Sentences with phrase «known human diseases»

Ebola is just one of nearly 1,000 known human diseases that have originated from animals....

TB is one of the oldest known human diseases and the leading infectious cause of death worldwide.

As much as 60 percent of the 289 known human disease genes have counterparts in Drosophila.

Well, it's «implicated in virtually every known human disease and there is an increasing body of evidence linking free radical production to the process of aging.»

Not exact matches

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.

Could it have been god telling us how to protect ourselves from disease, germs, and bacteria?Couldn't you see a scientist from today's time, going back to the bible days, and trying to explain, the things we as the human race didn't know till modern times?

Did they kill the women and boys because of the known $ exual immorality and associated disease that riddled these tribes that offered their children as human sacrifice and $ ex toys?

all the hoopla to tell humans what they already knew... how about some thing of real value like the cure for cancer,, heart disease, diabetes,?

How were the firstborns to die — tangible murder, or a disease brought about by poor birthing conditions engineered by the medical community of the time, or by a pulse from the Anananunki planet that could be attributed to a weak, ineffectual god assigned to this sector of the universe and passed off as omnipotent because He thought he was, or knew he had to pretend to be, to give humans Any Hope AT ALL?

Because there's no longer any harmony between Man and God, no harmony between body and soul, we experience decay: disease and sickness are part of our human fabric now.

With the advances in knowledge that are almost certain to be gained from the Human Genome Initiative — or, if its critics should win the day and it lose support, from more piecemeal genetic - research — we will know more and - more about genetic factors causally related to health and disease and to other important aspects of life, such as intelligence and emotional states.

If an experiment involving the deliberate destruction of a single embryonic human were to uncover the cure for every known disease, it would still not be morally permissible to condone that experiment.

Well, the truth is, the cow industry is inhumane, (the overcrowded transportation conditions alone lead to to great suffering, severe cruelty and broken limbs), unhealthy (cows are pumped full of hormones, adrenalin from the fear from when they know they will be killed and anti-biotics — because the unhealthy conditions they live in promote infection and disease) and inefficient (cows must be fed 3 times the edible human grain than their bodies produce in meat).

According to the University of Maryland Medical Center polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs)-- also known as omega - 3 fatty acids — play a crucial role in human brain function, as well as normal growth and development, with research showing that they can also reduce inflammation in addition to helping lower the risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and arthritis.

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

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«There are perfectly ethical ways of obtaining stem cells to cure disease, which do not involve embryo destruction, so no matter what moral value one places on the human embryo, we do not need to use it.»

«We don't know if the observed reversibility of the disease symptoms as observed in the mouse,» he says, «exists in humans who have a much longer period of pre - and post-natal brain development than mice — months and years in humans, weeks in mice.»

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.

Using what we know about human genes, for example, could help us extrapolate details like Neanderthal hair and eye color, their genetic diseases, and possibly even their language capabilities.

As soon as Aull decided to build her lab, she knew she would have to follow government safety protocols for a Biosafety Level 1 facility secure enough to handle well - known agents not implicated in human 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.

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.

For mosquito species, these included general traits like subgenus and geographic distribution as well as traits relevant to the ability of each species to transmit disease, such as proximity to human populations, whether they typically bite humans and how many different viruses they are known to transmit.

Although researchers do not yet know the biological significance of these discoveries, they say that fully cataloguing the genome may help them understand how genetic variations affect the risk of contracting diseases such as cancer as well as how humans grow from a single - celled embryo into an adult.

«We know that urate has neuroprotective properties in animal models, and an unusual convergence of human studies suggested its possible use as a disease - modifying strategy in Parkinson's; so the positive results of this trial are very encouraging.»

«Healthy gut bacterial communities are known to benefit immune regulation, metabolism and potentially even the nervous system, so if cholera or other diarrheal diseases permanently impact the microbiota, there could be long - term effects on human health,» explains Regina LaRocque, MD, MPH, of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Division of Infectious Diseases, co-senior author of the paper.

After an earlier stint as a senior writer at Science, where she was widely known for her coverage of the Human Genome Project, Leslie returned as a deputy news editor in 2000, specializing in public health, infectious diseases, stem cells, and ecology.

The new flu, known as H7N9 avian influenza, latches onto sugars that coat bird cells — and it can cling to sugars on human cells too, Yuelong Shu of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention and colleagues...

The virus, which looks like a piece of yarn with a slight bend, is the only Ebola pathogen not known to cause disease in humans.

«As a man's fertility potential is often known in early life, our work suggests that the fatherhood status may provide insight into a man's risk of cardiovascular disease and death later in his life,» the researchers wrote in the Sept. 26 issue of the journal Human Reproduction.

One theory, known as the Out of Africa hypothesis, holds that modern humans, whose ancestors had recently migrated from Africa, drove the Neandertals extinct, possibly through warfare, disease, or cognitive advantage.

Would you want to know if you were carrying human mad cow disease?

In fact, most of what we know about the human version of the disease comes from Indonesia, where avian flu goes by the nickname AI.

This will allow to understand more about genes we currently know very little about, and open up new avenues for research into the genetics of human disease.

Claiming that most mainstream pet foods contain artery - clogging animal fat, diseased tissue, steroid growth hormones and antibiotics no less harmful to pets than to humans, its website posts testimonials from loyal customers who claim happy and long - lasting pets who look forward to their meals.

«Knowing which microbes live in various ecological niches in healthy people allows us to better investigate what goes awry in diseases thought to have a microbial link, like Crohn's disease and obesity,» says George Weinstock, associate director of the Genome Institute at Washington University in St Louis and one of the Human Microbiome Project's principal investigators.

From the beginning there have been people who have suspected that rather than being a new species, this is actually a modern human that suffered from a disease known as microcephaly.

Although that marker, called IL21, had not previously been associated with autoimmune diseases, the gene that produces it sits right in the stretch of DNA known to make these mice vulnerable to diabetes, suggesting that IL21 might make a drug target, says Sarvetnick.Furthermore, by giving the animals a shot of dead bacteria — similar to an immunization in humans — when they were newborns, Sarvetnick and her colleagues prevented a surfeit of CD4 + and CD8 + cells.

Since CGP3466B has already been tested in phase II clinical trials to (unsuccessfully) treat Parkinson's disease and ALS, it is known to be safe for humans, but the researchers caution that many more years of studies are needed to definitively show whether it is effective for preventing cocaine damage, first in mice, then in humans.

Until recently, leprosy, clinically known as Hansen's disease, was thought to be transmitted only between humans.

Up to 98 percent of human genomic matter is known as «junk» or «dark matter» non-coding DNA, and had for years attracted little interest among scientists who doubted its role in human health and disease.

It now seems very likely that a previously unknown form of infection is responsible for transmitting BSE in cattle and Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in humans, diseases both belonging to the group known as transmissable spongiform encephalopathies.

«I knew of an experimental technique that had not yet been done in humans, and I had a patient with no other options who was failing rapidly,» says William O'Neill, M.D., medical director of the Center for Structural Heart Disease at Henry Ford Hospital.

Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) also known as sexually transmissible diseases, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) or (infrequently) venereal diseases (VD), are diseases or infections that have a significant probability of transmission between humans by means of sexual contact.

So far there have been no reports of Parkinson's disease in human survivors of the H5N1 flu, Smeyne says, but because only a few years have passed since the first cases were reported, it's too early to know whether those infected are at increased risk.

It is also known that zebrafish and humans have very similar genes, and these similarities extend to more than 80 % of the genes associated with human disease.

«This is important because the death of photoreceptor cells is known to cause retinal degenerative diseases in humans that lead to blindness.

In a study that has implications for humans with inflammatory diseases, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and colleagues have found that, given over a six - week period, the artificial sweetener sucralose, known by the brand name Splenda, worsens gut inflammation in mice with Crohn's - like disease, but had no substantive effect on those without the condition.