Sentences with phrase «important in human diseases»

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With the advances in knowledge that are almost certain to be gained from the Human Genome Initiative — or, if its critics should win the day and it lose support, from more piecemeal genetic - research — we will know more and - more about genetic factors causally related to health and disease and to other important aspects of life, such as intelligence and emotional states.

Because the food we consume directly impacts our health, it is important to note that an infant who develops a «taste» for salty, sweet and fatty foods over fruits and vegetables will have a greater risk for diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and some cancers according to Mennella's and Beauchamp's Flavor Perception in Human Infants article.

«The discovery of HDMP in humans means that for the first time we are seeing an important mechanism in the process which causes the disease.

«There are many studies in humans, and at least one in chimpanzees, showing that from an immunological perspective, juveniles and children are really important for maintaining diseases in populations through play and things like that,» she said.

It is important for NASA to learn how bacterial communities that play roles in human health and disease are affected by spaceflight.

• In other funding news, the National Institutes of Health announced a new $ 17 million program to investigate whether extracellular RNA plays an important signaling role in people, and whether it can be harnessed to diagnose and treat human diseases, Mitch Leslie reports in News & AnalysiIn other funding news, the National Institutes of Health announced a new $ 17 million program to investigate whether extracellular RNA plays an important signaling role in people, and whether it can be harnessed to diagnose and treat human diseases, Mitch Leslie reports in News & Analysiin people, and whether it can be harnessed to diagnose and treat human diseases, Mitch Leslie reports in News & Analysiin News & Analysis.

«This paper represents an exciting advance in a field that has become increasingly important with the discovery that defects in RNA - binding proteins contribute to human diseases such as metabolic disorders, cancer and neurodegeneration,» Lipshitz said.

The paramyxovirus family includes virus that cause important diseases in humans and animals, such as measles virus, mumps virus, human parainfluenza virus, human respiratory syncytial virus, canine distemper virus, Newcastle disease virus, and Nipah virus.

«[Golden Malrin] is an important tool in reducing fly populations which have the potential to spread disease to livestock and humans,» wrote Mark Newberg, a representative for Wellmark International in Schaumburg, Illinois, which produces Golden Malrin, in an email.

Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas disease, is divided into six strains, each of which differs in where they are found and in how important they are in human infections..

Additionally, work in a mouse model revealed similar cells, indicating that the progenitors are conserved from mouse to human, and therefore, they must be «important cells with promising potential for cell therapy in treating liver disease,» explained Dr. Gouon - Evans.

Human milk's most important role could be preventing infant disease and boosting immunity by cultivating a balance of microbes in the gut and the rest of the body, a kind of internal ecosystem called the microbiome.

The findings suggest that although wild animals may be important for the transmission of new diseases to humans, humanity's oldest companions — livestock and pets such as cattle and dogs provide the vital link in the emergence of new diseases.

Now, a study published online April 27th, in the Journal of Immunology, confirms that the cytokine GM - CSF (Granulocyte macrophage colony - stimulating factor) likely plays an important role in human disease and offers a new explanation for why the MS treatment interferon - Beta (INF - β) is often effective at reducing MS attacks.

«Understanding the evolution of malaria parasites in bats and other animals, and how they fit into the tree of life, is key to understanding this important human disease.»

Careful attention to phenotyping diseases, facilitated by our knowledge of the human genome and computational analysis, has allowed observant physicians and physician - scientists to identify and categorize diseases in a manner that has informed basic science, given it new contexts, and in many instances provided important new directions for investigation.

«We leveraged the extreme traits in different species to uncover noncoding regions in the human genome that likely have important roles in shaping health and disease,» said Elliott Ferris, first author on the paper and a bioinformatician and computer programmer in Gregg's lab.

T gondii is an important zoonosis with a high disease burden in humans.

«Understanding this previously ignored part of the human genome, its role in human development, and how it may be taken over by disease, opens a new frontier in science with important implications for medical advances,» said Philipp Kapranov, Ph.D., lead researcher at the St. Laurent Institute.

Mathias Uhlen, director of the Human Protein Atlas project and co-author of the paper, says: «I am extremely pleased that the resource created through the Human Protein Atlas effort has been used in the analysis of clinical data obtained from liver disease patients and that this analysis has led to the identification of liver - specific drug targets that can be used for treatment of this clinically important patient group.»

This finding could have obvious implications in preventing heart disease and diabetes, but also could be important for older adults because higher lean body mass can contribute to a longer life with more independence, said Ohio State's Martha Belury, a professor of human nutrition who led the research.

«The project has made important new contributions towards describing the role of rare genetic variants in a broad range of disease scenarios and human traits.»

The hormone estrogen plays an important role in the human body and has been linked to everything from tumor growth to neuron loss during Alzheimer's disease.

«This is by far the largest twin study of gene expression ever published, enabling us to make a roadmap of genes versus environment,» Sullivan says, adding that the study measured relationships with disease more precisely than had been previously possible, and uncovered important connections to recent human evolution and genetic influence in disease.

«Estrogens perform important biological functions not only in sexual development and reproduction, but also in modulating many other processes impacting health and diseases in human and animals,» Beinhauer said.

«This is important because the death of photoreceptor cells is known to cause retinal degenerative diseases in humans that lead to blindness.

The genomic data is important, say researchers, because it serves as a key reference point for when and where the parasite existed in humans, and provides more information about the evolution of human disease.

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.

The use of antibiotics is often considered among the most important advances in the treatment of human disease.

Extending the cells» life span is particularly important because diseased cells only last from 10 to 20 days compared to about 120 days for healthy cells in humans.

Professor Hong Wanjin, Executive Director at IMCB, said, «IMCB is now focusing research on molecular mechanisms underlying diseases, which is important in developing future treatments for prevailing human diseases.

«Aberrant splicing in humans may lead to various complex diseases and also underlies the development of some forms of cancer and the onset of neurodegenerative diseases, so a better understanding of the process can add important information for our fight against these diseases.»

«It's critically important to be able to look at questions of brain development in real human tissue when you're trying to study human disease.

«Our findings also have important implications for mitochondrial diseases in humans, because this research significantly advances our understanding of how mitochondrial DNA mutations affect individuals and populations, and provides a potential mechanism to explain how different genetic variants may affect health,» Dr Rollins said.

In order to replenish a human population in times of disease or disaster, it is important that human sexual desire is collectively always «on»In order to replenish a human population in times of disease or disaster, it is important that human sexual desire is collectively always «on»in times of disease or disaster, it is important that human sexual desire is collectively always «on».

This approach has contributed to the successful mapping of genes involved in numerous human diseases such as Huntington's disease and cystic fibrosis, an important first step in understanding these conditions.

The study is «important as a proof - of - principle,» adds human geneticist Daniel MacArthur of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who himself is on the hunt for rare genes that protect against disease and wrote a commentary accompanying the new paper.

But it's extremely important for understanding fatal diseases in humans, especially those caused by ageing,» said Professor David Gems (UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing), who led the team of researchers.

Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)-- which is funding this initiative jointly with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute — says that having the genomes of three of the most important mammals in biomedical research in hand «will greatly speed the unraveling of the genetics and physiology» of human disHuman Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)-- which is funding this initiative jointly with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute — says that having the genomes of three of the most important mammals in biomedical research in hand «will greatly speed the unraveling of the genetics and physiology» of human dishuman disease.

A TROPICAL disease that can fatally damage the heart may take hold in the human body by causing important immune system cells to commit suicide, according to a Brazilian research team.

Using cells from mice and human livers, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute researchers demonstrated for the first time how under specific conditions, such as obesity, liver CD8 + T cells, white blood cells which play an important role in the control of viral infections, become highly activated and inflammatory, reprogramming themselves into disease - driving cells.

An important model in studying human disease, the non-coding RNA of the canine genome is an essential starting point for evolutionary and biomedical studies, according to a new study led by The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC).

Some of the genes may be important in understanding the genetics behind disease as well as the evolution of the human brain.

This discovery provides a significant opportunity not only to enhance our understanding of how miRNAs regulate a variety of biological processes in an important model species for studying human diseases, but can lead to further, similar research into the role that miRNAs play in animal domestication.

«It is important to note that depression is a very complex disease and also defined in the context of modern human societies, so we certainly can't say that our ancestors or Neanderthals were depressed in the modern sense.

In the paper, the authors stressed that understanding the genetic makeup of these molluscs is important because many «freshwater snails are intermediate hosts for flatworm parasites and transmit infectious diseases» to humans and other animals.

Studying zebrafish is a vitally important way to discover what role genes play in human health and disease.

What we are learning from these studies adds important knowledge about the human brain in both health and disease.

Lipton went on to state, «It will be important to see if HIV / AIDS acts similarly on stem cells for other organs in the human body, as this may impact on the disease process as a whole.»

The INFRAFRONTIER mission: ◊ to shape the European Research Area in the field of mouse functional genomics and thereby make an important contribution to the study of human disease.