Sentences with phrase «take hair samples»

They can also take hair samples to assess a history of drug use.

Each trimester the mothers underwent a series of tests that evaluated their stress and psychopathological symptoms while simultaneously taking hair samples from which the researchers extracted the cortisol corresponding to the last three months.

Each trimester the mothers underwent a series of tests that evaluated their stress and psychopathological symptoms while simultaneously taking hair samples from which the researchers extracted the cortisol corresponding to the last three months.

Last year, working with a local doctor, Stanford University graduate student Katy Corrigan Ashe took hair samples from residents of Puerto Maldonado and several mining communities.

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DNA samples taken from grizzly bear hair may help resolve a bitter dispute over the size of the bear population in and around Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The Criminal Justice Act allows the police to take a sample of saliva or hair without a court order.

The sample was taken from one of four clumps of hair collected in Greenland by Danish archaeologists in the 1980s.

Results: A team of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists developed a technique that can take dozens of samples from a single piece of hair and distinguish between the signatures in each sample.

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Typically, veterinarians take hair and skin samples to look for bacterial and yeast infections, and, if the irritation is particularly widespread, may ask to draw a blood sample to check a white blood cell count and prescribe appropriate antibiotics.

For a recent show at the Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles, Silverthorne made phosphorescent, cast - rubber portraits three or four inches high of elderly people — real people from whom she took DNA samples and hair.

Later, bioscientific works such as Gary Schneider's Genetic Self - Portraits (1997 — 1998) or Marc Quinn's A Genomic Portrait: Sir John Sulston (2001)-- in which a sample of the sitter's DNA in agar jelly is mounted in stainless steel — took the bearers of identity to be images of chromosomes, enlargements of microscopic hair samples, retinal images, and even mounted DNA itself.

A sampling of complaints submitted in a recent Bad Boss contest sponsored by the AFL - CIO included bosses who kept the office so cold that ink in pens froze up; a boss who took employees to lunch at a discount warehouse and told them to eat the freebies; and a boss who mocked a cancer patient when her hair fell out after chemotherapy.

By contrast, a second study provides each subject with a wide range of facial images designed specifically to evaluate different dimensions of facial recognition (skin colour, hair colour, ethnicity, facial shape, etc.), each subject is tested over the full range of recall time periods, and a blood sample is taken from which serum concentrations of several well - described stress hormones are measured.

Sample videos I took during the New York City Marathon showed the Razer did a better job with color reproduction than the Samsung G8 Plus, while the latter showed off more detail, like hairs matted to the runners» heads by rain and sweat.

They take samples of blood, body fluids, cells and hair for further processing.