Sentences with phrase «by emerging diseases»

Fascinated by emerging diseases, he covered outbreaks on four continents, including the 2001 anthrax letters, the global outbreak of SARS in 2003, and the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.

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Bala Cynwyd, PA — January 31, 2017 — Chondrial Therapeutics, Inc., an emerging biotechnology company focused on the treatment of rare mitochondrial diseases, announced today that it has secured up to $ 22.6 million in Series A financing led by Deerfield Management and has appointed Carole Ben - Maimon, MD, as the company's president and chief executive officer.

«Over the past five years, I've been intrigued by emerging research that suggests caloric restriction or intermittent fasting can promote longevity and reduce aging - related diseases,» Elisa Zied, MS, RDN, CDN tells us.

These symptoms develop over several days to a week before more advanced signs of the disease start to emerge, including jaundice which is noticed by yellowed skin and yellow eye balls, or dark urine and pale stools.

Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2

Pandemic preparedness is not only critical because of the threat of a future pandemic or an outbreak of an emerging infectious disease, but also because school preparedness for all types of disasters, including biological events, is mandated by the U.S. Department of Education.

Devastating brain disease caused by human cannibalism promoted protective gene mutation to emerge just 200 years ago

Emerging technologies successfully stimulate retinas ravaged by retinitis pigmentosa, age - related macular degeneration and other diseases to give sufferers a new lease on light

A genetic mutation protecting against kuru — a brain disease passed on by eating human brains — only emerged and spread in the past 200 years.

Putting together the emerging lines of evidence, Quik decided to treat Parkinson's disease in squirrel monkeys by administering nicotine.

The transmission of emerging diseases has also been enhanced by a host of modern practices and technologies.

West Africa's 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated what can happen when a contagious virus emerges amid a population served by a broken medical system, and where cultural practices, public fears and porous borders fuel the spread of disease.

The EID2 database used in the study was created by University researchers in the Institute of Infection and Global Health to bring a «big data» approach to emerging diseases.

«Our models showed Hopi corn could grow well in the Ethiopian highlands where one of their staple foods, the Ethiopian banana, has been afflicted by emerging pests, disease and blasts of intense heat,» Bocinsky said.

If replicated, the tantalizing finding could fit with an emerging theory that subpar function by mitochondria, the organelles that provide energy for cells, drives the disease.

After hibernating in refrigeratorlike chambers containing the compound, which is produced by a soil bacterium (a strain of Rhodococcus rhodochrous), diseased little brown and northern long - eared bats emerged healthy.

These include functioning successfully in their lives before the disease emerged; experiencing severe symptoms suddenly, all at once, rather than little by little; being older when the disease appeared; being female; having a higher IQ; and lacking a family history of the disorder.

Neuroscientists believe that consciousness emerges from the material stuff of the brain primarily because even very small changes to your brain (say, by drugs or disease) can powerfully alter your subjective experiences.

A new study has found that nearly half of camels in parts of Kenya have been infected by the virus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and calls for further research into the role they might play in the transmission of this emerging disease to humans.

William Castell, chair of the Wellcome Trust, praised Farrar in a statement as «one of the foremost scientists of his generation, whose work — much of it funded by the Trust — has contributed to better understanding, surveillance, prevention and treatment of diseases including emerging infections, influenza, tuberculosis, typhoid and dengue.»

More broadly, he said, «These findings are part of an emerging theme that there is a whole spectrum of diseases that includes ALS, and some forms of dementia and myopathy, that are caused by disturbance in the behavior of these structures that perturbs cellular organization.»

In fact, Olshansky says, the threats posed by obesity and emerging infectious diseases such as AIDS are largely responsible for his pessimism about 150 - year life spans.

Evolution In recent years, athletes including cyclists have used drugs called HIF stabilizers (hypoxia inducible factor), an emerging class of kidney - disease drugs that stimulate the body's own production of EPO by activating genes to express EPO.

White - nose syndrome (WNS) is a rapidly emerging fatal disease amongst North American bats, caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd).

It is similar to that taken by cardiologist Arshed Quyyumi and colleagues with peripheral artery disease: use a growth factor (GM - CSF), which is usually employed for another purpose, to get the bodyâ $ ™ s own regenerative agents to emerge from the bone marrow.

The panelists discussed emerging technologies such as CRISPR, which is opening new possibilities for treating disease by repairing mutations via a «genome surgery» of sorts.

Ember is a Boston - based company, launched by Third Rock Ventures in late 2011 to translate this groundbreaking biology in the emerging area of brown fat into a proprietary pipeline of treatments for metabolic disease, including type - 2 diabetes and obesity.

The mission of the Center for Predictive Medicine for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases (CPM) is to improve human health by conducting basic and translational research that leads to the development of effective diagnostic biomarkers, vaccines, antivirals and therapeutics for emerging, re-emerging, neglected or rare infectious dEmerging Infectious Diseases (CPM) is to improve human health by conducting basic and translational research that leads to the development of effective diagnostic biomarkers, vaccines, antivirals and therapeutics for emerging, re-emerging, neglected or rare infectious demerging, re-emerging, neglected or rare infectious demerging, neglected or rare infectious diseases.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease characterized by motor neuron death and muscle atrophy, and the RNA binding protein TDP - 43 has emerged as a major molecular factor in this disease.

More to the point, by genetically stripping dengue virus of its ability to bind 14 -3-3 epsilon, Gack has generated a crippled virus that can elicit a strong human immune response, providing a framework for rational vaccine design against emerging infectious diseases.

Peter Horby is funded by the European Commission to undertake clinical studies of emerging infectious diseases in Europe.

Gene editing has emerged as a promising strategy to treat diseases like β - thalassemia and sickle cell disease which are both caused by mutations in the gene for β - globin (HBB).

The symposium is organized by the Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience (CMBN), University of Oslo, to highlight the emerging importance of the roles of glia - neuronal interactions in brain function and disease processes.

However, the picture that emerges from studies in patients affected by brain disease and neurological conditions is more complex.

Assist disease control by providing up - to - date geographical information about known and newly - emerging forms of drug resistance, by examining genetic variation in the context of how whole pathogen genomes are evolving rather than as fragmentary information about individual genetic changes or polymorphisms.

Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans and the risk of a second amphibian pandemic Chytridiomycosis, an emerging infectious disease (EID) caused by two fungal pathogens, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis... AmphibiaWeb

«Despite efforts by the government to stem the spread of the deadly Ebola viral disease in the country, the virus is proving to be hard to defeat as new cases continue to emerge in the Western Area and northern Sierra Leone.

Angela C Estampador, 1,2 Paul W Franks1, 3,4 1Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital Malmö, Malmö, Sweden; 2Department of Endocrinology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark; 3Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; 4Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA Abstract: Evidence has emerged across the past few decades that the lifetime risk of developing morbidities like type 2 diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease may be influenced by exposures that occur in utero and in childhood.

According to the report, that complexity - including the sum of genetic, environmental, and life - stage factors that play a part in the onset of human disease - should now be addressed by bringing together emerging new tools and methods that give scientists insight into the 100,000 chemicals routinely used in commerce but largely untested for health effects.

«This gift that creates the Alpern Fund provides a beacon of hope for millions of individuals who suffer from devastating diseases that might be eliminated by novel treatments that we believe will emerge from stem cell research,» says James Douglas Engel, a professor of Developmental Biology at the UofM Medical School and chair of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology.

Single cell genomics: thinking small by Iain Macaulay We all emerged from a single cell and it only takes a mutation in a single cell to cause disease.

Funding: This work was funded by the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7 / 2007 — 2013) under the project «European Management Platform for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Disease Entities» European Commission grant agreement no. 223498.

From trillions and trillions of data points generated by analyzing human genomes at the most basic levels, Carter is using a new, powerful mathematical approach to identify biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease, before symptoms emerge.

After 22 years of disease she entered therapy, and, in the first session, it emerged that her dentist father had died by suicide when the patient was age 6 and when he was 33.

Significant epidemiological and clinical evidence has emerged that suggests AD belongs among the «diseases of civilization,» primarily caused by modern Western diets and lifestyles at odds with human physiology.

NC State Veterinary Medicine diagnostic laboratories serve veterinarians, scientists, educators, companion animal owners, and the livestock and poultry industry by identifying and monitoring emerging diseases, genetic disorders and developing new diagnostic methods.

Canine influenza is a newly emerging infectious disease caused by a «flu» virus.

Ehrlichiosis is an emerging disease caused by a rickettsia: a type of bacteria that infects dogs, people, and less commonly cats.

By the middle of May, a proposal for stricter regulations against Pit Bulls emerged and quickly expanded to include the top 25 breeds listed on the Center for Disease Control's list of dogs involved in fatal attacks, which includes Collies, Coonhounds, Great Danes, Mastiffs, Labrador retrievers, mixed breeds, and others.1

Canine infertility disease emerged in 2000 but wasn't validated until 2005 when researchers were startled by a 22 % reduction in AKC show dog fertility rates.