Sentences with phrase «causes of disease using»

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After more than a decade of research on the use of machine learning to detect disease - causing mutations in DNA, Brendan Frey, biomedical engineering professor at the University of Toronto, this week launched his company, Deep Genomics, to bring the technology his team developed to the public at large.

BenevolentAI created a bioscience machine «brain» that uses algorithms and data to locate the cause of diseases and generate insights into them that humans otherwise couldn't.

Gene therapy involves the delivery, using a modified virus, of a healthy copy of a gene to make up for one that's deficient in a way that causes disease.

Economists use the term «Dutch disease» to describe the way resource booms spur an inflationary spiral that causes other industries to wither and hampers overall competitiveness, as happened to the Netherlands as a result of its natural gas boom in the 1960s.

And the parasite that causes malaria is gaining resistance to some of the best drugs used to treat the disease, including artemisinin.

Access to birth control and education on the proper uses (like, even if you're on birth control, the guy should still wear a condom) of it, as well as true education about intercourse, what causes disease and how giving birth affects the female body is one of the most responsible things we can help the poor with.

Many predominantly RCC populations are exactly the kind of populations where promiscuity is not an easily nor immediately attainable realistically and therefore the unrealistic goal regarding contraception use is a very realistically avoidable cause of much suffering, disease and death.

Considering that since the bible came out, it has been the cause or the belief in it has been used to justify murder, wars, the faster spread of disease, attempted genocide, then add in the fact that there are 40,000 vrsions of belief in the «word» (definitely a symptom of chaos), and considering how many things in the bible are just flat out wrong, it is far more likely that it is the tool of satan... just look at the body count.

And where else but India would the fumes from chiles roasting on smoldering cow dung cakes be used in the treatment of scabies, a disease of the skin caused by mites?

This historical analysis uses internal sugar industry documents to describe how the industry sought to influence the scientific debate over the dietary causes of coronary heart disease in the 1950s and 1960s.

PoopMD and PoopMD + use a validated stool color analyzer to identify a life threatening disease that is the most common cause of liver failure in children.

This is done by using small amounts of a killed or weakened microorganism that causes the disease.

Excessive and unnecessary use of the drugs, which are similar to what doctors prescribe for people's ear infections, strep throats and other illnesses, can lead to super-resistant strains of bacteria that can cause serious human diseases that have no cure.

According to a Mothering Magazine article, entitled «The Joy of Cloth Diapers» «Dioxin, which in various forms has been shown to cause cancer, birth defects, liver damage, and skin diseases, is a by - product of the paper - bleaching process used in manufacturing disposable diapers, and trace quantities may exist in the diapers themselves.»

Samples taken from the heated birthing pool used have confirmed the presence of legionella bacteria, which cause Legionnaires» disease.

«New York State has made great strides in reducing tobacco use, which is the number one preventable cause of death and disease in the state,» said state Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker.

CVS has recognized the need for pharmacies to focus on supporting health and wellness instead of contributing to disease and death caused by tobacco use.»

And tobacco use, the number one preventable cause of death in the United States, claims more than 400,000 lives and $ 50 billion in direct medical costs each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But in March, Lichun Tang of China's Beijing Proteome Research Center and colleagues reported using CRISPR / Cas9 to correct disease - causing mutations in a small number of viable human embryos.

Benjamin «Benjy» Firester, 18, of New York City, won the top award of $ 250,000 for developing a mathematical model that uses disease data to predict how weather patterns could spread spores of late blight fungus, which caused the Irish Potato Famine.

«If we could use gene editing to remove the sequences in an embryo that cause sickle cell disease or cystic fibrosis, I would say not only that we may do so, but in the case of such severe diseases, we have a moral obligation to do so.»

In the present study, the researchers have discovered a reason for reduced fertility in people with autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 (APS1), which increases the risk of developing autoimmune disease (caused by the immune system attacking and damaging healthy cells) and which is often used as a model for autoimmune disease in general.

Using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing to analyze fragments of foreign DNA in the man's blood, Clark found evidence of Borrelia burgdorferi, the pathogen that causes Lyme disease.

Using iPSCs, researchers developed a novel cellular disease model to probe the neurobiological causes of schizophrenia, which are not well understood (ChangHui Pak, abstract 032.29, see attached summary).

A team of researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine has used a gene - editing tool known as CRISPR to repair the gene that causes sickle cell disease in human stem cells, which they say is a key step toward developing a gene therapy for the disorder.

The researchers found an overall increase in melanoma risk among men who used PDE5 inhibitors, but they hypothesized that if a cause and effect exists, higher use of erection medications would be associated with higher risk of developing the disease.

As a result, P - gp causes resistance of the diseased cells to a majority of drugs currently available for the treatment of cancer, as well as drugs used for treatment of infectious diseases like HIV / AIDS.

In Huntington's disease, mice carrying the pathologic genetic variant of the huntingtin gene are being used to understand how this genetic lesion causes degeneration of striatal neurons and to develop novel treatments for the illness.

Using two ounces of salt water and some muscle, University of Iowa engineering professor Craig Just can make enough bleach to kill the disease - causing microorganisms in five gallons of water.

But, he says, if MAGE really can be used to edit the genome of human cells, it would provide a way to fix the mutations that cause inherited disease.

By carefully sifting through medical data from the afflicted regions, he identified malnutrition and inadequately processed cassava — a tuber used as food in tropical countries — as the cause of the disease, allowing for prevention through better food preparation.

«Using imaging tests to detect disease in carotid or coronary arteries before it causes symptoms can better identify healthy individuals at increased risk than our current, traditional risk assessment methods,» says the study's principal investigator Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Director of Mount Sinai Heart and Physician - in - Chief of The Mount Sinai Hospital.

Using animal models of precancerous polyps in the bowel, Chung and his team determined that certain types of immune cells within a chronically inflamed intestine can become rewired, causing them — paradoxically — to contribute to disease development rather than protect against it.

Scientists don't know what amount of diseased mitochondria would cause noticeable symptoms, or even disease, in a child created using genetic material from two women.

The term visual field is often used in ophthalmology, where a visual field test is used to determine whether the visual field is affected by diseases that cause local scotoma or a more extensive loss of vision.

Dr McIntyre said: «Using data in this way can help us address the major threat of new diseases and the spread of existing diseases caused by climate change.

He was catching potential investors at an inauspicious time: Many were smarting from disappointing trials of RNA interference therapies, which use short, double - stranded RNA to disrupt the production of disease - causing proteins.

As the number of cases of the paralytic disease fall, world health officials have to grapple with a vexing problem: a component of the most widely used polio vaccine now causes more disease than the virus it is supposed to fight

Using tissue samples from five wild Amur tigers that died or were destroyed due to neurological disease in 2001, 2004, or 2010, McAloose and her colleagues proved that infection with CDV, a type of morbillivirus, is to blame for the deaths of two of the tigers and caused a serious infection in a third.

Tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of disease and premature death in the United States.

Using CRISPR / Cas9, the Hamon Center team was able to correct the genetic defect in a mouse model of DMD and thus prevent the development of features of the disease, which in boys causes progressive muscle weakness and degeneration, often along with breathing and heart complications.

The more Duesberg looked for answers, the more he came to believe that the original hypothesis of top AIDS researchers was actually correct: The disease was — at least in the United States — brought on by drug use and other immune - suppressing causes.

The researchers also say that their data - scouring methodology may be used to help identify previously unknown genetic causes of other diseases, even in cases where data has already been exhaustively analyzed.

Gene therapy can be used to neutralise harmful human genes, such as those that cause cancer, or to insert healthy copies of damaged genes into people with a genetic disease.

The disease causes the breakdown of the macula, the portion of the retina which provides the highest resolution vision, used in such activities as reading or driving a car.

The researchers used the compound to treat the nerves of mice harboring the genetic defects that cause the disease.

Tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable disease, disability and death in the U.S. Smokers who want to quit can turn to various pharmacological aids.

They can then be used to test drug interventions or to test hypotheses about the causes of disease.

Users upload a patient's whole genome or exome sequence via a web - based interface, and the sequence is analyzed and filtered using various computational tools and databases of disease - causing mutations.

Produced by tasks such as grinding concrete and sandblasting, used in the construction and other industries, crystalline silica dust can cause silicosis — an incurable disease involving inflammation of the lungs — and lung cancer.