Sentences with phrase «models of particular diseases»
The company provides porcine models of particular diseases, models that are used to develop gene - based treatments and drugs.
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«Use of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology» — which involves taking skin cells from patients and reprogramming them into embryonic - like stem cells capable of turning into other specific cell types relevant for studying a particular disease — «makes it possible to model dementias that affect people later in life,» says senior study author Catherine Verfaillie of KU Leuven.
To narrow down the number of chemical compounds that could be potential drug candidates, scientists utilize computer models that can predict how a particular chemical compound might interact with a biological target of interest — for example, a key protein that might be involved with a disease process.
A nomogram is a graphic depiction of models that can be utilized to estimate the numeric probability of death, disease progression, or other events for a particular patient.
In particular, a transgenic mouse model of early Alzheimer's disease shows that the more focally targeted an intervention is, the more specific of an effect can be elicited.
This workshop provides a week of intensive training sessions in pathology and histopathology as well as didactic sessions in which particular disease areas and models will be discussed.
This has resulted in a dearth of experimentally - validated disease models for non-coding variants in particular, despite their central importance in complex trait genetics.