Sentences with phrase «collection of human diseases»

Researchers have developed an array of mouse models to help scientists understand a whole collection of human diseases.

Not exact matches

They have the opportunity to be exposed to a wide variety of clinical and patient - oriented research, from Phase I, II, and III trials to collection of samples and clinical data used to identify genetic variation that leads to human disease.

BETHESDA, Md., Wed., Oct. 5, 2005 - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced contracts that will give researchers unprecedented access to two private collections of knockout mice, providing valuable models for the study of human disease and laying the groundwork for a public, genome - wide library of knockout mice.

Biomedcode is a Contract Research Organisation (CRO) providing full preclinical drug evaluation services to the pharmaceutical industry using a unique collection of mouse models of human inflammatory diseases.

Potential projects include identifying common pathways that modify retinal degenerative disease from a large collection of actively maintained mouse models; determining molecular networks implicated in pathological disruption of the retinal pigment epithelium; identifying molecular pathways that regulate postnatal ocular growth; and using mouse models to assess the pathogenic role of gene variants that increase the risk of age - related macular degeneration as identified by human genome - wide association studies.

That collection of organisms strongly influences human health by, for example, producing anti-inflammatory factors, inactivating drugs, and altering the course of disease.