Sentences with phrase «lead to a cure for»

We are honored to help provide funding for this annual cycling challenge in hopes that it will ultimately lead to a cure for cancer.
For example, the curation effort could uncover information that suggests specific biomarkers or readouts researchers could test in the lab to gain insight into disease mechanisms — or, in the best case, lead to a cure for NGLY1 deficiency.
A private foundation has donated nearly $ 20 million to Harvard Medical School to fund research that they hope will lead to a cure for juvenile diabetes.
During one of his famous staining experiments of the late 1800s — the kind that would eventually lead to a cure for syphilis and a Nobel Prize for Medicine — Paul Ehrlich stumbled on a conundrum that would haunt medicine down to the present day.
His work may not lead to a cure for prion diseases, but it gives us a better idea of how they work.
Italy is already beginning to show its promise with the development of gene - therapy techniques and the discovery of genes that could lead to a cure for Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.
«The animal kingdom undoubtedly holds information that could help lead to cures for many human illnesses,» said Craig Dinsmore, executive director, Utah's Hogle Zoo.
That means thousands of promising proposals that could lead to cures for disease are not pursued every year.
The finding could someday lead to a cure for LCA, which is responsible for a few thousand cases of inherited blindness each year.
«Lasers might lead to cure for brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.»
«Jennifer's research transformed how we edit the genome and paved the way toward new discoveries that could lead to cures for many diseases,» said Warner Greene, MD, PhD, director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, who hosted the event.
The promise of new CRISPR gene - editing technology has always been that it might lead to a cure for specific genetic diseases.
As a result, the researchers point out that Factor XII regulation likely won't lead to a cure for Alzheimer's, although it could help scientists develop new early - stage detection strategies and medications to stall the progression of the disease.
Scientists think research using the cells may lead to cures for conditions including spinal - cord injury.
Eleven years ago, we were like most dog owners, hopeful that all the «canine cancer studies» conducted in high profile veterinary universities would lead to cures for human and canine cancer.
Some believe that his theory could lead to a cure for many diseases including cancer.
Also, Horner went on to say that he hopes his work can lead to a cure for genetic defects, since learning more about controlling genes can bring the potential for spinal cord and bone regeneration.
New York About Blog The Carcinoid Cancer Foundation looks back on the highlights of previous years and to a future that they hope will bring greater awareness of carcinoid and neuroendocrine cancers, earlier diagnosis for patients, new treatment options, and continued research that will lead to a cure for these rare diseases.

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Of the leading causes of death, Alzheimer's Disease is the only one for which there is no way to prevent it, cure it, or slow its progression.
As a cure for this sick state of affairs, Dykstra leads his readers through four fields of homiletical play: playing with the text, playing witness to life, playing with strangers and playing with fire.
The delusive pursuit of a «cure» for mental illness, says the author, led to the exaggerated claims for institutionalization in the last century and, since World War II, has contributed to the de-institutionalizing policies that have left innumerable «homeless» wandering the streets of America.
«In health care, patients sometimes want to donate tissue to scientific research that can help lead to medical breakthroughs, such as treatments and cures for serious diseases,» he writes on Planned Parenthood's website.
The amino acid combination may not have been a cure for ulcers, but it has led to the creation of one of the most popular sugar subcompany profile stitutes in the world.
And btw, I mentioned finding root causes for illness that leads to complications, then using that knowledge to cure the illness.
Excessive and unnecessary use of the drugs, which are similar to what doctors prescribe for people's ear infections, strep throats and other illnesses, can lead to super-resistant strains of bacteria that can cause serious human diseases that have no cure.
The self - help steps aren't an instant cure but they are lots of little steps along the route to recovery and for me they have always led to a longer lasting recovery.
«Senator Gillibrand, who was Honorary Chair of the 17th 2011 Annual Race for the Cure in Albany and America's Leading Liberal Senator, should be helping to end the unrelenting attacks on the Komen Foundation.
Diabetes UK is the leading charity for over 3.5 million people in the UK with diabetes In 2011, Diabetes UK aims to spend over # 6 million on diabetes research to investigate the causes and prevention of diabetes, to improve care and treatment of diabetes and ultimately to work towards a cure.
Diabetes UK is working for a future without diabetes and we call on the government to work with us in prioritising diabetes research that will lead to the prevention of Type 2 diabetes and long term behaviour change and join us in supporting the long term vision of identifying cures for both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.
The hospital opened in 1913 to treat tuberculosis patients and was the site of the first clinical trials for the hydrazides treatment that eventually led to the cure of the disease, according to the EDC.
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He said: «There is no cure for osteoarthritis, but it is one of the leading causes of disability, causing immense pain and difficulty of movement to sufferers.
Although a team led by Mahajan identified the gene responsible for the disease in 2012, a cure has yet to be developed.
The work, reported online today in Science, could one day lead to a tool for routinely screening people and catching tumors before they cause symptoms, when chances are best for a cure.
Thirty years of struggle and research have led to dozens of treatments for HIV / AIDS — although both a cure and an effective vaccine remain elusive
«There is an unmet need to develop new therapies based on R - CHOP to try to increase the cure rate for diffuse large B - cell lymphoma,» says Patrick Johnston, M.D., Ph.D., a hematologist at Mayo Clinic and lead author.
This, in turn, may lead to better treatments or a cure for the tear film disease known as «dry eye.»
If we can provide a window for antibiotics to carry out their intended function, we can move towards a clinical model and ultimately cure joint infection,» offered Sana Dastgheyb, Ph.D., lead author on this study and researcher at both Thomas Jefferson University and the National Institutes of Health.
Frieda Robscheit - Robbins (1893 - 1973) Together with George Whipple, she discovered that a diet rich in liver cured anemia in dogs, which in turn led directly to treatment for pernicious anemia in humans.
However, HAART can not kill the HIV - infected cells,» said the study's lead author, Ekaterina Dadachova, Ph.D., professor of radiology, microbiology and immunology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, N.Y. «Any strategy for curing HIV infection must include a method to eliminate viral - infected cells.»
Researchers have developed a new approach for growing and studying cells they hope one day will lead to curing lung diseases such as cystic fibrosis through «personalized medicine.»
«We're at a pivotal point where we're building upon what we've learned in the PLAT - 02 trial and opening new trials, like PLAT - 04, with the goal of improving this therapy to the point that it becomes a long - term cure for all of our leukemia patients,» said Dr. Corinne Summers, an oncologist at Seattle Children's and the lead investigator of the PLAT - 04 trial.
«Novel method for generating airway cells from stem cells: May lead to possible cures for lung diseases including cystic fibrosis.»
• A team led by Ron McKay at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland, turned mouse embryonic stem cells into isletlike cells, another step down the long road to a cure for diabetes.
British newspapers reported this weekend that Ian Wilmut, the University of Edinburgh biologist who led the team that in 1997 cloned Dolly the sheep, is getting out of the cloning business in light of the new findings, which seem to offer researchers a likely new source of stem cell lines for basic research that could one day lead to new treatments and perhaps cures for spinal injuries, diabetes and debilitating disorders such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.
Thriving bacteria raise blood levels of the hormone precursor procalcitonin, for example; guiding treatment based on procalcitonin concentrations led to half as much antibiotic use across seven studies, with no drop in cure rates.
The work, to appear in the August issue of Neuron and tomorrow's issue of Cell, could lead to new treatments and perhaps cures, for these ailments, which are characterized by wild, uncoordinated movements.
However, since the novel genes that were identified, are known to lead to aging - associated diseases in humans, their further analysis seems to be promising for developing new approaches to understand and possibly cure these diseases and to contribute to a long life and healthy aging in humans — in a way, long - lived rodents do.
Dr. Yasuyoshi Watanabe, who led the study at RIKEN, stated, «We plan to continue research following this exciting discovery in order to develop objective tests for CFS / ME and ultimately ways to cure and prevent this debilitating disease.»
Dr. Noelle LoConte, a member of ASCO's prevention committee who is the lead author of the position paper, told Reuters Health that «pink washing,» or exploiting the color pink to show a commitment to finding a cure for breast cancer, leads people to buy pink bottles of liquor during breast cancer awareness month.
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