Sentences with phrase «human patients since»

Physical therapists have used therapeutic ultrasound on human patients since the 1940s, and veterinarians have used it on animals since the 1970's.

Not exact matches

Since the human genome was decoded in 2003, researchers have been developing a powerful method for comparing the genomes of patients and healthy people, with the hope of pinpointing the DNA changes responsible for common diseases.

Clinicians treating patients suffering from Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) currently have no drugs specifically targeted to the MERS coronavirus (MERS - CoV), a virus first detected in humans in 2012 that has since caused 614 laboratory - confirmed infections, including 181 that were fatal, according to the World Health Organization.

The existence of cancer stem cells has already been reported in a number of human cancers, explains Professor Jacobsen, but previous findings have remained controversial since the lab tests used to establish the identity of cancer stem cells have been shown to be unreliable and, in any case, do not reflect the «real situation» in an intact tumour in a patient.

Since the thyroid absorbs nearly all of the iodine in the human body, radioactive iodine given to a patient will concentrate in thyroid cancer cells, killing them with little effect on the rest of the body.

Each patient had about 100 different autoantibodies in their blood, but since each patient had different autoantibodies, the 81 patients collectively had antibodies to thousands of different human proteins.

In collaboration with Dr. Josh Thaden and Vance Fowler, Duke University Medical Center, we are exploring relationships between bacterial genetic variation, emergence of AMR, and patient outcome in Enterobacter and Escherichia coli Bloodstream Infections (BSI) by leveraging the Duke University Bloodstream Infection Biorepository (BSIB), which contains robust clinical data, bacterial bloodstream isolates, and corresponding human sera and DNA from over 2000 patients with BSI caused by Gram - negative bacteria at Duke Hospital since 2002.

Poor Doc Handy thought he was doing a human heart transplant but when the human organ suddenly became unavailable he went for the porcine heart and since the patient was already splayed open the result soon thereafter was total rejection.

Since human pancreatic cancer has certain immunological characteristics of the mouse model, a phase 1 clinical trial of AMD3100 in patients with pancreatic cancer will be initiated in 2015.

«In addition to our gene - mapping efforts, we try to provide diagnostic expertise for doctors and patients, since the surprising diversity of genetic disorders of human cortical development is only beginning to be appreciated.»

Their method, published ahead of print in the Oct. 17, 2008 online edition of Nature Biotechnology, not only provides a practical and simple alternative for the generation of patient - and disease - specific stem cells, which had been hampered by the low efficiency of the reprogramming process, but also spares patients invasive procedures to collect suitable starting material, since the process only requires a single human hair.

The Emory Transplant Center has conducted clinical trials since 2003 transplanting human pancreatic islet cells into patients with Type I diabetes.

In the several years since those first reports, new advances in the derivation of hiPSCs from various tissue sources (including those from human patients) and using diverse reprogramming techniques, and in their use as a pluripotent cell source in the induced differentiation of a wide array of somatic cell types, have appeared with almost startling rapidity.

Since the discovery (in a human patient named H.M.) that hippocampal removal can lead to the inability to form new memories, the hippocampus has been studied as one of the primary sites of memory formation in the brain.12 While it has also been known since O'Keefe and Dostrovsky's initial experiments that the hippocampus plays a basic role in spatial navigation, how and why this tiny portion of the brain can host both spatial maps and complex memories has remained poorly undersSince the discovery (in a human patient named H.M.) that hippocampal removal can lead to the inability to form new memories, the hippocampus has been studied as one of the primary sites of memory formation in the brain.12 While it has also been known since O'Keefe and Dostrovsky's initial experiments that the hippocampus plays a basic role in spatial navigation, how and why this tiny portion of the brain can host both spatial maps and complex memories has remained poorly underssince O'Keefe and Dostrovsky's initial experiments that the hippocampus plays a basic role in spatial navigation, how and why this tiny portion of the brain can host both spatial maps and complex memories has remained poorly understood.

Since I am very interested in healing the human body and working with patients, I want to...

Since inactivity tends to be contrary to human nature, learning to be patient and yet aggressive when the time is right is a trained response.

In fact, this is more often true than it is in human medicine since our patients don't voluntarily hold still for any length of time.

Since 1993, the company has held its promise in providing healthcare human resources, medical staff services, and healthcare compliance leaders the tools they need to make informed hiring decisions, maintain patient safety, and comply with industry standards.

Since 2001, Clinilabs has completed clinical trials involving healthy, adult human volunteers and specialty patient populations.