Sentences with phrase «into treatments for human disease»

The discipline blends two different worlds — the laboratory and the clinic — and translates basic discoveries into treatments for human disease.

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research; since most of the reports have concentrated on justifying the creation of cloned human embryos for research into and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, «stem - cells» has become synonymous with «embryonic stem - cells» in the public imagination.

And because their signal blocker is an antibody already in phase I clinical trials for cancer treatment, they're hoping to make a quick jump into human testing for cardiovascular disease.

These so - called bioreactors, and the mini-brains they foster, should open other new and valuable windows into human brain development, brain disorders and drug testing — and perhaps even produce neurons for treatment of Parkinson's disease and other disorders, the investigators say.

Stem cell researchers are getting closer to a new treatment for sickle cell disease, moving promising laboratory research into human clinical trials.

Richard H. Scheller is Executive Vice President of Research and Early Development at Genentech, where his role is to see basic research translated into the development of new treatments for human disease.

Lanner also hopes to learn things that could help scientists who are trying to turn stem cells from human embryos into new treatments for diseases.

Human skin cells have also been directly converted into neurons that can be used to study and find treatments for diseases in the brain, as well as liver cells and insulin - producing cells of the pancreas.

November 5, 2015 Richard L. Landau, MD, 1916 - 2015 For more than half a century, Richard L. Landau was a demanding professor of medicine, performing path - breaking research into the effects of human hormones and treatment of hormone - related diseases while building a world - renowned endocrinology program at the University of Chicago.

The successful differentiation of iPS cells into RPE represents a significant advance in the search for a potential cell source for the treatment of human neural retinal diseases.

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The phenomenal growth of public interest in alternative treatments for human disease and discomfort has spilled over into pet care.