Sentences with phrase «mysteries in human disease»

Otherwise, the world will miss out on some pretty outlandish world - changing ideas — from autonomous vehicles to cancer - fighting checkpoint inhibitors to smartphones that can warn of an impending stroke to deep - learning machines that may solve some of the biggest mysteries in human disease.

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Groundbreaking research from the University of Alberta has identified the structure of the infectious prion protein, the cause of «mad cow disease» or BSE, chronic wasting disease in deer and elk and Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in humans, which has long remained a mystery.

«In many cases we're still learning how these bacteria influence our risk of disease, but understanding the human genetics component is a necessary step in unraveling the mystery,» Knights saiIn many cases we're still learning how these bacteria influence our risk of disease, but understanding the human genetics component is a necessary step in unraveling the mystery,» Knights saiin unraveling the mystery,» Knights said.

Light - activated genes, now illuminating brain circuitry in rodents and monkeys, may help solve mysteries of human disease.

September 27, 2000 Prions may play crucial role in evolution Prions, abnormally folded proteins associated with several bizarre human diseases, may hold the key to a major mystery in evolution — how survival skills that require multiple genetic changes arise all at once when each genetic change by itself would be unsuccessful and even harmful.