Sentences with phrase «studying human medicine»

Her family includes a sister studying human medicine in New York and her parents enjoying life in Texas.

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Applied science is sometimes called technics, but since it covers also a vast range of studies affecting human life, as in nutrition and dietetics, medicine and surgery, psychiatry, pedagogy, geriatrics, social casework, penology, and the like, it is hardly accurate to classify all of these under the heading of technology.

When he entered the University of Vienna, he chose to study medicine, mainly because he was moved by a deep curiosity about human beings, a curiosity that had been stimulated by reading Darwin and Goethe.

Interestingly — and somewhat frustratingly — a similar study in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise found that while pre-workout whey does increase energy expenditure it also decreases levels of the muscle building human growth hormone (HGH) and testosterone.

, Advances in experimental medicine and biology; integrating population outcomes, biological mechanisms and research methods in the study of human milk and lactation (2002/05/25 ed., pp.207 - 216).

I had studied current neuroscience, brain research, evolutionary medicine and lactation in humans and other mammals.

The study has received the approval of the administration of the Souissi Maternity Hospital in Rabat, as well as the approval of the ethics committee for biomedical research at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy in Rabat, registered with the Office for Human Research Protection of the US Health and Human Services Department (Registration Number: IORG0006594).

In a study to be presented Thursday, Jan. 26, in the oral plenary session at 1:15 p.m. PST, at the Society for Maternal - Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, researchers with Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas and University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, will present their findings on a study titled, Maternal Diet Structures the Breast Milk Microbiome in Association with Human Milk Oligosaccharides and Gut - Associated Bacteria.

A physician who allegedly conducted human brain - activity experiments on people associated with the NXIVM corporation has apparently not published a scientific study in years and there is no indication his private research was being overseen by an independent review board, according to a medical expert and records of the NIH and U.S. National Library of Medicine.

It's «an important technical advance,» said neuroscientist Michal Stachowiak of the State University of New York, Buffalo, who created human cerebral organoids to study schizophrenia, and «an important initial step toward using organoids in regenerative medicine.»

A study by researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine shows that when mice that are genetically susceptible to developing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) were given antibiotics during late pregnancy and the early nursing period, their offspring were more likely to develop an inflammatory condition of the colon that resembles human IBD.

An attempt to fill this gap was made by introducing a «Medicine and Human Rights» special study module into the undergraduate programme at Dundee.

«During development, both male and female embryos start out having certain fetal tissue called the Müllerian duct mesenchyme,» said Jose Teixeira, professor of reproductive biology in the College of Human Medicine and lead author of the federally funded study.

«The Medicine and Human Rights specials study module: A Physicians for Human Rights (UK) initiative.»

We don't study the human pathogenic bacterium in our lab, but use a less pathogenic surrogate called Francisella novicida,» explained Dr. Aria Eshraghi, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

«Finding these similarities and studying the aspects of mouse biology that may reflect human biology, allows us to approach the study of human illnesses in a better way,» affirms Bing Ren, one of the principal authors from the ENCODE Consortium and a lecturer in molecular and cellular medicine at the University of California — San Diego.

The study, published online in Developmental Psychobiology, was conducted by Marguerite O'Haire, Ph.D., from the Center for the Human - Animal Bond in the College of Veterinary Medicine of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, and colleagues in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.

Diagnostic techniques common in human medicine, such as CT and MRI scanning and molecular studies, are now being used to improve insight into the causes.

«We wanted to investigate whether human adults had the ability to transform some white fat deposits into beige fat when they were exposed to cold,» said one of the study's authors, Philip A. Kern, MD, of the University of Kentucky School of Medicine in Lexington, KY. «Browning fat tissue would be an excellent defense against obesity.

The researchers headed up by Claudia Vigano and Abigail Bouwman of the human aDNA laboratory at the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine — the only laboratory of its kind in Switzerland — studied a thalassemia allele called cod39?

If norovirus also targets tuft cells in humans, «maybe that's the cell type we need to be treating,» says study coauthor Craig Wilen, a physician scientist at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

«Data from this study serves as rationale to now include dogs with spontaneous cancers in the advancement and optimization of PMed for human patients,» according to the study, Prospective molecular profiling of canine cancers provides a clinically relevant comparative model for evaluating personalized medicine (PMed) trials.

Human sperm may hold the potential to serve as biomarkers of the future health of newborn infants, according to a new study by a Wayne State University School of Medicine research team.

Engineered human immune cells can vanquish a deadly pediatric brain tumor in a mouse model, a study from the Stanford University School of Medicine has demonstrated.

Senior author Madhav Dhodapkar, M.D., the Arthur H. and Isabel Bunker Professor of Medicine and Immunobiology, and chief of Hematology, said the study, using tissue and blood samples from humans and mice, shows that chronic stimulation of the immune system by lipids made in the context of inflammation underlies the origins of at least a third of all myeloma cases.

«While human microbes are natural to humans, enclosed environments over-enriched in human bacteria might facilitate transmission of bacteria or bacterial traits, such as antibiotic resistance, for example MRSA,» said Maria - Gloria Dominquez - Bello, associate professor at New York University School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

Jenifer Fenton, assistant professor and researcher in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, and Kari Hortos, associate dean in MSU's College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Macomb University Center, led the 18 - month, cross-sectional study, which followed 126 healthy, white American males ranging from 48 to 65 years of age.

As reported in a paper published online in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from Penn Medicine, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, and a group of international collaborators studied ANGPTL3 in both humans and mice.

I'm delighted at the prospect of a new treatment that's a lot more potent, all the more because it lowers LDL at the same time,» said study co-author Richard L. Dunbar, MD, assistant professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and member of Penn's Division of Translational Medicine and Human Genetics.

In their study, Stephanie Cherqui, PhD, associate professor in the UC San Diego School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, and colleagues used a transgenic mouse model that expresses two mutant human FXN transgenes, and exhibits the resulting progressive neurological degeneration and muscle weakness.

«If you see consistent phenotypes in different models, the things that are happening are probably important,» says Guo - li Ming of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, who led the earlier studies of Zika in human neural progenitor cells.

Comparative anatomy and human evolution experts from the University's School of Medicine have been studying the correlation between meat consumption and obesity rates in 170 countries.

Their study published last week in Science Translational Medicine demonstrated that the fasting - mimicking diet reduced risks for cancer, diabetes, heart disease and other age - related diseases in human study participants who followed the special diet for five days each month in a three - month span.

«Despite the overwhelming evidence linking dietary salt to disease in humans, the potential evolutionary advantage of storing so much salt in the body has not been clear,» says senior study author Jens Titze, who studies the link between sodium metabolism and disease at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

The study, which is published in Human Reproduction, one of the world's leading reproductive medicine journals, looked at 51,450 women who had agreed to take part in nine studies in the UK, Scandinavia, Australia and Japan that contribute to the Life course Approach to reproductive health and Chronic disease Events (InterLACE) international collaboration.

«Our partnership with families who have a child with Down syndrome and our investment in a comprehensive clinical data and biorepository will continue to provide resources to study not only heart defects, but also other Down - syndrome associated medical conditions such as cognitive function, leukemia, and dementia,» says co-author Stephanie Sherman, PhD, professor of human genetics at Emory University School of Medicine.

«Our work could lead not only to a better understanding of the biology of the optic nerve, but also to a cell - based human model that could be used to discover drugs that stop or treat blinding conditions,» says study leader Donald Zack, M.D., Ph.D., the Guerrieri Family Professor of Ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

«The imaging technique could shed light on the immune dysfunction that underpins a broad range of neuroinflammatory diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction,» said Christine Sandiego, PhD, lead author of the study and a researcher from the department of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. «This is the first human study that accurately measures this immune response in the brain.

In a study published in PLOS ONE today, a team of researchers led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine show for the first time that female mosquitoes infected with malaria parasites are significantly more attracted to human odour than uninfected mosquitoes.

In a previous related study published in the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, the same team of NTU scientists found that fish scale - derived collagen would induce human umbilical vein endothelial cells to express 2.5 times more of a specific type of collagen responsible for blood vessel formation, as compared to endothelial cells cultured on bovine collagen.

«This is a great study — it was very carefully done, it addressed an important organism in the human microbiome, and it produced some very interesting results,» says Martin Blaser, a physician and microbiologist at the New York University School of Medicine in New York City.

Among those is canine compulsive disorder (CCD), the counterpart to human obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD),» says the study's first and corresponding author Nicholas Dodman, BVMS, DACVA, DACVB, professor in clinical sciences and section head and program director of animal behavior at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University.

of Public Health, Midland, MI and Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Human Development, Michigan State University, School of Human Medicine, «Our study group consists of premature infants with birthweights at the lowest level that is compatible with life.

The study, led by researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), reports sporadic mutations in the APC / C protein complex, specifically in the essential protein component Cdh1, which may predispose humans to developing melanoma from the loss of the APC / C protein complex.

Jeffrey Kidd, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor of Human Genetics and Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics who worked on the new study, notes that only recently has it become possible to sequence Y chromosomes, because of technical limitations of previous approaches.

In 2014, MMV048 became the first new antimalarial medicine to enter phase I human studies in Africa.

«The methods for achieving transplantation tolerance differ between mice and humans, but the mechanisms that maintain it are likely shared,» said Marisa Alegre, MD, PhD, professor of medicine at the University of Chicago and co-senior author on the study.

In a screen of more than 100,000 potential drugs, only one, harmine, drove human insulin - producing beta cells to multiply, according to a study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, funded by JDRF and the National Institutes of Health, and published online in Nature Medicine.

Dr. Steven R. Goodman, Editor - in - Chief of Experimental Biology and Medicine, said «This study by Huanbiao Mo and colleagues at the Texas Woman's University and UT Southwestern Medical Center demonstrates that geranylgeraniol causes dose dependent apoptotic death of human prostate carcinoma cells.

«Our results provide a large body of evidence demonstrating that the harmine drug class can make human beta cells proliferate at levels that may be relevant for diabetes treatment,» said senior study author Andrew Stewart, MD, Director of the Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine.