Sentences with phrase «of potential therapies»

And in the clinic, pupils may help diagnose or identify people at risk for mental illnesses, such as anxiety, or the effectiveness of potential therapies.

«For precision medicine to benefit individuals in real time, we must develop robust models to efficiently test efficacy of potential therapies,» Sanchez said.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed an animal research model for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) to be used for muscle regeneration research as well as studies of the effectiveness of potential therapies for FSHD.

«They couldn't care less about us except that we provide them a stable and nutrient - rich habitat,» says Mazmanian, who sees this symbiotic relationship between the human body and microbes as a gold mine of potential therapies for a number of illnesses.

«Convalescent serum is high on our list of potential therapies and has been used in other outbreaks (eg in China during SARS),» WHO said in a written statement to ScienceInsider.

But while we have decades of data in mice about these nervous system support cells, how relevant those experiments are to human biology (and the success of potential therapies) has been an open question.

The discovery opens a vast field of potential therapy, for while glutamate carries out such fundamental processes as sensory perception, learning and memory, changes in its role contribute to many brain diseases.

These studies have highlighted the broad reaching control of T cell responses by OX40 and OX40L, and promoted this interaction to the forefront of potential therapies aimed at dampening T cell driven immune diseases.

«First, it would allow us to understand what DUX4 does in muscle to cause muscle loss, and second, it would provide a system in which efficacy of potential therapies could be evaluated before they are tested in humans.»

While such a cluster of personalized cells is not a perfect replica of the organ that exists in that person's body, it can be experimented on and used to gauge the effectiveness of potential therapies, providing a powerful new tool to help researchers understand how diseases develop and how to treat them.