Sentences with phrase «studying early precursors»

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In 2015, chemists from Cambridge University, led by John Sutherland, who is a co-author on the current study, discovered a way to synthesize the precursors to RNA using just hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen sulfide, and ultraviolet light — all ingredients that are thought to have been available on early Earth, before the appearance of the first life forms.

The study also shows that complementary patterns of Cas and Eya reveal the gradual differentiation of polar and stalk precursor cells at the earliest stages of their development.

«In this study, for the first time, we determined these risk factors may also be indicative of early memory complaints, which are often precursors to more significant memory decline later in life,» said Small, who is also a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA.

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Scientists have shown how the precursors of egg and sperm cells — the cells that are key to the preservation of a species — arise in the early embryo by studying pig embryos alongside human stem cells.

He and the Vereide Group grow precursors of human arterial cells, build colonies of dendritic cells (cells which can alert the rest of the immune system to the presence of a tumor), and use chick embryos to study the formation of early tissue layers for a possible future in which complex tissues, or even organs, can be grown to replace diseased, wounded, or malfunctioning ones.

In light of the modest benefits obtained with transplantation of rodent astrocytes isolated directly from the immature CNS [49]--[53], however, our present and earlier studies [14], [57] suggest that it is necessary instead to transplant astrocytes generated from precursor cells in vitro in order to optimize benefit.

In a study published earlier this year, the same Belmonte and Gage lab team demonstrated that a few ES cells in a culture dish tended to lose stemness and evolve into muscle cell precursors, most likely goaded by a muscle differentiation factor known as BMP.

Radiocarbon, an international journal of radiocarbon and other isotope dating In a study of the mutational landscape of p53 - immunopositive patches (PIPs), which may represent early squamous cell carcinoma precursors in the skin

To conduct this study, we teamed up with Education First, a consulting firm founded by standards - reform veteran Jennifer Vranek, who a decade earlier had herself launched Achieve's American Diploma Project — which is often viewed as the precursor to the Common Core standards.

Contributing to the literature on early precursors of entrepreneurship, this study investigated the role of early social competencies for an entrepreneurial career choice and entrepreneurial success in young adulthood.

Abstract: Contributing to the literature on early precursors of entrepreneurship, this study investigated the role of early social competencies for an entrepreneurial career choice and entrepreneurial success in young adulthood.

The study provides useful information for the identification of potential explanatory mechanisms and we interpret the findings in accordance with the attachment literature, which has consistently identified adverse experiences with early caregiving figures as precursors to later attachment difficulties (for reviews, see [13, 14]-RRB-.

Using a nationally representative sample of UK children born in 2000 — 2001 (6458 boys and 6340 girls), the current study (a) identified subgroups of CP pathways separately for boys and girls from ages 3 to 11 and (b) examined early precursors (pregnancy to 9 months) of these trajectories.