Sentences with phrase «getting a better understanding of disease»

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Before we get started, it should be understood that this method can be used without artificial protection of any kind, such as condoms, so it's best for women who are in monogamous relationships where both partners have been tested and found to be clean for sexually transmitted diseases and infections.

«Or we could use it to study the gene networks in diseases and get a better understanding of how those diseases work.»

The new figures, however, will help public health experts better understand the spread of the disease, who is getting sick and what it will take to reverse the trend of infections.

«Now that we have a better understanding of how an animal is built we can get some way closer to knowing how the human body works in health and disease,» says John Sulston, director of the Sanger Centre at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridgeshire, England.

To get a better understanding of the clinical features of inherited and non-inherited forms of the disease, Andrew Biankin, MBBS, PhD, of the University of Glasgow, in Scotland, and his colleagues studied 766 patients who had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

By better understanding the limitations of genome - wide sequencing, Vogelstein notes, researchers and policymakers might be better able to direct funding and efforts to areas, such as Alzheimer's disease, where a person's genetic profile might have a very real effect on their likelihood of getting the disease.

When Robert Heimer, one of Dukhovlinova's Yale mentors, met her when she was a recently graduated master's student, she was «very desirous of getting more training, improving her English, working on her laboratory skills, but also developing a more well - rounded approach to understanding the problems associated with drug use in HIV disease,» he says.

The team is currently pursuing further studies of the impact of Part D cost - sharing policies in different disease areas, and hopes ultimately to get a better understanding not only of changes in drug access but also of the long range clinical outcomes and costs associated with any delays or interruptions in treatment.

«We wanted to get a better understanding of whether there are any common cell death or cell survival pathways that could be targeted in some of these diseases.»

The opportunity now is that we've entered into an era of molecular understanding of improved physics and optics, we have an opportunity to think about newer, better ways to detect the disease, to figure out which patients are getting worse or are at risk of getting worse, to catch patients before they've lost vision and give them treatments.

A new genetic discovery could help scientists understand exactly how one X chromosome in each cell of a female's body gets «silenced» — and perhaps lead to better treatment for X-linked diseases.

Then what we really realized is the roadblock wasn't necessarily the clinical understanding of why this is a better form of medicine, because I think most doctors intuit that they're not getting to the cause and that they need a different set of tools to work with chronic disease.

To get a better understanding of the relation between testosterone and cardiovascular health and disease, it is useful to look at studies that have investigated mechanisms underlying heart attack and stroke.

This allows us to better understand the progression of the disease and what works — and doesn't work — to help people get better.

When I think about the diagnostic tools (and understanding of feline diseases) that we had in the 1970s, it is amazing that any sick cats got well.