Sentences with phrase «new human diseases»

One virus - particle doesn't change color, but as it procreates mutations in that process can make the resulting child - virus differ from the parent - virus, so that the child - virus is capable of infecting a human as well as the original host thereby opening the possibility for a new human disease.

Awareness about 2 important publications from IMPC consortium 1 - The analysis of IMPC database that uncovers 360 new human disease models has just been published: Meehan et al., (2017) Disease model discovery from 3,328 gene knockouts by The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium.

Not exact matches

In March, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) adopted a positive opinion to include a new indication for adults with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (myocardial infarction, stroke or peripheral arterial disease) to reduce cardiovascular risk by lowering LDL - C levels.

Because, as Belmonte rightly explains, the new «precisely targeted» tools can help us «study species evolution, biology and disease, and may lead ultimately to the ability to grow human organs for transplant.»

If we can manipulate gut bacteria, we might be able to find new ways to treat some of the most intractable human diseases, even surprising ones like depression and anxiety.

InvivoSciences will continue to contribute to the improvement of human health by establishing a new paradigm for discovering drugs that focus on diseases with limited treatment options such as cardiac fibrosis, scleroderma, and lupus in a time - effective manner while remaining safe and cost effective.»

Innocence of the ghastly conditions of their particular human crisis - grinding poverty, economic slavery, disease; malnutrition that stunts the development of the brain and maims intelligence; thwarted, inhibited stature, physical and psychological shockingly premature death - innocence of this awful truth is at a furious pace giving way to a new consciousness and conscience, to conscientization.

When humans discourage biodiversity, they undermine natural immunity and leave the animal population open to new and fast - spreading 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.

We help protect our Australia's productive industries, environment and human health from pests and diseases by assessing the risks they pose, prioritising the pathways of entry and providing new technologies for surveillance and early response through sensor networks and autonomous platforms.

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.

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At 10:30 a.m., U.S. Senate Minority Leader U.S. Chuck Schumer will urge the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to increase research, vaccine development and treatment strategies to help stamp out tick - borne diseases like Lyme disease, Albany Medical Center, B Entry, Patient Pavilion, Floor E, corner of Myrtle Avenue and New Scotland Avenue, Albany.

With 75 % of all new human pathogens originating from animals, vaccines are key to limiting the future spread of infectious diseases between animals to people around the world» she added.

«These new insights into the complexities of epigenetic regulation are contributing to our basic understanding of this process in human health and disease and gives us new vision for how to go about targeting errors in DNA methylation with innovative drug therapies.»

Gene therapy delivered to a specific part of the brain reverses symptoms of depression in a mouse model of the disease — potentially laying the groundwork for a new approach to treating severe cases of human depression in which drugs are ineffective.

Beyond the university - based experts who also came from Harvard and the University of Pittsburgh, U.S. symposium participants in Havana were from Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center, the Roswell Park Cancer Center, both in New York State, the Moffitt Cancer Center in Florida and the Ponce Research Institute in Puerto Rico, as well as the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, the National Cancer Institute, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention..

The stocks are helping the development of new countermeasures such as drugs, vaccines and diagnostics in case smallpox should reappear, and may also allow researchers to explore the impact of smallpox on the human immune system, providing insights into other diseases such as AIDS.

They hope to create a human model that could help speed up the development of new drugs and vaccines against the disease, which sickens millions of people and kills thousands each year.

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.

High total and saturated fat intake were associated with greater risk of estrogen receptor - and progesterone receptor - positive (ER+PR +) breast cancer (BC), and human epidermal growth factor 2 receptor - negative (HER2 --RRB- disease, according to a new study published April 9 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Some crop — and even human — diseases might be stopped dead in their tracks if researchers can harness a new discovery about how pathogens first infect their hosts

Ocean seagrass meadows reduce bacteria unhealthful to humans and marine organisms by up to 50 %, a new study shows, and they also decrease the likelihood of disease in coral reefs by half.

Studies on the origins of BSE — a fatal disease marked in the early stages by loss of balance — gained urgency with the 1996 emergence in humans of the BSE - like new variant Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease (nvCJD).

Birmingham, U.K. — A provocative new theory about the origin of «mad cow disease» and its human counterpart stirred debate at the annual International Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology here yesterday.

According to this new hypothesis, the disease might be the oldest human - specific infection, with roots that likely stem back millions of years.

This is advantageous, since dogs provide new models to investigate the disease mechanisms and to plan new therapies such as gene therapy, successfully applied to blindness in dogs and human previously,» explains Lohi.

There isn't even a new, self - sustaining human disease.

«Cultural revolution in the study of the gut microbiome: Human gut - on - a-chip technology used to co-culture gut microbiome, human intestinal cells could lead to new therapies for inflammatory bowel diseases.&rHuman gut - on - a-chip technology used to co-culture gut microbiome, human intestinal cells could lead to new therapies for inflammatory bowel diseases.&rhuman intestinal cells could lead to new therapies for inflammatory bowel diseases.»

Future work exploring this possibility will likely produce new insights into mechanisms essential for human wellbeing and deregulated in disease.

«New models advance the study of deadly human prion diseases.»

«The reversible nature of the m6A methylmark adds a new layer to the regulation of gene expression now termed «epitranscriptomics» and warrants further research to establish links with human disease such as cancer,» adds Dr Irmgard Haussmann of Coventry University.

An inflammatory protein that triggers a pregnant mouse's immune response to an infection or other disease appears to cause brain injury in her fetus, but not the premature birth that was long believed to be linked with such neurologic damage in both rodents and humans, new Johns Hopkins - led research suggests.

The new study supports the theory of antibody - dependent enhancement in humans, says Anna Durbin, an infectious diseases physician at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Even the new studies clashed somewhat: Unlike the UCSF study, the German research found no major differences between the overall microbiomes of twins with and without MS. Finally, mouse models of MS are not perfect mimics of the human disease, and mouse immune systems aren't identical to people's.

Preliminary results of the study were presented at a World Health Organization (WHO) evidence review group meeting, while UNITAID has issued a call for further research into the use of endectocide class drugs, of which ivermectin is currently the only one registered for human use, as new vector control tools in the fight against malaria and other mosquito borne disease.

• In other funding news, the National Institutes of Health announced a new $ 17 million program to investigate whether extracellular RNA plays an important signaling role in people, and whether it can be harnessed to diagnose and treat human diseases, Mitch Leslie reports in News & Analysis.

«Humans and mice: Similar enough for studying disease and different enough to give us new clues about evolution.»

«There are very few people in human history who get the privilege of developing a new therapy for any human disease, much less cancer.

The findings highlight the interplay between human interventions, mosquito evolution, and disease outcomes, and will help scientists develop new strategies to overcome pesticide resistance.

The journal provides cutting - edge research including results from animal models that are likely to apply to patients, studies in human tissue that provide new information about therapies or disease, and innovative reports of drug discovery and development.

A new genetic engineering technique may quickly inoculate mosquitoes against malaria, helping to end the spread of the disease in humans.

This new insight into how chromosomes are disassembled and reassembled during cell division will allow researchers to begin answering basic questions about epigenetic inheritance, as well as human disease such as chromosome disorders and cancer.

After discovering the first human cases in Russia in 2011, Krause now thinks the disease — still too new to be named — could exist wherever hard - bodied ticks transmit Lyme.

Another interesting aspect to the work is that it demonstrates the possibility of adding new machinery to human cells to enable them to make therapeutic agents in response to disease signals.»

The new flu, known as H7N9 avian influenza, latches onto sugars that coat bird cells — and it can cling to sugars on human cells too, Yuelong Shu of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention and colleagues...

The finding, reported in next month's issue of Nature Medicine, raises new questions about whether people could contract exotic diseases if animal organs become routinely transplanted into human patients.

She said: «We don't have enough knowledge of how new diseases get from wildlife into humans.

Through painstaking work, German and his colleagues eventually identified dozens of new sugars that could be keys to human health and disease.

For his part, Collins, who has led NIH since 2009 and been kept on by the Trump administration, pointed to an array of promising NIH activities, including the development of new technologies to provide insights into human brain circuitry and function through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neuroethologies (BRAIN initiative) and the use of the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to correct mutations and clear the way to develop and test a «curative therapy» for the first molecular disease: sickle cell disease.