Sentences with phrase «develop different diseases»

Dogs just like people, can develop different diseases as they age.

Not exact matches

As the child develops, it may be exposed to different diseases such as myopia and hyperopia.

Since the first human brain organoids were created from stem cells in 2013, scientists have gotten them to form structures like those in the brains of fetuses, to sprout dozens of different kinds of brain cells, and to develop abnormalities like those causing neurological diseases such as Timothy syndrome.

«These findings suggest that a common therapy might be developed to help mitigate the effects of different neurodegenerative diseases of the central nervous system» explained corresponding author Adam Labadorf, PhD, Director of the BU Bioinformatics Hub.

In his role as researcher, he developed a potential drug to treat different types of immune diseases and was able to accompany the molecule through the next stages?something most scientists at pharmaceutical companies are not able to do.

The fish oil study examined a different question: In children at risk for type 1 (juvenile onset) diabetes, does the consumption of fish oil reduce their risk of developing early signs of the disease?

Developing cutting - edge products in the agricultural seed sector, where a constant need to protect crops from drought and disease requires multi-prong strategies, takes on a number of different flavors.

We can use this model to study how the skin barrier develops normally, how the barrier is impaired in different diseases and how we can stimulate its repair and recovery.»

Now, a team of scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed the Just EGFP Death - Inducing T - cell, or JEDI T - cells, which enable the visualization of T - cell antigens, allowing researchers to study T - cell interactions with different cell types, model disease states, and finally determine the functions of otherwise poorly characterized cell populations.

It's long been clear that people from different parts of the world differ in their susceptibility to developing infections as well as chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.

He is also developing a robust and comprehensive panel of 3 - D cell culture models from patient - derived primary cells that can be used to characterize different disease phenotypes and investigate the chemo - response of cells to novel or known drugs.

They suffered from different underlying diseases like a potential heart failure or a hidden obstructive lung disease that was developing,» says Nasser Ahmadi.

Because different groups of people encounter different diseases — the European settlers had high exposure to smallpox, measles, and influenza thanks to close contact with livestock — they develop different antibodies.

Because the individually tailored vaccine method is so different from mass - manufactured vaccines — those developed to combat infectious diseases such as smallpox — the search continues for a viable production model.

«Men and women have very different cardiovascular risk and diabetes risk, and male mice are most often studied because their risk for developing these diseases is higher,» says lead author Kanakadurga Singer, M.D., assistant professor in pediatrics at U-M's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.

Dartmouth researchers developed a new biological pathway - based computational model, called the Pathway - based Human Phenotype Network (PHPN), to identify underlying genetic connections between different diseases as reported in BioDataMining this week.

The monkey model has its own limitations: Monkeys don't develop severe disease when infected with different serotypes of dengue virus, which clearly happens in humans.

«In both studies, people who used a different class of medications to suppress stomach acid, known as H2 - blockers, did not have a higher risk of developing kidney disease,» said Dr. Lazarus.

«This long - term chronic disease can be developed in different ways, so achieving normal growth in lung function in early adulthood is an important factor in terms of future risk,» says Peter Lange, Consultant in Respiratory Medicine at Hvidovre Hospital and professor at the Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen.

They are generating β cells from those cell lines to look for differences that might explain how the different forms of the disease develop.

This similarity suggests that researchers should target the underlying process in the different varieties of the disease, he says, for example by developing a drug to prevent dystrophin from breaking down.

As scientists and manufacturers develop more tools to analyze metabolomics in more detail, we learn more about biological systems — how they function in healthy and disease states, as well as how they change over time and in different environments.

Maintaining the chronological age of these cells is vital when studying neurodegenerative diseases that develop in people at different ages and worsen over decades.

Dr. Grover and his colleagues used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (from years 2003 to 2010) to develop a model that estimates the annual risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease in adults with different body weights.

The panel concluded, among other things, that yoghurt and cheese have a different and more beneficial effect on bone health, body weight, the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases, than would be expected on the basis of their saturated fat and calcium content.

«Because soil bacteria need many thousands of years to develop new antibiotics, the bacteria in that community don't encounter these threats anywhere near as often as disease - causing bacteria, which we regularly treat with different antibiotics.»

The causes of type 1 diabetes appear to be much different than those for type 2 diabetes though the exact mechanisms for developing both diseases are unknown.

Hoping to develop a treatment that works more broadly across diseases, a Penn Vet team used canine disease models to closely examine how retinal gene activity varied during the progression of three different forms of inherited vision disease.

«Thanks to work by Lorenz and others, we can now generate 50 different cell types, which could be used to develop new therapies or create powerful disease models.

Firstly, it will develop optimised viral vectors suitable for expressing antigens from a range of different diseases, to create novel vaccines.

By studying specific mutations, researchers can determine how each one contributes to cardiomyopathy, with the goal of identifying and developing drugs that treat the different variants of the disease.

«Our goal at QBI is to help make precision medicine a reality by using quantitative research tools to understand the underlying biology behind different disease states, and then to use that knowledge to develop novel diagnostics and therapies and put them into the hands of clinicians,» said Krogan.

Ideally, with the new quantitative tools being developed at QBI, we will be able to differentiate different disease states into different subcategories as well as determine that patient A should get treatment X, while patient B should get treatment Y.

Moreover, causal situations may be different for different individuals - while one person may develop schizophrenia due to a strong family history of mental illness, someone else with much less genetic vulnerability may also develop the disease due to a significant pre-natal or environmental stressor during their lives.

Finding and studying the different mechanisms by which some genetic variations prevent malaria could help us develop vaccines and treatments for the disease.

'' Managing systemic diseases like HLB is a difficult challenge that has faced plant pathologists for many years,» said Johnson «It is a privilege to work with an excellent team of researchers from many different disciplines with the goal of developing new tools that are both effective and safe.»

They provide opportunities to study many different diseases and conditions — such as heart disease, diabetes, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury — and to develop new methods for diagnosis and therapy.

While we know that other donor characteristics can influence the risk of the patient developing Graft versus Host disease or other complications, more research is needed to determine how important different donor factors are on outcomes other than patient survival.»

In August, a group of investors led by Fidelity Investments and a fund backed by Bill Gates poured $ 120 million into Editas Medicine, the Cambridge - based biotech start - up that is using CRISPR techniques to develop cures for more than 5,000 different genetic diseases.

The idea behind a â $ œHuman Vaccine Projectâ $ is to combine efforts at developing vaccines for major (but very different) diseases such as influenza, dengue, HIV, hepatitis C, tuberculosis and malaria, with the rationale that what scientists working on those diseases have in common is the Ray Ban outlet challenge of working with the human immune system.

Research Focus: I dedicate my time and effort to develop high - throughput sequencing technologies such as single cell transcriptomic, ChIP - Seq, ChIA - PET, and many more... The scientific rational is to understand better and with a different angle, the mechanisms of epigenetic regulation of gene expression in (rare) immune cells, pathologically relevant in many diseases such as asthma, SLE, tuberculosis...

Future work will also focus on developing methods for collecting data from multiple sources to construct integrated maps of the many different factors that determine disease transmission and the emergence and spread of resistance, such as epidemiological and ecological data.

This is because there are so many ways to develop the disease, and many different pathways are altered in this cancer,» said Meyerson, who is also a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School and the Dana - Farber Cancer Institute.

Because different tissue antigens are targeted in different diseases, and some conditions target a diverse array of autoantigens, it is challenging to develop biomarkers of tolerance.

Then for postdoctoral research I moved to Yale University, where I worked in a lab that looked at all kinds of different disease areas using the approaches of a field called chemical biology, which is using small molecules — chemicals — to probe biological systems in the hopes of developing compounds that could be new drugs.

By letting DNA strands grow together with gold, scientists at Uppsala Berzelii Centre for Neurodiagnostics and Science for Life Laboratory have developed a brand new concept for super sensitive diagnostics of different diseases.

There are at least 265 different genes in which mutations can cause blindness; breakthroughs in gene therapy are allowing scientists to develop treatments for diseases that were previously untreatable, giving hope to millions.

The researchers examined 92 studies across four continents and 16 different countries, including the US, UK, France, Australia and Sweden.10 per cent of people with SMI had cardiovascular disease, with rates slightly higher in schizophrenia (11.8 per cent) and depression (11.7 per cent) than bipolar disorder (8.4 per cent), with a substantially increased risk for developing cardiovascular disease over time.

adapt computer hardware or software for medical science or health care applications (for example, develop expert systems that assist in diagnosing diseases, medical imaging systems, models of different aspects of human physiology or medical data management)

The long - term objective is to develop therapeutic drugs to treat different immune diseases through collaboration with scientists in biotechnology companies.