Sentences with phrase «animal models of the disease do»

One potential reason for this discrepancy is that the laboratory tests used in animal models of the disease do not resemble the clinical assessments given to patients, and thus are not predictive of human memory performance.

Not exact matches

We do not cover developments of interest only to specialists, such as new animal models of a disease or the opening of new science research centres.

While the mouse study does not prove a direct connection between Zika infection and microcephaly, Rossi said, it does underscore the urgent need for effective animal models to further study the course of disease and its transmission.

If the marriage of stem cells and CRISPR follows a similar path, it might not be long before pigs have enough Homo sapiens in them not only to grow human hearts, lungs, livers, and kidneys for transplant but also to model human diseases more closely than current lab animals do and to test experimental drugs.

Because each patient has a different pattern of disease onset and duration, this model may replicate Huntington's more faithfully than animal models do.

This isn't the first study to associate the unhealthy Western diet with autoimmune and inflammatory disease, and it did only concentrate on animal models, but the potential long - term implications of these results are undeniably disturbing.

Because of the pivotal role that diet plays in causing the MS in humans, most metabolic disease animal models do (and we believe should) use diet as a way to precipitate this syndrome.

• Disease - driving pathways that involve the human immune system are often targeted by antibodies, and Organ - Chips recreate complex interactions of different human cell types and aspects of the human immune system, overcoming limitations of animal models which do not reflect all human immune cells.

After working for several decades in upstate New York doing non-invasive studies of animal models of inherited bleeding diseases, she moved to southern California in 1986 to start Hemopet, the first non-profit national animal blood bank.

Unlike traditional animal shelters that follow the standard cage - and - kill operating model, no - kill shelters don't use euthanasia as a primary means of population or disease control.

After working for several decades in upstate New York doing non-invasive studies of animal models of inherited bleeding diseases, she moved to southern California in 1986 to start Hemopet, the first nonprofit national animal blood bank.