Sentences with phrase «other human diseases for»

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The struggle is against a system of Corporate Power profiting from hunger to pharmaceuticals for disease and other forms of human wants.

Stem cells can transform into any other human cells, so they have immense potential for generating all sorts of adult cells and thus can be used in research concerning human degenerative (and other) diseases.

Human breast milk that is frozen or stored for longer than 48 hours loses a significant amount of its antioxidant content, making it less able to help infants fight off free radicals that play a role in allowing infections and other diseases.

However, «The AAP Section on Breastfeeding, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Academy of Family Physicians, Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund, and many other health organizations recommend exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life.2, 127 — 130 Exclusive breastfeeding is defined as an infant's consumption of human milk with no supplementation of any type (no water, no juice, no nonhuman milk, and no foods) except for vitamins, minerals, and medications.131 Exclusive breastfeeding has been shown to provide improved protection against many diseases and to increase the likelihood of continued breastfeeding for at least the first year of life.

These include the infant with galactosemia, 53,54 the infant whose mother uses illegal drugs, 55 the infant whose mother has untreated active tuberculosis, and the infant in the United States whose mother has been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.56, 57 In countries with populations at increased risk for other infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies resulting in infant death, the mortality risks associated with not breastfeeding may outweigh the possible risks of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus infection.58 Although most prescribed and over-the-counter medications are safe for the breastfed infant, there are a few medications that mothers may need to take that may make it necessary to interrupt breastfeeding temporarily.

Excessive and unnecessary use of the drugs, which are similar to what doctors prescribe for people's ear infections, strep throats and other illnesses, can lead to super-resistant strains of bacteria that can cause serious human diseases that have no cure.

These and other food allergens implicated in atopic disease, such as egg and peanut, can be detected in human breast milk 4 hours after maternal intake and remain in the milk for several days (20).

Breastfeeding is contraindicated in infants with classic galactosemia (galactose 1 - phosphate uridyltransferase deficiency) 103; mothers who have active untreated tuberculosis disease or are human T - cell lymphotropic virus type I — or II — positive104, 105; mothers who are receiving diagnostic or therapeutic radioactive isotopes or have had exposure to radioactive materials (for as long as there is radioactivity in the milk) 106 — 108; mothers who are receiving antimetabolites or chemotherapeutic agents or a small number of other medications until they clear the milk109, 110; mothers who are using drugs of abuse («street drugs»); and mothers who have herpes simplex lesions on a breast (infant may feed from other breast if clear of lesions).

Physiologic sleep studies have found that breastfed infants are more easily aroused from sleep than their formula - fed counterparts.247, 248 In addition, breastfeeding results in a decreased incidence of diarrhea, upper and lower respiratory infections, and other infectious diseases249 that are associated with an increased vulnerability to SIDS and provides overall immune system benefits from maternal antibodies and micronutrients in human milk.250, 251 Exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months has been found to be more protective against infectious diseases compared with exclusive breastfeeding to 4 months of age and partial breastfeeding thereafter.249

«But in this case, when this virus infects cells, the virus makes its own transcription factors, and those sit on the human genome at lupus risk variants (and at the variants for other diseases) and that's what we suspect is increasing risk for the disease.»

Reductions in biodiversity from illegal wildlife trade can have other substantial negative human health impacts, including the loss of potential sources of pharmaceuticals, experimental models for studying disease, crop pollination and micronutrients for humans lacking alternative sources of protein.

Preliminary results of the study were presented at a World Health Organization (WHO) evidence review group meeting, while UNITAID has issued a call for further research into the use of endectocide class drugs, of which ivermectin is currently the only one registered for human use, as new vector control tools in the fight against malaria and other mosquito borne disease.

If further studies in humans prove successful, this research could have broad implications for the prevention of influenza and, by extension, as an approach for other infectious diseases as well.

Humans can correct nearsightedness with glasses, contact lenses or surgery, but myopia can put individuals at risk for other diseases such as glaucoma and retinal detachment, she said.

Collins and his colleagues exposed one culture of Escherichia coli — some strains of which colonize the human and animal gut; others of which are notorious for causing disease outbreaks — to increasing amounts of an antibiotic over time.

Over the course of a year, a committee led by Green and Leslie Biesecker, chief of the Genetic Disease Research Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, has been weighing how to handle «incidental findings» that turn up when a genome or exome is sequenced for some other medical reason.

Their study published last week in Science Translational Medicine demonstrated that the fasting - mimicking diet reduced risks for cancer, diabetes, heart disease and other age - related diseases in human study participants who followed the special diet for five days each month in a three - month span.

Last year the National Institutes of Health announced plans to put some 180 ex-Coulston chimps currently housed at the Alamogordo Primate Facility back in service, to rejoin the roughly 800 other chimps that serve as subjects for studies of human diseases, therapies and vaccines in the U.S., which is the only country apart from Gabon to maintain chimps for this purpose.

These observations and others have convinced the researchers that their CRISPR / Cas9 and hPSC system produces a stable, biologically accurate human model for a common genetic disease where new understanding and new therapies are desperately needed.

AAV1 is considered safe as a viral vector and is already in use in human gene therapy trials for blindness, heart disease, muscular dystrophy and other conditions.

By pairing a receptor that targets neurons with a molecule that degrades the main component of Alzheimer's plaques, the biologists were able to substantially dissolve these plaques in mice brains and human brain tissue, offering a potential mechanism for treating the debilitating disease, as well as other conditions that involve either the brain or the eyes.

The findings also point to the potential for new therapies for lupus and other autoimmune disease based on inhibiting the action of EBNA2 or other human proteins that bind to DNA at the same loci along with the viral protein, the researchers say.

Like humans, songbirds such as zebra finches (above) can learn vocalizations, and this similarity suggests they could serve as models for research on Huntington's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders that affect speech and vocalization.

The method, reported in the November issue of Nature Biotechnology, could lead to safe and effective human gene therapies for cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, and a variety of other diseases.

The team is now readying the vaccine for human trials and is designing related vaccines to treat other autoimmune diseases, including multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and inflammatory bowel disease.

«I knew of an experimental technique that had not yet been done in humans, and I had a patient with no other options who was failing rapidly,» says William O'Neill, M.D., medical director of the Center for Structural Heart Disease at Henry Ford Hospital.

It's been well researched, by studies, by world organizations, by the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta, other organizations that have all unanimously come to the conclusion that consumption of pork is not a risk factor for transmission of influenza virus from swine to human.

The findings hint that the protozoa responsible for toxoplasmosis, amoebic dysentery, malaria, and other diseases may also insinuate themselves into human genes.

While trying to create better mouse strains for studying human diseases, she and other researchers may have inadvertently stumbled upon genes that render hybrids as dead ends.

The multi-author study, by the Global Alliance for Rabies Control's Partners for Rabies Prevention Group, also shows that annual economic losses because of the disease are around 8.6 billion US dollars, mostly due to premature deaths, but also because of spending on human vaccines, lost income for victims of animal bites and other costs.

In humans, it holds the promise of curing genetic disease, while in other organisms it provides methods to reshape the biosphere for the benefit of the environment and human societies.

As a result of the finding, researchers can also use Mauritian cynomolgus macaques to improve stem cell transplant outcomes for human patients with other blood - related conditions such as leukemia and sickle - cell disease.

In previous studies, the same group along with others had demonstrated that microRNAs (miRNAs) produced by eukaryotic cells and viruses are present in human blood in highly stable, cell - free forms and these so called circulating miRNAs can serve as non-invasive biomarkers for the early diagnosis of various diseases, including viral diseases.

His current research portfolio focuses on the investigation of novel approaches for the regenerative medicine of the kidney, including the study and characterization of human nephrogenic progenitors and the investigation of approaches for the treatment of Alport syndrome and other chronic kidney diseases.

The researchers hope their new cell lines will be a useful resource for studying the cellular and molecular intricacies of Huntington's further, and suggest they may provide a model for examining other diseases of the brain that are specific to humans.

Human trials of oligonucleotides for several other neurological diseases are underway, including Huntington's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, called the new work a «significant advance,» noting in a statement that it «opens the way to producing [monoclonal antibodies] that potentially could be used diagnostically or therapeutically» for the flu as well as other infectious diseases such as hepatitis C and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which can lead to full - blown AIDS.

If the new mechanism also operates in the human brain and can be potentiated, this could become of clinical importance not only for stroke patients, but also for replacing neurons which have died, thus restoring function in patients with other disorders such as Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease,» says Olle Lindvall, Senior Professor of Neurology.

«Identifying specific signatures of ribonucleotide incorporation in DNA may represent novel biomarkers for human diseases such as cancer, and other degenerative disorders.»

Culver adds that — like other work on the cause of cave fish blindness — the new research may also have implications for human disease.

The results of this original study are highly relevant to other human diseases that dependent on genome instability, such as fungal infection or cancer, and open new venues for anti-leishmanial drug discovery using host - directed strategies that target the parasite's metabolic dependence on the host cell, thus preventing the adaptive evolution of drug resistant parasites.

The discovery of cells» ultra-sensitivity for mechanical property of their environment is crucial to understanding basic physiological processes that underlie embryo development, tumor metastasis, wound healing and many other aspects of human health and disease.

But Franklin and others suspect that in their zeal to clean up, facilities may have wiped out some of the microbial complexity that makes mice useful models for human disease.

«We know from previous human studies that changes in gut bacterial composition correlate with the early development of type 1 diabetes, and that the interactions between bacterial networks may be a contributing factor in why some people at risk for the disease develop type 1 diabetes and others don't,» said Jessica Dunne, Director of Discovery Research at JDRF, which funded the study.

Buoyed by these results, Dana - Farber researchers are working to create a derivative of dBET1 that can be used as a drug in human patients — and to extend the conjugate strategy for the treatment of other cancers and other genetically - caused diseases.

The possibilities include intense competition for food and other resources due to overpopulation; the rise of diseases acquired by living closely with livestock, other humans, and their waste; and increased violence among Neolithic communities.

«It is now clear that common risk variants fail to explain the vast majority of genetic heritability for any human disease,» they wrote in an essay, arguing that many of the hundreds of GWAS findings to date «stem from factors other than a true association with disease risk.»

«There is no proof of transmission from wild animals and plants to humans,» said lead author Claudio Soto, Ph.D., professor of neurology at UTHealth Medical School and director of the UTHealth George and Cynthia W. Mitchell Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Other Brain Related Illnesses.

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence has always looked for an anomaly in the persistent cosmic background chatter — a change perhaps in the intensity of a signal that can be taken as a sign that a transmission might be a message to us earthlings from other intelligent beings.Each year, medical researchers who gather at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference search for something similar as they weigh reports of the complex biology of the human brain for some sign that a drug might actually change the relentless course of the disease.

Clevers and other scientists have developed organoids of the gut, liver, lung, brain, and many other human organs that can be used to model disease or to serve as test beds for drugs.