Sentences with phrase «about human disease»

Such organisms are already churning out insulin and other drug ingredients, helping produce biofuels, teaching scientists about human disease and improving fishing and agriculture.

«Because scientists can selectively switch off genes in mice, more will be learnt about human disease from the mouse genome than from the human genome.

It can teach us a lot about human disease.»

But what about human diseases?

Bethesda, Md., Thurs., Sept. 29, 2011 — Over the next five years, National Institutes of Health (NIH)- funded researchers will extensively test and generate data about mice with disrupted genes to gain clues about human diseases.

At the Bateson Centre at the University of Sheffield, biologists and hospital doctors have teamed up to use zebrafish embryos to learn more about human diseases.

This demonstrates how important knowledge about human disease can come from a close partnership among deCODE, Icelandic physicians, and the Icelandic population.»

You are certainly right about human diseases carried by these critters... West Nile Virus is something I want to avoid like the plague!

Genetically modified mice are often used to learn about human diseases, but in some cases primates will be more informative.

With over 250 inherited disorders, some similar to those that strike people, researchers say cats may have something to tell us about human disease, too.