Sentences with phrase «cell disease treatment»
«Over the past few years, City of Hope has seen an increase in patients coming for sickle cell disease treatment,» Rosenthal said.
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Dr. Haywood also serves as a member of the oversight steering committee for the Health Resources and Services Administration's Sickle Cell Disease Treatment Demonstration Program.
Not exact matches
BlueRock's first two programs are treatments that could regenerate heart muscle cells after heart attacks and help replace certain neurons in the brain as they decline in people with Parkinson's disease.
Unlike some of the promising treatments that have failed in 2017 that deal with the so - called «amyloid hypothesis» (the treatments target amyloid beta deposits in the brain that accumulate in people with Alzheimer's disease), approaches that try to prevent nerve cells from dying wouldn't have any impact on that buildup.
In March, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved BLINCYTO for the treatment of adults and children with B - cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia in first or second complete remission with minimal residual disease (MRD) greater than or equal to 0.1 percent.
About Nohla Therapeutics Nohla Therapeutics is a leading developer of off - the shelf cell therapies for the treatment of cancer and other critical diseases.
Cambridge, MA — March 30, 2017 — Aura Biosciences, a biotechnology company developing a new class of therapies to target and selectively destroy cancer cells using viral nanoparticle conjugates, announced today that it has enrolled and dosed the first patient in its Phase 1b clinical trial of light - activated AU - 011, an investigational, first - in - class targeted therapy in development for the treatment of ocular melanoma, a rare and life - threatening disease.
New treatments for everything from cancer to rare genetic diseases are entering the market all the time, many of which are cutting - edge biologic medicines derived from living cells.
The biotech specialist said that its updated phase 2 data in a study of its poziotinib candidate treatment for non-small cell lung cancer resulted in a preliminary confirmed objective response rate and potential progression - free survival benefit in patients with the EGFR Exon 20 Mutant form of the disease.
You may not be for stem cell research, but what if there was a treatment that utilized stem cells (that would have been tossed away) that would curb a crippling disease tormenting your child or loved one?
research; since most of the reports have concentrated on justifying the creation of cloned human embryos for research into and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, «stem - cells» has become synonymous with «embryonic stem - cells» in the public imagination.
Jiachen Lee, Arooba Ahmed and Jillian Parker, a trio of young scientists from the Half Hollow Hills school district won the $ 100,000 top team award in the prestigious Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology for their research into cell division that could help find treatments to cancers, viruses and other diseases.
Stem cell research and diabetes Stem cell research is a relatively new area of investigation, believed by many in the scientific and medical communities to have important new potential for the treatment of many diseases and conditions particularly those like diabetes, which are characterised by severe damage to certain cells and tissues..
The Reverend said, however, that while he was struggling to raise the money, the hospital management called to inform him that the Sickle Cell Foundation of Nigeria had contributed N260, 000 to fund the operation as part of its efforts towards the treatment of the disease.
Senator Bernie Sanders (I — VT) has said he believes stem - cell research «represents an exciting and promising line of research that could provide treatments and cures for many debilitating diseases.»
Fat - derived stem cells can heal nasty wounds associated with Crohn's disease, and could be the first mass stem cell treatment to be used in Europe
Trials of cells made from human embryonic stem cells are also poised to begin in people with type 1 diabetes and heart failure, the first time embryonic stem cells have been used in the treatment of major lethal diseases.
Decades after they were discovered, human embryonic stem cells are being trialled as a treatment for two major diseases: heart failure and type 1 diabetes
Although treatments are available for the disease, they do not repair the damage to nerve cells.
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.
«Mechanistic finding may help develop treatment for Ice Bucket Challenge disease: Study blames a fault in the cell's machine that cuts and pastes genetic instructions for a deadly motor neuron disease.»
Yang said the study not only indicated which genes are affected by traumatic brain injury and linked to serious disease, but also might point to the genes that govern metabolism, cell communication and inflammation — which might make them the best targets for new treatments for brain disorders.
A major obstacle to improving treatment for the 3,470 cases of the disease expected in the United States this year is the blood - brain barrier, the name given to the tight fit of cells that make up the blood vessels in the brain.
Stem cells have long been heralded as a potential treatment for a range of brain ailments, but research has so far focused on movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease.
Cancer stem - like cells are thought to be the root cause of chemotherapy resistance, leading to treatment failure in patients with advanced disease and the triggers of tumour recurrence and metastasis (regrowth).
Teams conducting research into treatment methods for various chronically inflammatory autoimmune diseases are already using the link between IL - 6 and pathogenic T cells today.
According to this theory, tumor cells tend to «forget» the tissue from which they originated as the disease progresses, acquiring an undifferentiated phenotype associated with heightened aggressiveness and treatment resistance.
«If we take one of these modified cells and treat it with a particular drug, if it doesn't produce light anymore, then this means the drug is a potential treatment for this disease,» Basu said.
Dr Lee Campbell, Research Projects and Science Communications Manager at Cancer Research Wales, who part - fund the study, commented: «This is an exciting breakthrough as cancer stem cells are thought to be responsible for the failure of many cancer treatments and the re-emergence of cancers, often many years after the initial disease.
Researchers are designing the first clinical trials of stem cell treatments for fetuses afflicted with rare bone and blood diseases.
BABY BLUE Using human eye cells, researchers fashioned an artificial eye surface that could be used to study and test treatments for eye diseases.
What's more, the studies suggest how our gut microbes make the immune system turn against nerve cells — a finding that could lead to treatments, like drugs based on microbial byproducts, that might improve the course of the disease.
These include the ability to bring new, innovative products to the market; progress in oncology, such as the approval of Genentech's drug Avastin for breast cancer and advances in the use of gene therapy, despite some setbacks; continuing progress in research on stem cells; the emergence of treatments for previously untreated diseases; and solutions for food and fuel shortages, such as biocrops and biofuels.
Specific immune cells have the ability to produce a healing factor that can promote wound repair in the intestine, a finding that could lead to new, potential therapeutic treatments for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a new research study.
«Only by understanding the complexities of what happens in specific cell - types found in specific areas of the brain during this disease can targeted treatments for Parkinson's disease be produced.»
«The implications are that understanding these cells, the factors and the pathways may offer us the ability to modulate this pathway during inflammatory bowel disease, which could lead to treatment and promote healing and recovery from inflammatory bowel disease,» Denning said.
The finding identifies how vulnerable cell groups react and respond differently to the accumulation of mitochondrial DNA damage seen in the disease, highlighting the need for cell - specific treatments.
The studies not only point to the future possibility of specific microRNAs as a treatment for colorectal cancer, but also to the importance of external metabolic events conducted outside the cancer cell in the progression of the disease — factors that could someday be targeted to help slow metastasis, or even block it entirely.
«The ability to control autoimmunity by autologous HSCT [hematopoietic stem cell transplantation] has been demonstrated in other treatment - refractory autoimmune conditions, including neurologic diseases.
Researchers targeting colorectal cancer stem cells — the root cause of disease, resistance to treatment and relapse — have discovered a mechanism to mimic a virus and potentially trigger an immune response to fight the cancer like an infection.
New technology that transforms a cell phone into a powerful, mobile microscope could significantly improve malaria diagnoses and treatment in developing countries that often lack the resources to address the life - threatening disease, says a Texas A&M University biomedical engineer who has created the tool.
«How to reprogram cells in our immune system: The discovery could improve treatments for autoimmune diseases and cancer.»
Despite a lack of rigorous clinical trials to test safety or efficacy, a ban of the treatment by health authorities, and a lack of peer review by the scientific community, the privately funded Stamina Foundation has been using cultured mesenchymal stem cells that have been exposed to putative conditions that favour neuronal differentiation to treat different diseases in severely or terminally ill patients.
«Stem cells may offer unprecedented opportunities to develop treatments for many diseases with unmet medical needs.
In addition to providing insights regarding selection of treatment, this blood test may also prove helpful in assessing the presence of residual disease, recurrence, or relapse and detection of therapy - resistant cancer cells more quickly than conventional tissue - based methods.
They hope to go still further and turn the stem cells into treatments for previously untreatable diseases.
By manipulating the function of certain immune cells, called T cells, researchers could help restore the system's balance and create new treatments to target these diseases.
«We hope that these cells can eventually lead to new treatments for glaucoma and other forms of optic nerve disease.»
Dr Leonardo Guasti added: «It represents an entirely new concept for the study of the adrenal gland as the ability to generate donor - specific and functional adrenal - like cells will facilitate the next generation of cell - based treatments for adrenal insufficiency, the modelling of adrenal specific diseases, and the testing of personalised interventions on cells derived from patients.»
Certain conditions affect one sex more than the other, he notes, so «if the genetics of a cell affects the progress of a disease, it might suggest specific causes or treatments for disease.»