Sentences with phrase «new cures for diseases»

For instance, computer programs with superhuman smarts could find new cures for diseases, design more energy - efficient technology or invent new materials.

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For Zuckerberg and Chan the plan is simple: bring scientists together and provide the funding for them to create new tools that can help find new ways to cure diseasFor Zuckerberg and Chan the plan is simple: bring scientists together and provide the funding for them to create new tools that can help find new ways to cure diseasfor them to create new tools that can help find new ways to cure diseases.

The memory - eating disease, expected to afflict 15 million Americans by 2060 (and tens of millions more around the world as life expectancy increases), has no cure; a new drug for the condition hasn't been approved in well over a decade; initially promising experimental treatments seem to be failing with clockwork regularity; and there's not even a definitive consensus on what, exactly, biopharma companies should focus on while developing Alzheimer's medicines.

In this new democracy of sexual desire the invention of efficient and inexpensive contraceptive devices and of improved drugs for the cure of venereal diseases is regarded as a signal advance toward the goal of the good life, for now it is possible to engage freely and widely in sexual intercourse with little fear of unwanted consequences, in the form of either offspring or infection.

Her dream is that virtual environments might be harnessed to create new inventions, solve real - world problems and even discover cures for diseases.

But Fuller and Seaborg also see the enhancement of life possible in new technologies: they can feed, clothe, house, cure diseases, remove tile burden of poverty, and open new ventures for tile human spirit.

It started with finding out they had a disease on their farm for six months or more — having purchased calves from Van Leeuwen Dairy Group where the disease was first detected in New Zealand — yet there were no symptoms in their calves and there was no cure.

Formula manufacturers, recognizing its unquestionable superiority, have been trying to duplicate human milk for years, as new components were discovered in mother's milk that prevent and / or cure diseases and illnesses of all kinds.

Antibodies to the rogue prion protein may one day provide a cure for variant Creutzfeldt - Jacob disease (vCJD), the deadly human counterpart of mad cow disease, according to new research conducted with mice.

Using the new science of optogenetics, scientists can activate or shut down neural pathways, altering behavior and heralding a true cure for psychiatric disease.

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.»

Now new research from Tel Aviv University - affiliated researchers, in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University, has provided another tool to help women, clinicians, and scientists searching for a cure to the one of the most widespread yet incurable diseases on the planet.

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.

The Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases, which will be set up primarily for the discovery and development of new treatments, vaccines, and cures for tropical diseases, will spend SG$ 220 million on research over the next 5 to 10 years.

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.

There is currently no cure for this kind of neuromuscular disorder so new treatments that can tackle the progression of disease are urgently needed.»

People with asbestosis are not currently eligible for new treatments for IPF, despite the fact that these treatments work on curing an identical disease.

The good news is that because the genes of these organisms are so similar to our own, they can help reveal new cures for genetic diseases.

Given new information about «The cure for thalassemia», a formal system would detect an inconsistency because the word «cure» is associated with diseases and not places.

As a new generation of gene therapy clinical trials shows promise to cure or halt the progression of several rare diseases, the time has come to explore ways to pay for the cutting edge treatments, a pediatric hematologist - oncologist from Dana - Farber / Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center argues in a commentary published by the journal Science.

Those of a more experimental nature wished for a chemistry set and dreamed of discovering new elements or a cure for some disease, generating pungent odors and startling explosions as they went.

Both open new avenues for genetic research and even curing diseases.

It will launch a new effort to conquer a disease that has touched the life of nearly every American by seeking a cure for cancer in our time.

As brain - focused cures for such diseases remain elusive, scientists are looking to the microbiome for new insight and novel strategies.

It is worthwhile to give patients expensive new drugs that can cure their hepatitis C much earlier than some insurers are now willing to pay for them, according to a UC San Francisco study that models the effects of treating the disease early versus late in its development.

I hope this approach will be a model to help us find new cures for other intractable disease.»

Hopefully, this new knowledge will help to find a future cure for patients who suffer such a devastating disease as LCA.»

Allen Spiegel, dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, said he has a ready answer for people who ask him the old question: if we can put a man on the moon, why can't we cure disease X with stem cells?

A new study by French and UK researchers published in a leading journal this week suggests that should no cure be found for dementia, then the biggest impact on reducing rates of this progressive brain destroying disease is likely to come from eliminating diabetes and depression and boosting education, as well as encouraging people to eat more fruit and vegetables.

This breakthrough, published today in the journal Cell Stem Cell, opens up a new avenue in the search for a medication to cure or slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease.

«If we can reliably «cure» food allergies, or related conditions such as asthma or autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis with this new therapy, it would be life - changing for affected individuals.»

It helps for science news to have dramatic relevance to human affairs: Is there strong new hope for curing a disease, transforming the economy, building a better mousetrap?

«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.

They are the engine that drives new discoveries and advances research towards cures for diseases.

The CCFA Genetics Initiative seeks to deliver validated pathway models of IBD disease mechanisms, new animal models for analysis and development, chemical probes of relevant pathways, new proteins and pathway targets, recruitment of new IBD investigators, and a tested paradigm for rapid analysis and cure for Crohn's disease.

Dr. Srivastava has co-founded a biotechnology company to help find new cures for many human diseases and one of the developmental genes whose role he discovered, Thymosin β4, is currently in clinical trials for patients suffering ischemic damage to the heart.

The new cells, which Yamanaka called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, looked and behaved like embryonic stem cells, which are prized for their ability to transform themselves into almost any kind of tissue and, perhaps, someday cure disease — a more distinct possibility now that President Barack Obama has loosened restrictions on stem cell research.

The promise of new CRISPR gene - editing technology has always been that it might lead to a cure for specific genetic diseases.

To deliver a functional cure for all patients with type 1 diabetes and an important new therapy for patients with type 2 disease that require insulin to maintain control, ViaCyte is developing products with numerous advantages including a virtually unlimited supply of cells manufactured under quality - controlled conditions, and a potentially safer and more optimal route of administration.

«RBC's generosity is a great example of business, medicine and science joining forces to help ensure continued support for the innovative medical research that offer hope for new treatments and cures for children with complex diseases.»

Since 1887, Pasteur scientists have been the driving force in the search for new treatments, therapies and cures for disease.

In their pursuit of cures for debilitating diseases, Gladstone scientists are approaching precision medicine from new angles, researching the microbiome and protein networks that are critical for human biology.

And presumably you would see the disease in a dish, and that might allow you to actually look for medicines or drugs that you could treat the dish and cure the disease in a dish, and that might lead to new therapies for those patients.

Andrew Huberman, PhD: Catalyst for a Cure is all about finding new ways to detect and treat glaucoma and ultimately to cure the diseCure is all about finding new ways to detect and treat glaucoma and ultimately to cure the disecure the disease.

NIAID is working to better understand HIV and how it causes disease, find new tools to prevent HIV infection, develop new and more effective treatments for HIV - infected people, and find a cure.

This effort drives ground - breaking science through collaboration and innovation by bringing together scientific fields, ideas, and technologies to fuel creativity, create new approaches, and advance progress toward cures for devastating 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.

These findings point to a potential new tactic for treating a variety of neurodegenerative conditions, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease)-- a fatal disease for which there is no cure.

This new entity speeds the discovery of cures for major diseases by bringing scientists, new research technologies, and industry leaders together to do research that exceeds the capacity of any single laboratory.

BGU researchers in the Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience and Brain Imaging Research Center are gaining insight toward developing new treatments and, possibly, cures for diseases like Alzheimer's, stroke, trauma - induced epilepsy, Parkinson's, and mental illness.