Sentences with phrase «diseases are dormant»

Unfortunately, genetic diseases are dormant things waiting for an opportunity to show up.

Not exact matches

There's time to consider whether bringing back ancient animals might cause them to suffer, release dormant diseases or harm today's already struggling species and ecosystems.

Gene - activating CRISPR / Cas9, known as CRISPRa, could be used to turn on dormant genes for treating a variety of diseases.

«Because the bacterium that causes TB can lie dormant in someone's lung for months or even years before it causes disease, we had no way of knowing whether a TB case we have just diagnosed was a recent infection — suggesting the outbreak is still going on — or whether the person was infected years ago.»

Since undocumented immigrants are difficult to track, officials have a hard time measuring and treating infected individuals, especially for diseases like Chagas that can remain dormant for years.

The research suggests that the genetic seeds of cancer can sit dormant in a person's lungs for decades, providing hope that the disease could be detected early.

It's an event of the sort many scientists have warned about: Warming temperatures reviving dormant diseases, perhaps even pathogens long - thought extinct.

Then there's the potential for zombie diseases, dormant for millennia, to see new life, and for the melting of glaciers to raise sea level.

I think we all agree that we over treat prostate cancer in this country compared to what you see in Europe with similar outcomes and so but I think this is where the human or the Cancer Genome Project or at least better biomarkers for looking at mutations that we already know occur in these diseases I think hopefully within the next few years every single patient who is diagnosed with prostate cancer those biopsies will be characterized and then the patients followed, hopefully watchful waiting and we'll ultimately get a correlation between what mutational events predict a rather dormant disease as opposed to a very aggressive disease.

Dormant tumor cells in a hypoxic bone marrow niche (19) will be enriched for CSC in ER - α — positive breast cancer but depleted in ER - α — negative cancers profoundly influencing the capacity for late disease recurrence.

«What this study explores and similar studies are exploring is whether there are potentially infectious causes that result in prostate cancer going from a relatively dormant disease to one that's clinically significant,» says Dr. Albertsen.

Your gallbladder's a «use it or lose it» organ and if you're eating low - fat or poor quality fat, your gallbladder goes a little dormant or may actually start showing signs of disease.

It is a common virus and may lie dormant for long periods of time, then re-activate during a period of stress, which can result in clinical disease.

It is a common virus and may lie dormant for long periods of time and re-activate during a period of stress, which can result in clinical disease.

Because both diseases can lay dormant for years before causing medical problems, testing for both viruses is commonly recommended in any sick cat, regardless of the previous testing.