Sentences with phrase «of mysterious diseases»

That strength can backfire, though, leading women to suffer from far more autoimmune disorders — in which the immune system attacks itself — and the host of mysterious diseases thought to sometimes result from an overreactive immune system, such as celiac disease, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), and many types of pelvic pain.

A National Institutes of Health (NIH) program aimed at tracking down the causes of mysterious diseases is bearing fruit.

Scientists have solved the puzzle of a mysterious disease that 3 years ago wiped out a third of the coral at some reefs off the Florida Keys.

Lassa fever was discovered in 1969, when two missionary nurses died of a mysterious disease in the remote town of Lassa in Borno state in northeastern Nigeria.

Realizing that solving the problem of this mysterious disease would require research training, Dr. Zoghbi went back to school, in molecular genetics.

In one charming scene, Alexander sits down with an ape to read Charles Burns's graphic novel Black Hole, a nice touch to anyone familiar with that story of a mysterious disease.

Here, two doctors from the World Health Organization, Dr. Eva Rojas (Penelope Cruz) and Dr. Frank Hopper (Glynn Turman), are investigating an outbreak of a mysterious disease.

Travel with Gladia and her companions to find the source of a mysterious disease, that spreads through Maelon and Tripudia.

«Symptoms of a mysterious disease that has killed scores of seals off Alaska and infected walruses are now showing up in polar bears, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said on Friday.»

Not exact matches

Netflix description: «After a mysterious disease kills every resident over 22 years old, survivors of a town must fend for themselves when the government quarantines them.»

While we can try throwing different antibiotics at any number of strange and unfamiliar bacterial infections, we have no similar sledgehammer for mysterious viral diseases, which each have to be studied carefully before we can even begin to figure out how to fight or prevent them.

Under primitive conditions man was so at the mercy of wind and storm, heat and cold, drought and rain, mysterious diseases and unpredictable disasters, that the first, natural explanation of his good or evil fortune was sought in the will of superhuman forces.

Absorbed in caring for our 2 - year - old and preparing for a newborn, the farthest thing on our minds was news that day of a cluster of men in Los Angeles with a mysterious, devastating disease.

The General Overseer of God's Crown Chapel in Kumasi, Prophet Reindolph Oduro Gyebi popularly known as Eagle prophet predicted on Wednesday on Abusua FM that the Black Stars of Ghana will be involved in a fatal plane crash while former national team legend, Abedi Pele will also pass on through a mysterious disease.

The World Health Organization has added a mysterious, yet - to - exist new malady to its list of nine diseases that may cause a worldwide epidemic: Disease X.

Despite years of study, the means by which these microbes cause such severe disease remain mysterious.

«Mysterious skeleton shows molecular complexity of bone diseases.»

Wendy Orent is the author of Plague: The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World's Most Dangerous Disease.

A teacher of science journalism at Emory University, she is author of Plague: The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World's Most Dangerous Disease and co-author of Biowarrior: Inside the Soviet / Russian Biological War Machine.

Thousands of children suffer from this mysterious disease, and rivers may hold a clue to its origins.

Although the idea of immunotherapy — activating or boosting the body's natural defenses to fight diseases better — has been around for decades, the molecular keys to unleash the immune system without doing more damage than good have long remained mysterious.

A mysterious disease that is turning sea stars to goo has taken off along the Oregon coast, with up to half or more of the creatures being infected in just the last few weeks, scientists say.

A mysterious disease is killing hundreds of horses every year.

FUJI, THE DOLPHIN Winter's not the first dolphin to receive a prosthesis — that distinction goes to Fuji, who had the end of her tail amputated after contracting a mysterious necrotic disease.

Plague: The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World's Most Dangerous Disease Wendy Orent (Free Press, $ 25)

A new study suggests that an aggressive reef competitor — the Threespot Damselfish — may have impeded the recovery of Caribbean long - spined sea urchin populations after a mysterious disease outbreak caused a massive die - off of these animals over three decades ago.

The realization that trace amounts of arsenic might pose a health threat began with mysterious outbreaks of disease in Southeast Asia.

A mysterious group of viruses known for their circular genome has been detected in patients with severe disease on two continents.

Vicky Apara, 15, is one of thousands of children in Uganda suffering from the mysterious and sometimes fatal nodding disease now spreading there.

If they are right, this work could lead to final proof of how these mysterious diseases are spread.

The same treatment killed many other types of neurons, including both the spinal motor neurons that die in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and the human dopaminergic neurons whose mysterious loss is the cause of Parkinson's disease.

Here at the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center, donated specimens are sliced up, preserved, stored, and eventually parceled out to neuroscientists worldwide who study them for clues to disease, cognition, and the mysterious cellular underpinnings of psychology.

«Some imaging studies using mouse models of Alzheimer's disease had revealed the presence in these mice's brains of tiny, mysterious black dots that could signal the presence of iron, an element that shows up dark under MRI and, in certain chemical forms, can be highly reactive and inflammation - inducing,» Rutt said.

Using genetic analyses and the translucent tail of a fish, researchers have pinpointed the underlying cause of a rare, mysterious heart disease that is preceded by hearing loss.

On the opening day of the biggest ever Huntington's disease therapeutics conference, we heard a lot about studying the complexities of the brain, and the role of the huntingtin protein, still mysterious twenty years after its discovery - but not very much about drugs.

Her game - changing technology takes a mysterious bacterial genetic code and transforms it into a powerful tool for cutting and pasting bits of genetic material — meaning not only could the entire field of gene therapy be revived, but her genome - editing tool could one day be used to treat a range of diseases, from cancer and AIDS to hereditary disorders like Down syndrome and Huntington disease.

In a finding that supports a new mechanism of inheritance and the leading theory as to the mysterious causative agent of «mad cow» disease and human Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease, researchers at the University of Chicago's Howard Hughes Medical Institute have shown that a defective cell trait can be propagated by a faulty protein, without any DNA or RNA serving as the genetic blueprint.

A newly identified gene mutation helps explain a subset of cases of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), or brittle bone disease, whose origin had until now remained mysterious.

Here is a list of things I have been treated for in the last 15 years: severe gout, depression, ADD, ADHD, high blood pressure, eczema, bipolar disorder, sever back and body pain, overeating / binge eating, mysterious rashes, gum disease, fingernail / toenail fungus, vision problems, nicotine addiction, marijuana use, alcoholism... and more.

Stay away from several diseases, with the help of this mysterious rice: It is a rich source of antioxidants like Vitamin E that can help combat several disease - causing free radicals.

I had had a number of digestive issues and I had been tested for celiac disease, but when the results came back negative, I assumed there was some other mysterious issue going on that I would just have to live with.

When compounds from the intestines pass through a damaged gut wall into the sterile environment of the bloodstream, they can trigger or flare various health conditions: Hashimoto's hypothyroidism, skin problems, joint pain, chronic pain, autoimmune disease, mysterious symptoms, puffiness, fatigue, brain fog, depression, anxiety disorders, poor memory, asthma, food allergies and sensitivities, seasonal allergies, fungal infections, migraines, arthritis, PMS, and more.

Researchers have established that the toxic substances within high - fructose corn syrup have led to «colony collapse disorder», a mysterious disease, which has killed at the very least one - third of the honeybee population in the United States.

The rates of autoimmune diseases have exploded in recent years, and most are yet undiagnosed — meaning years of chronic and «mysterious» symptoms.

Positively dripping with a soggy, oppressive atmosphere, the film is blanketed with a miasma of madness: The city itself is the enemy here, and the mysterious quarry only a symptom of a much more insatiable disease.

The ensemble drama is told through a series of vignettes that begins with the first New York Times report on the mysterious «cancer» that had resulted in the deaths of a growing number of homosexual men and ends eight years later, after the disease has thoroughly and devastatingly affected the movie's close - knit core group of characters.

Between is the story of a town under siege from a mysterious disease that has wiped out everybody except those 21 years old and under.

When Dr. Ephraim Goodweather (Corey Stoll), the head of the Center for Disease Control in New York City, and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak that is eerily similar to an ancient and evil strain of vampirism, they quickly realize that they are waging war for the fate of humanity itself.

Derek Lee and Clif Prowse's film videographically tells the story of the vicissitudes of two friends traveling through Europe, until one of them contracts a strange disease after spending the night with a mysterious young woman.

Developed by del Toro and Carlton Cuse from the bestselling horror trilogy by del Toro and Chuck Hogan, «The Strain» follows Dr. Ephraim Goodweather (Corey Stoll), whose team from the Centers for Disease Control is called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism.