Blood was collected for DNA extraction from a) privately owned crd3 - affected and non-affected purebred GIT dogs; b) mixed breed dogs derived from GIT founders and maintained as a study colony as part of an NIH - sponsored project (EY006855) at the Retinal
Disease Studies Facility (RDSF) in Kennett Square, PA; and c) from 80 privately owned pedigreed dogs from breeds not known to segregate crd3 (Table 1).
Technical assistance from Jen Johnson and Liz Corey (Cornell University), and the staff at the Retinal
Disease Studies Facility (University of Pennsylvania) is likewise acknowledged and much appreciated.
Not exact matches
Last year the National Institutes of Health announced plans to put some 180 ex-Coulston chimps currently housed at the Alamogordo Primate
Facility back in service, to rejoin the roughly 800 other chimps that serve as subjects for
studies of human
diseases, therapies and vaccines in the U.S., which is the only country apart from Gabon to maintain chimps for this purpose.
Some U.S.
facilities have subsequently adopted this policy within their institutions, and the new findings suggest that «more people should consider it,» said
study co-author Dr. Curtis J. Donskey, an infectious
disease specialist and professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
Within a decade, the lab is expected to move to a brand - new biosafety level 4
facility in Kansas, where scientists can
study Nipah virus encephalitis and other livestock
diseases that could be fatal to humans.
The largest
study of survivors of the largest recorded outbreak of Ebola virus
disease found they commonly reported complications such as vision, hearing and joint pain problems up to months after they were discharged from an Ebola treatment
facility.
The largest
study of survivors of the largest recorded outbreak of Ebola Virus
Disease found they commonly reported complications such as vision, hearing and joint pain problems up to months after they were discharged from an Ebola treatment
facility.
«Chlorine releases in fixed
facilities resulted in victims and evacuations in more industry categories than any other substance,» says a 2004
study by researchers from the Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry.
In addition to
facilities and personnel dedicated to the
study and care of the animals, our on - site diet laboratory provides custom diets to induce specific
disease - states against which to test your intervention.
The Genomics
Facility also is working with other teams
studying mutations in bladder cancer tumors; genetic mechanisms of sickle cell
disease; viruses in Lake Michigan; and many other projects.
His research has included
studies of cancer around nuclear
facilities, cancer and other
diseases in military veterans, occupational causes of cancer including breast cancer, among other topics.
The
study, «Preferential Recognition of Avian - Like Receptors in Human Influenza A H7N9 Viruses,» received support from the National Institutes for Health (R56 AI099275), the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, the Scripps Microarray Core
Facility, the Centers for
Disease Control and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.
The «Human Brain Project» will create the world's largest experimental
facility for developing the most detailed model of the brain, for
studying how the human brain works and ultimately to develop personalised treatment of neurological and related
diseases.
Our 130,000 - square foot research
facilities include state - of - the - art laboratories for research teams as well as a BioSafety Level 3 laboratory for investigations into infectious
diseases and a clinical
studies core for clinical trials.
This story references Dr. Candace Croney's
study conducted with the Center for Animal Welfare Science on the prevalence of periodontal
disease in a population of dogs in commercial breeding
facilities in Indiana and Illinois.
The VCS department, along with the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, has state of the art
facilities, equipment and infrastructure for
studying the health and
diseases of animals, conducting clinical trials and translational research.