Sentences with phrase «disease impact human»

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The fact is that collective human choices have resulted in a world of haves and have - nots — where the impact of natural disasters and disease will very much depend on where you are born in the world.

Because the food we consume directly impacts our health, it is important to note that an infant who develops a «taste» for salty, sweet and fatty foods over fruits and vegetables will have a greater risk for diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and some cancers according to Mennella's and Beauchamp's Flavor Perception in Human Infants article.

The author, a renowned researcher in this field for almost 50 years, addresses bacterial colonization of the newborn, protection against disease that is provided by breastfeeding, infectious agents in human milk and their impact on breastfeeding, and much more.

That's going to have a significant impact on human health, by reducing risk for many types of diseases and by promoting wellness.»

The stocks are helping the development of new countermeasures such as drugs, vaccines and diagnostics in case smallpox should reappear, and may also allow researchers to explore the impact of smallpox on the human immune system, providing insights into other diseases such as AIDS.

M.Y.: We are focused in my laboratory on doing experiments that ultimately will be able to have impact on human disease.

IN A rare instance of humans beating one of the impacts of climate change, measures to combat malaria appear to be neutralising the expected global increase of the disease driven by rising temperatures.

«Acute repeated spikes in blood sugar that you see with each dose of this drug have long - term impacts — and can predispose patients to the development of insulin - resistance Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease,» said David Wright, associate professor in the Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences and corresponding author of the paper.

Reductions in biodiversity from illegal wildlife trade can have other substantial negative human health impacts, including the loss of potential sources of pharmaceuticals, experimental models for studying disease, crop pollination and micronutrients for humans lacking alternative sources of protein.

«Healthy gut bacterial communities are known to benefit immune regulation, metabolism and potentially even the nervous system, so if cholera or other diarrheal diseases permanently impact the microbiota, there could be long - term effects on human health,» explains Regina LaRocque, MD, MPH, of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Division of Infectious Diseases, co-senior author of the paper.

Unseen by the human eye, plants interact with many species of fungi and other microbes in the surrounding environment, and these exchanges can impact the plant's health and tolerance to stressors such as drought or disease, as well as the global carbon cycle.

Under the next White House Administration, Holdren said, science - based challenges that will require sustained, robust investment include efforts to ensure safe and sustainable food, water, and energy for everyone, reduce greenhouse gases, minimize harm from climate change already underway, combat diseases such as Zika, defeat cancer, improve quality - of - life for those who are aging, prevent devastating asteroid impacts, and send humans into space «not just to visit, but to stay.»

«This study allowed us to utilize all our tools — and even though this virus does not appear to affect mammals, we are continuing to refine those tools so we can be better prepared for the next outbreak of disease that could have an impact on human health.»

«By understanding how seabirds can cope with high metabolic demands with no effect on longevity, we may learn how old humans can reduce their chance of being impacted by metabolic diseases.»

In recent years, researchers have discovered that the trillions of bacteria that reside in the gastrointestinal tract have an enormous impact on human health and disease.

The medical, humanitarian and economical impact of viral diseases is devastating to humans and livestock.

Increased frequencies of pest and disease outbreaks resulting from these changes may have additional negative effects on agricultural production and human well - being, with impacts projected to worsen.

«The mouse models don't recapitulate the human disease,» said Ravi Basavappa of the National Institutes of Health, which gave Fine one of its 12 Pioneer Awards for «unusually bold,» high - risk, and potentially high - impact research.

Human mobility is expected to continue to rise, creating a range of impacts, such as invasive species, drug resistance spread and disease pandemics.

«There are a range of metabolic diseases and other liver disorders where if you fix a mutated gene you might be really able to have an impact on human health,» Anderson says.

«The potential for chronic, low - dose exposure to impact and elicit human disease has only begun to be investigated,» he added.

«Estrogens perform important biological functions not only in sexual development and reproduction, but also in modulating many other processes impacting health and diseases in human and animals,» Beinhauer said.

We saw little evidence of coral disease or coral bleaching, and evidence of human impact was limited to some lost long lines at some of the sites.

A number of theories have been developed over the years to explain more recent extinctions such as those at the end of the last ice age, including human hunting, climate change, disease, and even a cosmic impact such as an asteroid or comet.

Many locals enjoy having the monkeys in the park, but wildlife officials are concerned about overpopulation caused by human feeding, the nonnative animals» ecological impact and the potential for interspecies disease transmission.

They add: «What is similar between now and then is the human genetic material, our genome, including ancient polymorphisms that were uncovered to predispose the carrier to the development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease... however, our ancient ancestors were certainly susceptible to many other conditions, such as infectious diseases, nutritional deprivation, and trauma, which often resulted in death at an early age, before atherosclerotic heart disease had a clinical impact.»

The start - up's mission is to understand the nature of human genetic variation and its impact on human disease (medical genomics) and treatment (pharmacogenomics).

«Cardiovascular disease presents such a huge impact on people's lives that we should leave no stone unturned in the search for the genes that cause heart attack,» says Cristen Willer, Ph.D., the senior author of the paper and an assistant professor of Internal Medicine, Human Genetics and Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics at the U-M Medical School.

More sensitive cultivation methods and precise 16S rRNA gene sequencing techniques have revealed that the human bladder hosts a significant microbiome and those diverse bacteria inside the bladder impact pediatric urologic diseases.

«This work in lower species of organisms does not have an impact on the understanding of the role of sirtuins in human health and disease.»

Disruption of the circadian rhythm carries human health impacts, including an increased risk of breast cancer, metabolic diseases such as type - 2 diabetes and mood disorders, he said.

During every recent human outbreak of the Ebola virus — which often causes victims to bleed to death — gorilla carcasses have turned up in nearby forests, but scientists were uncertain about the extent of the disease's impact.

This would have positive impacts on the treatment of circadian clock diseases, sleep problems and human health,» explains Fumika Hamada, PhD, Division of Pediatric Ophthalmology at Cincinnati Children's, one of the study's lead investigators.

Thus far, the impact of molecular genetics on human disease has been primarily to identify specifically which genes are implicated in specific diseases.

«Stem cell biology has become one of the most exciting and promising areas of research, with real impact on how we treat human disease,» said Gladstone President R. Sanders Williams, MD. «With its meetings and journals, ISSCR has developed a significant role in communicating and promoting groundbreaking advances in the field.

Our data suggest that certain presumed null alleles, although unable on their own to support basal transcription, may in fact have a substantial impact on disease outcome in compound heterozygous humans, as they do in mouse models.

Lipton went on to state, «It will be important to see if HIV / AIDS acts similarly on stem cells for other organs in the human body, as this may impact on the disease process as a whole.»

The Clinical Research Forum Board of Directors selected winners based on the degree of innovation and novelty involved in the advancement of science; contribution to the understanding of human disease and / or physiology; and potential impact upon the diagnosis, prevention and / or treatment of disease.

Thus, neural derivatives of disease - specific human pluripotent stem cells constitute a relevant biological resource for exploring the impact of adult - onset HD mutations of the HTT gene on the division of neural progenitors, with potential applications in HD drug discovery targeting HTT - dynein - p150Glued complex interactions.

Although of course there are a number of caveats since mice can be cured from cancer at higher rates, they don't suffer from some of our diseases, they are sensitive to being handled (if grabbing them can shorten their lifespan through stress, the mouse version of standard human medical care may do the same), so I guess that increases in maximum lifespan are indeed the only reliable indicator that an intervention is impacting age - related mortality.

Biography Dr. Wood is a disease ecologist interested in how parasites and pathogens respond to human impacts on the environment.

In other words, do human impacts on biodiversity increase the prevalence of diseases by eroding natural «checks and balances» on transmission or decrease prevalence when they remove the free - living biodiversity on which disease agents depend?

Her work showed that these proteins are increasingly found to affect diseases of high impact in human health, including autoimmune disorders, cancer and metabolic diseases.

The findings could impact how scientists use iPSCs to model human diseases, Steven Finkbeiner, associate director of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, who was not involved in the work, wrote in an email to The Scientist.

Health improvement (allowing to post - pone / escape the diseases and thus live, healthier / disease - free longer, but not above human MLSP of around 122 years; thus these therapies do not affect epigenetic aging whatsoever, they are degenerative aging problems not regular healthy aging problem (except OncoSENS - only when you Already Have Cancer - which cancer increases epigenetic aging, but cancer removal thus does not change anything / makes no difference about what happens in the other cells / about what happens in the normal epigenetic «aging» course in Normal non-cancerous healthy cells) Although there is not such thing as «healthy aging» all aging in «unhealthy» (as seen from elders who are «healthy enough» who show much damage), it's just «tolerable / liveable» enough (in terms of damage accumulating) that it does not affect their quality of life (enough yet), that is «healthy aging»: ApoptoSENS - Clearing Senescent Cells (this will have great impact to reduce diseases, the largest one, since it's all inflammation fueled by the inflammation secretory phenotype (SASP) of these senescent cells) AmyloSENS - Dissolving the Plaques (this will allow humans to evade Alzheimer's, Parkinsons and general brain degenerescence, allowing quite a boost; making people much more easily reach the big 100 - since the brain is causal to how long we live; keeping brain amyloid - free and keeping our memories / neuron sharp / means longer LongTerm Potentiation - means longer brain function means longer heavy brain mass (gray matter / white matter retention seen in «sharp - witted» Centenarians who show are younger brain for their age), and both are correlated to MLSP).

The CR Forum presents its annual Top Ten Clinical Research Achievement Awards to highlight outstanding research advances that involve both innovation and impact on human diseases.

The next phase in our scientific understanding of human health and disease is to decipher the molecular basis of cell and tissue circuits and the impact of genetic variations on these circuits.

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.

Leverages advanced technologies to investigate infectious diseases, human and other mammalian microbiomes, and their clinical impact.

UNLV is commemorating World AIDS Day this December by recognizing the efforts of professors across multiple disciplines who are investigating the disease from the smallest building blocks of human genomes to its cross-continental impact on various communities.