Sentences with phrase «team identified a marker»

In 2016, Dmitry I. Gabrilovich, M.D., Ph.D., program leader of Wistar's Translational Tumor Immunology program, and his research team identified a marker for myeloid - derived suppressor cells (MDSCs), a population of immune cells implicated in tumor resistance to various types of cancer treatment, including targeted therapies, chemotherapy and immunotherapy.

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A team led by Margaret Pericak - Vance of Duke University, Jonathan Haines of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and Allen Roses — a former Duke researcher now in charge of genetics research at the Glaxo Wellcome Company in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina — scanned the DNA of members of 16 large families with a high rate of Alzheimer's, looking at 280 genetic markers that might help identify candidate genes.

Australian team uses genetic markers to identify the most viable embryos to eliminate risk of multiple pregnancies

Any markers the team may find would likely not be used to screen potential abusers, Rahm says, but rather to identify people most likely to respond well to treatment, or to confirm a psychiatric assessment.

The team focused on sections of DNA that they suspected would provide markers for past population movements and identified nearly 400,000 DNA positions across the genome in each individual.

The UCLA team identified 353 DNA markers from 51 types of cells and tissues and examined how age affects their DNA methylation levels throughout a lifetime.

The collaborative research team also found a molecular marker that would help identify patients most likely to benefit from cabazitaxel treatment.

For instance, company researchers have recently identified a promising new genetic marker for a particular cancer; because Avalon already has all the patents filed on the discovery, Carter and the management team recently gave the scientists the go - ahead to write up two papers on the work.

Next steps for the team include identifying microbiota metabolites whose levels are either significantly elevated or depleted during diseases such as IBD or cancer, to find disease - specific markers and explore possible roles for these metabolites in disease progression.

Our team proposes using the strains containing all the identified evolutionary markers as vaccine candidates for upcoming influenza seasons,» Kainov continues.

The cancer cell marker that Johnson and her team identified was a specific change in protein glycosylation, that is, a unique pattern of sugars decorating a protein found on the cell surface.

Once they were able to isolate skeletal muscle cells using the newly identified surface markers, the research team matured those cells in the lab to create dystrophin - producing muscle fibers.

The next step for her team is to start looking at individuals instead of just populations, identifying blood markers and other physiological signals that illustrate how a person is responding to his or her environment, even before needing to go to the hospital.

The research, by a team at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, also suggests that the size of the brain's right anterior insula may predict the risk of future bouts of depression, potentially giving researchers an anatomical marker to identify those at high risk for recurrence.

The next phase of the research will see this team, in collaboration with clinical colleagues in the Netherlands, identify early life clinical markers of the future renal and cardiovascular health of these children.

Within this gene, the deCODE team identified haplotypes, or specific sets of genetic markers, that correspond both to significantly increased risk of stroke and to significantly decreased risk.

Using single water molecules as atomic markers, the team successfully identified the atomic species of this surface; result that was additionally confirmed by the comparison of simultaneous AFM and STM measurements with the outcomes of first - principles calculations.