Sentences with phrase «potential use at trial»

In short, each party is entitled to know what documents exist for potential use at trial.

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He was catching potential investors at an inauspicious time: Many were smarting from disappointing trials of RNA interference therapies, which use short, double - stranded RNA to disrupt the production of disease - causing proteins.

«Recruitment for clinical trials in children with autism is one of the biggest challenges we face in studying potential treatments, and we found that process to be accelerated and streamlined by using existing online communities for enrollment,» said lead author Stephen Bent, associate professor of medicine at UCSF.

This clinical trial is the culmination of long - standing research led by Professor John Greenwood at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology showing the potential therapeutic benefits of using statins to treat autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and uveitis.

Second, this potential marker could also be used to identify groups of persons at higher risk of developing dementia, which could improve the efficiency of clinical trials and in the future, detect persons that would benefit the most from a preventive treatment,» explained co-corresponding author Sudha Seshadri, MD, professor of neurology at BUSM and FHS senior investigator.

«RNAi therapies are a unique approach to cancer treatment as they have the potential to «turn off» the genes» coding for proteins involved in cancer cell division,» said Ramesh K. Ramanathan, M.D., medical director of the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center Clinical Trials Program at Scottsdale Healthcare and deputy director of the Clinical Translational Research Division of the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) in Phoenix, Ariz. «Using a lipid nanoparticle, the RNAi drug can be delivered to a cancer cell to block the expression of specific proteins involved in tumor growth.»

The Australian CO2 mineral carbonation research pilot plant will be established at the University of Newcastle to trial a new technology that transforms captured CO2 emissions into forms of carbonate rock for potential use as new green building materials in the construction industry.

The first step in these trials would look at the distribution and potential toxicity of the radioactive manganese chloride used as a tracer.

Here, we sequentially conducted both a case - control study and a clinical trial to investigate the potential effects of oxytocin on this difficulty at behavioural and neural levels measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging during a psychological task.

But research on its potential uses for treating medical problems «is still in its very early stages,» and designing trials can be challenging, said Richard J. Davidson, a neuroscientist who founded the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center, at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

However, the potential of universal prevention in early childhood to improve mental health remains largely unexplored.2 5 7 We previously published short - term outcomes at toddler age11 of the first cluster randomised trial of a truly universal early parenting programme, Toddlers Without Tears, designed to be offered to all parents in the community and aiming to prevent externalising behaviours using anticipatory guidance before any developmental onset.