Sentences with phrase «techniques used in human»

Ultrasonography is an important medical imaging technique used in humans and pets alike.

Not exact matches

«The majority of private companies can accomplish most or all of their important goals by forgoing options entirely and instead making use of a phantom - stock technique,» says Jim Scannella, a principal in Arthur Andersen's human - capital - services group.

Zhang, by contrast, showed specifically how the technique could be used in the more complex (eukaryotic) cells of rhododendrons, rodents, and humans.

Companies that operate in the Biotechnology industry primarily make use of living organisms or molecular and cellular techniques to provide chemicals, food and services that meet human needs.

In Chapters 5 and 6 we considered the electronic church preachers who have adopted a «Christ of culture» response which uses the techniques of the world of the technological era, a world of means that values technique («whatever works is good») over human values.

The increasing use of in - vitro - fertilisation techniques, and the emergence of new possibilities involving human cloning, mixing of human and animal genetic elements, and the use of embryonic stem cells for research, among other things, brought the need for further teaching.

His work ranks with the finest classical Hebrew prose to be found anywhere in the Old Testament, displaying a phenomenal verbal / literary technique in the use of humor and irony, in subtle, sensitive character portrayal, and in effective, varied appeal to human emotion.

In its most recent study, the lab used rigorous detection techniques to look for such signals in human breast milIn its most recent study, the lab used rigorous detection techniques to look for such signals in human breast milin human breast milk.

Scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, used special techniques to detect healing molecules in human milk.

To that end, Oxford grad student Samantha Brown reported in a poster that she discovered a human bone fragment by using a new technique, called ZooMS, to scan 2315 bones from the cave for uniquely human proteins.

Using several techniques to gauge the effects of these mutations, which are the most common type of variant in the human genome, Akey estimated that more than 80 percent are probably harmful to us.

Although my background and training was in environmental microbiology, I contacted a lab at the medical school at Washington University that was just starting to use techniques developed by environmental microbiologists to study microbes inhabiting the human intestinal tract.

Professor Jianfeng Feng commented that new technology has made it possible to conduct this trail - blazing study: «human intelligence is a widely and hotly debated topic and only recently have advanced brain imaging techniques, such as those used in our current study, given us the opportunity to gain sufficient insights to resolve this and inform developments in artificial intelligence, as well as help establish the basis for understanding and diagnosis of debilitating human mental disorders such as schizophrenia and depression.»

Working with Skeletal Biologists at Southampton General Hospital, Catarina is investigating new optical techniques to monitor the development of the cells, used in new regenerative medicine approaches — in this case, to create and grow cartilage from human stem cells.

What we are trying to do is introduce to biology techniques normally used in chemistry or physics, using inherent chemical or structural properties of the human stem cells.

«We have now found a potential mechanism, and at this point in our research, we need to test human participants in a blinded, placebo controlled clinical study — the same technique we used to study the behavioral effects of acupuncture in rats,» says Eshkevari, a nurse anesthetist and licensed acupuncturist.

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.

«Social research has a history of using both small - scale experiments and computer models to explore questions about human behavior — but there are very few examples of how to use these two techniques in concert,» says William Rand, a computer scientist and assistant professor of business management in NC State's Poole College of Management who is co-lead author of a paper describing the work.

Researchers in optogenetics can control genetically modified brain cells using light but because of these modifications, the technique is not yet deemed safe to use in humans.

That human land use destroys natural ecosystems is an oft - cited assumption in conservation, but ecologists have discovered that instead, traditional ranching techniques in the African savanna enhance the local abundance of wild, native animals.

Using a technique similar to what bats and dolphins use, human echo - locators navigate using audio cues given off by reflective surfaces in the environUsing a technique similar to what bats and dolphins use, human echo - locators navigate using audio cues given off by reflective surfaces in the environusing audio cues given off by reflective surfaces in the environment.

The technique can be used to help identify human remains in forensic cases, as well as to determine age ranges in archaeological research or for living people for whom no records are available.

A technique that involves genetically engineering brain cells so that they fire in the presence of certain drugs has been used to treat epilepsy in rats, and it could soon be tested in humans.

Human Dx advocates the use of machine learning — a popular AI technique that automatically learns from classifying patterns in data — to crowdsource and build on the best medical knowledge from thousands of physicians across 70 countries.

Similar to the naturally occurring effects of TET2 mutations in mice or humans, using molecular biology techniques to turn off TET2 in mice caused abnormal stem cell behavior.

Should the technique be used in humans, the cells could be placed there laparoscopically in a minimally - invasive procedure.

DTI is one imaging technique researchers are using to identify regions in the brain that change when humans learn how to use technology.

Chinese scientists have injected a person with CRISPR / Cas9 - edited cells, marking the first time cells altered with the technique have been used in humans.

Working in human lung epithelial cells, researchers used a variety of techniques to show that flu infection increased activity of the PI3K and mTOR pathways and that BEZ235 restored PI3K and mTOR activity to pre-infection levels.

To many medical practitioners, the idea of using pig parts to regenerate human tissue sounds outlandish — so outlandish that the doctor who discovered the technique in the mid-1980s was reluctant to talk to clinicians about it for years.

Using a technique called nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, the researchers measured the concentrations of 21 metabolites key to nerve function in the brains of 10 deceased schizophrenia patients and 12 normal human controls.

Although most uses so far have been in research, the potential applications seem to be almost unlimited, given that the techniques are applicable to all organisms, from bacteria to plants, animals, and human beings.»

The researchers used the imaging technique in both baboons and humans.

«Using a technique developed by our collaborators at the University of Iowa, we were able to get long - term expression of these human gene variants in the fluid that bathes the entire brain,» says Bradley Hyman, MD, PhD, of the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MGH - MIND), senior author of the report in the Nov. 20 Science Translational Medicine.

«Humans may be uniquely identified by the proteins in their hair: Protein identification technique may be used in forensics, archaeology.»

Advances in our ability to tweak the human genome using CRISPR Cas - 9 and similar techniques won't only affect those at risk of genetic disorders.

The researchers used a technique called activity - based protein profiling, which allowed them to screen the molecule's activity against a very large group of enzymes in living human cells.

Geneticist Dana Carroll of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, who was at the Napa meeting, says that it will call for discussions of the safety and ethics of using editing techniques on human embryos.

Genetic editing of human embryos «has tremendous value» to help solve important scientific questions, and should proceed despite potential worries about use of the technique in the clinic, an influential bioethics group said today in a statement.

The team also used a technique called in - solution hybridization to enrich for human DNA and filter out contaminant DNA from microbes.

The HFEA has approved an application by developmental biologist Kathy Niakan, at the Francis Crick Institute in London, to use the genome - editing technique CRISPR — Cas9 in healthy human embryos.

Using a recently developed genome - editing technique called CRISPR, a Chinese team has successfully altered two target genes in cynomolgus monkeys, paving the way for the development of monkey models that mimic human diseases.

His lab is continuing to use the zebrafish as a model organism, but Junker also sees great potential in applying the technique to human organoids.

Evolutionary geneticists Svante Pääbo, Johannes Krause, and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, ground up a 30 - milligram sample and extracted and sequenced all of the 16,569 base pairs of its mtDNA genome, using new techniques Pääbo's group has successfully employed to sequence both Neandertal and prehistoric modern human DNA.

The technique is the «gold standard» for metabolic studies, and the researchers did a «terrific job» using it to compare the total calories burned daily by apes and humans, says biological anthropologist William Leonard of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

The technique used to assess addiction - like behavior in rats can also be used in humans, so if similar results are found in addicted people, the researchers hope the technique may help identify people most susceptible to addiction and be useful for predicting the efficacy of oxytocin treatment.

In anticipation of the technique's eventual use in humans, the team is working on an at - home rehab system targeting the upper limbIn anticipation of the technique's eventual use in humans, the team is working on an at - home rehab system targeting the upper limbin humans, the team is working on an at - home rehab system targeting the upper limbs.

Amid rumors that precision gene - editing techniques have been used to modify the DNA of human embryos, researchers have called for a moratorium on the use of the technology in reproductive cells.

Keirstead says human trials using the same technique could begin in two years.

The researchers applied a mathematical technique called optical flow modeling, which has been used to study traffic patterns and human crowds, to track how the chickens moved in large groups.