Sentences with phrase «using human blood samples»

The next phase of study involving the newly discovered gene mutations will investigate their function using human blood samples at the molecular level.

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Senior author Madhav Dhodapkar, M.D., the Arthur H. and Isabel Bunker Professor of Medicine and Immunobiology, and chief of Hematology, said the study, using tissue and blood samples from humans and mice, shows that chronic stimulation of the immune system by lipids made in the context of inflammation underlies the origins of at least a third of all myeloma cases.

In the new study, to test whether the same observation was true in humans, Dr. Rostami and colleagues tested blood samples of patients with MS who had not yet received therapy, and those currently being treated with INF - β, a commonly used therapy.

Researchers have used radioimmunotherapy (RIT) to destroy remaining human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)- infected cells in the blood samples of patients treated with antiretroviral therapy, offering the promise of a strategy for curing HIV infection.

Researchers in Mathies's group, working with George Sensabaugh, a forensics expert at Berkeley, have shown that the miniaturised process can be used to type DNA from human blood samples.

Using small samples of human blood might mean fewer animals are needed to check a drug's safety.

Usually, because of the inaccessibility of brain tissue in living humans, epigenetic studies are carried out using blood samples.

Blood Systems Research Institute (BSRI) today announced a collaboration to more precisely and efficiently measure the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) latent reservoir in clinical samples using the Panther system from Hologic, Inc. — a fully automated molecular diagnostics platform that provides test consolidation, random - access sample loading, and proven assay chemistry.

There are new techniques being developed which use skin or blood samples as a method of testing potentially exposed animals (and humans), although they are not yet being used routinely.

You should also know that once you «give» i.e. relinquish blood or tissue samples, you no longer «own» them and they can be used in human or animal studies which you may find morally reprehensible or offensive.