Sentences with phrase «help human patients»

«Our canine companions are not only man's best friend, but our study shows that dogs also can help human patients pursue battles against various types of cancer,» says Jeffrey Trent, Translational Genomics Research Institute president and research director and the study's senior author, in a release about the study.

Vetmed.tamu.edu: «Research Offers Hope for Spinal Cord Injuries: How a Clinical Trial in Dogs May Help Human Patients.»

Scientists at the Hopkins School of Medicine's Center for Sensory Biology now have a greater understanding of the workings of the fruit fly's eye, an understanding that may one day help human patients suffering from degenerative diseases of the retina.

The results indicate that a similar treatment may have potential to help human patients, Shi said.

«I really hope,» she says, «that our studies will one day translate into helping human patients with dementia.»

Not exact matches

So far, Inovio has made the most progress with a so - called therapeutic vaccine — one that helps defeat a disease even after a patient has been diagnosed — for human papilloma virus, or HPV.

He has helped the patient to «adjust himself to life,» but in either case he has helped a human being to fit into a pattern of human life without giving him any clue as to whether it is the right pattern.

At 10:30 a.m., U.S. Senate Minority Leader U.S. Chuck Schumer will urge the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to increase research, vaccine development and treatment strategies to help stamp out tick - borne diseases like Lyme disease, Albany Medical Center, B Entry, Patient Pavilion, Floor E, corner of Myrtle Avenue and New Scotland Avenue, Albany.

The UI study, which was published March 28 online in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, adds to the accumulating evidence, including recent human studies from Harvard University, that suggests cerebellar stimulation might help improve cognitive problems in patients with schizophrenia.

Nonetheless, if the results translate from mice to humans, they could help inform strategies to prevent secondary infection in patients experiencing sepsis.

Another way Simon and his colleagues are trying to help patients more immediately is through extensive testing of existing drug compounds that have already been assessed for human safety.

There have been a number of human clinical trials using an alternative gene - editing technique, including one led by June, that have helped patients combat HIV.

The findings may one day help researchers create better skin transplants for human patients with severe burns or skin diseases.

Abba Zubair, M.D., Ph.D, believes that cells grown in the International Space Station (ISS) could help patients recover from a stroke, and that it may even be possible to generate human tissues and organs in space.

Overuse of drugs on human patients and farm animals has helped fuel the rise of such drug resistance.

«This method opens a window into OCD patients» brains to help us see how responsive they will be to treatment,» said Dr. Jamie Feusner, a clinical neuroscientist at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and the study's senior author.

When a physican needs help diagnosing or treating a patient they open the Human Dx smartphone app or visit the project's Web page and type in their clinical question as well as their working diagnosis.

Human tumor cells (red) growing in a zebrafish embryo may help doctors choose how to treat cancer patients.

They have tested the system — which could also help patients who suffer from severe epileptic seizures — in rats and are now planning to begin human trials.

This biological dynamo could help unlock understanding of basic human biology and also help patients in need of medical care.

«Next steps are to further explore this possibility in human trials in order to assess if it will help patients, but these two drugs make sense from a variety of studies and we find that they act together through multiple mechanisms to control cancer growth in the laboratory.»

These findings could help researchers figure out how human iPSCs can be used for treating patients without forming tumours, which is one of the major challenges associated with undifferentiated iPSCs.

Clinical trials have shown that injection of human umbilical stem cells, or hUTC, into the retina helps preserve and restore vision in macular degeneration patients.

Marc Wolfson, public affairs specialist on emergency preparedness for the Department of Health and Human Services, isn't so confident: «We can develop the best countermeasures in the world, but if they're not there in time to help treat the patient, then they're not effective.»

If replicated in humans, this effect could significantly delay, and potentially prevent, the need for chronic insulin use by Type 1 diabetes patients, and help minimize diabetes - related complications.

«Applying a blocker might help to reduce the negative effects on the human heart that are caused by medium - chain fatty acids, especially in patients with increased fatty acid levels in blood,» concludes Hatt.

Inclusion of pharmacists in disaster health management helps provide timely, accessible health care to all patients requiring care — a fundamental human right.

«By helping us understand that lower levels of RNF125 confer resistance to BRAF inhibitors, we have a new strategy to stratify patients for currently approved therapy versus participation for human clinical trials to investigate whether targeting JAK1 will be more effective in patients whose tumors exhibit reduced RNF125,» said Keith T. Flaherty, M.D., associate professor, Harvard Medical School, and director of Developmental Therapeutics, Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and co-author of the study.

While more research is needed to determine whether these approaches could help PD patients, Dr. Greenamyre is optimistic that one or both may ultimately make it into human clinical trials in an effort to slow or halt the otherwise inevitable progression of PD.

The students» prototype, developed during a yearlong biomedical engineering master's degree program, has not yet been tested on humans, but it is viewed as a promising first step toward helping Parkinson's patients safely relieve their own symptoms at home or elsewhere without going to a hospital or doctor's office.

Though the findings were made in mice, not humans, the researchers say the crucial role of calcium may help explain another mystery: Why some hospital patients and nursing home residents have a much higher risk of contracting C. diff infections and the resulting diarrhea that carries its spores out of the body.

If it works in humans, the compound could help reverse memory decline in patients, even a month later

Fugger hopes that his team's study will also help to dispel the notion that genome - wide association studies will never offer much that can be used in patient care (see «Human genetics: Hit or miss»).

Zhao and his colleagues are also investigating whether a megakaryocyte niche can be used to help expand human hematopoietic stem cells in vitro and stem cell transplantation for patients.

(Collins, an evangelical Christian, also explained how he reconciles his support for hESC research with his beliefs: Although he thinks the human embryo «deserves moral respect,» he balances that with the ethical benefits of using frozen embryos from fertility treatments that would otherwise be discarded to help develop treatments for patients.

The work highlights a previously unrecognized molecular pathway that contributes to the malfunction of insulin - producing pancreatic beta cells in T1D in human patients and in mice, and shows that a chemical intervention can help beta cells function properly and survive.

If effective in humans, the vaccine could help control a dangerous form of pneumonia that mainly afflicts hospitalized patients and individuals with cystic fibrosis.

It helps us to understand death in humans, and perhaps in the future to prevent death in mortally ill patients,» concluded Professor Gems.

The next step, Datta says, is to find which fragments of the human histones trigger lupus, then test whether injecting high doses in patients will help them.

Mouse genes that make human T cells powerful at fighting liver cancer could one day help patients do the same, scientists report.

The research is significant for humans, said Baranzini, because the presence or absence of Tob1 in CD4 + cells could eventually serve as a prognostic biomarker that could help clinicians predict the course and severity of MS in individual patients.

Dr. Srivastava has co-founded a biotechnology company to help find new cures for many human diseases and one of the developmental genes whose role he discovered, Thymosin β4, is currently in clinical trials for patients suffering ischemic damage to the heart.

October 13, 2016 Researchers help paralyzed man regain sense of touch through a robotic arm For the first time ever, a human patient is able to experience the sense of touch through a robotic arm that he controls with his brain, with the help of technology created by researchers from Pitt and UChicago's Sliman Bensmaia.

To build upon the encouraging early discoveries, Helmsley renewed and expanded its Crohn's funding for the Institute in 2013 to begin new work with three major aims: 1) continue studies of individual genes to determine how genetic differences between Crohn's patients and healthy individuals contribute to the disease; 2) evaluate promising small molecules in disease - relevant studies and prioritize insights from genetics to help develop novel therapeutics; and 3) begin basic experimentation in animal models with Crohn's disease to provide the data necessary to begin testing new therapies in humans.

Human Performance and Engineering (Research) to help conduct research activities for several projects in human movement and rehabilitation for traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, and cancer patiHuman Performance and Engineering (Research) to help conduct research activities for several projects in human movement and rehabilitation for traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, and cancer patihuman movement and rehabilitation for traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, and cancer patients.

Three students from this year's NIH Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Sciences share their experience spending the summer working on The Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations, an online resource that helps healthcare providers diagnose patients from geographically diverse regions of the world.

A glomerulus - on - a-chip lined by human stem cell - derived kidney cells could help model patient - specific kidney diseases and guide therapeutic discovery

BETHESDA, MD — MyGene2, a new open data resource, helps patients with rare genetic conditions, clinicians, and researchers share information, connect with one another, and enable faster gene discovery, according to results presented at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2017 Annual Meeting in Orlando, Fla..

The study sheds light on the relationship of theta oscillations to human learning and exploration — and it could help inform future research on therapies for patients with memory disorders like Alzheimer's disease.

As we produce more human - relevant data with our Organ - Chips, we look forward to making a positive impact on informing R&D decisions, reducing drug candidate attrition in human clinical trials, and helping to deliver better and safer medicines to patients.»