Sentences with phrase «nearing human clinical»
Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine, UMass Medical School to test gene therapy treatment for Tay - Sachs and Sandhoff diseases Researchers at Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine and UMass Medical School are nearing human clinical trials on a genetic therapy for two rare neurological diseases that are fatal to children.
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The recent funding will be used toward building out Kallyope's gut - brain axis platform and getting one of Kallyope's programs near or into human clinical trials.
The micromotors aren't ready for use in humans yet — obvious problems include avoiding unintended pregnancies — but the researchers hope to move the system into clinical use in the «near future.»
Thompson's team is interested in moving towards human clinical trials in the near future.
In recent years, researchers have developed so - called «senolytic» drugs that wipe out senescent cells in aging mice and mouse models of age - related disease, exploiting the high dependence of these cells on specific biochemical survival pathways.9, 10 In these studies, senolytic drugs have restored exercise capacity9 and formation of new blood and immune precursor cells11 in aging mice to near youthful norms, and prevented or treated mouse models of diseases of aging like osteoarthritis, 12 fibrotic lung disease, 13 hair loss, 14 atherosclerosis, 15,16 and age - related diseases of the heart itself.9 UNITY Biotechnology is leading a growing charge toward the clinic, with human clinical trials expected to begin in 2019.
With multiple therapeutic approaches now either in early clinical trials or nearing human testing, optimism is starting to mount that one of these approaches will ultimately prove a success.