes both females and males in their studies because there is striking evidence, both clinically and preclinically, for sex differences in every facet of the addiction cycle.

«There's a school of thought that the reason enzymes work better in cells than in solution is because the concentration of enzymes surrounded by other biomolecules in cells is about 1,000 to 10,000 time more than in standard biochemistry lab conditions,» said Eric Ackerman, PNNL chief scientist and senior author of a related study that appears today in the journal Nanotechnology.

«Tobacco was used as the model crop plant in this study because it is easy to work with, but we're working to make the same modifications in rice and other food crops,» said co-senior author Krishna Niyogi, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Division of Molecular Biophysics and Integrative Bioimaging.

I looked each video (very well made) and also realize they use broader simpler but still concise enough terminology, that»S really great to increase reach and be more «approachable» because sometimes regular everyday people on the street don't know all or have heard the mumbo jumbo jargon in biogerontology (they will think you are a pompous alien nerd - stuck up who thinks he knows more because he was like a lab rat in his lab books studying aging; on top of that they will more Resentful towards you for Daring to Question their Life beliefs on Life and Death by your» 2 - cents worth knowledge (couldn't give a f...)»

«This mouse strain is great model for this research because they are otherwise healthy and normal, including in their vision, so it allows us to conduct studies focused on cell integration,» said the publication's lead author, Jie Zhu, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher who started in Lamba's lab three years ago.

They are popular in the lab because they are single cells — so they are considerably easier to study than multi-celled organisms — but they still have the complex internal organization common to plants, animals, and fungi.

The lab chose to use the TCL1 mouse model to study B - cell leukemia because ~ 90 percent of human chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients express the TCL1 protein, and the overexpression of TCL1 in B cells leads to the development of CLL in mice.

Research: Oncologist Michael Pollak set out to study metformin in his McGill lab eight years ago because he didn't believe U.K. studies that found diabetics on the drug had a lower risk of dying from cancer.

However, in a 2014 study, Dr. Sulzer's lab demonstrated that dopamine neurons (those affected by Parkinson's disease) are vulnerable because they have proteins on the cell surface that help the immune system recognize foreign substances.

I joined the Nakamura lab, because this group has excellent and unique expertise in neuroscience, and they share the same interest in studying bioenergetics in neurodegeneration.

That's a paradigm shift, because «the popular idea was that the GFAP protein would not be degraded as quickly,» says Laura Moody, a former postdoctoral researcher in Messing's lab and first author of the new study.

It is prescribed for edema in Germany and may be safer than other remedies because it replenishes potassium.910 Preliminary animal studies suggest that dandelion may help normalize blood sugar and fight inflammation.11 Dandelion root extract caused cancer cells to destroy themselves in a Canadian lab study, which prompted a clinical study (the results of which are not yet available).12

Furthermore, we can't do controlled studies on humans because we can not lock them up in a lab.

The Broad Foundation Donates $ 25 Million To UCSF Stem Cell Program Because scientists were prohibited by President George W. Bush's stem cell policy from conducting these studies in federally funded buildings, UCSF scientists were forced to carry out their research in challenging circumstances — first in segregated space within an existing UCSF lab, later in rented space at an off - campus site and subsequently 40 miles away at Geron Corp., through a joint project.

In other scientific fields, authors have been required to withdraw papers because they could not produce their original «lab notes» — > the daily handwritten diary of the procedures and results for their study.

«We see, for the first time in the field, the amplification of the greenhouse effect because there's more CO2 in the atmosphere to absorb what the Earth emits in response to incoming solar radiation,» Daniel Feldman, a scientist in the Berkeley Lab and the study's lead author, said in a news release.