This technology helps researchers connect mutations in the so - called genomic «dark matter» with the genes they affect, potentially
revealing new therapeutic targets for genetic disorders.
To this end, he has identified and is
pursuing new therapeutic targets and experimental strategies to block disease - causing processes and to make the brain more resistant to disease.
Professor Andrew Lotery, who led the Southampton contribution, hopes the findings may help improve the understanding of the biological processes that lead to AMD and
identify new therapeutic targets for potential drug development.
«Mitochondrial metabolism linked to acute kidney injury: PGC1 alpha works through NAD «aging molecule» to guard against stress; research
offers new therapeutic target for acute kidney injury.»
Our work suggests that studying PI (3,4) P2 - regulated processes may reveal why PTEN is such a powerful tumour suppressor and may also help us to identify
new therapeutic targets in PTEN - mutated cancers.»
This novel model also has the potential to help
find new therapeutic targets within the immune system and to help design vaccines for patients who do not typically respond to immunotherapy.
In their pilot study, they are gathering data on three potential SCC genes to see if these genes could be used
as new therapeutic targets or as early cancer markers.
«Since neurotrophins and their receptors control the communication between the brain and peripheral organs, they could be
new therapeutic targets with implications in both metabolic and neurologic diseases.»
Future investigations on the postsynaptic role of p - tau will be necessary to understand its toxic effects and provide insights
into new therapeutic targets for maintaining spine integrity, highlighting the importance of tau toxicity as well as the impact of sex on tau - pathology.
Improving our understanding of the relationship between changes in the retinal microvasculature, RNFL and lamina cribrosa in the pathophysiology of glaucoma can inform the development of
new therapeutic targets designed to slow the microvasculature changes as a new non-IOP lowering approach to glaucoma therapy.
«This study opens an entirely new area of discovery for many aspects of cell biology and biomedical research — how cancer cells metastasize, for example — and provides
many new therapeutic targets,» said senior author Jack Dixon, PhD, professor in the UC San Diego School of Medicine and associate vice chancellor of Scientific Affairs.
He envisions a global initiative worth about $ 200 million a year — half from private money and half from public and charitable sources — that would focus solely
on new therapeutic targets.
«The induced pluripotent stem cells we used in this study proved to be extremely useful in disease modelling, and they could offer an excellent platform for drug discovery and
testing new therapeutic targets for Alzheimer's disease in the future,» says Early Stage Researcher Minna Oksanen, the lead author of the study.
«With TEK, we know exactly what's going wrong, which means we've identified a pathway that could be a
great new therapeutic target for severe glaucoma and even more common forms of the disease.»
A cold «sensor» which triggers the skin's vascular response to the cold could represent an
exciting new therapeutic target for the treatment of frostbite and hypothermia, according to scientists at King's College London.
Our collaborations with industry, government agencies, and academia focus on developing new disease models,
elucidating new therapeutic targets to develop treatments, safety testing on new chemical entities, enabling better and safer design of new consumer products, and new applications in personalized healthcare.
The focused, long - term effort of the Catalyst For a Cure continues to discover new mechanisms involved in the loss of retinal neurons which could
open new therapeutic targets — and serves as a national role model for effective research.
COPD is now considered to be a disease of accelerated ageing of the lung, and understanding the molecular signalling pathways involved in the ageing process (cellular senescence) has identified new therapeutic targets [37].
Kilian's main research interests comprise the functional exploration of cellular signaling networks by the development of specific chemical probes and chemical biology approaches apt to identify
new therapeutic targets relevant for the treatment of human disease.
An international study led by researchers at Monash University» Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) has shone light on the way the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) hijacks the communication systems in the host cells it infects, uncovering
potential new therapeutic targets for the disease.
Her research group focuses on diagnostic, prognostic and predictive biomarkers;
discovering new therapeutic targets; cancer cells communication via exosomes, microvesicles and CTCs; elucidating and circumventing resistance to targets agents and classical chemotherapy; associations between obesity, metabolic syndrome and cancer.
Understanding the role of glial cells in glaucoma as well as what happens to the optic nerve where the retinal nerve axons leave the eye may
present new therapeutic targets and even potential biomarkers of glaucoma.
These two histones thus have a key role of epigenetic silencing of tumor suppressor genes in breast cancer (and likely other cancers), suggesting that they may
represent new therapeutic targets.
«Novel imaging model helps
reveal new therapeutic target for pancreatic cancer: Antisense treatment in preclinical models shows effectiveness against deadly tumors.»
In addition to generating data, an important goal of the AMP T2D consortium is to make these data accessible via a knowledge portal, using genetic and phenotypic data generated from type 2 diabetics and controls across multiple populations in order to bring forth discoveries in the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes and to facilitate the development
of new therapeutic targets for treating this disease.
Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators have adapted a CRISPR gene editing technique and used it to
find new therapeutic targets for acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
«We think this development will help other scientists better utilize open data, hopefully leading to the discovery of
new therapeutic targets for disease,» says first author Andra Waagmeester, PhD, formerly a researcher at Maastricht University and now CEO of the start - up company Micelio.
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