Sentences with phrase «in human disease by»

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In March, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) adopted a positive opinion to include a new indication for adults with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (myocardial infarction, stroke or peripheral arterial disease) to reduce cardiovascular risk by lowering LDL - C levels.

By treating biology as software and reprogramming cells to treat diseases and other ailments, humans have already made tremendous progress in medicine, Kurzweil said Sunday.

InvivoSciences will continue to contribute to the improvement of human health by establishing a new paradigm for discovering drugs that focus on diseases with limited treatment options such as cardiac fibrosis, scleroderma, and lupus in a time - effective manner while remaining safe and cost effective.»

The presence of the AIDS virus in an asymptormatic carrier of the disease may be indicated by a blood test designed to detect the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibodies.

Although we are quite in the dark about the why of human disease and suffering, ordinary observation can show us that the result of their occurrence is by no means necessarily evil.

Indeed in agriculture and in human and animal health, diseases are now forestalled wherever possible, by such methods as the application of trace elements to the soil, sterilization, a balanced diet and immunization.

All human beings face death as an inevitable destiny, but those of us who are crippled by heart disease or cerebral injury or other illness are more conscious of this destiny, particularly as we advance in years.

In reality, the amount of protein associated with optimal human health, as supported by science and epidemiology (the incidence of disease amongst various populations), is much lower than you think.

If any of these components is reduced in food products and human consumption these will leads to the Deficiency diseases for example Kwashiorkor and Marasmus caused by the deficiency of dietary proteins.

Such standards help eliminate product contamination by any number of microorganisms known to cause dangerous infection and disease in humans.

Bacteria found in humans, animals and food continue to show resistance to widely used antimicrobials, says the latest report on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacteria by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

I've read (in Scientific American I believe) recent research suggesting that H Pylori helps regulate the human immune system (for its own gain, of course, but ours too by suppressing auto - immune diseases).

The author, a renowned researcher in this field for almost 50 years, addresses bacterial colonization of the newborn, protection against disease that is provided by breastfeeding, infectious agents in human milk and their impact on breastfeeding, and much more.

Funding / Support: The Infant Feeding Practices Study II was funded by the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Women's Health, National Institutes of Health, and Maternal and Child Health Bureau in the US Department of Health and Human Services.

Findings of the research, published April 22 in the journal Mucosal Immunology, reveal that a substance found in animal and human breast milk called epidermal growth factor, or EGF, blocks the activation of a protein responsible for unlocking the damaging immune cascade that culminates in NEC, a disease marked by the swift and irreversible death of intestinal tissue that remains one of the most - challenging - to - treat conditions.

In human terms, the costs of lives and families damaged by heart disease, strokes, cancer and lung disease are incalculable.

Former EPA Region 2 Administrator Judith Enck, who was featured in the Politico article and is also a regular voice on WAMC, called the actions by EPA and the Department of Defense «scientific censorship» of the report being compiled by the Department of Health and Human Services» Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

A panel of ethicists convened by the U.S. National Academies of Medicine and Science also staked out that position in February, ruling that human germline engineering might someday be permissible for correcting diseases, but only if there are no alternatives and not for enhancements.

«Now, using genomic methods that were not available 10 years ago, it appears that components made by the virus interact with human DNA in the places where the genetic risk of disease is increased,» Harley says.

Chagas disease is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which, in different forms, infects both humans and insects.

Researchers from Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM) Lisboa have created a chimera virus that allows the study of molecules to treat cancers caused by human herpes virus infection in mice models of disease.

Ocean seagrass meadows reduce bacteria unhealthful to humans and marine organisms by up to 50 %, a new study shows, and they also decrease the likelihood of disease in coral reefs by half.

Degenerative brain diseases like mad cow disease (officially known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE), scrapie in sheep, and vCJD in humans are thought to be caused by prions, misfolded versions of a normal cellular protein called PrPC.

Studies on the origins of BSE — a fatal disease marked in the early stages by loss of balance — gained urgency with the 1996 emergence in humans of the BSE - like new variant Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease (nvCJD).

Chronic wasting disease (CWD)-- an infectious disease caused by prions — affects North American elk and deer, but has not been observed in humans.

This is typical Rothschild: considering the bends not as a human ailment, first documented by a miner in 1841, but as a vertebrate's disease, one that can be tracked backward through more than 200 million years of mammalian evolution.

A joint work by EPFL, ETH Zürich and the CHUV has identified a pathological process that takes place in both mice and humans towards one of the most common diseases that people face in the industrialized world: type 2 diabetes.

IN A rare instance of humans beating one of the impacts of climate change, measures to combat malaria appear to be neutralising the expected global increase of the disease driven by rising temperatures.

The study of these highly unusual but devastating prion diseases has to date been thwarted by a lack of animal models that faithfully mimic the disease processes in humans.

By directly manipulating a portion of the prion protein - coding gene, Whitehead Institute researchers have created mouse models of two neurodegenerative diseases that are fatal in humans.

Today's guidance, written by a group of cervical cancer screening experts led by University of Alabama at Birmingham gynecologic oncologist Warner Huh, M.D., is being published simultaneously in the journals Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and the Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease under the title «Use of Primary High Risk Human Papillomavirus Testing for Cervical Cancer Screening: Interim Clinical Guidance.»

A genetic mutation protecting against kuru — a brain disease passed on by eating human brains — only emerged and spread in the past 200 years.

The survey, described today in a Policy Forum published by Science, randomly presented people with different vignettes that described genome editing being used in germline or somatic cells to either treat disease or enhance a human with, say, a gene linked to higher IQ or eye color.

In humans, Huntington's is an inherited disease caused by a gene encoding a toxic protein, called mutant huntingtin, which causes brain cells to die.

The recent human trial, led by Tabrizi, enrolled 46 people with early Huntington's disease at nine sites in the U.K., Germany and Canada.

The team from the University made their discovery by studying the bacteria in a newly developed model, which closely reflected the human disease condition.

A medical doctor (of human patients), Rothschild is often sought out these days by paleontologists for his observations about the diseases revealed in bones (the dinosaur kind)-- and the subsequent deductions about how these long - extinct creatures might have lived.

He carried one genetic mutation that in modern humans raises the risk of coronary heart disease by 40 per cent, and two others that made him prone to a build - up of fat in the linings of his arteries.

The work, funded by the US National Human Genome Research Institute, aims to create human cell lines with subtly different genomes in order to test ideas about which mutations cause disease andHuman Genome Research Institute, aims to create human cell lines with subtly different genomes in order to test ideas about which mutations cause disease andhuman cell lines with subtly different genomes in order to test ideas about which mutations cause disease and how.

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

The study, led by Nancy J. Cox of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention describes a molecular analysis of the novel influenza A (H1N1) virus infecting humans in several parts of the world.

In humans, myocardial infarctions are typically caused by coronary artery disease.

If further studies in humans prove successful, this research could have broad implications for the prevention of influenza and, by extension, as an approach for other infectious diseases as well.

These techniques include: human tissue created by reprogramming cells from people with the relevant disease (dubbed «patient in a dish»); «body on a chip» devices, where human tissue samples on a silicon chip are linked by a circulating blood substitute; many computer modelling approaches, such as virtual organs, virtual patients and virtual clinical trials; and microdosing studies, where tiny doses of drugs given to volunteers allow scientists to study their metabolism in humans, safely and with unsurpassed accuracy.

By testing all those samples, I identified microbes inhabiting the animal reservoirs and focused on those that showed up in the hunters» blood, making them candidates for firing up human disease.

To maintain its foothold in large - scale, world - class research, Japan has launched its own Brain Mapping by Integrated Neurotechnologies for Disease Studies (Brain / MINDS) project, in line with the increasing interest in brain - mapping projects around the world, such as the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative project in the United States and the Human Brain Project (HBP) in Europe.

The Duke medical researchers and ecologists who have joined that project hope to identify which species flourish in early stages of the human microbiome, how they are influenced by the consumption of breast milk, and what role they play in critical diseases affecting infants as well as in chronic diseases that occur later in life.

«The next step in understanding sleep apnea in the future will be to dissect different subtypes of sleep apnea, likely defined by distinct pathophysiological mechanisms which may underlie different outcomes and predisposition to comorbidities,» Cavadas says, «As human life expectancy increases, delaying the onset of age - related diseases becomes critical to our society.»

Several fatal neurological diseases — including Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and scrapie in sheep — are marked by the accumulation of protein deposits in the brain.

Over the course of a year, a committee led by Green and Leslie Biesecker, chief of the Genetic Disease Research Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, has been weighing how to handle «incidental findings» that turn up when a genome or exome is sequenced for some other medical reason.