Sentences with phrase «cured the disease in»

«There's a lot of grumbling, both in the general public and the scientific community, about how often we cure diseases in mice that never translates when we try those cures in humans,» says Felipe Sierra, director of the Division of Aging Biology at the National Institute on Aging.

Although most scientists at the meeting appear enthusiastic about conducting gene editing work to cure diseases in individual patients they remain more wary of making changes to eggs, sperm or embryos that would have lasting repercussions in future generations.

Current chemotherapy treatments cure the disease in fewer than 10 % of patients who have a FLT3 mutation — partly because toxic chemotherapy drugs can be used for only a few days at a time, not killing as many cancer cells as they might.

Inflammation Might Help Defeat Diabetes: Scientists have long tied diabetes to inflammtion — but a new study shows that an inflammatory protein can cure the disease in mice.

In lab tests the refurbished cells cured the disease in mice and in human blood.

Scientists have long tied diabetes to inflammtion — but a new study shows that an inflammatory protein can cure the disease in mice.

But there's new hope: The U.K. team running the trial reports this week that a safer formulation of the treatment can cure the disease in mice and should also work in people.

«Americans should be proud of and confident that their scientists will address the biomedical, bioethical, religious, and political challenges of treating and curing disease in creative ways.

And presumably you would see the disease in a dish, and that might allow you to actually look for medicines or drugs that you could treat the dish and cure the disease in a dish, and that might lead to new therapies for those patients.

8 The Burrs showed that the requirement was only 0.4 percent of calories when they used lard to cure the disease in growing rats and that the requirement was only 0.1 percent of calories when they used liver to cure it.7 Liver probably proved more effective than lard both because it is much richer in arachidonic acid and because it is rich in vitamin B6, which greatly enhances the conversion of linoleic acid to arachidonic acid.19

He concludes, irrationally of course, that Dr. Placebo has the ability to cure any disease in a single day.

Preventing and curing disease in companion animals also means protecting people's health because there are many pet diseases that can be transferred to humans (Emerging diseases and zoonoses).

The AKC Canine Health Foundation (CHF), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to prevent, treat and cure diseases in all dogs, announces that Dr. Edward Breitschwerdt, a specialist in veterinary internal medicine and infectious diseases at North Carolina State University (NCSU), is the recipient of its 2017 Asa Mays DVM Award for Excellence in Canine Health Research.

Not exact matches

You have said that when grunge hit, it was like being a doctor specializing in a disease they just found a cure for.

The technology's possibilities are staggering — in theory, allowing medical scientists to do everything from cure genetic disorders like sickle cell disease to identify gene targets for combating HIV.

In September, CZI committed $ 3 billion to help fund cures for all the diseases facing humanity by 2100 as part of Zuckerberg's promise to donate 99 percent of his Facebook shares (a $ 45 billion - value in September 2015 when he announced the pledgeIn September, CZI committed $ 3 billion to help fund cures for all the diseases facing humanity by 2100 as part of Zuckerberg's promise to donate 99 percent of his Facebook shares (a $ 45 billion - value in September 2015 when he announced the pledgein September 2015 when he announced the pledge).

Charities vary along many dimensions, and there's nothing wrongheaded about donating — even collectively donating lavishly — to help cure a disease that afflicts relatively few in a relatively tragic way.

Not to mention that advances in science and technology are ushering in a new era of medical research that will likely cure many diseases in the coming decade or two.

In September, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan promised to spend a whopping $ 3 billion of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's extensive capital over the next 10 years, as it works towards its lofty goal of curing, preventing or managing all diseases by the end of the century.

Under Frazier's leadership, Merck has been «plunging ahead» with tens of millions of dollars to find a drug that could slow or cure Alzheimer's disease, even as «most drugmakers» have halted research or at least scaled in back in the face of research setbacks, according to Fox News.

The memory - eating disease, expected to afflict 15 million Americans by 2060 (and tens of millions more around the world as life expectancy increases), has no cure; a new drug for the condition hasn't been approved in well over a decade; initially promising experimental treatments seem to be failing with clockwork regularity; and there's not even a definitive consensus on what, exactly, biopharma companies should focus on while developing Alzheimer's medicines.

But what's most resonant here is the message at the individual level — that the urge you feel to compete, to accomplish things in your life, be it curing disease or earning enough for that sports car, is a natural thing.

Crispr Therapeutics, which operates in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Zug, and London, says its mission is «to cure diseases at the molecular level.»

Now that the barrier of editing genes in the hospital setting has been broken, these companies and more have pipelines of gene - editing innovation coming to a hospital near you in the next few years, as clinical trials are approved and new ways to cure formerly incurable diseases go mainstream in our lifetimes.

Precision medicine is the «cure» piece, but even that isn't possible if we don't move the intervention curve closer and accurately predict and prevent early enough in the progression of disease.»

They see, day after day, that what they do makes a difference in the world, whether it's providing clothing to needy families or raising money to find a cure for a life - threatening disease.

Entrepreneurs, many responding to medical dilemmas in their own families, are developing new ways to manage, and perhaps eventually cure, chronic diseases.

«We got involved in biotech in the late 90's when two of our children were diagnosed with a rare genetic disease... at the time there was nothing,» said Crowley «So we really focused as parents initially on what could we do to help drive science to a cure.

Together with his physician wife, Priscilla Chan, he has become one of the world's most ambitious philanthropists, most recently pledging $ 3 billion to an initiative with an audacious goal: to cure, prevent, or make manageable all diseases in their children's lifetime.

«We did not reach the moon or split the atom or find treatments and cures for countless diseases by under - investing in basic research,» Pritzker said.

The key, he says, will be getting our scientific process to the point at which we can detect a disease, develop a test for it, and create a cure in a short amount of time.

The effort aims to «bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes — and give all of us access to the personalized information we need to keep ourselves and our families healthier,» Obama said at the time of the announcement in late January.

No one wants to pay anyone to develop the cure for no known disease or try to fund and launch a solution in search of a problem.

They cure diseases that killed our forebears in droves, and enable any number of medical procedures and treatments that we now take for granted.

Barely in his 30s he's already spent considerable sums giving back to cure diseases and help civilizations make better decisions across health care and education.

Since its foundation in 2005, the NYSCF has become a leader in using stem cell research and technology to find cures for a range of diseases, from heart disease and diabetes to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

Whilst we can't know the future of course, for financial planning purposes the probability is that life expectancy on average will increase in the future as medicine advances to cure or limit the big killers (cancer, cardiovascular disease etc).

Abeona Therapeutics Inc was founded back in 1974; this biopharmaceutical company develops methods of curing rare and life - threatening genetic diseases.

Another company has made real progress in the fight to cure Alzheimer's disease — while other cures fall by the wayside this company seems to be on the leading edge of technology.

Health care companies have also continued to expand their research and development efforts, resulting in innovative discoveries as well as cures and treatments for many diseases.

Case in point, the religious tries to halt stem cell research, which could mean that a cure for a disease that one of my kids develops might not be found.

In other words, it dispenses the disease for free, then sells you the cure...

how about if science hadn't sought cures for most of the disease in this world because «GOD CAN DO IT»?

And millions of Americans would not needlessly suffer and die from diseases tht he and Dubya blocked cures for in exchange for bloc voting.

I wasn't responding in general, I was specifically responding to Mike's post that there is no disease that birth control can cure (paraphrasing).

It can be cured with medicine, however many people in poorer countries do not get access to this medicine in time before the disease does permanent damage.

And Christian Scientists should up the ante in their war on medicine and make everyone know that everyone can cure disease like Jesus if they study study Mary Baker Eddy's book.

So, not a bad choice, but one might also pick one of the many cures to diseases that medical science has found in the face of religious opposition to medical science, religious propagation of erroneous information in the Christian bible about disease propagation, and many other science errors in the Christian bible.

At the Convocation, Pierre asserted that «the pastoral plan of the Holy Father in Evangelii gaudium is what God expects, and as one theologian recently said, «If you don't think Francis is the cure, you don't grasp the disease.

The more we understand what causes a disease the more hope we have of finding a cure or a way to prevent it, or in the best case scenario, of wiping it out as we did smallpox.