Sentences with phrase «also different diseases»

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That last step is the most important, but also one of the most challenging because «when you try to sample a large population of people who you already know have a certain disease, like cancer, it's really difficult to pinpoint all the different biomarkers that will make you fairly sure of the person's illness is detected regardless of environmental conditions,» he says.
Food allergies are also much different than gluten intolerance or celiac disease — with food allergies, you generally know right away that you are reacting to it.
For a slightly different slant on golden milk, the recipe that follows, from Prevent Disease, includes the spice ginger and uses turmeric sticks instead of powder.14 It's also made without a starter golden paste, which is useful if you're hankering for a mug but don't have any golden paste on hand.
Also, different ethnic groups have different risks for heart disease, diabetes, etc..
The authors note that the different relationships between alcohol intake and various types of cardiovascular disease may relate to alcohol's elevating effects on blood pressure and on factors related to elevated high - density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL - C)(also known as «good» cholesterol).
The researchers also looked at the association between alcohol consumption and different types of cardiovascular disease.
They also showed that the gut microbiome of a healthy person looks very different to that of someone with a bowel condition like Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis.
However, nearly half of them also play a part in completely different diseases, such as schizophrenia or migraines.
The task also revealed an additional memory impairment unique to those with very mild Alzheimer's disease, indicating the changes in cognition that result from Alzheimer's are qualitatively different than healthy aging.
The oversight of dietary supplements is loose: FDA regulations allow for several different types of efficacy claims to be made on labels, including fairly robust significant scientific agreement claims that the nutrient in question has a direct effect on a specific disease, but also so - called qualified health claims, where phrases such as some evidence suggests that are added.
He also hopes to expand his analysis to include MS patients from around the world, who eat different diets and may have different gut bacteria, to help pinpoint the microbes that may be contributing to the disease.
The technology can also easily be modified to detect multiple types of peptides released by different types or stages of disease.
«These different stages represent potential targets for limiting or stopping the progression of the disease, and may also be useful for blocking abnormal bone formation in other conditions besides FOP.
- The results are also significant in that the group included different kinds of patients, some of whom had heart failure, coronary disease, and ventricular extrasystole at the same time.
«What's interesting is that this variability in lesion formation is also seen in humans, where patients with the same genetic mutation often have dramatically different disease courses.»
Paleopathologists can also calculate growth rates by measuring bones of people of different ages, examine teeth for enamel defects (signs of childhood malnutrition), and recognize scars left on bones by anemia, tuberculosis, leprosy, and other diseases.
«Until now, no studies have separated how resistance to these two different drug actions might work,» says Roepe, also a professor of biochemistry and cell and molecular biology and co-founder of Georgetown's Center for Infectious Disease at Georgetown University Medical Center.
«It's also a big problem in the population of rescued horses, as they often come from different locations and are housed in close quarters resulting in the spread of disease
Because biologists like Daley are convinced that embryonic stem cells — the most generic, versatile type — may not only lead to dramatically different new treatments but can also uniquely illuminate the origins of disease in a way adult stem cells never will.
It also explores the pros and cons of strangles vaccines, the use of different blood tests that can measure previous exposure to disease and determine when it is safe to give vaccines..
Global complex problems, such as energy, environmental issues, pandemics or diseases related to aging societies, also have to be faced jointly by different disciplines.
The mortality numbers also depend to some degree on the accuracy of assumptions about how exposure to different levels of pollution affects disease risk.
He is also developing a robust and comprehensive panel of 3 - D cell culture models from patient - derived primary cells that can be used to characterize different disease phenotypes and investigate the chemo - response of cells to novel or known drugs.
That variety cropped up in a different part of the brain than the other strains, and it also produced clumps of proteins akin to the amyloid plaques found in sporadic Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease, a fatal brain disease of unknown origin that usually affects those over age 55.
While the 3D injectable scaffold is being tested in mice as a potential cancer vaccine, any combination of different antigens and drugs could be loaded into the scaffold, meaning it could also be used to treat infectious diseases that may be resistant to conventional treatments.
Brain cells from different people vary in their susceptibility to Zika infections, says infectious disease researcher Scott Weaver, also at the University of Texas Medical Branch but not involved in the study.
But researchers in Italy and the United Kingdom reported in April that many different types of normal proteins — with no known link to diseases — can also fold into shapes indistinguishable from the dreaded amyloid fibrils.
In April 2015, a different China - based team announced that they had modified a gene linked to a blood disease in human embryos (which were also not viable, and so could not have resulted in a live birth).
Depending on the type of tissue, it plays different protective and mechanical roles, but it has also been shown to be involved in a number of diseases, including the growth of cancer tumors.
Our investigations also open a new route for understanding how different physiological states of the body influence stem cells in the brain during health and disease, and opens new ways for thinking about therapy,» says Fiona Doetsch.
Having only people with head and neck cancers in the study eliminates the variability of a group suffering from different forms of the disease, but it also eliminates information about whether patients with other forms of cancer would show the same results.
«Our findings also have important implications for mitochondrial diseases in humans, because this research significantly advances our understanding of how mitochondrial DNA mutations affect individuals and populations, and provides a potential mechanism to explain how different genetic variants may affect health,» Dr Rollins said.
The researchers also looked at how the diseases spread and studied genetic similarities between DWV in different pollinator populations.
The study also showed different risk for kidney disease based on where in the country veterans lived.
The team also investigated the risk of infection while taking into account the duration of current or former statin use, 90 - day cumulative dose, and specific sub-groups of patients who were prescribed statins for different chronic conditions like previous myocardial infarction, peripheral arterial disease, chronic heart failure, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes.
Epigenetics also make twins different in their susceptibility to disease.
«While we don't know which comes first — depression or cardiovascular disease — the consensus is that depression is a risk marker for cardiovascular disease, meaning if you have cardiovascular disease, there is a higher likelihood that you could also have depression, when compared with the risk in the general population,» said Victor Okunrintemi, M.D., M.P.H., a research fellow at Baptist Health South Florida in Coral Gables, Florida, and lead author of a pair of studies that looked into different aspects of depression and cardiovascular disease.
The team is currently pursuing further studies of the impact of Part D cost - sharing policies in different disease areas, and hopes ultimately to get a better understanding not only of changes in drug access but also of the long range clinical outcomes and costs associated with any delays or interruptions in treatment.
In addition to efforts to find a cure that is, say, specific for Alzheimer's and a different one for cancer, we might also be able to take a single preventative medicine that helps protect us from many or all age - related diseases.
The research team included Deborah Levine, M.D., MPH, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan Medical School who studies effects of aging, lifestyle and disease on different aspects of thinking ability, also called cognitive function.
Privacy laws are likely to vary in different countries, and international frameworks for protecting privacy in the context of genomics and infectious diseases will also need to be evaluated.
Moreover, causal situations may be different for different individuals - while one person may develop schizophrenia due to a strong family history of mental illness, someone else with much less genetic vulnerability may also develop the disease due to a significant pre-natal or environmental stressor during their lives.
Among different compounds, resveratrol (a natural poliphenol) so far has been demonstrated not only able to improve lifespan, but also able to ameliorate diseases related to aging by activating sirtuins 15, 16.
«We see this atlas providing a foundation for investigating many different questions about the pathology in the gut, effects of drug - induced gut toxicities and for identifying and examining important cells, interactions, and biomarkers,» said Xavier, who is also chief of gastroenterology and director of the Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease at MGH.
The group also studies genomic features related to disease at different cellular levels.
Not only does it say so much about the different populations that have intermingled and lived within a particular area, but it also defines who the Europeans are right now - how they look like or what kinds of diseases they are susceptible to.
Dr. Vijayanand also oversees a large - scale effort to map epigenomic modifications in more than a dozen different types of human immune cells from normal individuals to understand how epigenetic variations cause susceptibility to disease.
Nuclear medicine is also different from other imaging procedures in that it determines the presence of disease based on biological changes in tissue rather than changes in anatomy.
Researchers are also trying to learn about: - The level of MM - 121 that remains in the human body at different time points when MM - 121 is combined with docetaxel or pemetrexed - The relationship between the biomarker, heregulin, and cancer cell growth (disease progression) in people dosed only with docetaxel or pemetrexed.
I am also involved in making various types of amplicon as well as whole - genome shot gun libraries to sequence on different illumina platforms (MiSeq, NextSeq, HiSeq) and PacBio to study the relationship between microbiome and several diseases.
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