Sentences with phrase «called cystic»

Though every CF patient carries mutations in both copies of the same gene — coding for a protein called cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator or CFTR — symptoms can vary widely from patient to patient.

CF is caused by a defective gene that creates a protein called cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR).

2000 — CFF gives Aurora Biosciences $ 44 million to find a cure and forms an arm called Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics to spearhead research.

Cystic fibrosis is a rare inherited disease caused by mutations in a single gene called cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) and affects 1 in every 2500 newborns in the UK and over 90000 people worldwide.

The reason is that I can't eat dairy without feeling pain in my breasts due to a condition called cystic fibrosis.

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He had recently finished a book called Alex: The Life of a Child about his daughter Alexandra, who had struggled all her short life against cystic fibrosis before dying at the age of eight early in 1980.

In recent times, there are more and more genetic screens that can be done including tests of Cystic Fibrosis, a condition call Fragile X Syndrome, sometimes some more specific tests in certain populations, like the Jewish population.

'» (Translate is planning human trials with repeated doses of its own mRNA drug for both cystic fibrosis and a rare metabolic disorder called ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency in 2018, but it has not yet published animal studies with repeat dosing.)

Bacteria can stick together to form slimy sheets called biofilms that yellow people's teeth, line the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients and often resist antibiotics.

These multigene interactions are subtler and knottier than the single gene drivers of diseases such as hemophilia and cystic fibrosis; spotting them calls for statistical inspiration and rigorous experiments repeated again and again to guard against introducing unproven gene tests into the clinic.

These airway spheres now can be used to study cystic fibrosis disease activity using a specific test called a swelling assay.

His team looked at an experimental drug called PTC124, which the firefly luciferase assay had identified as a promising candidate for treating stop - sign forms of cystic fibrosis and which is now being tested in clinical trials.

Cystic fibrosis (CF), also called mucoviscidosis, is an autosomal, recessive, hereditary disease of the exocrine glands.

It is a landmark moment: 22 years after the cystic fibrosis gene was discovered, some patients are about to receive a drug called Kalydeco to treat the defect that causes their lungs to clog up with sticky mucus.

The current U.K. trial is again using fats, or lipids, but the DNA includes a segment called a promoter that should make gene expression last longer, says Eric Alton of Imperial College London, who heads the UK Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy Consortium.

By combining Kalydeco with another drug to create a single medicine called Orkambi, clinicians have since attempted to extend treatment to half of all people with cystic fibrosis.

Cystic fibrosis is a hereditary disease caused by mutations in a single gene called CFTR.

Calling their compound a new therapeutic candidate for people with severe asthma and other chronic airway diseases, researchers say with additional research and development their discovery could lead to future clinical trials for asthma, Cystic Fibrosis and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).

Together, these communication and defense capabilities allow P. aeruginosa to form tightly packed layers called biofilms, which can cause respiratory tract infections in humans and are particularly dangerous to cystic fibrosis patients.

The test was less accurate for the less prevalent pancreatic cyst type called mucinous cystic neoplasm (MCN)-- catching only 30 percent of the cases.

We've already seen how this so - called precision medicine can be successful in advancing research to combat other diseases like cystic fibrosis.

These so - called Mendelian disorders — single - gene diseases, such as cystic fibrosis, Huntington's disease, and many others, — have been studied for decades.

Young rabbits often die from a disease called mucoid enteritis, which resembles cystic fibrosis and cholera.

THE MOUSE MODEL FOR CYSTIC FIBROSIS, as with models for many diseases, owes its existence to a technique called gene targeting, which was developed in the 1980s by Mario Capecchi, a professor of human genetics and biology at the University of Utah who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work.

And, so many people modify their disease or women, they get Acne and their face is covered in Cystic Acne and bad deep — you know — the Pizza Face, they call it.

These include growths arising from the epithelium that normally produces milk (lobular or epithelial hyperplasia, occasionally called adenosis), growths that also include the connective tissue between the glands (fibroadenomatous change or fibroepithelial hyperplasia), and growths due to expansion of the ducts which take the milk to the teats (cystic ducts, ductal ectasia or hyperplasia).

They include those arising from the epithelium that normally produces milk (lobular or epithelial hyperplasia, occasionally called adenosis), growth that also include the connective tissue between the glands (fibroadenomatous change or fibroepithelial hyperplasia) and growths due to expansion of the ducts that take the milk to the teats (cystic ducts, ductal ectasia or hyperplasia).

Rob Burton, a 24 year old from Birmingham, Alabama: «Other than the understanding of environmental degradation and climate change, I was personally called to do this work within the environmental movement because of having cystic fibrosis, a chronic genetic disease that affects my entire body, but especially my lungs.

One «type» of insurance product that will be offered to individuals who have cystic fibrosis will be what is called an accidental death insurance policy.

(which may be called Roaccutane ** or Accure **) Isotretinoin is related to Vitamin A, and can make a lot of difference to the cystic type of acne (the lumps that are beneath the surface of the skin) and acne on the surface.