Sentences with phrase «to study in the lab»

Still, after extended study in lab animals, the study points to this growth - factor pathway as an important regulator of lifespan in humans.

Historically, there has been a huge gap between the scientists doing studies in labs and bodybuilders stepping on stage.

From interesting scientific studies in the lab to in the bedroom surveys.

She assists students who perform shelter medicine research studies in the lab and is their daily go - to person.

She pursued her interest through a collaborative graduate training program between her university and Harvard Medical School, where she arrived in 2005 to begin PhD studies in the lab of molecular biologist Jae Jung.

The duo admits they have little evidence to back up their proposal, but they point to studies in their lab on mice, which were altered to be susceptible to both BSE and scrapie prion infection.

Schwarz said that historically, cervical cancer is difficult to study in the lab because most cases are caused by human papillomavirus (HPV), and there is no equivalent infection in mice.

Ongoing studies in her lab attempt to characterize the relations between sex and brain structure and function; other studies focus on gender identity and sexuality.

Previous studies in lab rats have shown that this type of nongenetic inheritance can influence traits like fur color and obesity.

Preliminary studies in the lab suggest echinacea may help inhibit colon tumors when combined with cichoric acid.

In 2011, chemical and biochemical engineer Jessica Winter learned that she had breast cancer — ironically just 3 months after she had begun breast tumor studies in her lab at Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus.

Previous studies in the lab showed that once HCMV is inside the cell, it quickly becomes latent by entering the cell's nucleus and co-opting a cellular protein called Daxx — part of the intrinsic immune system — to shut down its own replication, the process of reproducing its genetic material to make more copies of itself.

Such effects have been observed in animal studies in the lab as well as in frogs in the field for chemicals ranging from the phthalates (used to help perfumes scent linger and make plastics soft) to ubiquitous herbicides like atrazine, linked to malformation in frogs.

Almost every animal behavior studied in the lab, from the effectiveness of experimental drugs to the ability of monkeys to do math, is affected by stress, notes Paul Flecknell, a veterinary anesthesiologist at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom who researches ways to alleviate pain in animals.

And yet, these little - studied organisms possess the ability to regenerate any part of their bodies and are amenable to molecular studies in the lab, making them a valuable addition to a field keen on understanding how mechanisms controlling regeneration have evolved over millennia and how they might be activated in humans.

The insight from Sudbury is complemental, the geologists say, because you can directly observe the rocks with your own eyes and collect loads of samples for detailed study in the lab.

The biomedical device company CryoLife, Inc. is now using the researchers» design to build ring implants for further studies in lab animals, Karp says.

In a new study, Murphy, a molecular biologist at Princeton University, showed that long - lived bodily, or somatic, cells in Caenorhabditis elegans, a one - millimeter nematode commonly used as a model for aging studies in labs, activate genetic pathways completely separate from those found in long - lived egg, or oocyte, cells.

In controlled studies in the lab, I found that people who were more altruistic — more likely to give away money to strangers in a game — were also more likely to vote.

Recent studies in lab animals and humans show that the much - maligned material can be a source of cells useful for treating a wide range of ills.

Tufts University neuroscientist Jamie Maguire, based in Boston, got interested in neurosteroids during her postgraduate studies in the lab of Istvan Mody at UCLA.

Most dangerous pathogens under study in labs such as these are not highly transmissible, so the risk is largely confined to on - site workers.

Already Martienssen's team had developed a way to assess one such modification, called methylation, of the genome of Arabidopsis, a fast - grower that scientists often study in the lab to learn basic plant biology.

Sauer said future studies in his lab will focus on studying whether ItpkB has a similar function in human HSCs.

«Upcoming studies in our lab will be looking to confirm that this relationship can become the foundation of new treatment strategies.»

Kashi completed her undergraduate degree in cognitive sciences at BGU, and is now embarking on her graduate studies in the lab.

The nematode species that scientists typically study in the lab has two sexes — males, which constitute less than 1 % of the population, and hermaphrodites, which produce sperm and eggs.

The researchers focused on a process — known as «homeostatic scaling down» — that has been well - studied in lab neurons but not before in living animals.

Studies in my lab combine behavior, neurophysiology and acoustics to investigate the mechanisms of auditory, visual and somatosensory information processing, natural scene perception, spatial memory and navigation, acoustic communication, sensorimotor integration and flight control.

The amount of acrylamide you'd get from potatoes is much lower than the quantities studied in lab animals.

Which vaccine and what has been studied in lab trials determines how often a vaccine needs to be boostered or how often it needs to be repeated in an adult animal to be effective.

Studies in labs around the world have identified how the brain unlearns — not how it merely regulates and suppresses a particular response rooted in subcortical emotional learning, but how it physically unlocks synapses and unlearns and actually erases the root emotional learning, ending the emotional and behavioral responses maintained by that learning.

Flu is hard to study in the lab because virtually no lab animals get it the way humans do.

Ongoing studies in his lab are evaluating if any of the vaccines can protect against vertical transmission.

Found in groundwater from Colorado and studied in a lab at Berkeley, these microbes are probably pretty common, the researchers report.

Because flies are relatively easy to study in the lab, it's hoped that the discovery will unlock more secrets about the hormone.

From slavery to Napoleon, many phenomena can't be studied in the lab — but we can still do experiments, say Jared Diamond and James Robinson

No, new question asker, the thing you study in your lab is not the answer to the problems they're studying in the speaker's lab.

But he wanted the convention to call for greater transparency in how the technology is studied in labs and deployed in the field, for instance by creating a mandatory gene - drive registry.

To study how Amazonian trees responded to drought, Santiago's team plucked branches from the tops of trees in French Guiana's Paracou Research Station and studied them in a lab to determine how readily they develop hydraulic failure, which is a function of their physics, including the dimensions of their plumbing and the pressure their vessels can withstand.

The new discovery suggests that other creatures, including some that have been difficult to study in the lab because they fail to mate, may need a little bacterial aphrodisiac to get it on.

This is one of the diseases whose development researchers will now be able to study in the lab.

Six years ago, Dr. Monje started to create and share cell cultures of patients» DIPG cells that could be studied in labs.

Antonio Pusceddu of the Polytechnic University of Marche in Italy and other scientists don scuba gear and jump right in with the foul globs, using large syringes to collect jugs of the material to study in the lab.

So the researchers used the genomic data to synthesize the relevant bits of DNA and inserted them into Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis, which can both be grown and studied in the lab.

His suit could be crawling with any of several dozen nasty bugs that scientists study in this lab, so for a full five minutes he is blasted with Lysol.

These vortex beams are routinely used to trap and move microscopic biological particles for study in the lab.