Sentences with phrase «developing human treatments»

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In seeking to develop a theology of nature, process theologians are supportive of endeavors to appropriate other images from the tradition, such as St. Francis» compassionate love for the poor and treatment of animals as sisters and brothers, the Orthodox view of the church as inclusive of all of creation, and the use of the elements of bread and wine in the Eucharist, products of the interworkings between God, the non-human natural world, and human labor, that speak, to contemporary needs.

If affirmed in human studies, the experiments could pave the way to new preventive approaches to stave off NEC in premature babies and spark the development of treatments for those who develop the condition.

According to the Human Rights Campaign, she voted against the repealing of «Don't Ask, Don't Tell» legislation, opposed legislation that would grant equal tax treatment for employer - provided health coverage for domestic partners, opposed legislation to grant same - sex partners of U.S. citizens and permanent residents the same immigration benefits of married couples and opposed legislation to permit state Medicaid programs to cover low - income, HIV - positive Americans before they develop AIDS.

When the human genome draft was announced 10 years ago, many researchers and policymakers anticipated using the newly sequenced code to develop a wealth of diagnostic and treatment capabilities.

«One of the broader goals of our research is to make regenerative treatments more accessible and clinically relevant by developing easy, efficient and cost - effective ways to engineer human cells and tissues,» said Shyni Varghese, a bioengineering professor at UC San Diego and senior author of the study.

«Further work in our lab will be aimed at understanding the detailed mechanism of how these proteins regulate editing, in turn providing an inroad to developing therapeutics that modulate editing for the treatment of human diseases.»

In an advance that could lead to new fertility treatments, researchers have coaxed immature human egg cells to fully develop in the lab for the first time.

Scientists want to be able to clone early human embryos, using cells from patients with various diseases, so they can study the diseases in the lab and develop new treatments for them.

Scientists at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute have identified natural human antibodies against the virus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), a step toward developing treatments for the newly emerging and often - fatal disease..

Chan believes that using transgenic primates would narrow the gap and allow researchers to develop more effective treatments for human diseases.

«Our work not only holds potential for developing cells for treatment of other areas of the eye, but could set the stage for future human clinical trials of anterior eye transplantation to restore visual function.»

Professor Hong Wanjin, Executive Director at IMCB, said, «IMCB is now focusing research on molecular mechanisms underlying diseases, which is important in developing future treatments for prevailing human diseases.

The first anti-EGFR antibody (cetuximab) for cancer treatment in human medicine was developed by the company Merck.

The report in Human Reproduction shows that while ICSI use has levelled off in some regions, its use is approaching 100 % of assisted reproduction cycles in the Middle East and a few countries in other regions, despite the fact that ICSI was developed for the treatment of male infertility, which is a factor in around 40 % of couples seeking fertility treatment [2].

But what's interesting, especially about that one, and that one [is a] piece written by Larry Greenemeier, was that, you know, all the popular science fiction treatments of that kind have it [suddenly] happening and conflict between humans but through Larry's reporting it seems more likely that we will see it coming; that machine self - awareness will occur in a certain kind of stepwise fashion where they're getting better at certain tasks; [that they'll be able to do] autonomous activities, and from there that you can actually see them develop, and it shouldn't come up as a big surprise as it if finally happens.

Researchers have developed a «global human metabolic network» that could pave the way for new treatments aimed at disorders like diabetes and high cholesterol

(Collins, an evangelical Christian, also explained how he reconciles his support for hESC research with his beliefs: Although he thinks the human embryo «deserves moral respect,» he balances that with the ethical benefits of using frozen embryos from fertility treatments that would otherwise be discarded to help develop treatments for patients.

To determine the most effective treatment options, the researchers systematically reviewed past human studies and guidelines to develop recommendations for the most appropriate joint treatment approaches for diabetes and osteoporosis.

An accidental discovery of a flatworm's color - changing ability could help develop treatments for porphyria, a disease that causes pain and light sensitivity in humans.

Therefore, it was critical to develop a human neural cell model to understand the neurodegenerative process of A-T and create a platform for testing new treatments.

If its safety in humans is confirmed, it will also reduce the cost of the treatment drastically, and this is a key element in reducing mortality rates in developing countries.

Italy's Minister of Health Beatrice Lorenzin announced yesterday that Stamina, the Turin - based nonprofit foundation that developed the treatment, will not be allowed to test it on humans — at least not in Italy.

Scientists working to develop new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases have been stymied by the inability to grow human motor neurons in the lab.

«The idea of this software is to take the routine tasks out of human hands, so scientists can focus on drawing conclusions and developing treatments.»

Further studies showed that its effects are modulated by a complex set of other factors, and leptin has yet to be developed into a widespread human treatment.

«If we could find human rheumatoid arthritis patients carrying a defect in degrading DNA in macrophages, a new treatment would be developed,» says Nagata.

Institute research findings, generated through its own research programmes and through its leading role in international consortia, are being used to develop new diagnostics and treatments for human disease.

Albert said that collaboration is an important part of researchers» efforts, and emphasized the urgency to develop treatments that can slow the effect of aging on the human brain.

Scientists have developed a new RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutic agent that safely blocked ocular inflammation in mice, potentially making it a new treatment for human uveitis and diabetic retinopathy.

The Zeng lab is making great progress on developing a stem cell - derived treatment for Parkinson's disease for testing in humans.

(2) Develop a dynamic map of the human brain that provides researchers, physicians, and engineers with the knowledge necessary to develop new treatments and technologies that will improve lives and reduce the costs of providing healtDevelop a dynamic map of the human brain that provides researchers, physicians, and engineers with the knowledge necessary to develop new treatments and technologies that will improve lives and reduce the costs of providing healtdevelop new treatments and technologies that will improve lives and reduce the costs of providing health care.

The group's objectives are focused on using neural progenies of human Pluripotent Stem (hPS) cells to understand and develop new treatments for Huntington Disease (HD).

The goal of the Program in Human Gene Therapy is to develop gene transfer technologies and use them for hepatic gene therapy for the treatment of genetic and acquired diseases.

Physicians and scientists of Weill Cornell Medical College are engaged in cutting - edge research from bench to bedside, aimed at unlocking mysteries of the human body in health and sickness and toward developing new treatments and prevention strategies.

One of the drugs I have developed is currently in Phase I human clinical trials for the treatment of dry AMD.

Research in animals is an important step in developing any new treatment, but we'll need to see the findings translated into clinical studies in people before we could know the potential of EPPS to treat Alzheimer's in humans.

Developing a human recombinant IL - 7 for the treatment of diseases that are caused by lymphopenia.

MGMGB investigators use the rich resources and technologies of the Human Genome Project to develop more sophisticated ways of understanding pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of disease.

In developing countries with no on - site or centralized sanitation facilities, no opportunity exists for any type of treatment, and human wastes go directly into surface waters, including the coastal ocean.

On this website you can learn about how zebrafish can help us understand human diseases and how to develop treatments for them.

Here at the Broad we combine human genetics, genetic and chemical screens, and population - based cohort studies to uncover the basic mechanisms of IBD, which may one day be used to develop effective treatments.

Dr. Huizing investigates rare human genetic disorders and associated intracellular processes in order to gain insight into the changes in molecular function that underlie various genetic metabolic disorders, with the hope of developing treatments for these illnesses.

Moreover, PHENONIM - ICS is involved in European projects presenting a strong impact on human health: Interreg CARDIOGENE (Genetic mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases), GENCODYS (Genetic and epigenetic networks involved in cognitive dysfunctions), AgedBrainSYSBIO (Basic studies of brain aging), as well as projects in partnership with industry: MAGenTA (an Industrial Strategic Innovation project supported by Bpifrance about the treatment of major urogenital diseases) and CanPathPro (H2020 program), to develop a predictive modeling platform of signaling pathways involved in cancers.

It's useful to help researchers understand the function of a gene at a specific time of life, but this particular technique is not being developed as a treatment for any human disease.

«Being able to fully develop human eggs in the lab could widen the scope of available fertility treatments,» explains Evelyn Telfer, lead on the research.

The challenge takes on even more urgency with recent developments, including a federal administration now more open to exploring the potential of stem cells, the recent FDA approval of a human trial involving embryonic stem cells, as well as the reported case of a young boy who developed a brain tumor four years after receiving a stem - cell treatment for a rare genetic disorder.

This legislation is notable because the Swiss Constitution broadly prohibits research using human embryos and even sets controls over the number of eggs that may be fertilized and developed outside a woman's body during fertility treatments.

By blending fundamental research with robust drug discovery, we are working to develop treatments that will improve human health.

My interests lie in leveraging the information hidden in large - scale omics data for better understanding of the mutational processes causing human cancer, for identifying potential cancer prevention strategies, and for developing novel approaches for targeted cancer treatment.

This quality is even more crucial for building model organs, because disease treatments developed from these models have to be safe and effective for humans.