Sentences with phrase «uses lab models»

She uses lab models, including cell cultures and mice, to study these diseases.

Using a lab model to mimic human digestion, the researchers analyzed the mineral content of grasshoppers, crickets, mealworms, and buffalo worms (oy)-- along with a sample of sirloin beef — and estimated how much of each nutrient would likely be absorbed if eaten.

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Le Duc cites companies like Tesla, which made electric cars fashionable; Nest Labs, which is revolutionizing home temperature control and energy use; and Solar City, which scaled up industrial solar panels, all of which are taking revenue from companies with older business models.

Consumer Reports put dozens of strollers through their paces in our labs and in the yard outside our headquarters, to assess which models are easy to use, highly maneuverable, and, of course, safe.

I will now use my nURS model described in step 4 to generate an election forecast for a variety of CON - LAB leads shown in the blue and green labels in table P0.

Other labs have used DNA microarray analysis to characterize gene expression changes in this model.

In the new work, published June 10 in the journal Scientific Reports, Zhao, Reid and colleagues used a highly sensitive probe to measure electrical fields in the corneas of isolated eyes from three different lab mouse models with different types of diabetes: genetic, drug - induced and in mice fed a high - fat diet.

In the lab, researchers will try to re-create the Thai results in monkeys to validate a new animal model using multiple low doses.

In the Earth Surface Dynamics Lab at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) the behavior of rivers is modeled through the use of artificial rivers — flumes — through which water can be pumped at varying rates over a variety of carefully graded sediments while drag force and acceleration are measured.

«I came to Berkeley Lab 21 years ago to work on supernova radiative - transfer modeling and now for the first time we've used these theoretical models to prove that we can do cosmology better,» says Nugent.

Chalfie's lab did not own a fluorescence microscope and needed to monitor the results; he solved the problem in part by asking microscope salesmen to bring in demo models, which his lab hastily used for real experiments.

And thus began a pattern that would persist throughout Crick's career: While Watson did most of the data - gathering (building models, toiling in the lab), Crick simply thought — using his prodigious mental machinery to analyze existing theories, parry those of his partner, and churn out his own.

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 the wake of their successful initial lab tests using small model cats, the researchers are now talking to industrial partners to integrate one of these catalytic converters in full size in a test vehicle.

Using mathematical methods, Dr. Sacha van Albada, research scientist in Markus Diesmann's lab, Dr. Moritz Helias, head of the group Theory of Multi-Scale Neuronal Networks, and Diesmann demonstrated that this correlation can not be correctly preserved when the number of neuronal connections in a brain model is below a certain level.

To better determine the role of specific chemoattractants in type III hypersensitivity, lead author Yoshishige Miyabe, MD, PhD, a research fellow in Luster's lab, used multiphoton intravital microscopy — an imaging technology pioneered for studies of immune cell movements in living animals by CIID investigator and co-author Thorsten Mempel, MD, PhD — to follow in real time the development of IC - induced arthritis in a mouse model of rheumatoid arthritis.

Realizing they might have a potentially effective drug on their hands, Bogyo and his colleagues brought in Sonnenburg, whose lab is adept at using mouse models of C. difficile infection.

To examine the role for endocannabinoids generated in peripheral organs in controlling the overeating of western diet, DiPatrizio and coauthor Donovan A. Argueta, a bioengineering Ph.D. student in his lab, used a mouse model of western diet - induced obesity (chronic exposure to high levels of sugars and fats).

To test their theory, Xiaoli Guo, a post-doctoral researcher in Mitchum's lab and first author of the study, synthesized the CLE - B nematode peptide and applied it to the vascular cells of Arabidopsis, a model plant system used in plant research.

One BSL - 4 lab in Harbin is already awaiting accreditation; the next two are expected to be in Beijing and Kunming, the latter focused on using monkey models to study disease.

Includes a «Skin Lab» where visitors can experiment with skin - flap models used in plastic surgery, and try on latex skin - suits.

«Like many labs, we use C. elegans — a tiny roundworm — as a model organism to reveal important lessons about aging and autophagy,» explains Hansen.

The Grieneisen lab uses the reference plant Arabidopsis and computer models to focus on the misshapen misfits called pavement cells that make up the surface of plant leaves.

«We used biopsied tumor samples from DIPG patients to create models in the lab, which we studied and then used to test a novel, targeted approach to treating the tumor.

Mitchell's prior analysis examined lab studies that used an Alzheimer's lab mouse model that did not allow for the study of p - tau.

His lab is continuing to use the zebrafish as a model organism, but Junker also sees great potential in applying the technique to human organoids.

Her lab is now developing a model system for Parkinson's disease that includes brain, liver, and gastrointestinal tissue, which she plans to use to investigate the hypothesis that bacteria found in the gut can influence the development of Parkinson's disease.

Two labs headed by statistical geneticist William Valdar, PhD, and psychiatric geneticist Patrick Sullivan, MD, have developed a new statistical model that scientists can use to parse the complex genetics of side effect susceptibility.

«The next steps should involve experimental tests using scaled models in specialized geotechnical seismic and vibration labs,» said Miniaci.

To resolve the picture of the chemosensory array, Schulten and his colleagues used molecular dynamic flexible fitting, a computer modeling approach Schulten's lab developed at Illinois.

They have developed a set of tools that can be used to make accurate, rapid assessments of proposed materials, using a series of relatively simple lab tests combined with computer modeling of the physical properties of the material itself, as well as additional modeling based on a statistical method known as Bayesian inference.

Working on Arabidopsis, a model plant used widely in plant biology labs, Cutler and his colleagues focused their efforts on tinkering with one of the plant endogenous systems involved in drought responses.

The lab's resident mouse whisperer, newly minted neuroscientist Kimberly Maguschak, will run some tests she uses in her quest to build a better mouse model of anxiety and depression.

His lab's «empirical dynamic modeling» techniques use time - series data to look at the invisible ways these complicated systems are connected: like plucking one string out of a jumbled network and seeing which other strings echo back.

The «temporary - worker model» the United States uses to staff its labs «is completely out of equilibrium, [because] the country doesn't have the absorptive capacity» to provide career employment — rather than just temporary jobs — to all of the young scientists that the system produces, Gerbi continues.

In the lab, the research team used a rat model to develop a closed - loop controller — a device that can give them a metaphorical window into the brain.

Aside from a regenerative therapy to replace ailing organs, the scientists add that the NPCs could be used to model diseases in the lab.

Because M. lepromatosis can not be grown in the lab and animal models for this version of leprosy do not exist yet, the scientists used an infected skin sample from a patient in Mexico to obtain the bacterium's genetic material.

T2Well is an extension of the TOUGH (Transport of Unsaturated Groundwater and Heat) codes, a suite of software tools developed at Berkeley Lab that uses numerical models to simulate the flow of liquid, gas, and heat in porous materials and wells.

Her husband, David Follett, co-founder and CEO of Lewis Rhodes Labs, used her work as the basis for a computational model of how the brain processes information.

Together with her colleagues Margaret MacGibeny, an M.D. / Ph.D. student, then - postdoctoral researcher Ian Hogue, and Lynn Enquist, the lab's principal investigator and the Henry L. Hillman Professor in Molecular Biology, Koyuncu has used this unique latency model system to reveal specific cellular and viral components that can prevent the infection from going to sleep.

Many of these devices resemble sleeker, more efficient models of instrumentation used by research labs to record brain activity during sleep, physiological changes during stress, migraine triggers, activity levels and even early symptoms of debilitating neurological diseases.

I joined Dr. Kay Holekamp's lab, which focuses on the ontogenetic development, physiological substrates, and evolution of mammalian behavior, using the free - living spotted hyena as a model species.

Researchers at McLean's Behavioral Genetics Lab are using animal models to study the effects of nicotine on vulnerability to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a study funded by the Department of Defense (DoD).

In addition the Zeng lab is using their protocol to develop a model that can be used to screen compounds that could have neurotoxic and / or neuroprotective effects.

Our group is helping Rafael Yuste's lab to pioneer the use of Hydra vulgaris, a small, freshwater polyp that attaches itself to underwater surfaces in lakes, rivers and ponds and uses its tentacles to capture prey, as a model organism for studying neural function.

Zebrafish have only been used as a model organism by a lot of labs in the last 15 years or so.

Amy Gladfelter's «Companions in Discovery» follows her lab's investigations into the physical properties of cellular proteins by using the fungus, Ashbya, as a lab model.

For this study, Jabri and colleagues combined insights and data from celiac disease patients who had been cared for at the University of Chicago's Celiac Disease Center with experiments using a mouse model of the disease developed in her lab.

She works in the lab of Dr. Timothy Megraw, investigating the function of the centrosome in development and disease using Drosophila as a model.