Sentences with phrase «identifying cellular targets»

Future work will focus on identifying cellular targets of ampulexins, and potentially generating a useful animal model for the study of Parkinson's disease treatments.
Wahl was on the tenure track in 2002 as a pathology researcher at Duke University, identifying cellular targets for cancer therapies, when funding dried up for her research and she consequently failed to get tenure.
Our results identify cellular targets for future functional investigations, and demonstrate that connectomes can provide key insights into neuronal computations.
Therefore, the identification of cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying neuron - astrocyte communication will help to a better understanding of the mechanisms of brain phsyiology as well as to appropriately identify cellular targets to direct therapeutic approaches for the future treatment of several brain diseases.

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«Innovative genetic, cellular techniques help identify multiple disease targets: CRISPR - Cas9 and iPSC advances hold treatment promise for schizophrenia, addiction, Zika infection and other diseases.»
The current study was designed to clarify the cellular hierarchy underlying glioblastoma, to identify epigenetic factors that distinguish glioblastoma stem cells from more differentiated tumor cells and to suggest potential therapies targeting those factors.
There he worked on anticancer vaccines, identifying drug targets, preparing vaccine formulations, and testing cellular responses in vaccinated patients.
«The goal of our work is to understand the cellular mechanisms responsible for beta cell destruction so that we can identify the best targets for beta cell protection,» Costes said.
The role of academic scientists in this process has largely been to explain the genetic / cellular basis of diseases for identifying useful targets and provide new chemical and computational methods to improve the pharmacological profile of potential drugs.
Researchers identified a single enzyme doing the work of a trio thought necessary to control a common cellular signaling process being pursued as a therapeutic target.
Luo and Qiu lead a research team that identified an enzyme that could independently accomplish ubiquitination, an important cellular signaling process being pursued as a therapeutic target.
A team of scientists led by Gladstone's Dr. Steven Finkbeiner have identified a cellular mechanism that can be targeted to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
«By identifying the most important cellular components that viruses hijack and re-wire, we can more intelligently design drugs that target the virus's weak points and where it interacts with the host.»
Mass spectrometry ‐ based cellular thermal shift assay (MS ‐ CeTSA) analysis of CDK4 / 6 inhibitor palbociclib targets in MCF7 human breast cancer cells identifies protein complexes including the 20S proteasome.
The Cell Surface Signalling Laboratory is interested in identifying new therapeutic targets for both genetic and infectious diseases by using large - scale systematic approaches to discover receptor - ligand interactions that are essential for cellular recognition processes.
She is currently studying the cellular and genetic mechanisms of liver cancer with the hope of identifying new biomarkers and drug targets for this often fatal disease.
The Cell Surface Signalling Laboratory investigates the molecular basis of cellular recognition processes to identify new therapeutic targets for both genetic and infectious diseases.
The lab focuses on clarifying the mechanisms of brain plasticity, gene expression, and responses of cellular elements to different psychotropic drugs, and have identified several novel brain sites and pathways that constitute attractive targets for new drug development.
We are interested in topics ranging from how membranes contributed to the origin of cellular life, to identifying membrane - based targets for antibiotic resistance.
This project has the potential to uncover clinically relevant mechanisms of cellular senescence in fibrosing ILDs and identify new therapeutic targets
Other programs will use cellular models of heart disease created from stem cells to identify potential new drug targets.
The cellular processes that we have identified in this study as being important for the development of stomach cancer provide new targets for therapy that have not been explored before,» Dr. O'Reilly said.
Establishing the role of cigarette smoke in progression of cancer will not only produce the necessary evidence for implementing smoking cessation interventions but may also help to identify cellular mechanisms for therapeutic targeting.
He has made several important contributions in this area including identifying a new strain of CHIKV virus, identification of host cellular targets of HIV accessory genes, new novel DNA vaccine approaches for HIV, CHIKV, RSV, Dengue, MERS and Zika among others.
With DriverMap, Cellecta offers a novel, comprehensive end - to - end service portfolio for identifying differential gene expression, mapping of clinically actionable mutations in RNA, detecting cellular composition, and profiling immunotherapy targets.
Therefore the group studies with sophisticated imaging technology in vitro and ex vivo: i) the molecular mechanism driving the migration of HIV through the intestinal epithelial barrier; ii) the cellular targets in the mucosa, in specific macrophages and DCs, to identify the possible pathways to invade the tissue and disseminate to other organs; iii) the involvement of DCs and their functional properties in mediating adaptive immune responses at mucosal level; and iv) the role of antibodies with different effector functions in changing the pathways of the virus.
Our goal is to identify signaling pathways which control or coordinate these different phenotypic transitions and to evaluate how these pathways can be influenced by the cellular environment, altered in pathological contexts or serve as therapeutic targets.
Our research aims at identifying the principles of neuronal interactions with signals from the cellular microenvironment and uncovering disease - relevant targets that can be harnessed to drive drug discovery efforts in neurological and age - related neurodegenerative diseases.
SAN FRANCISCO — Scientists from the Gladstone Institutes and the University of Michigan have identified a cellular mechanism that can be targeted to treat ALS.
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