Sentences with phrase «human brain diseases»
Our proposal represents the kind of research I am interested in, which seeks to modify natural protein variants to be used as therapeutic options for human brain diseases.
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The massive number of cells within the OSVZ of humans «tells us we have to be careful when modeling human brain diseases in mice,» says Kriegstein.
Mad Cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is fatal to cows and can cause a fatal human brain disease in people who eat meat from infected cows.
At the Rockefeller meeting, an important impetus behind the big ambitions — the quest to decipher the gamut of human brain diseases that are still incredibly poorly understood — was evident in the room.
Although the original impetus of the work was to study human brain disease and development, says Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator Christopher Walsh, the results also shed light on how the human brain expanded during the course of evolution.
Critics charge that rabbits are not good animal models for human brain diseases and note that the dialysis patients suffered from dialysis encephalopathy, or «dialysis dementia,» not Alzheimer's disease.
«Researchers find chemical switch that may decrease symptoms of schizophrenia: Research in mice could have implications for human brain disease.»
Findings from mouse models suggest that eye examination could be used as a noninvasive screening tool for human brain diseases.