Sentences with phrase «known causes of their disease»

No one yet knows the cause of the disease but there are some similarities with a group of neurological diseases caused by the so - called «unconventional slow viruses».

Going after the DNA with zinc fingers means targeting the known cause of the disease.

For while knowing the causes of diseases and learning to control or eliminate them is important, government - mandated genetic manipulation, no matter how well intended, may revive the discredited «science» of eugenics.

avoiding known causes of diseases and a shortened lifespan....

Knowing the cause of this disease is an important part of fighting this disease.

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Danish pharma company Novo Nordisk (nvo), best known for its insulin - based treatments for diabetes, said Tuesday it's going to shift its focus slightly to fighting obesity, one of the primary causes of that disease.

You may not know it, but the third leading cause of death in America is actually respiratory disease.

What it does: The role of this bacteria, which is most well - known for causing syphilis and Lyme disease, is still not well - understood in humans.

The fifth leading cause of death in Africa is the ischaemic heart disease commonly known as heart attack.

This is hypothesized to happen for many different reasons, including a decline in the competitiveness of other economic sectors (caused by appreciation of the real exchange rate as resource revenues enter an economy, a phenomenon known as Dutch disease), volatility of revenues from the natural resource sector due to exposure to global commodity market swings, government mismanagement of resources, or weak, ineffectual, unstable or corrupt institutions (possibly due to the easily diverted actual or anticipated revenue stream from extractive activities).

We no longer believe disease is caused by evil spirits, that seizures are the result of demonic possession, or than lightning is caused by Thor's hammer.

Man had made enormous strides in discovering the causes of disease, and is still fighting a long - drawn - out battle against such things as the incredibly minute viruses, and the apparently arbitrary cell - degeneration known as cancer.

With knowledge he can know causes of entropy in himself — e.g., sickness and disease, either physical or mental — and take means to prevent or cure them.

I'd say disease and pestilence myself are the greatest causes of death, or perhaps just «old age» (aye, I hate you «old age»), but what do I know

Moreover, if you want to know the cause of the above six diseases, the answer is our sins.

Fellow doctors ridiculed Lister's ideas of germ theory — since they «knew» that it was various humors that caused disease, not tiny living beings they could not observe with the naked eye.

The historical Jesus knew nothing about the causes of disease or how to cure them.

The exact causes of diverticular disease are not known, but the condition has repeatedly been associated with a low fiber diet.

Interestingly, high circulating insulin (an inflammatory condition) is now known to be a chief cause of heart disease, not consumption of saturated fat.

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If you've read my previous articles, you already know that inflammation is the root cause of many chronic diseases.

The vain side of me (you know, the one that causes me to suck my stomach in every time I pass a mirror... tell me I'm not the only one) jumps for joy when I hear that the cardiovascular benefits related to cherries includes loss of belly fat, which is the type of fat most commonly associated with heart disease.

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

The exact cause of dermatitis herpetiformis isn't known, but, as with coeliac disease, it's associated with gluten.

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The disease that cause all these symptoms of rotting flesh in FIFA — and in UEFA, and even FA etc. — is well known but I am afraid we do not have the stomach to really accept that: our own unwillingness or inability to move ourselves off Football (stop watching or following it) at any level to make our disagreements count.

Did you know that heart disease is the number - one cause of death for women n the USA?

All of these components are known to cause brain damage, kidney disease, mutations, and cancers.

On Tuesday futures tumbled the daily 3 - cent trading limit after news of the discovery of the disease in the carcass of a California dairy cow caused investors to bail out of a market already battered by demand fears after the consumer uproar over a filler beef known by critics as «pink slime.»

We know improper feeding can make infants substantially more vulnerable to infectious diseases like diarrhea and pneumonia, the leading causes of infant death worldwide.

There is no single mutation that causes Alzheimer's, says Wild, but we know of several gene variations that increase the risk of the disease.

A far - reaching study conducted by scientists at Cincinnati Children's reports that the Epstein - Barr virus (EBV)-- best known for causing mononucleosis — also increases the risks for some people of developing seven other major diseases.

But these other types of ticks can carry different kinds of disease - causing bacteria, so it's good to know which tick you're dealing with, Sood says.

The Leopoldina, Germany's national academy of sciences, has published a report strongly recommending that preimplantation genetic diagnosis of early embryos be allowed by law when couples know they carry genes that could cause a serious incurable disease if passed on to their children.

Osteoarthritis (OA, also known as degenerative arthritis or degenerative joint disease, and sometimes referred to as «arthrosis» or «osteoarthrosis»), is a condition in which low - grade inflammation results in pain in the joints, caused by wearing of the cartilage that covers and acts as a cushion inside joints.

Lead - author Assistant professor Anna - Sofie Stensgaard from Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, explains, «Today, we know less about where disease - causing organisms occur, than the global distribution of most mammals, birds and even ants.

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.

The disease, which causes crippling joint pain persisting for weeks or even months and for which there is no known therapy or vaccine, hopscotched from the Caribbean islands to eventually land in the U.S. and the rest of the Americas.

He has discovered the world's oldest - known bee and mushroom, the earliest evidence of flowering plant sex and, most recently, a fossilized ancestor of the bacterium that causes Lyme disease.

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.

NTM expert Joseph Falkinham of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg says this type of data is needed to prepare a risk assessment, but we also need to know how many NTM of each species and type are needed to cause disease.

Among the DNA variants known to cause Alzheimer's or increase risk of the disease, none are found in the tau gene.

The most devastating of the known amphibian diseases is chytridiomycosis, which is caused by a deadly chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, or Bd).

The team focused on these antibodies, which together target the two types of influenza viruses that contain all strains known to cause disease in humans.

Knowing the sex of a fetus is important when the mother is a carrier of an X-chromosome gene that can cause a disease such as muscular dystrophy.

One of the first known examples was syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum.

In 2009, a new strain of H1N1 caused what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called «the first influenza pandemic in more than 40 years,» testament to a long - known influenza subtype evolving into a new threat.

Overhyped microbes include anthrax (famous for the U.S. mail attacks in 2000), the Ebola and Marburg viruses (which can cause dramatic bleeding and high fever in their victims), and the prion agent of mad cow disease (otherwise known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE), which kills people by making their nervous systems degenerate.

Scientists don't know what amount of diseased mitochondria would cause noticeable symptoms, or even disease, in a child created using genetic material from two women.

These findings have unnerved some clinicians because patients with a variety of diseases are treated with high - dose glucocorticoids for long periods (even though the treatment is known to cause memory problems) and because the body itself secretes a ton of these hormones during neurological crises.