Sentences with phrase «percent of human diseases»

Something like 70 percent of human diseases generally start in animals first (avian influenza, mad cow, chronic wasting disease) and then spread to humans, so we're seeing more demand for public health specialists.

Splicing is a critical biological mechanism — at least 15 percent of all human diseases are due to splicing errors, for example.

Not exact matches

The Porteus team started with human stem cells from the blood of patients with sickle cell disease, corrected the gene mutation using CRISPR and then concentrated the human stem cells so that 90 percent carried the corrected sickle cell gene.

Researchers also included a human genetics study of approximately 188,000 people, which found that carriers of mutations that disable ANGPTL3 had nearly 40 percent fewer incidents of coronary artery disease as compared to those with fully functioning ANGPTL3.

Compared with three other U.S. cities — Los Angeles, Miami and New York — Denver had the highest percentage of respondents in favor of allowing backyard poultry, 62.5 percent, and the lowest percentage of respondents who believed urban poultry would lead to more human disease, at 7.4 percent.

Up to 98 percent of human genomic matter is known as «junk» or «dark matter» non-coding DNA, and had for years attracted little interest among scientists who doubted its role in human health and disease.

Auriel Willette, an assistant professor of food science and human nutrition; and Joseph Webb, a graduate research assistant, found on average that Caucasians with one bad version of the gene — guanosine triphosphate cyclohydrolase - 1 or GCH1 — developed Parkinson's symptoms five years earlier, and had a 23 percent increased risk for the disease.

As much as 60 percent of the 289 known human disease genes have counterparts in Drosophila.

«About 2 percent, or nearly 500, of all human genes are dedicated to coding protein kinases and over 50 percent of kinases are linked to various human diseases.»

-- 90 percent of genes associated with disease are identical in the human and the mouse, supporting the use of mice as model organisms.

As Ganguly - Fitzgerald says: «Of all genes known to cause human disease, more than 60 percent are found in the fruit fly.»

Researchers found that 90 percent of genes linked to diseases were the same in mice as in human beings.

Mice with a transgenic copy of the human SMN2 gene lose approximately 20 percent of their anterior horn cells, are extremely weakand underweight, and display other manifestations of disease, as well as die after two weeks.

It is not only humans that suffer from the disease: about 3 - 10 percent of dogs are also affected.

Around 75 percent of all the disease - causing genes present in humans have analogues in the fruit fly's genetic code.

Researchers have unraveled the molecular basis of many human disorders, and a very large part (over 80 percent) of the genes we know to be associated with human disease (e.g. Parkinson's and addiction) have homologues in zebrafish.

Atopic dermatitis (or eczema) is an inflammatory, relapsing non-contagious skin disease affecting about 10 - 30 percent of the human population.

Fruit flies serve as a good model organism for understanding the molecular mechanisms behind many human diseases — around 75 percent of disease - causing genes are found in the species in a similar form.

Close contact with horses is the only way the disease has transmitted to humans but once infected, humans have only a forty percent chance of survival.

The mouse makes an excellent model for human disease because the organization of their DNA and their gene expression is similar to humans, with ninety - eight percent of human genes having a comparable gene in the mouse.

«That means basically any exposure to BPA could have consequences, an alarming conclusion, considering that in 2004 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found unmetabolized BPA in the urine of 93 percent of more than 2,500 human subjects.

Tick - borne Lyme disease is still a threat to human and animal wellness, and though 15 percent of dogs test positive for Lyme disease on a screening test, only 10 percent become clinically ill.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) noted a 28 percent increase in the U.S. human incidence rate between 2005 — 2013,5 with 30,000 cases reported annually6 while the number of actual cases is projected at 288,000.7

Apart from periodontal disease, more than 50 percent of felines have at least one feline odontoclastic resorption lesion (FORL) by the time they are 3 years old.2 Like human cavities, they are extremely painful and can cause difficulty in eating.

Although 40 percent of cats will be carriers of this disease at some point in their lives, it's rare for a human to contract CSD.

Notwithstanding relative stability in the number of dog bites over time (Bradley, 2006), and the fact that according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) only two percent of those seeking emergency room treatment for dog bites each year are actually hospitalized (CDC WISQARS), some communities have enacted laws that intensively regulate or even ban certain dog breeds in an effort to decrease dog attacks on humans (AVMA, 2001).

Moreover, approximately 70 percent of the diseases known to affect humans are «zoonotic,» which means they can be transmitted between animals and humans.

When people look at our maps, if they live in an area where they've already have Lyme disease, if there's an incidence of 5 percent or higher in your county, CDC has a paper out that shows a direct correlation between a 5 percent or higher incidence in dogs and humans developing Lyme disease.

While 50 percent of some of the larger dog breeds are afflicted, the disease is not unknown in humans.

Approximately 60 percent of all human pathogens are zoonotic, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

[W] hat's striking about diseases emerging in recent decades, of which over 70 percent have come from wildlife, is that we ourselves are driving their appearance in humans.

With roughly 70 percent of human infectious diseases being zoonotic, we should be worried.

Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.