Sentences with phrase «potential human treatments»

Bilbo says her next plans involve tweaking the rat experiment in an effort to zero in on how the worms convey cognitive benefits and how they could be applied in potential human treatments.

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Gradually, over the last ten years or so, my counseling and caring ministry has shifted from a diagnostic, treatment approach (a pathology model) to a human development, positive - potentials approach (a growth model).

As not all health care providers are fully informed on human lactation, you may find the following resources helpful in determining treatment options that are safe for breastfeeding and to check a medication's potential impact on breastmilk supply.

Some contain ingredients that can be harmful to humans and even pets, so be sure to discuss any potential dangers with your veterinarian, wash your hands after applying the treatment to your pet, and keep your child away from your pet until the flea treatment is absorbed and dry.

After early animal studies demonstrated that the synthetic cannabis extract dronabinol improved respiratory stability, recent studies in humans have explored the potential use of dronabinol as an alternative treatment for sleep apnea.

Many of the microorganisms isolated and cultivated through MaCuMBA are exhibiting properties with potential positive human health impacts, and could be useful in the treatment of a variety of conditions.

«It's an exciting development, and we await the outcome over the next year to see how well these cells integrate, and if there are any potential adverse reactions,» says Mike Cheetham of the Institute of Ophthalmology at University College London, one site where research is under way into a human embryonic stem - cell treatment for AMD.

Chronic treatment with rapamycin has been problematic in both humans and mice; the drug has the potential to cause deleterious metabolic side effects including weight gain and glucose insensitivity.

The study of these creatures has the potential to be rather robust in implications for regenerative medicine, an area of treatment for repairing or replacing human cells, tissues or organs on Earth to restore normal function.

«Our work not only holds potential for developing cells for treatment of other areas of the eye, but could set the stage for future human clinical trials of anterior eye transplantation to restore visual function.»

The results indicate that a similar treatment may have potential to help human patients, Shi said.

Dr. Zhu said he believes the study provides the scientific community with an important animal model to further investigate ARID1B's role in human brain disorders and will be a useful tool for therapeutic testing of potential treatments for autism, intellectual disability, and Coffin - Siris syndrome.

Unfortunately, the potential therapeutic bacteria are not yet accepted for treatment purposes in humans.

Before arriving at a potential treatment for humans, the researchers are planning to evaluate the effectiveness of new drugs to awaken similar virus reservoirs in monkeys and determine where the virus is hidden.

«But a great deal of work lies ahead to see if this compound has the potential to serve as a less toxic treatment for fungal infections in human patients.

However, Dr. Kissler's group discovered that reducing levels of the RGS1 protein did not slow the progression of the disease in mouse models, suggesting that it may not offer much potential for human treatment.

Now, in a new study published in the journal Cell, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have discovered that a synthetic form of vitamin D, calcipotriol (a drug already approved by the FDA for the treatment of psoriasis), deactivates the switch governing the fibrotic response in mouse liver cells, suggesting a potential new therapy for fibrotic diseases in humans.

«First we need to understand how mammalian regeneration works in a natural setting, then comes the potential to create therapeutic treatments for humans,» said Thomas Gawriluk, postdoctoral scholar and co-lead author of the study.

The discovery of this new hormone is a potential game - changer in human fertility treatment,» said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor - in - Chief of The FASEB Journal, «but further research is needed to determine its efficacy and safety in humans.»

It was only by looking across the whole human genome that we were able to identify the function of P - TEFb in the immune system, offering potential new treatments for autoimmune conditions.»

Salk researchers found that a drug already approved by the FDA for the treatment of psoriasis deactivates the switch governing the fibrotic response in mouse liver cells, suggesting a potential new therapy for fibrotic diseases in humans.

Removing micropollutants from water using technology that is sustainable and affordable offers the potential to protect human and aquatic health without expensively retrofitting treatment plants.

A new study, published in PLOS Pathogens, investigates the genome editing of bone - morrow stem cells in pigtail macaques as a potential treatment for simian / human immunodeficiency virus (SHIV).

This blueprint should come in handy in sussing out the molecular basis of human variation and disease and in discovering potential new treatments.

The Clinical Research Forum Board of Directors selected winners based on the degree of innovation and novelty involved in the advancement of science; contribution to the understanding of human disease and / or physiology; and potential impact upon the diagnosis, prevention and / or treatment of disease.

And there are a lot of treatments, or let's say potential treatments, that are working wonderfully in preclinical models that are ready to make the leap to human testing, and some of these have begun to make that transition to bridge from the laboratory to human - patient testing.

Protein interactions between viruses and cells can illuminate common weak points in human biology and reveal potential new targets for antiviral treatments

Human bone marrow (BM)- derived progenitor and stem cells administered with an appropriate scaffold represents a potentially exciting alternative treatment option [2], but only if we can discover a safe and rapid strategy to enhance the relatively low inherent osteogenic potential of BM.

These findings revolutionized human genetics, allowing researchers to identify disease genes and focus on potential treatments and cures.

Research in animals is an important step in developing any new treatment, but we'll need to see the findings translated into clinical studies in people before we could know the potential of EPPS to treat Alzheimer's in humans.

This approach has amazing potential to positively affect the human condition by giving people interventions and treatments that yield more years of healthy, productive life.

Scientists believe that stem cell therapy has the potential to dramatically change the treatment of human disease.

«These findings have potential implications for the prevention and treatment of human heart disease, once we better understand Irx3's role in the human heart,» said Dr. Bruneau.

Each cell - based treatment approach is presented as a potential therapy for a specific disease or a disease category (e.g.: cardiovascular diseases, metabolic diseases, etc.), studied in animal models or in humans.

Today, nuclear cloning is one of the essential tools in Dr. Jaenischs laboratory studies of human diseases, including his groundbreaking work on the nature and potential treatment of cancer.

November 12, 2013 Kurt + Peter Foundation funds research into potential treatment for rare form of muscular dystrophy The Kurt + Peter Foundation has awarded a two - year grant to Elizabeth McNally, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and human genetics at the University of Chicago, to study a potential treatment for limb girdle muscular dystrophy, type 2C — a rare but severe form of muscular dystrophy.

After huge leaps forward in recent years, we're edging ever closer to human trials of huntingtin lowering or «gene silencing» as a potential treatment for Huntington's Disease.

The Oh Lab studies the human microbiome for its potential to deliver treatments for infectious and other diseases.

Thus, the lab's approach may hold great promise for potential treatment of (neuro) inflammation - related human diseases both in and outside the central nervous system.

Most iPS cells have been derived through the use of viral vectors and are not ideal for the study and potential treatment of human diseases.

Studies using a mouse model of type 1 diabetes highlight a potential role for human adipose stem cells in treatment regimens and, further, they reveal a secreted factor which has important therapeutic relevance

While this technique is currently only available in animal models, it provides an important window into the brain generally — revealing the roles different cells play and identifying potential new targets for drug treatments in humans.

The challenge takes on even more urgency with recent developments, including a federal administration now more open to exploring the potential of stem cells, the recent FDA approval of a human trial involving embryonic stem cells, as well as the reported case of a young boy who developed a brain tumor four years after receiving a stem - cell treatment for a rare genetic disorder.

The work by the Houdusse team and Cytokinetics highlights how specific modulators of myosin activity have great potential to provide new treatments against human diseases.

Detection of early motor deficits, together with the genetic similarities to the human condition, would further support the use of heterozygous knock in mice as a tool for examining the early mechanisms of pathophysiology of HD and for screening potential treatments.

The successful differentiation of iPS cells into RPE represents a significant advance in the search for a potential cell source for the treatment of human neural retinal diseases.

My interests lie in leveraging the information hidden in large - scale omics data for better understanding of the mutational processes causing human cancer, for identifying potential cancer prevention strategies, and for developing novel approaches for targeted cancer treatment.

It will likely take another 10 to 15 years for potential new treatments to make their way into human trials.

Stem cell research has the potential to revolutionize the treatment of many human diseases.

Umrao Monani, Ph.D., assistant professor of neurology, searches for potential treatment strategies using genetically modified mice that mimic the human disease.