Sentences with phrase «point therapy identifies»

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A study by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) published this week in PLOS ONE identifies four factors that may account for sex differences in statin therapy among patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), pointing to interventions and additional research that will be needed to help overcome this sex disparity and reduce cardiovascular risk for women.

Nevertheless, trying to develop new therapies based on what treatments will look like in the coming decade is a nearly impossible task, points out Michael Stratton, joint head of the Cancer Genome Project and professor of cancer genetics at the University of London's Institute of Cancer Research, who has been working on developing finely targeted cancer treatments since identifying the BRAF oncogene in 2002.

«If one could identify the mechanism, it might point us in the direction of new, better therapies.»

While the researchers can not yet point to a potential therapeutic application of their findings, identifying genetic changes that underlie MND is the first step in finding ways to manipulate these changes using gene therapy.

The central points of immunology are identifying and distinguishing the many different immune cells that are essential for diagnosis and therapy.

In the area of personalized medicine, it is highly pertinent to not only predict the drug response at early time points during the therapy, but also to be able to identify the optimal drug combination for an individual patient.

Then, we could try to identify the mechanisms that regulate that set point, showing us the kind of therapy that's likely to be effective.