Sentences with phrase «influence human health and disease»

Climate change, together with other natural and human - made health stressors, influences human health and disease in numerous ways.

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Efforts include the National Institutes of Health Diabetes Genome Anatomy Project and another NIH - sponsored venture, the International HapMap Project, which is creating a map of regions in the human genome called haplotypes, where the underlying DNA influences common diseases like diabetes.

Their survey is part of a growing push to look beyond the bacteria that make up the much - discussed microbiome to find other microbes that naturally inhabit the human body and may influence health and disease.

«So now that we have seen this environmental toxicant - induced inflammation, we can study the beneficial anti-inflammatory foods, like the purple potato and others, in this human development model, and see how a mother's health and her levels of toxicants and beneficial compounds will influence the baby's susceptibility to chronic disease.»

Warinner and colleague, Cecil M. Lewis, Jr., co-direct OU's Laboratories of Molecular Anthropology and Microbiome Research and the research focused on reconstructing the ancestral human oral and gut microbiome, addressing questions concerning how the relationship between humans and microbes has changed through time and how our microbiomes influence health and disease in diverse populations, both today and in the past.

The Allen Chair was established in 1990 to support the research of foods, which influence human health and nutrition including the development of new, genetically altered foods, which can prevent diet - related disease.

December 19, 2017 — NIH findings with potential for enhancing human health include understanding how dietary factors influence disease risk, combatting the epigenetic effects of outdoor air pollution, and methods to detect prions in blood and skin.

Katherine Pollard studies the human microbiome to learn how it influences health and disease.

The Environmental Influences on Health and Disease Group at Sanford Research studies how environmental factors influence cellular function and human disease, an important interface between chemistry, molecular and cell biology, and physDisease Group at Sanford Research studies how environmental factors influence cellular function and human disease, an important interface between chemistry, molecular and cell biology, and physdisease, an important interface between chemistry, molecular and cell biology, and physiology.

Diversity in Genomics Research Cohorts The lack of diversity within participant cohorts in genetics and genomics research limits our ability to study variation across the human genome and the genetic factors that influence health and disease, as well as our ability to ensure that every segment of the population is able to benefit from advances stemming from the research.

That collection of organisms strongly influences human health by, for example, producing anti-inflammatory factors, inactivating drugs, and altering the course of disease.

In her essay, she described how the interactions between genes and the environment affect human health and disease, concluding that these environmental influences on gene activity allow people to protect their own well - being by cultivating healthy habits.

Whether human or roundworm, genetic profile is an important influence in health and risk of disease and premature death.

«One study published in Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease looked at the dietary influence of various carbohydrates in vitro on the adherence of Candida to human epithelial cells.2 The study examined the effect of various carbohydrates including fructose, galactose, glucose, maltose, sorbitol, and sucrose.

The studies reflect a growing interest in how microscopic companions influence health and disease in both humans and animals, including wildlife species.

Even for a particular impact such as human health, temperature and precipitation both play important roles by influencing malnutrition, vector borne diseases, etc. (Campbell - Lendrum and Woodruff 2007).

Rooted in a deepening understanding of how brain architecture is shaped by the interactive effects of both genetic predisposition and environmental influence, and how its developing circuitry affects a lifetime of learning, behavior, and health, advances in the biological sciences underscore the foundational importance of the early years and support an EBD framework for understanding the evolution of human health and disease across the life span.