Sentences with phrase «now study disease»

The system he created, CRISPR / Cas9, means scientists can now study disease, cures, and cellular...

Not exact matches

Nowinski, who suffered multiple concussions on the football field and in the wrestling ring, now dedicates his work to concussion research and education, both at the Sports Legacy Institute, where he is president, and at Boston University, where he is co-director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease brought on by repeated trauma.

Now a US study has found that while the number of people with coeliac disease has dipped slightly in the past five years, staying...

But now I'm able to work on resources and tools that could be applied to the study of any disease and many different data types.

A multicenter study that previously reported a reduction in heart attack and stroke with a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil or with nuts now also reports a lower risk of peripheral artery disease, according to a study in the January 22/29 issue of JAMA.

«This study is important, in part because we now have a new xenograft model that will for the first time allow us to apply new biomarkers to better predict disease progression and test new therapeutics.»

He studied medicine at the University of Rochester in the 1950s but found his niche in epidemiology when he took a job at the Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta, Georgia, now the Centers for Disease Control, to fulfil his mandatory military service.

In the now published study, scientists compared genomes of 42,335 people with coronary artery disease and 78,240 healthy people with 5,000 commonly occurring SNPs.

What impact they may have had is now only a guess, but this study revealed that these cells were less common in the brains of women who had Alzheimer's disease, suggesting they may be related to the health of the brain.

«The state of the art right now is targeting two or three genes simultaneously and then looking at the effects, but we think that perhaps the gene sets that need to be modulated to address some of these diseases are actually broader than that,» says Lu, who is the senior author of the study.

«Our study group has spent decades studying the health effects of diet quality and composition, and now this new data also suggests overall dietary habits can be important to lower risk of coronary heart disease,» said Eric Rimm, Sc.D., senior author and Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School.

Now, a UCLA study has traced the Pavlovian response to a small cluster of brain cells — the same neurons that go awry during Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease and Tourette's syndrome.

In a study published today [Jan 26, 2016] in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, the team documents a disease trajectory that started with nine positive patients and has now spread to more than 13,000 infected individuals in that country.

A New Diagnosis of Hope Now, researchers have further refined their understanding of the syndrome, and a series of powerful new studies published over the past couple of years have helped establish autoimmunity's role in neuropsychiatric disease.

Now Robert Belshaw at Plymouth University, UK, and Gkikas Magiorkinis at the University of Oxford, who study whether these viral DNA sequences contribute to disease, have found evidence that we do share some of these sections of DNA with our extinct cousins.

«The study of this type of tumours has been problematic up to now due to the lack of cell models and the appropriate animal models,» says CNIC researcher Juan Carlos Ramírez, who adds that the difficulty of generating these chromosomal translocations had limited the availability of cells with this mark of the disease.

Now, two new studies have added another disease: multiple sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disorder that strips away nerve cells» protective covers, leading to muscle weakness, blindness, and even death.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto / JeremyRichards Diabetes, heart disease, stroke and other afflictions that once primarily plagued wealthier, western countries are now accelerating in poorer nations.A new study reveals that risk factors for heart disease in Indian cities are now more prevalent than they are in the U.S.

However, in the largest study of its kind so far, scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg have now shown that the risk of death from heart disease in breast cancer patients following radiotherapy or chemotherapy is no higher than it is among the average population.

Scientists now have a base of knowledge they can use to more strategically and precisely study diseases and explore new treatments.

«Researchers illuminate key role of NOX proteins in liver disease: Study adds credence to new treatment approach now in clinical trials.»

Now, a study reveals that parental refusals to vaccinate their children may have played a part in that epidemic and possibly in a concurrent nationwide resurgence of the disease.

Dr Grainger and his team are now working with other groups at The University of Manchester to carry out further studies on monocytes, particularly from patients with inflammatory conditions, and are focused on identifying situations where this gut information system may have gone wrong such as in inflammatory bowel diseases.

This is one of the diseases whose development researchers will now be able to study in the lab.

Now, a study published online April 27th, in the Journal of Immunology, confirms that the cytokine GM - CSF (Granulocyte macrophage colony - stimulating factor) likely plays an important role in human disease and offers a new explanation for why the MS treatment interferon - Beta (INF - β) is often effective at reducing MS attacks.

Now a study of 10,892 adults over 10 years has found that, in the first six years after giving up, former smokers are 70 per cent more likely than non-smokers to develop the disease.

For now, scientists tend to focus their multi-omic studies on a particular disease or question.

Now, a team of scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed the Just EGFP Death - Inducing T - cell, or JEDI T - cells, which enable the visualization of T - cell antigens, allowing researchers to study T - cell interactions with different cell types, model disease states, and finally determine the functions of otherwise poorly characterized cell populations.

Davies, now at the Litwin - Zucker Center for the Study of Alzheimer's Disease and Memory Disorders in Manhasset, New York, suspects a different culprit.

Researchers are now studying the effect of this peptide to see in what other areas this type of immune education will prevent disease, such as with food allergies.

«Up to now, salt has been regarded as a detrimental dietary factor; it is clearly known to be detrimental for cardiovascular diseases, and recent studies have implicated a role in worsening autoimmune diseases,» says first study author Jonathan Jantsch, a microbiologist at Universitätsklinikum Regensburg and Universität Regensburg.

Although epidemiologists also praise the work, some say too many other factors determine Lyme disease outbreaks for the study to have much predictive value for now.

The beginnings of an international scientific network to study the disease and pinpoint a cause are now taking shape.

Now, with findings from a study led by University of Pennsylvania researchers, there is new hope that the disease can be effectively reversed.

International guidelines from the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease / Infectious Diseases Society of America, the European Study for the Association of the Liver, the International Network for Hepatitis in Substance Users, and the World Health Organization, now all recommend treatment for hepatitis C infection among people who use drugs.

For years now the gold standard for R&D in Alzheimer's disease has focused on generating convincing evidence that any new therapy being studied could slow the cognitive decline of patients and help preserve their ability to perform the kind of daily functions that can keep a patient independent for a longer period of time.

The researchers now want to conduct follow - up studies to optimise the use of IgEnio — currently patients have to have IgE antibodies removed from their blood for a morning approximately once a week during the pollen season — and to test its use for treating inflammatory skin diseases, in which IgE antibodies are also implicated.

In January researchers — following up with the Whitehall II study, begun in the 1980s — unveiled fresh details about the mechanisms underlying the now firmly established links among low job control, stress and high cardiovascular disease.

These airway spheres now can be used to study cystic fibrosis disease activity using a specific test called a swelling assay.

Two drugs recently showed promise in clinical trials, and now a study in Science Translational Medicine offers both an unprecedentedly deep explanation of how the disease progresses and introduces another potential therapeutic avenue.

Prior studies by the Mailman School of Public Health and other institutions have reported an increase in body mass index and a prevalence of type 2 diabetes in both men and women after prenatal famine exposure, but until now results have been inconsistent with respect to cardiovascular disease.

To deal with this poverty of riches, Ioannidis proposes that researchers cooperate more to confirm one another's findings Toward that end, he and other genetics researchers two years ago established a network of research consortia now consisting of 26 groups, he says, each with a dozen to hundreds of members, for investigators studying various cancers, HIV, Parkinson's disease and other disorders.

«The world we live in is very interconnected now said Dr. Isaac Bogoch, a tropical infectious disease specialist at the Toronto General Hospital who contributed to the study.

Now, a new study led by infectious disease researcher Dr. Sachiko Seo, formerly of Fred Hutch and now a physician at the National Cancer Research Center East in Chiba, Japan, and Boeckh and published last month in the journal Haematologica has found that like more «serious» viruses, rhinovirus can cause pneumonia — and when it does, it can be deadly to those recovering from transplantatiNow, a new study led by infectious disease researcher Dr. Sachiko Seo, formerly of Fred Hutch and now a physician at the National Cancer Research Center East in Chiba, Japan, and Boeckh and published last month in the journal Haematologica has found that like more «serious» viruses, rhinovirus can cause pneumonia — and when it does, it can be deadly to those recovering from transplantatinow a physician at the National Cancer Research Center East in Chiba, Japan, and Boeckh and published last month in the journal Haematologica has found that like more «serious» viruses, rhinovirus can cause pneumonia — and when it does, it can be deadly to those recovering from transplantation.

Now, a new joint study by UCLA, the National Institutes of Health and Consolidated Research Inc., has shown there is a twofold increase in the risk of a heart attack shortly after beginning testosterone therapy among men under 65 who have a history of heart disease.

«It's clear from these types of studies that the way we're keeping the lights on until late at night, the way in which society demands that we stay active for so much longer, could well be contributing to aspects of the metabolic disease we're seeing now,» says Steve Kay, a molecular geneticist at the University of California, San Diego.

«Until now, no studies have separated how resistance to these two different drug actions might work,» says Roepe, also a professor of biochemistry and cell and molecular biology and co-founder of Georgetown's Center for Infectious Disease at Georgetown University Medical Center.

The emphasis now is to store samples from almost every major study with correlative science in mind, and this is essential if we are to understand disease biology, mechanism of response and resistance to therapy in the era of targeted therapy and precision medicine.»

Now, in a series of recent studies, scientists at the University of Missouri are using whole genome sequencing through the 99 Lives Cat Genome Sequencing Consortium to identify genetic variants that cause rare diseases, such as progressive retinal atrophy and Niemann - Pick type 1, a fatal disorder in domestic cats.

ResearchKit already has five apps, live now, that link users to studies on Parkinson's disease, diabetes, asthma, breast cancer and heart disease.