Sentences with phrase «other organ diseases»

Joint problems, including hip and elbow dysplasia and loose kneecaps; eye problems; cancers; skin diseases; heart and other organ diseases; and more affect canines of every size and background.

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«The idea of being able to use biology to design and engineer living things that can do things like cure disease or eliminate organ waiting lists, or even revert climate change, or help us live on other planets — that's more what was exciting about it,» he says.

When we are faced with incurable congenital diseases, when our fellow human beings are afflicted with cancer, diabetes, tumours, arthritis, damaged organs and other body parts, and many others, I believe a miracle is indispensable.

Indeed, psychiatric and neurological disorders are at least as genetically determined, and in many cases more so, than common diseases of other organ systems.

If, however, physicians spot the disease early — before the cancer spreads to other organs — the five - year survival rate exceeds 90 percent.

Forgoing a test to detect prostate cancer could mean that three times as many men would fail to have the disease detected before it spreads to other organs, according to a paper in Cancer on July 30.

Chemotherapy and radiotherapy alone are relatively unsuccessful in treating the disease, and while surgery to remove the tumour offers the best chance of survival, most patients are diagnosed when the cancer has already spread to other organs.

Rising fast were kidney and other urinary organ cancers as well as Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.

The research suggests there are more people infected in lymphoid tissues, who may never develop the disease but could still infect others via blood transfusions or organ donations

Most people associate prion diseases with the brain, although scientists have found abnormal infectious prion protein in other organs, including the spleen, kidney, lungs and liver.

Still's disease is a serious orphan disease manifested by high fevers, skin and joint involvement, including paralysis, as well as damage to other organs such as the liver or spleen.

«There are rumors that we are spreading disease, harvesting organs, and other horrible things.

In this case, TSLP provides an antibacterial function on the skin, while in previous studies it was shown to promote disease in other organs like the gut.

Uranium - 235 (U-235) is an isotope of uranium widely used for nuclear power generation and, like all other radioactive isotopes used in medicine, it has been also employed for diagnosis and treatment of diseased organs and tumors.

Interdisciplinary research at the University of Pennsylvania is showing how cells interact over long distances within fibrous tissue, like that associated with many diseases of the liver, lungs and other organs.

The disease originates in a lymphoid organ (lymph node, spleen, or bone marrow) before spreading through the blood to infiltrate not only other lymphoid organs but also other tissues.

Other diseases claim limbs or organs; Alzheimer's devours the self, making it one of the few afflictions widely regarded as being worse than death.

Future studies will focus on using these nanobowls to deliver anle138b to the brain, as well as other diseased tissues and organs affected by toxic amyloid - beta ion channels.

Beyond organ transplants, many experts think that the protocol could be used to treat other diseases that require bone marrow transplants but for which there are severe shortages of matched donors.

While it's working, for now, in diseases of the liver, the field still needs to validate whether RNAi can work in other organs.

«When we approach it like every other organ... we can categorise abdominal disease in terms of this organ,» professor Coffey said.

«If we can expand the role of RNAi to other organ systems beyond the liver, the likelihood that RNAi could overtake antibodies in terms of importance for diseases of man, animals, and even plants, is certainly there,» said Dr. Geert Cauwenbergh, president and CEO of RXi Pharmaceuticals.

Tamara Minko, professor in the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, and Lorna Rodriguez, professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, say because there is not a good screening method for ovarian cancer, most women with the disease are not diagnosed until after it has metastasized to other organs and surgery and chemotherapy are not as effective.

SLE is a genetically complex chronic relapsing autoimmune disease characterised by inflammation that may affect different tissues, including the skin, joint linings, lungs, kidneys and other organs.

Recently, medical researchers have discovered ways to treat neurological diseases, anaemia, leukaemia, epilepsy, stroke and several other conditions by transplanting fetal tissue into brains and other organs.

Blocking a protein found on the surface of ovarian cancer cells could prevent or reduce the spread of the disease to other organs, according to new research at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

In diabetes, we may be able to replace the defective beta cells, but regenerative medicine also offers new therapeutic options for other organ defects and diseases.»

A problem in this research arena — called antiangiogenesis — has been finding a compound that is selective, closing off abnormal blood vessels only in the diseased organ while leaving all others intact.

«Furthermore, this strategy may be beneficial for other pathological settings in which elevated numbers of regulatory T cells are desirable, such as autoimmune diseases and solid organ transplantation,» Beilhack says.

The ability of scientists to convert human skin cells into other cell types, such as neurons, has the potential to enhance understanding of disease and lead to finding new ways to heal damaged tissues and organs, a field called regenerative medicine.

Some completely resist the disease, others suffer moderate to severe illness and recover, while those who are most susceptible succumb to bleeding, organ failure and shock.

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.

The research suggests the possibility, Kahn explains, of developing gene therapy treatments using fat cells that aid in treating metabolic diseases, cancer or other conditions in the liver or other organs.

Nearly 1 in 10 U.S. adults age 20 and older have diabetes, a condition in which the body can not properly regulate blood glucose levels, leading to organ disease and other complications.

Harvard Stem Cell Institute scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital have found the cellular origin of the tissue scarring caused by organ damage associated with diabetes, lung disease, high blood pressure, kidney disease, and other conditions.

«Understanding these characteristics may help scientists better understand how exomeres and exosomes help cancers grow and spread to other organs, as well as what role they may play in other diseases,» Dr. Zhang said.

Lipton went on to state, «It will be important to see if HIV / AIDS acts similarly on stem cells for other organs in the human body, as this may impact on the disease process as a whole.»

However, even though these patients don't have a blood problem, vis a vis these diseases typically affect brain, heart, and or other organs, they have to undergo myeloablative chemotherapy so their body doesn't reject the donor cells.

Systemic perspectives on the organism and organ level address fundamental questions of infection biology and shall contribute to reveal the molecular underpinnings of virus - induced immunopathologies and other inflammatory diseases.

Melanoma is more likely than other skin cancers to spread beyond the initial tumor site to other organs, but all the patients had localized disease.

Stage 3 disease may also involve more than one malignant tumor in the lung that has spread to other organs like the heart, esophagus or trachea.

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«This was very different from all the other organ systems where when you look at the tissue there's something to see that is the physical equivalent or correlate of the disease,» Lichtman tells us.

Ideally, the researchers found that the best targets were genes or proteins primarily expressed in one specific tissue, so the drug treats the disease at its core, without interfering with other, healthy tissues or organs, and thus causes fewer side - effects.

Dysfunctional cilia are now known to be implicated in not only PKD but a wide range of diseases affecting the eyes, ears, heart, and other organs.

These syndromes include conditions in which autoimmunity is clearly implicated as causal, in light of identification of autoantibodies to relevant autoantigens; diseases suspected to be autoimmune because of the presence of autoantibodies, although the autoreactive response has not been proven to be pathogenic and could be a consequence or marker of tissue damage; and other diseases often considered to be «autoimmune,» such as psoriasis or inflammatory bowel disease, characterized by organ - targeted inflammation but without evidence of a stimulating autoantigen.

These kinds of questions are particularly challenging because, unlike diseases affecting other organs, it is hard to know whether drugs can really slow down disease process in the brain, hidden as it is within the skull.

By learning the secrets of our «other» organ — the microbiome — we can use this knowledge to prevent, treat, and cure disease.

Better genetically modified animals for disease research and for organ transplantation, and other research and therapeutic uses could arise from the enhanced technology.

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