Sentences with phrase «other human diseases»

Next, the group will apply their technology to study some of the 500 proteins that are mutated in other human diseases.

«The vector used in these studies is one that has already been used in the treatment of other human diseases so this is a promising approach.»

He was assistant director of the Human Genome Center at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences in La Jolla, California and was more recently a principal investigator at SAIC - Frederick (an operations and technical support contractor to the National Cancer Institute - Frederick) studying HIV - 1 / AIDS, host genetics, and other human diseases for NCI in the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity.

Fungi are capable of making many new compounds that can thwart the growth of cancer cells, impede the spread of infectious pathogens, as well as treat many other human diseases.

Aedes aegypti is the mosquito that carries dengue and several other human diseases, including Zika.

«Our findings strongly implicate LGR4 in the pathogenesis of osteoporosis as well as various other human diseases, including certain cancers,» said study lead author Kari Stefánsson, M.D., Dr. Med., President of deCODE Genetics.

In all, the work provides a roadmap that can be applied to other human diseases, according to Zhu.

So a tropical species like Aedes aegypti, which transmits Zika, dengue, and other human diseases, could expand its range northward in the United States as temperatures warm.

Hunter's work has led to a complete catalogue of the 90 human genes that encode tyrosine kinases, over half of which have become targets for the development of drugs to treat cancer and other human diseases.

The Speicher laboratory uses proteomics, metabolomics, computational methods, and biophysical approaches to characterize the roles of normal and mutant proteins in cancers and other human diseases.

The scientists, from Nanjing University, say they also intend to create dog models of muscular dystrophy, Parkinson's and other human diseases.