Sentences with phrase «find use in therapies»

The act of reprogramming cells to make them as capable as ones from embryos apparently can result in aberrant cells that age and die abnormally, suggesting there is a long way to go to prove such cells are really like embryonic stem cells and can find use in therapies.

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Birds, for example, can regenerate hair cells — and lately researchers have found a few similar effects in mammals that used gene and drug therapy.

The findings suggest that the therapies aren't used quite like how they're approved by the FDA, which could make a difference in how the treatments pan out.

It also uses cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to help identify the best therapy for those fighting addiction, assists them in finding doctors to prescribe anti-opioid medication, and checks in with them between appointments with addiction counselors.

Editas, a startup based in Cambridge and founded in November 2013, wants to eventually use the technology to treat disease by coming up with therapies that can modify faulty disease - causing genes.

I came across these developing mainstream medical research programs using adult stem cell therapy for MS.. It looks interesting and promising, so I wanted to share in case you haven't seen it: These were the links I found:

To be effective and reduce recurrence of cancer in the prostate, researchers found that prescribing PARP inhibitors, a drug commonly used in breast cancer, alongside anti-hormone therapy treatment may benefit men with prostate cancer.

The finding is far from definitive evidence of safety, but it's some of the first published animal research supporting the use of this type of RNA as long - term therapy in diseases like methylmalonic acidemia (MMA).

In January 2012, a six - year follow - up study of 787 adults who had recently quit smoking found that those who used nicotine replacement therapy in the form of a patch, gum, inhaler or nasal spray had the same long - term relapse rate as those who did not use the productIn January 2012, a six - year follow - up study of 787 adults who had recently quit smoking found that those who used nicotine replacement therapy in the form of a patch, gum, inhaler or nasal spray had the same long - term relapse rate as those who did not use the productin the form of a patch, gum, inhaler or nasal spray had the same long - term relapse rate as those who did not use the products.

Dr. Zubair, medical and scientific director of the Cell Therapy Laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Florida, says the experiment will be the first one Mayo Clinic has conducted in space and the first to use these human stem cells, which are found in bone marrow.

«We were hoping to find targets we can use for therapy and we were also trying to figure out molecular differences in different types of epilepsy.

The researchers found a set of frequently mutated genes in SBAs that could be helpful to clinicians when they are looking to use targeted therapies that work best in cancers with specifics mutations.

DePuy combed the industry for already approved therapies with similar properties — and found a soft - tissue reinforcement patch already used in hernia repairs made from bovine heart tissue.

Study shows memories formed by the same gene - silencing tool used in embryonic development; a finding could set the stage for new therapies for schizophrenia

The findings could have implications for the use of radiation therapy in the future.

Muotri said the findings show it is possible to more effectively stratify ASD individuals for clinical trials by identifying persons who are likely to be more responsive to specific therapies using their «mini-brains» in a dish.

This finding led the researchers to assume that in the future it may be possible for Oxytocin to be used as a psychobiological treatment option in couple therapy as it may increase positive communication behaviors among partners, particularly among couples where the husband suffers from PTSD, and thereby it may improve the quality of the couple's marriage — which is often impaired by the disorder.

«We hope that the findings of this review will encourage health care providers in medical settings to seriously consider the use of music therapy in the psychosocial care of people with cancer,» Bradt said.

We have found that exosomes and the cargo they contain are crucial mediators of stem cell - based heart regeneration, and we believe this might lead to an even more refined therapy using the «active ingredient» instead of the entire stem cell,» said Eduardo Marbán, MD, PhD, director of the Cedars - Sinai Heart Institute and a pioneer in developing investigational cardiac stem cell treatments.

«Use of testosterone replacement therapy in healthy men does not increase risk of heart attack or stroke, new study finds.»

«In treating insomnia and other behavioral sleep issues, I have found that there is no substitute for cognitive behavioral therapy; yet, it is still unclear how to best use such therapy for children with ASD who struggle with communication.»

It will most likely be some time before these new findings, which are freely available, are put to use in approved therapies.

«The finding from this observational study that women who underwent menopause at a later age and used oral hormone therapy had greater hearing loss was unexpected but should lead to more testing in a randomized, clinical trial,» says Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, NAMS executive director.

Thus, finding new targets for drugs already in use to treat other diseases, in other words drug repurposing, is an emerging area in developing anti-cancer therapies.

And, in fact, these doctors and researchers are finding incredible success with this strategy; for example, PD - 1 inhibitors remove this «cloak» that cancers use to hide from the immune system, and CAR - T cell therapies use specially engineered T - cells to seek cancer - specific proteins and destroy the cancer cells to which they are attached.

It uses a virus already approved by the Food & Drug Administration for other genetic therapies in the eye; it delivers an ion channel gene similar to one normally found in humans, unlike others that employ genes from other species; and it can easily be reversed or adjusted by supplying new chemical photoswitches.

In a 2001 study sociologist Ronald C. Kessler of Harvard Medical School and his associates found that more than half of people with panic attacks or severe depression used some form of alternative therapy, including herbs, during the previous year, usually without medical supervision.

Then they expose these mutated yeast cells to a whole range of chemical compounds used in cancer therapy to find which ones will kill them.

The study, published in the Journal of Gambling Studies, found that the effectiveness ofGambers Anonymous needs to be studied further, but appeared to show better rates of abstinence, improved gambling symptoms and better quality of life, especially when used in conjunction with other approaches, such as stress management intervention and cognitive behavioural therapy.

The findings, published online August 17 in Tobacco Control, suggest that the primary effect of varenicline (marketed as Chantix) has been to displace the use of older tobacco addiction therapies, such as nicotine patches and the antidepressant, bupropion (Zyban).

While there was some loss in newly formed spongy bone, the researchers found that this could be remedied by using the sclerostin antibody in combination with other therapies.

Researchers found the gene therapy approach had stronger results when used in combination with either depletion of immunosuppressive cells from the tumor mass or with immune checkpoint blockade.

The findings suggest it may be possible to reduce the rate of HIV infection among babies in poor countries with an inexpensive version of the more elaborate AZT therapy currently used in the United States and Europe.

Their findings could help to improve breast cancer prevention by targeting these specific biological mechanisms with cancer therapies in at risk patients and potentially lead the way for a new strategy for the use of preventative treatments.

The research team found that when a particular mitochondrial fission protein (GTPase dynamin - related protein - 1 — Drp1) was blocked using either gene - therapy or a chemical approach in experimental models of PD in mice, it reduced both cell death and the deficits in dopamine release — effectively reversing the PD process.

It might be possible, in future, to use biomarkers to define patient subgroups and treat them with customised cancer therapy or to find new treatment options as an alternative to surgery.

In addition to determining that humans use chemosignals to attract one another, the findings could one day be used to create new therapies to correct hormone imbalances — most notably alternatives to cortisol replacement, which is used in treat maladies such as Addison's disease (in which the adrenal glands fail to pump out enough cortisol, causing muscle weakness, weight loss and low blood pressureIn addition to determining that humans use chemosignals to attract one another, the findings could one day be used to create new therapies to correct hormone imbalances — most notably alternatives to cortisol replacement, which is used in treat maladies such as Addison's disease (in which the adrenal glands fail to pump out enough cortisol, causing muscle weakness, weight loss and low blood pressurein treat maladies such as Addison's disease (in which the adrenal glands fail to pump out enough cortisol, causing muscle weakness, weight loss and low blood pressurein which the adrenal glands fail to pump out enough cortisol, causing muscle weakness, weight loss and low blood pressure).

Women who use postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may be at increased risk of acute pancreatitis, found a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

While the researchers can not yet point to a potential therapeutic application of their findings, identifying genetic changes that underlie MND is the first step in finding ways to manipulate these changes using gene therapy.

With these findings, Helmholtz Zentrum München scientists have discovered key molecular functions of stem cell differentiation which could be used for beta cell replacement therapy in diabetes.

They found studies using gene therapy to promote the growth of «almost every different tissue» for use in regenerative surgery.

The finding suggests that the drug — methylnaltrexone, approved for use by the United States Food and Drug Administration in 2008 to treat opioid - induced constipation — could play a role in cancer therapy.

Now, researchers have found a clever way of using these implants to deliver new genes right into the ear — a therapy that, in guinea pigs, dramatically improves hearing.

«These findings suggest that BES may thus be used as a strategy to improve cell survival and prevent cell apoptosis in stem cell - based transplantation therapies,» Fan explained.

Using patient tissues obtained directly from operating rooms, the researchers found that the cells began to adapt to and resist therapies that target the growth pathway called mTOR in as little as 48 hours.

We will need to carry out further studies with larger sample sizes to confirm the current findings, but we hope that, used in conjunction with medication and current psychological therapies, this could help people with schizophrenia minimise the impact of their illness on everyday life.»

These findings, which will be published online Aug. 18 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could help identify important brain circuits involved in stroke recovery and usher in new clinical therapies for stroke, including the placement of electrical brain - stimulating devices similar to those used for treating Parkinson's disease, chronic pain and epilepsy.

Researchers at Norris Cotton Cancer Center have found an antibody that may be used in future treatments for recurrent small - cell lung cancer, which currently has no effective therapy.

In laboratory tests using rodents, White and his colleagues found that while morphine lost its pain - relieving effectiveness three weeks after nerve injury, a combination therapy of morphine and carbamazepine — used to prevent epileptic seizures — could effectively reverse this loss of drug action.

John Rossi, a molecular geneticist at the City of Hope in Duarte, California, says the findings open the door for using microRNA - based therapies in people.