Sentences with phrase «on particular diseases»

The NIH is made up of 27 institutes and centers, each with a specific research agenda, often focusing on particular diseases or body systems.

The NIH is made up of 27 institutes and centers, each with a specific research agenda, often focusing on particular diseases or body systems.

The NIH is made up of 27 institutes and centers, each with a specific research agenda, often focusing on particular diseases or body systems.

For now, scientists tend to focus their multi-omic studies on a particular disease or question.

Dr McIntyre said: «The amount of work carried out by scientists on a particular disease is a good indication of how much of a threat it is.

This way our readers can refer to the original reference if they would like more information on a particular disease or condition.

Keep in mind, though, that no breed has cornered the market on a particular disease; bulldogs may be especially prone to hip dysplasia, but a poodle or mixed - breed can have that problem, too.

Well, based on the particular disease and its stage of treatment, a person might have to shell out his / her lifelong savings, typically ranging from 2.5 lakhs to up to 20 lakhs for the treatment of six months of Cancer.

Not exact matches

Tehrani targeted the most conservative companies in the business, ones that had no presence in a particular class of disease targets, to entice those who might jump on the bandwagon later.

Now, Google has invested in a company called Calico, which it says will focus on health and well - being — in particular, the «challenge of aging and associated diseases.»

Regarding writing moral codes on «men's hearts,» apparently those with mental disease / defects and very young children don't get this particular attention.

Diagnoses were made on the basis of symptoms, and persons with a certain cluster of symptoms were given a label in the conviction that a particular cause might be found for that «disease.»

In one study that followed people from the Netherlands for 10 years, orange and yellow hued veggies, carrots in particular, were shown to significantly reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease when eaten on a regular basis.

The texture, look and taste of gluten - free cakes, in particular, can take some getting used to on the part of people with Celiac disease or those who have embraced a gluten - free diet for other health reasons.

A new study published in Avicenna Journal of Phytomedicine sheds further light on how coconut oil, virgin coconut oil in particular, enhances cardiovascular health, in direct contradiction to the U.S. government claims that coconut oil leads to heart disease.

(See: Hepatoprotective Activity of Dried - and Fermented - Processed Virgin Coconut Oil) As the foundation of the lipid theory of heart disease and the prejudices against saturated fats and coconut oil in particular continue to crumble, more and more research will validate the truth of what is already known by millions of coconut oil consumers around the world: coconut oil is the healthiest dietary oil on earth!

Concerns have been raised that elementary school children in particular might be prone to spread disease at salad bars because they are too short for the standard «sneeze guard» installed on most salad bars, or because they might use their hands instead of the serving utensils provided.

In particular, much of our Division's past research has focused on vaccine studies and investigations into the cause of Kawasaki disease.

In addition, many studies have focused on sensitization to a particular antigen (ie, positive serum IgE or skin testing) rather than clinical disease.

«We found that a particular vaginal bacterium, Gardnerella vaginalis, did not cause infection during exposure to the urinary tract, but it damaged the cells on the surface of the bladder and caused E. coli from a previous UTI to start multiplying, leading to another bout of disease,» said the study's senior author, Amanda Lewis, PhD, an assistant professor of molecular microbiology and of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University.

Tuncay Baubec, professor at the Department of Molecular Mechanisms of Disease at the University of Zurich, and his team have shown that one particular protein plays an important part in this process: The DNA methyltransferase 3A (DNMT3A) enzyme is responsible for positioning the methylation to the right place on the DNA.

For example, one could volunteer to give a talk on their research to a patient - advocacy group for a particular disease.

This result will have particular significance for lab - on - a-chip biophysical sensing for disease sensing, Zhang said.

Picking up on recent discoveries that the Notch - modifying enzyme known as Rumi is necessary for animal development and that various mutants of Rumi are linked with a form of skin hyperpigmentation known as Dowling - Degos disease (made by scientists at the Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Bonn, Germany), Li's group became focused on this particular enzyme.

Rather than focus only on how many people were killed by a particular malady, as others measuring death and disease do, IHME emphasizes the number of years of healthy life lost.

Differences in the ability of a particular gene to influence a child's development depending on who it was inherited from, have been seen in a number of disorders, including Huntington's disease and fragile - X syndrome («Why genes have a gender», New Scientist, 22 May 1993).

In particular, he focuses on what we can learn from certain neuropsychiatric disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia, that ultimately serve to dissolve our identity.

Their findings, reported in Nature Communications, may shed light on human lung disease, in particular, the mechanism behind non-familial pulmonary hypertension in patients with conditions such as emphysema and pulmonary fibrosis.

From a human perspective, depending on the particular process, they are either beneficial — e.g. if they break down pollutants or convert nutrients into energy — or harmful, especially if they cause diseases.

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In contrast, most lab - based medical researchers focus on a few genes or a particular disease model, blinding themselves to other possibilities, Butte says.

However, the impact of the disease on these particular rain frogs is still unknown, and their numbers do not seem to have decreased.

These modifications influence when and where particular genes are expressed and appear to have significant impacts on disease risk, suggesting explanations for how environmental factors such as maternal smoking during pregnancy can influence a child's risk of later health problems.

«What constitutes good nutrition is actually a very individual prescription, depending on your particular set of genes,» says Jose Ordovas, a biochemist at Tufts University who has studied the nutritional genomics of cardiovascular disease.

What's more — in the absence of information on the underlying molecular mechanisms of her particular case — that patient will likely end up taking a one - size - fits - all pill rather than a drug tailored for her unique disease subtype.

TLC continues to explore solutions to barriers that include addressing regulatory science issues (with particular focus on repurposing off patent and abandoned drugs for rare and neglected diseases) and defining exclusivity path (s) to interest future for - profit partners.

In particular, the savvy scientists at the renowned Buck Institute for Research on Aging are devoted to geroscience, studying the mechanisms of aging and the connection between normal aging and chronic disease, in the institute's Novato labs.

For instance, literally countless trials must be undertaken to ensure that a newly synthesized drug acts correctly on inhibiting a particular molecular pathway, and countless experiments must be performed to ensure the responsibility of that pathway as the cause of a particular disease.

Darryl De Vivo, M.D., Professor of Neurology at Columbia University Medical Center and a Past - President of the Child Neurology Society, noted, «The SMA Foundation's work on behalf of children with SMA on all fronts including academic, governmental and biotechnical initiatives has served to heighten awareness of SMA in particular and Motor Neuron diseases in general.

But in their comprehensive effort to better identify children at highest risk of disease — and ideally one day intervene — this particular search focused on non-HLA genes.

Finally, I wanted to study disease more in depth, with a particular focus on human Immunology.

Another branch of my work focused more on the role of evolution in genetic disease, and in particular understanding why certain genetic diseases persist in the population despite their obvious fitness costs, and what forces are respsonsible for shaping their underlying genetic architectures.

Previously Dr. Martini worked at Shire plc in Lexington, Mass., as Senior Director of Discovery Biology and Translational Research, Mass., focusing on fibrotic diseases of muscle, kidney, skin, lung, bone marrow and metabolic liver diseases, with particular emphasis on different therapeutic modalities for pathway modulation.

An over-arching theme centers on the formation and selection of germline and somatic genetic variation in health and disease states, in particular genomic structural variation (SV).

In particular his work is focused on how this receptor may affect cognitive processes, and how this relates to Alzheimer's disease.

In particular, our research focuses on developmental origins of health and disease with an emphasis on environmental exposures and epigenetic mechanisms (DNA methylation and noncoding RNA).

Made up of passionate individuals who voluntarily organize to advocate on behalf of those with a particular disease or disorder, these «disease advocates» dedicate their lives to bringing positive changes for others, sometimes including their families and themselves.

His work is focused on the understanding and treatments of neurodegenerative disease, with particular emphasis on distinguishing critical mechanisms...

She is working on methods that analyze large - scale experimental data compendia in order to improve our understanding of how, and which, genes work together to produce a particular disease state.

His work is focused on the understanding and treatments of neurodegenerative disease, with particular emphasis on distinguishing critical mechanisms and treatments of neuronal vulnerability at the onset of disease, or new restorative treatments using stem cells after symptoms.