Sentences with phrase «in human disorders»

In 1974 he began to investigate the role of nutrition in human disorders and began to incorporate that knowledge into his medical practice.
These flaws, called epithelial barrier defects, feature in human disorders, including in the skin, gut, and lung.

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Venter, who is one of the first people to sequence the human genome, co-founded the company in effort to discover early genetic markers for a variety of disorders.
Smart devices may be one of the most important inventions in human history, but they have certainly done little toward eliminating adult attention deficit disorder (AADD).
Scientists know how to make fruit flies and mice smarter, and efforts to come up with a treatment for Alzheimer's and other neurological disorders are leading to drugs that enhance memory and cognition in humans.
In April, Chinese researchers working with non-viable human embryos (those that would never end up turning into people) used it to try to tweak a gene that would normally have caused a rare blood disorder.
The Primary Care business is comprised of human pharmaceutical products prescribed by primary - care physicians and includes products in the areas of Alzheimer's, cardiovascular (excluding pulmonary arterial hypertension), erectile dysfunction, genitourinary, major depressive disorder, pain, respiratory, and smoking cessation.
As any student of Comparative Mythology knows, the Garden myth in Genesis was taken from the Sumerian Chaos myths, and was a HUMAN attempt to explain «disorder».
He is inspired by the recorded example of God - become - man who, without arguing about the «given - ness» of the human situation, set about healing men's disorders in a most down - to - earth fashion.
The disorder in human loves is the central fact about man's plight.
Further, we find in him a tough - minded realism about the actualities of human history as the mingling of the divine love and disordered human love.
Every single human being — male and female, dominant and dominated — experiences this disorder in one way or another.
In making a decision regarding research into human cloning, we must pay close attention to the benefits it would provide for those who suffer the worst genetic disorders; we must look closely at the possibility of some groups or individuals being exploited or neglected through human cloning; and we must keep before us the welfare of the children who would enter the world through cloning.
That done, the churches can get back to their mission, offering God's forgiving and sustaining grace to all of us disordered and disorderly human beings who are subject to temptations beyond numbering, also in the realm of sexuality.
The human community need not suffer in resigned impotence from the pains of social disorder and inequity.
Tragic natural disasters, the consequences of human preditory selfishness and injustice will be experienced by both believers and unbelievers; but whether those experiences make us bitter and cynical or empathetic and compassionate will depend a lot on whether the inevitable suffering that comes to all will depend a lot on whether we believe our flawed existence to be essentially good, though disordered or essentially evil in spite of its few «good» moments.
What goes on around us in the human mass is not merely a flurry of disordered movement, as in a gas; something is purposefully stirring, as in a living being.
Theological anthropology would agree with this but would add that it is too superficial to interpret the self - centredness in human beings as a mechanical disorder or as an organic maladjustment easily corrected by the mechanical or organic processes to come; and that the condition of rational objectivity also requires overcoming of the spiritual alienation of the self from God which is behind all psychic and social alienations.
Although in terms of its biological, economic and mental determinisms the human earth, emerging from war, may be seen to be more tightly fastened upon itself than ever before, in its other and freer aspects it may give a first impression of growing disorder.
The late Carney Landis, from the perspective of a research psychologist, wrote: «If there is any human disorder which can be truly said to be of multiple etiology, it is alcoholism in all its diverse forms.»
Therefore St. Augustine sees all disorder in human existence as stemming from a disorder in the j creature's love for God.
Speculation, however, impotent as it is in relieving individual suffering, may still help us theoretically reconcile human symbols of hope and trust with the physical universe out of which disorder arises.
This shows itself at a higher level in disordered human behaviours, implying psychological illness.
In a state of original sin, in which disordered human desires manipulate and misdirect reason, how can the student of scripture know which context is the right context, which history is the right historIn a state of original sin, in which disordered human desires manipulate and misdirect reason, how can the student of scripture know which context is the right context, which history is the right historin which disordered human desires manipulate and misdirect reason, how can the student of scripture know which context is the right context, which history is the right history?
Despite any clinical evidence for or against the therapy, the APA denounces such therapy because, «In the current social climate, claiming homosexuality is a mental disorder stems from efforts to discredit the growing social acceptance of homosexuality as a normal variant of human sexuality.
But are the suspected gunman's alleged actions best understood as human evil, in light of evidence that the suspect has a mental disorder?
A 2012 study found that consuming maltodextrin increased bacterial adhesion to human intestinal epithelial cells and enhanced E. coli adhesion, which is associated with autoimmune disorders and dybiosis in your gut.
Cocoa polyphenols are beneficial to human health with regards to cardiovascular and inflammatory diseases, metabolic disorders, and in the prevention of cancers.
Studies show that dioxins collect in the fatty tissues of animals and humans, and even low levels of exposure can lead to cancer, endometriosis, birth defects, and reproductive disorders.
It is a normal instinctual reaction in animals, including humans of all ages, and does not become a disorder unless it is interfered with and suppressed.
The USA has the highest rates of post - partum mental disorders because our MD's are not trained in human lactation and do not understand the critical role that breastfeeding plays in the prevention of post partum mental disorders.
Dr. Perry's research includes: the effects of prenatal drug exposure on brain development, the neurobiology of human neuropsychiatric disorders, the neurophysiology of traumatic life events, and long - term cognitive, behavioral, emotional, social and physiological effects of neglect and trauma in children, adolescents and adults.
NAMPA appears to imply that we should ignore advice such as this one issued on May 21st from Harvard's School of Public Health: «With increasing evidence of the potential harmful effects of BPA in humans, the authors believe further research is needed on the effect of BPA on infants and on reproductive disorders and on breast cancer in adults.»
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Of the thousands of ancestral variants reintroduced into modern humans, only 41 have been linked in genetic studies to diseases, such as skin conditions and neurological and psychiatric disorders, he said.
Then a team of Chinese researchers used that base editor to correct a mutation in human embryos that causes the blood disorder beta - thalassemia, reported September 23 in Protein & Cell (SN: 11/25/17, p. 7).
Identifying such players can eventually assist in isolating pathogenic variants or regulatory elements that can be at the root of human hearing and balance disorders
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«Now that we've confirmed the human relevance of our findings, our future goal is to better understand the roles of the different cell types in psychiatric and neurological disorders, and to determine if targeting these cells can actually help treat seizures,» concluded Paz.
The experience inspired young Dr. Ostrer's decision to specialize in medical genetics; he went on to become the director of the Human Genetics Program at the New York University School of Medicine, where he championed DNA testing for Jews» genetic disorders.
«This is an important first step in understanding the process of the disorder in humans,» Jiang said.
Professor Jianfeng Feng commented that new technology has made it possible to conduct this trail - blazing study: «human intelligence is a widely and hotly debated topic and only recently have advanced brain imaging techniques, such as those used in our current study, given us the opportunity to gain sufficient insights to resolve this and inform developments in artificial intelligence, as well as help establish the basis for understanding and diagnosis of debilitating human mental disorders such as schizophrenia and depression.»
In humans, neural oscillations are often studied in relation to epilepsy and various sleeping disorders though questions remain about their precise functioIn humans, neural oscillations are often studied in relation to epilepsy and various sleeping disorders though questions remain about their precise functioin relation to epilepsy and various sleeping disorders though questions remain about their precise function.
Knowing these new mutational variants could be useful, Nolan said, because they add to the repository of known mutations to look for in humans with these kinds of bone or physical disorders.
A team of researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine has used a gene - editing tool known as CRISPR to repair the gene that causes sickle cell disease in human stem cells, which they say is a key step toward developing a gene therapy for the disorder.
Strategies that boost the cell's quality control programs, rather than disarm specific pathologic proteins, have looked promising in lab animals that serve as models for human neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia.
A recent study published in Annals of Neurology reports that healthy human tissue grafted to the brains of patients with Huntington's disease in the hopes of treating the neurological disorder also developed signs of the illness, several years after the graft.
For example, RNA - binding proteins are overexpressed in many human cancers, and mutations in some of these proteins have been linked to neurological and neurodegenerative disorders such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
«The study results elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying disease progression in multiple sclerosis models, providing a basis for future clinical trials to determine safety and efficacy of these chemical agents in humans with demyelinating disorders,» says Patrizia Casaccia, MD, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience, Genetics and Genomic Sciences at Mount Sinai and senior author of the study.
In certain rare human medical disorders, the question of how long people can remain awake raises other surprising answers, and more questions.
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