Sentences with phrase «from neurological diseases»

The lab work, meanwhile, has gotten more and more reductive over the years, as my lab now does gene therapy to try to save neurons from neurological diseases.

That study came up with some surprising evidence of how olive oil protects the brain from neurological diseases, including Alzheimer's.

«We need to understand the impact of factors that complicate recovery of function from neurological diseases, including fatigue, immobilization, aging and cognitive deficits,» Dr. Yue noted.

Understanding this neural code could help improve the lives of people with paralysis or with motor deficits from neurological diseases such as a stroke.

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Specifically, they had a «reduced risk of death from heart disease, stroke, diabetes, neurological diseases and suicide, although not from cancer.»

At the Chan Zuckerberg BioHub, efforts will center on creating tools that can help find cures for the four major diseases from which humans die: heart disease, infectious diseases, cancer and neurological disease.

Kathleen Taylor, a nerologist from Oxford, says that advances in neurological imaging may enable doctors and scientists to treat religious fundamentalism as a disease.

People were claiming that virgin coconut oil was healing many of their diseases, from diabetes, to antibiotic resistant pathogens, to heart disease, to thyroid diseases, to digestive diseases, to fungal infections like Candida, to neurological diseases like Alzheimer's: people were reporting tremendous health improvement and even cures to these diseases.

We feel that childhood vaccinations, starting with the Hepatitis B vaccination given to newborns is the primary reason that so many children are currently suffering from chronic disease (diabetes & asthma), cancer, autoimmune diseases and neurological issues (e.g. attention disorders).

Two congressional representatives from New York introduced bipartisan legislation Thursday to rename a post office after former Congressman Maurice Hinchey, who died in November after a battle with a rare, neurological disease.

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.

AveXis, Inc., a clinical - stage gene therapy company developing treatments for patients suffering from rare and life - threatening neurological genetic diseases, announced in July 2016 that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation for the treatment based on preliminary clinical results from the trial of AVXS - 101.

In the most famous example of cannibalism - related disease transmission, the Fore people of New Guinea were nearly driven to extinction as a result of their ritualized consumption of brains and other tissues cut from the bodies of their deceased kin — kin who had been infected by kuru, an incurable and highly transmissible neurological disease.

Saxena's findings are corroborated by a recent study from the University of Iowa, involving a group of people who had suffered lesions in various parts of their brains as a result of strokes or other neurological diseases.

Modern living could be responsible for an «almost epidemic» increase in neurological brain disease, according to new research from Bournemouth University.

The scientists compared that tissue with brain tissue samples from three young amateur American football players and a professional wrestler, all of whom had a history of repetitive concussive injury, and with four samples from comparably aged control subjects with no history of blast exposure, concussive injury or neurological disease.

In a draft of the health impact assessment released in February 2011, the School of Public Health researchers concluded that without pollution control measures, emissions from drilling would likely be high enough to cause disease in Battlement Mesa, including respiratory and neurological problems, birth defects and cancer.

Using tissue samples from five wild Amur tigers that died or were destroyed due to neurological disease in 2001, 2004, or 2010, McAloose and her colleagues proved that infection with CDV, a type of morbillivirus, is to blame for the deaths of two of the tigers and caused a serious infection in a third.

The latter infect vertebrates ranging from gibbon apes to koala bears to reptiles to domestic cats and are known to cause leukemia, as well as neurological disease.

The guidelines provide parameters regarding when clinicians should consider the possibility of ventriculitis (inflammation of the ventricles in the brain) or meningitis (inflammation of the lining of the brain or spinal cord) in patients who have cerebrospinal fluid shunts and drains (devices placed in the brain to relieve pressure due to fluid buildup), intrathecal drug pumps (for administration of pain medicine or other drugs into the spinal canal), deep brain stimulation hardware (medical devices that provide electrostimulation in the brain to treat Parkinson's disease or other neurological symptoms) or who have undergone neurosurgery or suffered from head trauma.

That such vessels could have escaped detection when the lymphatic system has been so thoroughly mapped throughout the body is surprising on its own, but the true significance of the discovery lies in the effects it could have on the study and treatment of neurological diseases ranging from autism to Alzheimer's disease to multiple sclerosis.

You report on the growing number of people from the UK, especially those with neurological diseases, going to clinics in Switzerland to end their lives (23 August, p 7).

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And there's an enormous array of other neurological diseases, from autism to multiple sclerosis, that must be reconsidered in light of the presence of something science insisted did not exist.

Over the next 20 years, wearables, and analytics derived from them, can dramatically reduce psychiatric and neurological disease.»

Our hope, however, is that ketone ester supplementation will also hold benefits for people who are suffering from debilitating metabolic and neurological diseases by improving energy availability,» said Andrew J. Murray, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, in Cambridge, England.

«The parts of the human genome linked to complex diseases such as heart disease, cancer and neurological disorders can often be far away from the genes they regulate, so it can be dificult to figure out which gene is being affected and ultimately causing the disease.»

Researchers from Kent State University's College of Arts and Sciences, along with colleagues from the George Washington University, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Georgia State University, Barrow Neurological Institute and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, found that the brains of aged chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, show pathology similar to the human Alzheimer's disease brain.

Now, a new study from NYU Langone Medical Center may provide hope for symptomatic relief for some of the cognitive issues associated with the neurological disease.

Inserting genes into brain cells may one day offer doctors a way to slow, or even reverse, the damage from degenerative neurological disease

Of the 611 people from 31 countries who made the trip between 2008 and 2012, 47 per cent gave neurological diseases as the reason.

While many infected individuals have no symptoms, others — particularly the very young and older adults — can develop severe neurological problems and even die from the disease.

The bloom, which is caused by nitrogen runoff from farm fertilizer, contains a cyanobacteria toxin that may be linked to neurological diseases.

Mobile DNA molecules that jump from one location in the genome to another may contribute to neurological diseases and could have subtle influences on normal brain function and behavior, according to a study published October 30 in Nature.

Since the use of organophosphate pesticides is widespread around the world, and growing evidence indicates a link between these pesticides and disorders such as Parkinson's disease, Baas said that a deeper investigation of low - level OP exposure is critical for preventing and treating neurological conditions arising from such exposures, in addition to Gulf War Illness.

So far, research has focused mainly on how signals from the gut can affect neurological functions, including some neurodegenerative diseases.

They used state - of - the - art DNA sequencing technology to screen for retrotransposons in tissue samples taken postmortem from three individuals who were healthy when alive and had no neurological disease or signs of abnormality in their brain tissue.

Asst Prof Li, from the Neural Stem Cells Laboratory at NNI, added, «This important study suggests a link between a key neurological disease gene and regulation of microRNAs in the brain.

For example, α - synuclein, a protein that has been linked to Parkinson disease and other neurodegenerative disorders, helps assemble the fusion apparatus and protects animals from age - related neurological problems.

Lloyd Greene, PhD, Pathology & Cell Biology, will receive $ 1,956,935 over five years from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for «Neuron Death in Parkinson's Disease: The Role of Trib3» in a competitive renewal.

«Cells have developed a really elegant way to maintain homeostasis and protect themselves from faulty proteins,» says senior author Steve Finkbeiner, MD, PhD, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease.

To test their findings, the researchers inoculated transgenic mice with prions from sheep with scrapie, another prion disease causing neurological damage, and determined that these prions have dramatically different biological properties.

But now it may be possible to take cells from someone with a neurological disease, for example, make them into iPS cells and then, treating them with chemicals and proteins that encourage the cells to differentiate, coax them into becoming neurons.

Strategically located adjacent to UCSF's renowned Mission Bay biomedical research campus, the new medical center places UCSF physicians in close proximity to UCSF researchers and nearby bioscience companies who are working to understand and treat a range of diseases, from cancer to neurological disorders.

Researchers have managed to successfully culture stem cells from children with a specific neurological disease in the lab

Researchers have produced knockout mice with characteristics similar to humans suffering from a wide range of disorders, including cancer, heart disease, neurological disorders and even obesity.

Many of our neurologists are supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health for their basic research work on various neurological diseases, including Parkinson's disease, stroke, multiple sclerosis, ALS, and peripheral neuropathy.

Researchers from the Boyce Thompson Institute and John Hopkins University found that aspirin component, salicylic acid, may help enhance treatments for neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's disease.

It will strengthen Ireland's ability to attract foreign direct investment from companies active in the multi-trillion euro global market for diagnostics, treatments and medtech for neurological diseases, and facilitate indigenous companies seeking to access this market.

He has developed novel cellular models of neurological diseases (schizophrenia, MS, autism, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's) using human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived from donor patients and differentiated to specific neuronal cell types.