Sentences with phrase «of curing it of these diseases»

Ghanaians voted for them because they claimed there so many ills bedeviling the country and they are capable of curing it of these diseases.

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«The idea of being able to use biology to design and engineer living things that can do things like cure disease or eliminate organ waiting lists, or even revert climate change, or help us live on other planets — that's more what was exciting about it,» he says.

In September, CZI committed $ 3 billion to help fund cures for all the diseases facing humanity by 2100 as part of Zuckerberg's promise to donate 99 percent of his Facebook shares (a $ 45 billion - value in September 2015 when he announced the pledge).

Not to mention that advances in science and technology are ushering in a new era of medical research that will likely cure many diseases in the coming decade or two.

Of the leading causes of death, Alzheimer's Disease is the only one for which there is no way to prevent it, cure it, or slow its progressioOf the leading causes of death, Alzheimer's Disease is the only one for which there is no way to prevent it, cure it, or slow its progressioof death, Alzheimer's Disease is the only one for which there is no way to prevent it, cure it, or slow its progression.

The bulk of research scientists working on Alzheimer's have long believed that a buildup of amyloid «plaques» is central to the disease's development — and that therefore targeting this protein is the best chance for a cure.

In September, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan promised to spend a whopping $ 3 billion of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's extensive capital over the next 10 years, as it works towards its lofty goal of curing, preventing or managing all diseases by the end of the century.

Under Frazier's leadership, Merck has been «plunging ahead» with tens of millions of dollars to find a drug that could slow or cure Alzheimer's disease, even as «most drugmakers» have halted research or at least scaled in back in the face of research setbacks, according to Fox News.

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.

Now that the barrier of editing genes in the hospital setting has been broken, these companies and more have pipelines of gene - editing innovation coming to a hospital near you in the next few years, as clinical trials are approved and new ways to cure formerly incurable diseases go mainstream in our lifetimes.

Precision medicine is the «cure» piece, but even that isn't possible if we don't move the intervention curve closer and accurately predict and prevent early enough in the progression of disease.»

His left leg had to be amputated, but he was declared cured of the disease by the time he was 13.

«We got involved in biotech in the late 90's when two of our children were diagnosed with a rare genetic disease... at the time there was nothing,» said Crowley «So we really focused as parents initially on what could we do to help drive science to a cure.

The sudden deluge of allegations is not a symptom of the disease, but a sign of the cure.

Together with his physician wife, Priscilla Chan, he has become one of the world's most ambitious philanthropists, most recently pledging $ 3 billion to an initiative with an audacious goal: to cure, prevent, or make manageable all diseases in their children's lifetime.

«Our initial areas of focus will be personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities,» he wrote.

The key, he says, will be getting our scientific process to the point at which we can detect a disease, develop a test for it, and create a cure in a short amount of time.

The effort aims to «bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes — and give all of us access to the personalized information we need to keep ourselves and our families healthier,» Obama said at the time of the announcement in late January.

That's not just critical for curing the disease, it's also a major money saver because an extra month of medication would cost tens of thousands of dollars.

No one wants to pay anyone to develop the cure for no known disease or try to fund and launch a solution in search of a problem.

The Food and Drug Administration is deliberately preventing the public from getting natural cures for cancer and other diseases because of pressure from drug companies.

Every day, Pfizer colleagues work across developed and emerging markets to advance wellness, prevention, treatments and cures that challenge the most feared diseases of our time.

Likewise, despite decades of tries, there's still no cure for Parkinson's disease or even a drug that's been shown to slow its neurodegenerative progression.

They cure diseases that killed our forebears in droves, and enable any number of medical procedures and treatments that we now take for granted.

Mike Kope, CEO at SENS, said of Buterin's charity, «SENS Research Foundation is honored to be the recipient of Vitalik's incredible generosity... His support is critical to SENS Research Foundation's expansion of our programs... Our work to cure the diseases of aging is dependent on the generous support of our donors and we appreciate his support tremendously.»

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While a race for the cure is on, what can millions of Americans do today to prevent the onset of this debilitating disease?

Qualified medical expenses include payments for the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, or cure of disease — as well as payments for treatments that affect any structure or function of the body.

Whether one dollar or one thousand, your gift is helping LLS's mission to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's Disease, and myeloma as well as improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Since its foundation in 2005, the NYSCF has become a leader in using stem cell research and technology to find cures for a range of diseases, from heart disease and diabetes to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

Whilst we can't know the future of course, for financial planning purposes the probability is that life expectancy on average will increase in the future as medicine advances to cure or limit the big killers (cancer, cardiovascular disease etc).

Abeona Therapeutics Inc was founded back in 1974; this biopharmaceutical company develops methods of curing rare and life - threatening genetic diseases.

That cash doesn't include the money PhRMA's spending on the ongoing «Go Boldly» campaign, a series of TV, print and radio ads designed to polish the drug industry's image by reminding the public that drug companies do world - class research that brings disease cures to market to save lives.

Another company has made real progress in the fight to cure Alzheimer's disease — while other cures fall by the wayside this company seems to be on the leading edge of technology.

The most important component of global regulation are the negotiations around what is often referred to as «Basel III» and echoing the fears of any 19th century person contemplating a hospital stay, I am concerned that the proposed cures are worse than the disease.

Case in point, the religious tries to halt stem cell research, which could mean that a cure for a disease that one of my kids develops might not be found.

we as believers have a commission: Then Jesus called together the Twelve [apostles] and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases, And He sent them out to announce and preach the kingdom of God and to bring healing.

spent on the worship od imaginary dieties... was spent on a cure for cancer, heart disease and the «education of the young... and a cure for war... but no your gods are more important than the human race.

how about if science hadn't sought cures for most of the disease in this world because «GOD CAN DO IT»?

And millions of Americans would not needlessly suffer and die from diseases tht he and Dubya blocked cures for in exchange for bloc voting.

If the pope or «God» cured this guy of the disease, that would be news.

So, not a bad choice, but one might also pick one of the many cures to diseases that medical science has found in the face of religious opposition to medical science, religious propagation of erroneous information in the Christian bible about disease propagation, and many other science errors in the Christian bible.

If you're president believed that gays need to be cured of their disease, would you want him making decisions about equality?

Paul Root Wolpe, the director for the Center of Ethics at Emory University, said Mourdock's comments were the equivalent «of saying you shouldn't pull people out of the rubble because God intended the earthquake to happen or we shouldn't try to cure disease because it's God who gave us the disease,» Wolpe said.

Sister Marie - Simon - Pierre says she was cured of Parkinson's disease.

At the Convocation, Pierre asserted that «the pastoral plan of the Holy Father in Evangelii gaudium is what God expects, and as one theologian recently said, «If you don't think Francis is the cure, you don't grasp the disease.

The more we understand what causes a disease the more hope we have of finding a cure or a way to prevent it, or in the best case scenario, of wiping it out as we did smallpox.

He was never cured of his disease, but he was healed.

All this time, and not only is God still «responding to the facts of human life,» but doing so with unprecedented intensity and resolve in the person of him who cures disease and puts demons to flight and heals the breach between humanity and God: even «Jesus Christ, Son of God» (Mark 1:1)

Hatred, fear, boredom, and hopelessness are often the sources of disease, and love, courage, high purpose, and hope are then needed to effect a cure.