Sentences with phrase «understood mechanisms»

«In our model, stress conditions, such as a genetic variant or insulin resistance or a high - fat diet, lead to increased availability of the tribbles protein by as yet poorly understood mechanisms,» says Dr. Kulkarni, who is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

One of the least well understood mechanisms is known as cap - independent translation.

He sees the need for increased study of the little - understood mechanisms by which family systems regulate their interaction with outside systems.

Currently SQZ is developing its technology further using mouse models and human blood experiments to understand its mechanisms of action more fully.

I'm a knowledge sponge when it comes to understanding the mechanisms of anything — be it a physical system like an espresso pot, to the back - end of a massive messaging application.

Nonetheless, Ottawa needs to understand the mechanisms that drive the opposition or ambivalence that continues to exist.

If you understand the mechanism of how VIX works and why it rises or falls, you can position yourself to make a profit using your knowledge as leverage.

Not understanding all mechanisms does not change that.

Evolutionists have been very clear about this distinction of fact and theory from the very beginning, if only because we have always acknowledged how far we are from completely understanding the mechanisms (theory) by which evolution (fact) occurred.

All of it can be traced to very definable, and very complex, root causes (or we simply don't understand the mechanisms behind the root cause yet).

I wrote the follow up article on Understanding Milk Supply to help mom's understand the mechanisms of supply.

Objective To better understand the mechanisms behind breastfeeding and childhood obesity, we assessed the association of weight gain with the mode of milk delivery aside from the type of milk given to infants.

In our work, it's all about understanding the mechanism of effect or the processes through which relationships develop.»

Although additional studies are required to confirm these findings and to understand the mechanisms of breast milk protection, public health interventions to promote predominant breast feeding for at least six months and any breast feeding up to one year may reduce the prevalence and subsequent morbidity of respiratory illness and infection in infancy.

Her interest is in understanding the mechanisms of metalloenzymes, especially those important in the global cycling of elements.

Eventually, the goal is to understand the mechanisms by which liposomes leave blood vessels and are picked up by skin cells, allowing researchers to design better liposomes without skin toxicity.

Neuroscience can contribute to better understanding the mechanisms that turn acute pain into chronic pain, assessing the long - term impact that chronic pain has on the brain, and the benefits and risks of various treatment options.

Understanding the mechanisms that expand protein functional diversity is important for understanding the phenotypic diversification of organisms and their genetic systems.

To understand this mechanism better, Chen used mice to study the action of morphine, a painkiller that can cause itching.

We have a technology that works and now understand the mechanism behind it, how it accelerates wound healing.

What we find with Webb will help inform our models and allow us to understand the mechanisms for ice formation at very low temperatures,» explained Karin Öberg of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, an investigator on the project.

His research focuses on understanding the mechanism of enzyme catalysis.

To understand the mechanism of how Neu5Gc affects the human immune system, researchers analyzed various cells of the immune system that play a role during an inflammatory reaction.

«These findings may be of a significant translational value, as they provide important clues to understanding the mechanisms of these disorders and potentially their treatment.»

Understanding the mechanism of ozone depletion should help scientists predict when ozone holes will grow or shrink, he adds.

By understanding the mechanisms that caused the retreat of the WAIS over the past several thousand years, we can begin to build a clearer picture of what is happening today.»

One of the key questions in cancer biology is to understand the mechanisms that control tumor heterogeneity and to determine to which extend tumor heterogeneity influences clinical outcome.

Juries are willing to put people to death based upon the variations in DNA, but they're not willing to understand the mechanism that creates that variation and shapes what makes humans different from other things.

«If we can understand the mechanisms that caused these changes, then we can better predict how precipitation might change in the future.»

Understanding the mechanism of action behind the protective effect of IUDs is the next logical step, Cortessis says.

«While rodents are essential for understanding mechanisms at a cellular or molecular level, at a higher cognitive level, the best you could do was a sort of rough analogy.

«We know so much about the sun, but we don't really understand the mechanism that is the powerhouse behind the corona and the solar wind,» Dantzler says.

In the current study, Lee set out to understand the mechanism underlying the activation of brown fat.

It also provides novel insight into human mesenchymal stem cell - heart cell interactions that can guide future experimental studies to understand the mechanisms underlying mesenchymal stem cell therapy for the heart.

Understanding these mechanisms may provide a potential target for future therapies to address sensory symptoms, both through pharmacological and behavioral interventions,» the researchers wrote.

«We knew that leukocytes crossed into nerves through the blood - nerve barrier with deleterious effects, but we did not understand the mechanism.

Such research may help scientists understand the mechanisms that underlie aging and identify promising drug candidates that mimic the health - promoting effects of caloric restriction, says NIA's Felipe Sierra.

Ivan Kosik of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Maryland, and colleagues investigated hemagglutinin mutations to better understand the mechanisms by which influenza A viruses maintain fitness despite continual mutation.

«Understanding the mechanism of action of this peptide will help in translational studies to further assess the potential for this peptide to be used in medicine,» Beales says.

«We don't yet understand the mechanisms involved,» said Dr. Royce Lee, also of the University of Chicago, a co-author on the report.

One of the important challenges going forward will be to understand the mechanism of electron conduction through this carbon - hydrogen layer,» said Liu.

Understanding the mechanism that determines seed permeability could also give researchers better access to the largely untapped genetic diversity of wild soybeans to enrich cultivated varieties, whose lack of genetic richness has curbed improvements in yields.

The results also pave the way to understanding the mechanism of the spread of infectious diseases.

The genetic findings are increasingly allowing us to understand the mechanisms involved, and to start to connect the genetic and environmental contributions,» says Mark McCarthy.

You need to understand this mechanism in order to engineer a WGM micro-bead that has a specific antigen at a specific region of its surface so that the biosensor can attract specific pathogens or other biomolecules.»

Understanding the mechanisms of inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis is important for the design of new therapies for this disease.

Understanding this mechanism could lead to better treatments for PTSD, he says.

To better understand this mechanism, the team focused on an enzyme called ACSS2, which plays an important role in fatty acid metabolism in the gut.

University of Tokyo researchers have discovered the structure and transport properties of the «intermediate state» in lithium - ion batteries — key to understanding the mechanisms of charge and discharge in rechargeable batteries.

Further generations of even more powerful computers will allow us to run simulations that may be able to make even more realistic simulations and help us to understand the mechanism through which these aerosols are transported.»