Sentences with phrase «biological therapies such»

Unlike some biological therapies such as vaccines, mAbs mimic the activity of the animal's own naturally produced antibodies without provoking an immune response from the host.

An alternative approach is to persuade the immune system to attack tumours, using vaccines, biological therapies such as alpha interferon or interleukin 2 and genetically altered white blood cells.

Not exact matches

«This camera has the potential to greatly enhance our understanding of very fast biological interactions and chemical processes that will allow us to build better models of complex, dynamical systems such as cellular respiration, or to help doctors better deliver and monitor light - based therapies,» says Richard Conroy, Ph.D., program director for Optical Imaging at NIBIB.

As a result, they are of great interest for fields such as biological imaging, medical diagnostics, drug delivery, and gene therapy.

A fact sheet that provides an overview of how the immune system functions and describes the actions of biological therapies, such as monoclonal antibodies, cytokines, therapeutic vaccines, the bacterium bacillus Calmet - Guérin, cancer - killing viruses, gene therapy, and adoptive T - cell transfer.

As such, a second method 200 derived from at least one output of the first method 100 can include: receiving a biological sample from a subject S210; characterizing the subject with a form of an autoimmune condition based upon processing a microbiome dataset derived from the biological sample S220; and promoting a therapy to the subject with the autoimmune condition based upon the characterization and the therapy model S230.

Find out why Ramez Naam believes that we should embrace, not fear, the biological enhancements that are increasingly available to us through the use of modern technologies such as gene therapy.

Relying primarily on questionable surveys and priming «experiments» that have little relevance in the real word, social psychology often ignores or rejects biological and genetic models of sexuality, where there are overwhelming evidence that sexual orientation is formed in utero and is highly stable trait, resistant to centuries of attempts to force change through barbaric methods, such as aversion therapy.

Multiple - family group therapy, a precursor of psychoeducational family intervention, emerged, in part, as a pragmatic alternative form of intervention - especially as an adjunct to the treatment of serious mental disorders with a significant biological basis, such as schizophrenia - and represented something of a conceptual challenge to some of the «systemic» (and thus potentially «family - blaming») paradigms of pathogenesis that were implicit in many of the dominant models of family therapy.