Sentences with phrase «underpinnings of»

There, his focus turned from the mechanisms that enable T cells to distinguish self and foreign proteins to the molecular underpinnings of T cell development.

«By developing this model system to explore the molecular underpinnings of regeneration, we now have a better understanding of the process.»

Sergiu P. Pasca, 36, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford, uses models of the human brain — created through cellular reprogramming technology — to explore the biological underpinnings of brain diseases like autism.

Demonstrated in Science in 2015, the system represents a noninvasive prototype that could help researchers unravel the neuronal underpinnings of brain disorders and someday help treat recalcitrant psychiatric and neurological diseases — without resorting to the bulky electrodes currently used for deep brain stimulation in the treatment of Parkinson's disease and some forms of depression.

The Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience Laboratory at Auburn University is dedicated to uncovering the neural and physiological underpinnings of emotional and cognitive processes.

Systemic perspectives on the organism and organ level address fundamental questions of infection biology and shall contribute to reveal the molecular underpinnings of virus - induced immunopathologies and other inflammatory diseases.

Our understanding into the genetic underpinnings of such complex diseases as certain cancers, heart disease and diabetes, to name just a few, has grown by many orders of magnitude.

The researchers will aim to find the genetic underpinnings of how plants react to stressors like drought, heat, pathogens and pests, as well as the salt that can accumulate in soils drying more quickly in a warming environment.

Current explorations into the molecular underpinnings of cell circuitry are leveraging multiple data types including expression profiling and epigenetic analysis leveraging RNA - seq and CHiP - Seq coupled with molecular markers and cellular phenotypes.

During this year, the Diaz - Meco laboratory has further studied the molecular underpinnings of this critical pathway in cancer.

Brain organoids, also known as mini-brains, are tiny clumps of brain cells grown from stem cells that researchers are using to investigate the neural underpinnings of autism and other neurological disorders.

«This is exciting news for all researchers working to understand the complex underpinnings of human biology in health and disease.

Sex differences in behavior and cognitive abilities have been demonstrated in humans and non-human primates, but the specific neurobiological underpinnings of such differences remain unknown.

This project aims at unravelling the molecular and physiological underpinnings of intercellular nanotubes, particularly focussing on the following main questions: i) Which structural and regulatory genes are involved in the formation of nanotubes?

Ladd - Acosta's primary research interest is to understand the molecular underpinnings of autism.

«APL develops when two tumor suppressors fuse together to become an oncogene,» adds co-author Pier Paolo Pandolfi, MD, PhD, Director of the Cancer Center at BIDMC whose own pioneering work revealed the molecular underpinnings of APL and led to its cure.

These factors are linked to the biological underpinnings of infant vulnerability to SIDS.

Throughout the last century, this approach became more objective, as the molecular underpinnings of many disorders were identified and definitive laboratory tests became an essential part of the overall diagnostic paradigm.

Quickly maturing and easily studied, Drosophila often are analyzed for clues to the genetic underpinnings of basic animal behaviors.

Adds Stevens: «Understanding the underpinnings of cognitive reserve in terms of brain biology could generate ideas on how to enhance recovery from brain injury.»

A pair of studies to be presented at the American Epilepsy Society's (AES) 68th Annual Meeting provides innovative insights into the genetic underpinnings of childhood epilepsies.

In the late 1980s, Scheller and Südhof set out independently to unveil the molecular underpinnings of the process.

This microcosm of monkey society has shed light onto questions as diverse as how they think, choose friends, choose mates, and the genetic underpinnings of their complex social behaviors.

Eichler added that these advances are also likely to contribute greatly to research on the genetic underpinnings of human disease, especially if more human genomes are sequenced in this way.

Their findings expand the number of genes known to cause CMT1, further helping neurologists and patients find the genetic underpinnings of their neuropathy.

Thousands of years of selective breeding have turned man's best friend into the ideal lab rat to study the genetic underpinnings of personality

A genetic element in the brain helps to explain the underpinnings of the disabling Rett disorder

Second, he touches on the neurological underpinnings of only pathological liars, leaving the rest of us with little biological insight into our transgressions.

The research may help to explain the underpinnings of anti-gay bullying and hate crimes, the researchers note.

«Underpinnings of drought tolerance in plants: Genome - wide analysis elucidates drought - tolerance system in Arabidopsis.»

The research implies that the neural underpinnings of the so - called maternal instinct aren't unique to women, or activated solely by hormones, but can be developed by anyone who chooses to be a parent.

Here at the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center, donated specimens are sliced up, preserved, stored, and eventually parceled out to neuroscientists worldwide who study them for clues to disease, cognition, and the mysterious cellular underpinnings of psychology.

Paek is the senior author of a paper to be published this week in The Plant Cell that takes advantage of the genetic resources in this model species to reveal important underpinnings of drought responses in plants.

«I do not know the source of that original document, but I assume it was sent to me because of my past exchanges with Heartland and because I was named in it,» said the scientist who has sparred often with Heartland and others who do not believe in the scientific underpinnings of man - made global warming.

Katharina F. Heil loved her work studying the genetic and molecular underpinnings of Parkinson's disease.

But the ferocity of the 9/11 assaults and the upsurge in unrestrained activities by al - Qaeda and other groups have elicited heightened interest in unraveling the underpinnings of terrorism.

Like most academic institutions, today Scripps sticks mainly to basic research, discovering the molecular underpinnings of health and disease.

«We're showing the biological underpinnings of these correlations, and understand whether genetic variation may make some people more or less susceptible to certain carcinogens in food, which may have future important implications for prevention and population health.»

Submarine volcanoes generate the solid underpinnings of all the world's oceans massive slabs of rock seven kilometers thick.

Here, the scientific underpinnings of the PB framework are updated and strengthened.

«My clinical colleagues are attuned to asking patients about their family history and letting patients know that we have an active research program investigating the inherited form of this disease,» said Dr. Garcia, whose lab focuses on defining the genetic underpinnings of adult - onset lung disease.

AAAS, too, has repeatedly addressed this issue, including at symposia on the exploration of the early underpinnings of gender bias in the scientific, technical, engineering, and mathematical fields for elementary age girls, and on new ways to expand the numbers of underrepresented groups in those fields — both held at its 2016 Annual Meeting in February.

These revelations about the underpinnings of the disease have in turn led doctors to rethink the prevalence of the disorder.

C.elegans has been used for decades as a model animal to study the genetic and molecular underpinnings of neurological disorders through a number of techniques including bio imaging, electrophysiology and behavior.

The clear key to this progress has been advances in understanding the scientific underpinnings of plasmas and of fusion science.

As Opening Day nears, we take a look at green stadiums, the physics of baseball, and other scientific underpinnings of the U.S. national pastime

This work illustrates how the study of inbred canine populations can provide new insights into the genetic underpinnings of complex disease, bridging the gap between small rodent models and humans.

Once the human and chimp genomes were deciphered about a decade ago, they realized they could now begin to pinpoint the molecular underpinnings of our big brain, bipedalism, varied diet, and other traits that have made our species so successful.

Fernández says they will now use a similar experimental setup to study the timing and molecular underpinnings of exercise and its influence on learning and memory in more detail.

The researchers also dug into the potential molecular underpinnings of how the compounds interact to lead to this effect.