Sentences with phrase «toward human studies»
The researchers are performing tests in large animal models as the next step toward human studies.
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Stephen Toulmin echoes these sentiments in an elegant statement on the cosmos understood on the model of our «home»: «We can do our best to build up a conception of the «overall scheme of things» which draws as heavily as it can on the results of scientific study, informed by a genuine piety in all its attitudes toward creatures of other kinds: a piety that goes beyond the consideration of their usefulness to Humanity as instructions for the fulfillment of human ends.
Co., 1978); Gwen Kennedy Neville and John H. Westerhoff, Learning Through Liturgy (New York: Seabury Press, 1978); William H. Willimon, Worship as Pastoral Care (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1979); Walter Wink, The Bible in Human Transformation: Toward a New Paradigm for Bible Study (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975).
The fruit of that effort was published in 1973 under the title The Bible in Human Transformation: Toward a New Paradigm for Biblical Study (Fortress).
It's «an important technical advance,» said neuroscientist Michal Stachowiak of the State University of New York, Buffalo, who created human cerebral organoids to study schizophrenia, and «an important initial step toward using organoids in regenerative medicine.»
In psychology and in artificial intelligence, it is used to refer to the mental functions, mental processes and states of intelligent entities (humans, human organizations, highly autonomous robots), with a particular focus toward the study of such mental processes as comprehension, inferencing, decision - making, planning and learning (see also cognitive science and cognitivism).
A new study finds stress - response differences in the brains of foxes bred to be more or less aggressive toward humans.
In revealing neural entrainment as a generalized strategy for improving sensitivity to informational peaks, this study takes significant steps toward advancing the understanding of human language and perception.
The study, published in the journal eLife, provides a valuable model for uncovering the basic molecular mechanisms governing the interplay of immunity and regeneration, and could point the way toward new therapies to combat serious human ailments like chronic non-healing wounds.
«Investigators create complex kidney structures from human stem cells derived from adults: New technique offers model for studying disease, progress toward cell therapy.»
The study also represents a step toward the scientific study of human subjectivity, according to experimental psychologist Brian Knutson of Stanford University.
This milestone toward understanding the genetic control of human aging, and the results — together with a parallel study from colleagues at Stanford University — have now been published in the journal Cell.
«These platforms will, hopefully, in the future, be used as an animal alternative during pre-clinical testing to more accurately direct these studies toward successful results in humans.»»
«Since it's impossible to predict which of these agents will cause the next epidemic, it would be ideal to develop a single therapy that could treat or prevent infection caused by any known ebolavirus,» says study co-leader Zachary A. Bornholdt, Ph.D., director of antibody discovery at Mapp Biopharmaceutical, Inc. «Our discovery and characterization of broadly neutralizing human antibodies is an important step toward that goal,» adds study co-leader, Kartik Chandran, Ph.D., professor of microbiology & immunology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
«Because of their unique position at the juncture of school, neighborhood, and home, afterschool programs may be particularly important for youth on a path toward school disengagement or risky behaviors,» said study author Elise Cappella, associate professor of applied psychology at NYU Steinhardt and director of NYU's Institute of Human Development and Social Change.
More animal studies would be needed to move this drug toward human clinical trials, but «what we hope is that we could use this drug to intervene in patients who have had an episode of prolonged seizures and give it to them briefly following that episode to protect them from becoming epileptic,» said James McNamara, M.D., a professor in the departments of neurobiology and neurology at Duke University.
Toward this end, in the 1980s, Rosenthal started studying covert communication: the nonverbal language of vocal tone, facial expressions, posture and gestures that make up the bulk of human expression.
Johnson, who specializes in the study of complexity, is one of a new breed of physicists turning their analytical acumen away from subatomic particles and toward a bewildering array of more immediate human problems, from traffic management to urban planning.
While the personnel in Carpenter's study all defined a robot as a mechanical tool, they also often anthropomorphized them, assigning robots human or animal - like attributes, including gender, and displayed a kind of empathy toward the machines.
As an alternative, the study shows that the lowering of human - made levees along the Lower Plaquemines river section to their natural state, to allow storm surge to partially pass across the Mississippi River, will decrease storm surge upriver toward New Orleans.
Studies have demonstrated this kind of altruism toward strangers — termed generalized reciprocity — in humans.
While critics of the plan abound, the study lays clear the authors» belief that «this model will facilitate current efforts toward the first human head transplant.»
The work takes a step toward using brain organoids to study complexities of human brain development and disease that can't be investigated with current techniques.
Now researchers at UC San Francisco have taken the first step toward a comprehensive atlas of gene expression in cells across the developing human brain, making available new insights into how specific cells and gene networks contribute to building this most complex of organs, and serving as a resource for researchers around the world to study the interplay between these genetic programs and neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, intellectual disability and schizophrenia.
In recent years, researchers have developed so - called «senolytic» drugs that wipe out senescent cells in aging mice and mouse models of age - related disease, exploiting the high dependence of these cells on specific biochemical survival pathways.9, 10 In these studies, senolytic drugs have restored exercise capacity9 and formation of new blood and immune precursor cells11 in aging mice to near youthful norms, and prevented or treated mouse models of diseases of aging like osteoarthritis, 12 fibrotic lung disease, 13 hair loss, 14 atherosclerosis, 15,16 and age - related diseases of the heart itself.9 UNITY Biotechnology is leading a growing charge toward the clinic, with human clinical trials expected to begin in 2019.
Getting the patent on the molecule is a major step toward doing clinical studies in humans.
We define global education as curriculum that seeks to prepare students to live in a progressively interconnected world where the study of human values, institutions, and behaviors are contextually examined through pedagogy that promotes critical engagement of diverse information toward socially meaningful action (Gaudelli, 2003).
She is currently working toward a degree in global studies and biology, with a focus on social justice and human / animal / environmental rights.
Scientific studies have shown that cruelty to animals in children is an accurate predictor of violence toward humans when children become adults.
Though I originally began my studies as a nursing major in human medicine, my lifelong passion for working with animals influenced my decision to change my major and I am currently working toward a degree in Veterinary Technology.
Academic studies are providing new insights into the human - animal bond, while opinion surveys reveal trends in public attitudes toward spay / neuter and other pet - related issues.
The study suggests that oxytocin receptor gene polymorphisms have an impact on proximity to unfamiliar humans and on how friendly the dogs were toward the human.
Studies show that humane values, taught in the regular classroom for one year, permanently change students» attitudes toward animals and those attitudes are later transferred to humans when children become adults.
Studies show that violence toward animals is often a predictor of violence toward humans.
Over seven years, Dickey traveled to 15 states and interviewed 350 people as research for the book, which the Christian Science Monitor dubbed «a remarkable study of our capacities for cruelty and compassion toward dogs and other humans.»
According to the study, the first to show responses toward human emotion in animals other than dogs, horses presented with images of angry human faces displayed responses indicative of understanding.
A 2008 study found that pit bulls displayed no greater aggression toward humans than many other dog breeds, though they were slightly more aggressive than some toward other dogs.
But people who study humans find that extra step toward global temperature to be a real problem because it explodes the error bars around the results.
This study provides a first examination of global disruptions to fire activity using an empirically based statistical framework and a multi-model ensemble of GCM projections, an important step toward assessing fire - related vulnerabilities to humans and the ecosystems upon which they depend.
A rigorous study of potential tipping elements in human socioeconomic systems would also be welcome, especially to address whether and how a rapid societal transition toward sustainability could be triggered, given that some models suggest there exists a tipping point for the transition to a low - carbon - energy system (111).
«The fertilization effect of rising CO2 on poison ivy... and the shift toward a more allergenic form of urushiol have important implications for the future health of both humans and forests,» the study concludes.
For example, looking at New Zealand's heat waves, «five independent studies all pointed toward human influence having a substantial increase in the likelihood and severity of the record 2013 temperatures in Australia.»
Prof. Kahol observes that as we move toward a world where human - computer interaction is based on various body movements that are not well documented or studied, we face «serious and grave risk» of creating technology and systems that may lead to musculoskeletal disorders (MSD), and that many of today's multitouch systems give no consideration to eliminating gestures already known to lead to MSD injuries, or to eliminating gestures that are symptomatic of a patient population.
An ambitious empirical study oh how biological temperament steers people toward a particular personality type as a romantic partner offers the prospect of unraveling one of the oldest human mysteries.