Sentences with phrase «already treat human diseases»

Gene editing can already treat human diseases, but while editing the germline and enhancing human traits might be acceptable one day, we're not there yet, says report

Not exact matches

By treating biology as software and reprogramming cells to treat diseases and other ailments, humans have already made tremendous progress in medicine, Kurzweil said Sunday.

Since CGP3466B has already been tested in phase II clinical trials to (unsuccessfully) treat Parkinson's disease and ALS, it is known to be safe for humans, but the researchers caution that many more years of studies are needed to definitively show whether it is effective for preventing cocaine damage, first in mice, then in humans.

Loke also mentions that colitis plagues many juvenile monkeys in primate research centers and that he has received a pilot grant to treat diseased monkeys with human whipworm, an as - yet - unpublished experiment that is already returning promising results.

This technology is already leading to novel ways of treating previously incurable human diseases.

According to Penetar, puerarin was selected over other kudzu root components because its safety and efficacy have already been established in humans, particularly in China where it is approved for intravenous injection to treat coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction and angina.

I think we all agree that we over treat prostate cancer in this country compared to what you see in Europe with similar outcomes and so but I think this is where the human or the Cancer Genome Project or at least better biomarkers for looking at mutations that we already know occur in these diseases I think hopefully within the next few years every single patient who is diagnosed with prostate cancer those biopsies will be characterized and then the patients followed, hopefully watchful waiting and we'll ultimately get a correlation between what mutational events predict a rather dormant disease as opposed to a very aggressive disease.

Almost 10,000 human adults have already had their genes altered through gene therapy techniques used to treat genetic diseases.

The dog has already played an important role in emerging therapies for inherited blindness in humans and similarities in disease phenotype and eye structure and function between dog and man, together with the increasingly sophisticated genetic tools that are available for the dog, mean that the dog is likely to play an ever increasing role in both our understanding of the normal functioning of the eye and in our ability to treat inherited eye disorders.