The importance of collaboration when it comes to successful translation is undeniable, and yet partnerships between basic and
clinical researchers remain relatively uncommon.
Not exact matches
«Having the tools to probe the molecular mechanisms of the skin's response puts
researchers within closer reach to fully understanding the issue and finding answers to this tough
clinical problem,» said Dunbar, who conceived the research and
remains one of only a few lipidology
researchers working on this issue.
Treating disease by providing needed genes
remains a compelling idea, but
clinical and basic
researchers still have much to do before gene therapy can live up to its promise
However, many
researchers remain convinced that switching to measuring apoB would not provide enough benefit to outweigh the disruption to
clinical procedures that would result.
This feature would be critical for
clinical uses, such as transplanting stem cells — with their defects corrected — back into patients, but the
researchers emphasize that years of further study
remain before such treatments might be possible.
Researchers have also collected detailed
clinical records on psychiatric patients and the efficacy and side effects of available treatments, but the potentially valuable information within those records
remains largely untapped.
Researchers are quickly overcoming the hurdles to using iPSCs in human
clinical trials, though some issues still
remain to be addressed.
Clearly,
researchers are quickly overcoming the hurdles to using iPS cells in human
clinical trials, though issues still
remain to be addressed to ensure their safe use in regenerative medicine.
May 29, 1997 News from the cancer front: glass
remains half empty Despite 25 years of intense research and thousands of
clinical trials of promising new cancer therapies, there has been only scattered progress in treatment since President Richard Nixon declared the «War on Cancer» in December 1971, report two
researchers from the University of Chicago in a Special Article in the May 29, 1997, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Women with high levels of alpha - amylase — an indicator of stress measured in saliva — are 29 per cent less likely to get pregnant each month and twice as likely to meet the
clinical definition of infertility (
remaining not pregnant after 12 months of trying) than women with low levels,
researchers found.
Researchers further state that, «The great majority of the tumors
remain small and circumscribed and even from those few tumors that grow larger and become invasive OPCs only a minimal proportion will ever become a
clinical carcinoma» (6, p. 531).