Sentences with phrase «team studied samples»

Li's team studied samples of a fruit - fly derived version of Rumi in complex with a Notch «surrogate» - a human protein with a Notch - like fold - that were provided by Haltiwanger.

In collaboration with Anna Pyle, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale, Patrizio and his team studied samples from 20 cumulus cells in 15 patients younger than age 35 and in those age 40 and older.

The team studied samples from Martian meteorites and realized that an overabundance of rare metals — such as platinum, osmium and iridium — in the planet's mantle required an explanation.

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During this in depth study, an international team of researchers led by British scientists investigated the impact of anti-hormone therapy on samples taken from patients with prostate cancer.

A team at HZB has carried out the first detailed study of how magnetic and geometric ordering mutually influence one another in crystalline samples of spinel.

Because most of those existing samples originated from the Tibetan Plateau, the research team plugged a gap in the geographical coverage by going to little - studied northern central Asia.

Since older people have greater potential for improving their fitness than younger people, a follow - up study conducted by a research group headed by doctor and molecular biologist Helmuth Haslacher from MedUni Vienna, in collaboration with Robert Winker's team from the Health and Prevention Center of the Healthcare Institution for City of Vienna employees, took blood samples from 47 marathon runners before an ergometer test, in order to carry out laboratory tests to determine levels of analytes, including inflammatory markers, muscle and liver parameters.

For the study that has just been published, the research team analysed samples from over 4000 amphibians from 50 locations in Madagascar taken since 2005.

An international research team reports results of a three - year study of sediment samples collected offshore from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in a new paper published August 18, 2015, in the American Chemical Society's journal, Environmental Science and Technology.

By studying core samples taken from the river delta, the research team, led by Zhen Li of East China Normal University in Shanghai and colleagues, detected patterns and sizes of charcoal to indicate fire distance (small particles can travel farther than 100 meters, whereas larger ones stay put) as well as pollen to deduce the presence of either crops or nonagricultural flora.

One of the limits of the study, he said, was that his team could only assess the presence of antibodies in a blood sample, not a brain fluid sample.

By studying the magnetic orientations in pristine samples of ancient meteorites that formed 4.563 billion years ago, the team determined that the solar nebula lasted around 3 to 4 million years.

In a proof - of - concept study, a team led by a Johns Hopkins researcher reports that the vast majority of edible cannabis products sold in a small sample of medical marijuana dispensaries carried labels that overstated or understated the amount of delta -9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

The MGH team has assembled a large number of DNA samples from HD patients who contributed them for research to the Massachusetts HD Center Without Walls and through collaboration with the Huntington Study Group.

In 2012, Snyder and his research team published a groundbreaking study in which they analyzed the levels of 40,000 molecules from 20 of Snyder's own blood samples, taken over 14 months.

The team also compared the animals» responses to the therapy's effects in laboratory cell samples and found that in vitro studies did not predict how well the viral therapy and immune response would fight tumor cells in vivo.

But that study extracted ancient DNA from liver and intestinal samples using a method susceptible to contamination with modern human and bacterial DNA, Drosou's team argues.

Every summer during the study, which concluded in 2014, Cardelùs, Woods and a team of students spent countless hours suspended in midair, cataloging and sampling hundreds of epiphytes and the canopy soil they grow in.

It took months, for instance, for researchers to obtain key blueprints, video footage, and samples from scrap steel beams, said W. Gene Corley, head of a government - sponsored study team organized by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Professor Zeljko Kamberovic, leader of the Serbian team from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy said, «Our laboratory is one of the few in Europe to hold a license to experiment with arsenic, which is why we were approached to develop the study and produce 64 metal samples of variable copper - tin - arsenic compositions.»

«The study was incredibly challenging because, to study bacterial cofactors of HIV risk, the team needed to identify samples collected just prior to HIV acquisition,» she said.

Biochemist Richard Thompson, PhD, along with his colleague from University College, London, Imre Lengyel, PhD, and a multidisciplinary international team studied retinal samples from a group of elderly patients, some of whom had AMD.

Earlier studies looked at many genes from a few animals or a few genes from many animals, but Brown University biologist Casey Dunn and his team cast a wider net, sampling DNA from all across the genomes of 71 different animals.

To study biopsied intestinal samples, the research team engineered a microfluidic chamber where intact tissues can be inserted in a known orientation.

The team studied genetic data from over 1200 cholera samples, some dating back to the 1950s.

«That's why we're making samples in the NAU lab where we can study their properties, probing them with a variety of analytical instruments,» said Will Grundy, a New Horizons co-investigator and head of the mission's surface composition science team.

Using a new technique for closely studying host blood DNA, the team determined the host origin for three - quarters of these samples, showing that the flies had fed on over 20 different species ranging from elephants and hippopotamuses to reptiles and birds.

In her study, Dr. Dadachova and a team of researchers administered RIT to blood samples from 15 HIV patients treated with HAART at the Einstein - Montefiore Center for AIDS Research.

Building on this research in their latest study, the team analysed liver samples from 2000 patients with Hepatitis C, using state - of - the art genetic and functional analysis, to determine the specific IFNL protein responsible for liver fibrosis.

Furthermore, we have developed a robust and sensitive method that allows us to study the dimers in any biological sample,» explain Aurelio Vázquez de la Torre, a member of Natàlia Carulla's team, and Marina Gay, who works in the Mass Spectrometry Platform.

In the world's largest study to investigate how common lifestyle factors influence the size and shape of sperm (referred to as sperm morphology), a research team from the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester also found that sperm size and shape was worse in samples ejaculated in the summer months but was better in men who had abstained from sexual activity for more than six days.

«Our team studied thousands of molecular clues in each of these samples, sifting through extensive data on the activity of genes, proteins and other molecules to identify those of most interest,» says Katrina Waters, a biologist at PNNL and a corresponding author of the study.

«Our team studied thousands of molecular clues in each of these samples, sifting through extensive data on the activity of genes, proteins, and other molecules to identify those of most interest,» said Katrina Waters, the leader of the PNNL team and a corresponding author of the paper.

The team studied five normal fecal samples from Ya Ya and one mucoid, and 13 regular bowel movements from Le Le and five mucoids.

In a comprehensive and complex molecular study of blood samples from Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, published in Cell Host and Microbe, a scientific team led by the University of Wisconsin - Madison has identified signatures of Ebola virus disease that may aid in future treatment efforts.

As part of a DNA study of the world's cats, Stephen O'Brien and his team at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Frederick, Maryland, collected blood and tissue samples from 209 puma in zoos, museums, and the wild across North and Central America, and from 106 of the animals in South America.

Researchers led by a team at Duke University identified these immunologic variations by studying blood samples collected from people living with HIV by the NIAID - supported Center for HIV / AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI).

Dr. El Khoudary and her team evaluated clinical data, including blood samples and heart CT scans, on 456 women from Pittsburgh and Chicago enrolled in the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN).

The study has solid geographical sampling, and the team's statistical analysis of two DNA genomes — mitochondrial and nuclear — shows pretty good evidence for the new species, says Bryan Stuart, a curator of herpetology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, who was not involved in the work.

Wolf's team measures the young birds» wing length and color and collects blood samples for genomic studies before returning them to the nest.

By studying the variations of uranium isotopes recorded in carbonates, the team was able to infer global anoxia occurring throughout the ocean using samples from a single outcrop.

To build on the work, Anguera's team is performing additional studies using primary samples from lupus patients as well as samples from a mouse model of lupus.

Mikovits and colleagues subsequently participated in a multilab study that resulted in a September Science Express paper describing how none of the teams could reliably find XMRV in blinded samples from CFS patients.

By studying a much bigger sample of galaxies, the team hope to find out exactly how they happen.

In order to conduct the study, the team designed a methodological strategy to detect discriminatory content on 493 Facebook profiles from the United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium, Romania and Spain - the participating countries in the I: CUD project - which allowed them to find 363 samples for their analysis.

Matt Taylor and his team have now made the most detailed studies so far of a sample of 125 globular star clusters around Centaurus A using the FLAMES instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in northern Chile [1].

But in landmark studies published last year, two research teams pieced together nearly an entire fetal genome using just easy - to - obtain parental blood and saliva samples.

This summer, LeBourgeois launched a five - year, $ 2.5 million study funded by the National Institutes of Health, in which her research team goes into the homes of volunteer families, exposes children to varying intensities of light and collects saliva samples to measure changes in melatonin levels and the timing of the biological clock.

Bingham and her colleagues are now part of a major investigation, the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer, better known as the EPIC study, in which teams of researchers are taking blood samples and painstakingly recording exactly what some 400 000 Europeans eat over periods of several weeks.

An international research team has now studied this question for the first time at ultra-high resolution on samples of magnetite, the mineral dominating the magnetic properties in the earth's crust.