Sentences with phrase «molecular understanding»

The opportunity now is that we've entered into an era of molecular understanding of improved physics and optics, we have an opportunity to think about newer, better ways to detect the disease, to figure out which patients are getting worse or are at risk of getting worse, to catch patients before they've lost vision and give them treatments.

A better molecular understanding of catalytic systems will improve existing and emerging technologies for energy production (fuel cells), drug design, biomass conversions and polymeric materials.

Such molecular understanding about the sensory information transmission between Merkel cells and nerve endings may lay the foundation to treat the intense pain felt by patients with a gentle touch of their inflamed skin — a pathological pain known as tactile allodynia.

Jeffrey Goldberg, MD, PhD, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami, observed that new opportunities for identifying glaucoma biomarkers have emerged thanks to advances in molecular understanding of the disease and in the fields of optics and physics.

A detailed molecular understanding of the assembly, structure and function of the RNA replication spherules is essential to find novel drug targets to inhibit the replication and spread of positive - strand RNA viruses.

We need more genetic studies and a better molecular understanding of its generation, which could open unforeseen avenues to drug development.»

Scientists have gained a better molecular understanding of the region of the brain in individuals with epilepsy which — due to a developmental abnormality, trauma, stroke, or a growing tumor — has stopped responding to control signals, and this results in recurrent seizures.

Examples of such «science» are the Copernican revolution, the atomic and molecular understanding of matter and the periodic table of elements, and the vastly enhanced image of the cosmos afforded by contemporaryastrophysics.

«This is really the first time we've gone from risk variants highlighted by GWAS to a mechanistic and molecular understanding — right down to the nucleotide — of how a mutation can contribute to the risk of developing disease,» says Whitehead Founding Member Rudolf Jaenisch, who is also a professor of biology at MIT.

Such a molecular understanding is needed before researchers can attempt to engineer pyrenoids into crops, which is expected to enhance crop yields by as much as 60 percent.

Scientists study the germline of the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans to identify the mechanisms that control stem cell proliferation and homeostasis, as well as to advance our molecular understanding of homologous signaling pathways humans.

Catalyst - driven processes are not the only thing that can be improved with a molecular understanding of silica - water adhesion.

«This study expands our molecular understanding of C2c2 to guide RNA processing and provides the first application of this novel RNase,» said Doudna, who is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

The hope is that there will be a step change in our molecular understanding of oesophageal adenocarcinoma and that this knowledge can be applied to Cytosponge samples to identify which patients are at high risk for progression to cancer who need preventative treatment.

Because untimely DNA replication can lead to unchecked cell division, these findings are crucial to a molecular understanding of cancer, a condition marked by runaway DNA replication.

Our blood analysis service is widely used in research to advance the molecular understanding of chronic disease development and improve prediction of disease onset.

Molecular understanding of the genes and pathways that modify blood lipid levels in humans will facilitate the design of new therapies for cardiovascular and metabolic disease.

On the Bayesian and related arguments, from a molecular understanding of learning and memory, the cultural cognition is Bayesian.

While many have questioned why this has not translated into more relevant clinical applications, it has increased the molecular understanding of disease.