Sentences with phrase «good for studying this disease»

Stomnes, a postdoctoral researcher working with Philip Greenberg, M.D., and Sunil Hingorani, M.D., Ph.D., at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center at the University of Washington, has developed a mouse model of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma that is particularly good for studying this disease.

Not exact matches

Yet decades of studies have found that gluten - containing foods, such as whole wheat, rye and barley, are vital for good health, and are associated with a reduced risk of diabetes, heart disease, cancer and excess weight.

They point to several studies that show that there is a lack of cholesterol in the brains of Alzheimer's patients which is so vital for several functions, and also note that other studies show this cholesterol deficiency in dementia and Parkinson's disease as well.

Study Suggests a Little Wine May be Good for Your Kidneys: Moderate wine consumption could help keep the kidneys healthy, and may protect the heart in patients who already have kidney disease, according to new findings...

A higher - fat diet can help you lose weight and lower your risk for cardiovascular disease — according to one recent study, anyway — but to be honest, I fry my toast in pork fat, eat butter with wild abandon, and buy non-homogenized milk with the thickest creamline because it just tastes better.

Not so fast, suggests a small study of teens out of Scotland that found that high - intensity exercise may be better than endurance training for preventing cardiovascular disease because it can be done in less time.

A study by the Center for Disease Control found that maintaining a good humidity level between 43 % and 60 % assists in preventing germ movement, including the flu virus.

Well, that's fine for individual parents to do (although my own doctor just told me to STOP taking calcium supplements based on a recent study linking calcium supplementation to, I think, heart disease.)

The studies published from 2007 and on seem to show that introducing allergenic foods between 4 - 6 months of age may actually be better sooner rather than later and may provide protection against atopic disease (eczema or asthma for example).

Following the publication of a number of studies highlighting the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding, as well as the popularization of the «breast is best» mantra, the number of mothers who exclusively breastfeed their babies is rapidly growing, from 79 percent of new moms in 2011 to 81.1 percent in 2016, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

New York Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney is pushing for a federally funded study by the Centers for Disease Control to better understand the long - term health effects of exposure to PFOS and PFOA after many residents tested above the national average.

A far - reaching study conducted by scientists at Cincinnati Children's reports that the Epstein - Barr virus (EBV)-- best known for causing mononucleosis — also increases the risks for some people of developing seven other major diseases.

For researchers using mouse models to study a variety of cancers, including lymphoma, melanoma, breast, and prostate cancers as well as autoimmune and infectious diseases, the panel facilitates a highly sensitive and high - throughput investigation of biomarkers associated with disease progression.

Lennox studies how well, or how poorly, population cohorts comply with dietary guidelines and attempts to link eating patterns with cancer incidence, blood markers for heart diseases and diabetes, or body weight and blood pressure.

Patients with early - stage and advanced OA, RA or other inflammatory joint disease were recruited for the study alongside a control group of those with good skeletal health, with plasma and synovial fluid samples from both groups being analysed using mass spectrometry.

(A study currently under way in mice shows that phytic acid might be therapeutic for patients with Parkinson's disease as well.)

SAMHD1 isn't a molecular «good guy» or «bad guy» per se, but there are cases in which blocking its activity might thwart disease progression, said Li Wu, the study's senior author and a professor of veterinary biosciences and microbial infection and immunity in Ohio State's Center for Retrovirus Research.

«This study is important, in part because we now have a new xenograft model that will for the first time allow us to apply new biomarkers to better predict disease progression and test new therapeutics.»

Though this research focused on the form of the disease called Leber congenital amaurosis 2, or LCA2, the scientists and engineers involved in the study believe the technology holds promise for other forms of LCA as well as other inherited diseases that lead to severe vision loss or blindness.

«These findings build on previous studies into disproportionate rates of diabetes prevalence and hold important clues for efforts aimed at preventing diabetes and better managing the disease,» said Jane Bolin, JD, PhD, BSN, co-researcher and director of the Southwest Rural Health Research Center at Texas A&M.

The study, called the Bypass Surgery Versus Everolimus - Eluting Stent Implantation for Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease (BEST) trial, is one of only two randomized controlled trials to compare bypass to angioplasty since the introduction of everolimus - eluting stents, a new generation of drug - eluting stent.

«It's good to see this type of study advance, as we desperately need noninvasive and low - cost markers for Alzheimer's disease,» Hendrix says.

Yang said the study not only indicated which genes are affected by traumatic brain injury and linked to serious disease, but also might point to the genes that govern metabolism, cell communication and inflammation — which might make them the best targets for new treatments for brain disorders.

If further studies in humans prove successful, this research could have broad implications for the prevention of influenza and, by extension, as an approach for other infectious diseases as well.

Obama's presidential memorandum calls on scientific agencies, including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to study the causes of gun violence and how best to prevent it.

«It is expected that this study will lay the foundation for developing a new class of potent and effective cancer therapies and the development of reagents targeting epigenetic events in immune - mediated diseases as well as other epigenetically - influenced diseases,» said Alani, who also is chief of dermatology at Boston Medical Center.

When researchers study centenarians, people who live to be 100 or older — as Barzilai and his colleagues have been doing at Albert Einstein for more than a decade — they find that these well - aged individuals are certainly not immune to chronic diseases, but they get them later in life.

«However, studies have shown that HDL doesn't work as well in people at high risk for heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular diseases, and that the functional ability of HDL matters as much as its quantity,» said senior study author Montserrat Fitó, M.D., Ph.D., and coordinator of the Cardiovascular Risk and Nutrition Research Group at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute in Barcelona and at the Ciber of Physipathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBEROBN), Spain.

For the study, Dorevitch and colleagues estimated the number of recreational waterborne illnesses using data from two large epidemiological studies as well as reports of water - borne disease outbreaks from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CFor the study, Dorevitch and colleagues estimated the number of recreational waterborne illnesses using data from two large epidemiological studies as well as reports of water - borne disease outbreaks from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, disease outbreaks from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or Cfor Disease Control and Prevention, Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC.

«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.»

Enabled by cutting - edge technologies at GIS, I look forward to more studies in this area with a view to understanding the role of microbial communities in diseases, and eventually leading to better health outcomes for patients.»

«There are clearly molecular differences between African - American and Caucasian multiple myeloma cases, and it will be critical to pursue these observations to better improve clinical management of the disease for all patients,» said John D. Carpten, senior author of the study and chair of the Department of Translational Genomics at the Keck School of Medicine.

These results open the door for other studies based on checkpoint blockade to try and improve cure rates in the adjuvant setting of melanoma as well as other disease types.

That message, delivered in two studies published today, is both good news and bad news for researchers who hope to use so - called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) to study diseases and perhaps some day treat patients.

The physician - scientist may study the same properties of the same molecule but for a different reason: because he or she believes that those studies will provide information on the fundamental pathology of a disease or insight into human biology that will provide a better understanding of healthy versus diseased states.

«Our results, and methods, could have implications for the analysis of endogenous and exogeneous compounds in the exhaled breath as biomarkers of systemic and lung diseases, as well as in development of new approaches to study human exposure to airborne contamination.»

«Inflammation is associated with bone growth: A study using induced pluripotent stem cells suggests that a molecule for inflammation could be a good drug target to prevent diseased bone growth.»

Over time, patients end up providing a wealth of information to their health care providers, and when all our data are aggregated, they are also a boon to researchers studying trends in diseases and demographics for clues in how to better treat illness.

Studies of treatments for autoimmune and rare genetic diseases as well as for different forms of cancer are among those potentially affected.

«This gives us a good technological platform for developing advanced malaria - control strategies, based on genetically modified mosquitoes unable to transmit the disease, and for studying the biology of malaria parasites in their mosquito hosts.»

It's been well researched, by studies, by world organizations, by the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta, other organizations that have all unanimously come to the conclusion that consumption of pork is not a risk factor for transmission of influenza virus from swine to human.

«It's clear from these types of studies that the way we're keeping the lights on until late at night, the way in which society demands that we stay active for so much longer, could well be contributing to aspects of the metabolic disease we're seeing now,» says Steve Kay, a molecular geneticist at the University of California, San Diego.

With nearly one in 68 children in the U.S. diagnosed with autism, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Pineda and her colleagues hope the new study will motivate researchers to better define differences in development across the lifespan, including the neonatal period.

However, around that time my Mum was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and I became very interested in learning more about this disease and ways to treat it.In January 2002 I decided, after much thought, that I should change direction and study neuroscience, as the best thing I could do for MS patients is to work on a cure.

While trying to create better mouse strains for studying human diseases, she and other researchers may have inadvertently stumbled upon genes that render hybrids as dead ends.

Dr Simon Jones, Consultant in Paediatric Inherited Metabolic Disease at Saint Mary's Hospital, Manchester, who is leading the study explains: It's important for us to undertake research in rare diseases, like Sanfilippo Disease, so that we can provide these patients with the best possible care.

The authors will follow up the study with additional worldwide populations to better understand the mutations and these genes as a genetic marker for disease risk.

To illustrate how Zika fears were misplaced, and to offer one example for how the public - health community can use data to better understand future epidemics, the study compared other mosquito - borne diseases carried by the same mosquito that carries Zika, such as dengue virus.

Although it's still unknown exactly why DHA is able to prevent the onset of lupus, the researchers said this study provides scientists with a better model for looking at just how much DHA is needed to ward off the environmental trigger of the disease.

They say this latest study raises questions about whether treatments that decrease the frequency or severity of migraine may reduce later life vascular risks, and conclude by saying «what little evidence we do have suggests the need for therapeutic restraint [to prevent cardiovascular risk] until we have a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the link between migraine and vascular disease.»