Sentences with phrase «new treatment targets»

The project aims to develop tools and identify new treatment targets for tackling cancer.

Researchers have discovered crucial new processes that allow malaria parasites to escape red blood cells and infect other cells, offering potential new treatment targets.

The results will help medical professionals identify new treatment targets and methods for certain kidney diseases and cancers.

The findings give insight into how brain signals are disrupted by the disease and offer a potential new treatment target.

BREAKING DOWN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS Taking narrow aim at the immune system isn't enough, so researchers are looking for new treatment targets within nerve cells and even in the gut.

While such basic research can suggest new treatment targets, the speakers noted that there are many obstacles before clinical treatment of brain disorders with optogenetics becomes a reality.

«New treatment targets cancers with particular genetic signature: Mutations in gene SETD2 make cancer cells vulnerable to drug inhibiting the protein WEE1.»

Scientists at MCG say a logical and effective new treatment target for certain cancers is to block production of the chemical that initiates the call that allows tumor growth.

It may ultimately suggest revisions to diagnostic categories over the coming decades ---- and hopefully lead to new treatments targeted on the basis of genetic factors and patterns of abnormal brain circuit activity, said Cuthbert.

«The neurotransmitter - based models we are currently using to treat depression are more than 40 years old, and we really need new treatment targets.

We investigate the role of genes and proteins in the onset of cancer, with the goal of identifying new treatment targets for this disease.

The study, to be published online in Cell on Oct. 31, offers a new theory of cancer development and could open the door for new treatment targets.

«Scientists unravel likely causes of blood vessel leakage in severe dengue: Dengue virus protein may disrupt protective lining of vessels, suggesting potential new treatment targets.»

«At this time, when prescription opioid use and opioid overdoses are both major threats to our public health, it is important to identify new treatment targets, such as epigenetic processes, that help to change the way that we do business in treating opioid use disorders,» said professor John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry.

«Identifying the molecular underpinnings of why some individuals are at - risk for developing anxiety and depression has the potential to identify new treatment targets,» added Roseboom.

«We hope we will find that healthy function is restored as well, which could translate to a new treatment target for this complex, disabling disease.»

«If these findings are confirmed in larger studies, they hold significant implications for new treatment targets and open the door for more questions such as: should these patients be treated more aggressively with medications, cognitive rehabilitation, or even surgery to open up the artery,» said Lal.

The gene GT198, whether mutated by genetics and / or environmental factors, has strong potential as both as a way to diagnose breast cancer early and as a new treatment target, said Dr. Lan Ko, cancer biologist in the Department of Pathology at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University and at the Georgia Cancer Center at AU.

The discovery of the histone mutation in 2012 has opened up a new line of research and a search for new treatment targets.

The study, which was led by Sven Nelander, Uppsala University / SciLifeLab, and published in the journal EBioMedicine, illustrated how researchers in the future will be able to use large - scale data to find new disease mechanisms and identify new treatment targets.

The findings, published today in the Journal of Affective Disorders, suggest that the causes of childhood - onset depression may be different from those of adult - onset depression, and could lead to new treatments targeting the mechanisms which govern biological ageing.

This finding could open the door for new treatment targets to help Parkinson's patients walk more easily.»