Sentences with phrase «on emerging diseases»

«There is no doubt in my mind that climate change will have a major impact on the spread of infectious diseases,» writes Edward Holmes, a scientist whose work focuses on emerging diseases at Sydney Medical School in Australia, in an email to Pacific Standard.

Not exact matches

Yes, biopharma M&A drama swept industry observers today as reports emerged that the rare disease drugmaker had rebuffed a $ 62.5 billion takeover bid from Takeda but that Botox maker Allergan was also interested in getting in on the action.

Bala Cynwyd, PA — January 31, 2017 — Chondrial Therapeutics, Inc., an emerging biotechnology company focused on the treatment of rare mitochondrial diseases, announced today that it has secured up to $ 22.6 million in Series A financing led by Deerfield Management and has appointed Carole Ben - Maimon, MD, as the company's president and chief executive officer.

Novavax, Inc. (NASDAQ: NVAX), a small - cap clinical - stage vaccine company that focuses on therapies for both known and newly emerging diseases, has lost some support from a Wall Street analyst.

Working with government and industry, we're protecting our agricultural industries from emerging infectious animal diseases entering and establishing in our waters and on our land.

The population of disease - carrying deer ticks has been on the increase and with the warmer weather, these pests tend to emerge.

«While electrical stimulation of the brain is emerging as potential therapy for a wide range of neurological and psychiatric diseases, little is known about its effect on memory,» says Gregory Worrell, M.D., Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic neurologist and senior author of the article.

The case highlights an ongoing international debate about how to best help emerging tribes, who lack immunity to common diseases and are among the most vulnerable people on the planet (Science, 5 June, p. 1072).

Emerging technologies successfully stimulate retinas ravaged by retinitis pigmentosa, age - related macular degeneration and other diseases to give sufferers a new lease on light

A genetic mutation protecting against kuru — a brain disease passed on by eating human brains — only emerged and spread in the past 200 years.

In research that has implications for diabetes and other metabolic diseases, an international study based at UT Southwestern Medical Center found that the protein connexin 43 (Cx43) forms cell - to - cell communication channels on the surface of emerging beige fat cells that amplify the signals from those few nerve fibers.

The Sigatoka disease complex is a cluster of three closely related fungi — yellow sigatoka (Pseudocercospora musae), eumusae leaf spot (Pseudocercospora eumusae) and black sigatoka (Pseudocercospora fijiensis)-- which emerged in quick succession during the last century as destructive pathogens on banana.

The 10,000 - square - foot space features 70 elements, with plenty of hands - on opportunities to learn about emerging biotechnology and the causes of diseases such as cancer and diabetes.

«From other studies ***** we know that epigenetic modifications of the DPP4 gene, which are associated with an increased production of the enzyme, have a negative impact on the liver metabolism already in young mice, long before fatty liver disease emerges,» says Baumeier.

The bill also provides $ 500,000 to study new and emerging wildlife diseases and adds $ 1 million to USGS's $ 26 - million volcano hazards programs, specifically to repair and upgrade systems that focus on monitoring «high - threat» volcanoes.

He hopes officials will use HealthMap to keep tabs on future emerging diseases before they rage out of control.

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The lab was designed and constructed with French assistance as part of a 2004 cooperative agreement on the prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases.

The role of weight in ovarian - cancer risk emerges from an analysis of data on some 68,000 women participating in one of three major ongoing investigations: the New York (City) University Women's Health Study, the Northern Sweden Health and Disease Study in Umea, and the Diet in the Etiology of Breast Cancer Study in Milan, Italy.

«Our results indicate that based just on the pattern of virus attachment the H7N9 currently emerging in China has the potential both to cause severe pulmonary disease and to be efficiently transmitted among humans,» says Dr. Kuiken.

It will focus on the control of emerging diseases, store purified viruses and act as a World Health Organization «reference laboratory» linked to similar labs around the world.

Plotting help The Children's Hospital Informatics Program launched HealthMap in 2006 as a way of using the growing number of digital resources — the Internet, RSS feeds and e-mail lists, to name a few — to plot information about emerging diseases worldwide on a Google Map.

Disease wiki The site excels at natural - language processing, says Larry Madoff, founder and editor of the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED), a global electronic mailing list that receives and summarizes reports on disease outbreaks and that was one of HealthMap's first sources oDisease wiki The site excels at natural - language processing, says Larry Madoff, founder and editor of the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED), a global electronic mailing list that receives and summarizes reports on disease outbreaks and that was one of HealthMap's first sources odisease outbreaks and that was one of HealthMap's first sources of data.

Fascinated by emerging diseases, he covered outbreaks on four continents, including the 2001 anthrax letters, the global outbreak of SARS in 2003, and the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.

The IOM committee left open the possibility that chimpanzees may be a necessary animal model to address future emerging or reemerging diseases, which raised the question of whether NIH will readdress its 17 - year - old ban on funding the breeding of chimpanzees for research.

On 20 September, Zaki posted his results on the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED), an online disease - reporting system, confirming that the coronavirus tests were positivOn 20 September, Zaki posted his results on the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED), an online disease - reporting system, confirming that the coronavirus tests were positivon the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED), an online disease - reporting system, confirming that the coronavirus tests were positive.

«TWEAK and its signaling receptor, Fn14, have emerged as a fundamental molecular pathway regulating tissue responses after acute tissue injury and in many different contexts of chronic injury and disease» said Linda Burkly, Ph.D., Senior Distinguished Investigator, VP, Biogen, Inc., and co-senior author on the current study.

«New genetic clues emerge on origin of Hirschsprung's disease.»

«The disease is very complex, but new clues on how we may be able to help the brain to resist the toxins in AD are starting to emerge.

«It will certainly lead to boring names and a lot of confusion,» predicts Linfa Wang, an expert on emerging infectious diseases at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong.

When an unknown virus emerges at various locations in the world, scientists focus on answering the following questions: Where did the new disease originate?

«Given the Buck's exclusive focus on aging, we believe that there's great potential to increase our understanding of the biology of aging and to accelerate the translation of emerging insights into therapies to help patients with age - related diseases.»

Held at MSU Denver, the conference will welcome a variety of speakers and panelists to discuss the issue in detail, with a special emphasis on water as well as new emerging diseases.

A specific focus of WBVR is research on infection biology, immunology and vaccinology of relevant veterinary and human, current and emerging infectious diseases.

This year's Action Award honorees include global leaders in the fight to end cancer as we know it; a world leader in advancing the emerging field of regenerative medicine and game - changing cell therapy medical treatments; the president of a non-profit group focused on developing cures for chronic, debilitating and fatal diseases; a sickle cell and stem cell advocate and founder / science administrator of the Axis Advocacy; and the founding director of the Institute for Integrated Cell - Material Sciences (iCeMS) at Japan's Kyoto University.

However, a number of factors are unique to infectious disease, highlighting the importance of investigating whether novel ELSI issues or variations on existing issues might emerge from the application of genomics in this context.

Since the recent discovery of tremendous biological effects of nitric oxide, other small gaseous molecules such as carbon monoxide or hydrogen sulfide have emerged to be similarly important in cell signaling, with a great impact on pathophysiology of various diseases.

RENO, Nev. - The search for answers to protect Central American frogs from extinction is also giving scientists clues on how to predict and respond to emerging diseases and epidemics in humans, plants and other wildlife.

Tuberculosis, leishmaniasis and leprosy are the core diseases on which we focus, but our expertise in adjuvant development and formulation extend our reach through partnerships to work on a range of diseases, including malaria, pandemic influenza, Chagas disease, hookworm, shistosomiasis, HIV / AIDS and diseases that are emerging in the developed world, such as chikungunya, Zika and West Nile virus.

Neal's work is focused on pre-clinical downselection and evaluation of vaccine adjuvants for several emerging viral diseases.

NIAID's biodefense research is integrated into its larger emerging and re ‐ emerging infectious diseases portfolio that uses sophisticated genomic and proteomic platforms focused on developing broad ‐ spectrum therapies effective against entire classes of pathogens.

«It is our hope that emerging technologies and future studies will expand on our work, and ultimately lead to safe, targeted, and cost - effective therapies that markedly improve visual outcomes and quality of life for patients suffering from these debilitating eye diseases.»

His current research focuses on the impacts of emerging infectious diseases on amphibians (e.g. chytridiomycosis) and the role of the amphibian skin microbiome in health and disease.

Pathogens include those on the NIAID Category A-C agents as well as emerging and re-emerging infectious disease organisms, each year for a period of five years.

This session will focus on skeletal dysplasias as a model for rare genetic diseases, highlighting tools for collecting natural history data and healthcare needs data; key diagnostic clinical and molecular features; and management, including novel emerging disease - modifying treatments based on better understanding of molecular pathogenesis.

A new commentary on the nature of pathogens is raising startling new questions about the role that fundamental science research on evolution plays in the understanding of emerging disease.

Myelosuppression is a well - established side effect of current AML therapies, with prolonged events leading to an increased risk of infections and death.44 Consequently, therapies that preferentially kill leukemic cells over normal bone marrow cells are urgently required, and the overexpression of CD123 on AML leukemic stem cells and blasts compared with normal hematopoietic cells contributes to its attractiveness as a therapeutic target in this disease.6, 45 However, severe myelosuppression and myeloablation have emerged for some investigational CD123 - targeted treatment modalities.

There has been exciting research on this topic emerging in the scientific community since 2005, and the more we learn about the role of insulin in the brain, the more we understand how significantly insulin resistance contributes to the development of Alzheimer's disease.

Today, thanks to an emerging body of research on plant - based nutrition, we're better able than ever to understand how diet affects both the development and treatment of disease.

focuses on emerging ideas concerning the contribution of the GI - tract microbiome to human neurological disease with emphasis on Alzheimer's disease wherever possible: