Sentences with phrase «of epidermolysis bullosa»
These technical developments will allow also the establishment of pathological modelling of the epidermolysis bullosa disorders.
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The treatment — a whole - body graft of genetically modified stem cells — is the most ambitious attempt yet to treat a severe form of epidermolysis bullosa (EB), an often - fatal group of conditions that cause skin to blister and tear off at the slightest touch.
After she earned her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1991, she began an emotionally wrenching postdoctoral fellowship: hunting down the genetic basis of epidermolysis bullosa, a childhood disease that causes disfiguring and even fatal blisters.
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He had one of the most painful diseases known to medicine, epidermolysis bullosa (EB), but was defiantly happy.
When Christiano made the switch to hair research from skin blisters, some of her colleagues in the epidermolysis bullosa field wondered if her research had turned trivial.
Fragile skin that blisters easily: 90 percent of the patients that suffer from the skin condition recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB) develop rapidly progressing cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas, a type of skin cancer, by the age of 55.