Sentences with phrase «use of samples collected»

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The OPCW said: «The results of analysis by the OPCW designated laboratories of environmental and biomedical samples collected by the OPCW team confirm the findings of the United Kingdom relating to the identity of the toxic chemical that was used in Salisbury and severely injured three people.»

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The researchers evaluated a wide range of pesticides currently being used through weekly composite air and rain sampling collected during the 1995 and 2007 growing seasons in the Mississippi Delta agricultural region.

Concentrations of carotenoids and retinoids in serum samples collected at baseline and analyzed by using HPLC (22) are presented in Table 2.

Moving forward, NCF used the PFP to collect six more samples of data (a total of 3,044 more fathers) in order to increase diversity within the overall data base and strengthen the reliability of the PFP.

The major downside of these tests is that you have to collect your sample in a cup (not provided), then use the dropper to add it to the test.

A range of physical measurements were taken using standard methods and a blood sample was collected.

The FDA has also collected samples of the water used to reconstitute the formula, which in this case was bottled water, not from the tap.

The researchers collected samples of indoor dust from 11 homes in North Carolina and tested extracts from the samples in a mouse pre-adipocyte cell model, 3T3 - L1 cells, often used to test compounds for potential effects on the accumulation of triglycerides, a type of fat.

Dr Bayrakci and the team will collect cores of rocks and take fluid and microbial samples using two specialist robot drills.

A team proposing the use of a flying rover to explore Saturn's moon Titan, and another that wants to send a sample - collecting mission to Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, are the finalists in NASA's search for its next interplanetary destination, officials announced Wednesday.

To minimize the risk to researchers, Munster helped develop a protocol for collecting samples from dead animals: swabbing the outside instead of using sharp instruments to collect blood or tissue.

Finally, cortisol levels were calculated to evaluate experiences of stress using the collected saliva samples.

We started by using ships of opportunity to collect water samples last December for months.

Now researchers in California and Virginia have identified symbiotic bacteria living on amphibians» skins that protects them from the deadly fungal disease, and later this summer the scientists will collect some of the microbial samples, culture them in the lab, and use the product to inoculate some frogs in California's Sierra Nevada to see if the approach stops chytrid in the wild.

One is being tested here as the midwife uses a finger stick to collect 300 microliters of blood, just five or six drops, in a small tube, then she treats the samples with a DNA / RNA shield, essentially detergent to prevent degradation.

The samples David collected over the past two decades were primarily used to track nitrates that enter the rivers via drainage tiles in agricultural fields, and eventually reach the Gulf of Mexico.

They searched burn sites for materials that might have ignited, collecting samples of wood chips, industrial sludge, and fresh and rotten tatami, a commonly used floor covering made of rice straw.

To investigate whether hair samples could be used to assess the effects of asthma on cortisol levels during pregnancy, a research team led by Gideon Koren, MD, a clinical pharmacologist at the University of Toronto, and Bruce Carleton, PharmD, at the University of British Columbia, collected hair samples from 93 pregnant women, of whom 62 had asthma and 31 did not.

Researchers in the Czech Republic then tested the UV light - assisted biopsy technique in the field, using it to collect small samples from areas of bat wing that fluoresced under UV light.

A team of geologists led by David Clague then used a tethered underwater robot, the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Doc Ricketts, to dive down to the seafloor, fly around the vents, and collect video and samples of rocks and hot water spewing from the chimneys.

Microbial ecologist Terry Hazen of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and his colleagues used two ships to collect 200 samples from 17 deep water locations between May 25 and June 2.

The researchers used liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry to analyse the collected samples, as well as investigating the impact of different breathing patterns.

Their results showed methadone was present in all samples using both methods, but when using the method based on impaction, the concentration of methadone in exhaled breath was less than one per cent of the concentration collected by the method based on filtration.

UV images of the lunar surface show patterns that correlate with the concentration of TiO2 measured in lunar samples collected by the Apollo missions, and so a map of the UV variations can be used to create a map of TiO2 abundance.

While at the school, researchers also presented to students and faculty about the results of the expedition and the techniques used to collect the samples.

Lipkin is also a principal investigator, with Columbia psychiatrist Mady Hornig, on a $ 766,000 grant from NIH's infectious diseases institute to collect samples from hundreds of patients and controls, looking for biomarkers that could be used to diagnose the disease and searching for clues to its causes.

Berman then systematically cuts through the innards organ by organ, collecting samples before the organs are lifted carefully out of the way — sometimes using heavy machinery — to reveal the next layer.

Using samples collected from the Liwu and Wulu river basins in Taiwan, which run off the central range, the team compared the radiocarbon profiles of organic carbon in the rock with the soil directly above it.

In collaboration with the host country, the site enables collection of samples that can be used in research toward new medical countermeasures, and allows USAMRIID to evaluate the performance of previously developed laboratory tests using samples collected on - site.

«While we use amphibians as an example in this article, the negative effects of collecting samples from endangered animal populations is a concern that applies across taxa and around the world.

Using assays developed at USAMRIID that detect the presence of IgM, an early protein produced by the body to ward off infection, the research team found evidence of dengue fever, West Nile, yellow fever, Rift Valley fever, chikungunya, Ebola, and Marburg viruses in the samples collected between 2006 and 2008.

Using a water sample collected in the field, the innovative environmental DNA test can reveal whether one or more of the elusive marine mammals has been in the area within the past month.

Over the next 2 years, Aubert used a diamond saw blade to collect 19 samples of calcite popcorn from 14 paintings in seven caves within a 1 - kilometer radius.

The scientists investigated the waters near Guam last winter using three different high - tech aircraft to collect air samples and examine the abundance, distribution and transformation of various gases in the tropical atmosphere.

Making use of the DNA in blood samples collected from wild macaws, the team found that over time the Pantanal group has divided into two genetically different populations, whereas the north and northeast groups have fused into one.

«The use of whole genome sequencing and the sheer number of samples we collected gave us a detailed picture of how the var gene repertoire changes continuously within red blood cells.»

Collaborative research in Japan, under the guidance of the principle investigators from Fujita Health University and RIKEN, led to the identification of a novel risk gene (FADS1 and FADS2) for bipolar disorder via GWAS performed using samples collected in Japan (2,964 cases and 61,887 comparison subjects).

Since 2006, he has worked with NOAA's air sampling system that uses glass flasks to collect atmospheric samples from 44 different sites around the world to track the annual increase of ethane and other so - called volatile organic compounds in the air.

In the 1980s, he and his colleague Nancy Maciolek of Battelle Ocean Sciences in Massachusetts used a simple device called a box corer to collect undisturbed square - foot samples of seafloor mud.

They used high - throughput gene sequencing to identify individual microbiomes in each of nearly 700 samples of must and wine, collected in 2011 from eight stages of the fermentation process.

Although an ideal monitoring program would include the sampling of both healthy and sick wildlife by trained professionals, the researchers propose that less costly alternatives could be used to effectively collect information.

Now, using new data collected samples of ancient, carbonized rice, a team of Japanese and Chinese scientists have successfully determined DNA sequences to make the first comparisons between modern and ancient rice.

In particular, the environmental, chemical and medical samples we have collected, provide clear and convincing evidence that surface - to - surface rockets containing the nerve agent sarin were used... in the Ghouta area of Damascus.

As part of the study, the team from the Section of Earth and Environmental Sciences of UNIGE paired data collected using natural samples and numerical simulation.

Hung and his colleagues collected tiny tissue samples from four well - preserved passenger pigeons held at museums around the world and used cutting - edge genetic technology to sequence the animals» DNA, as well as the DNA of a modern relative, the domestic pigeon.

Furthermore, scientists estimated the amount of helium released by the rocks through rock fracture experiments in the laboratory using rock samples that were collected from around the earthquake region.

Gabriel added, «Our study shows that with a little bit of training and a good sampling design, recreational divers collect very useful data that can be used to monitor shark populations over long periods of time and across large spatial areas.

In this study, researchers used blood samples collected several years before breast cancer development from two large UK cohorts of women — the MRC National Survey of Health and Development and the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening.

If it spots elements of interest, it will approach and use a drill on its robotic arm to collect rock samples from as deep as 5 centimetres.