Sentences with phrase «produce human medicines»

More sophisticated use of GM plants and animals to produce human medicines — dubbed «pharming» — is a new field which promises to deliver drugs too complex to be synthesised in the test tube.

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NSF International's Raised Without Antibiotics certification provides consumers with assurance that the animal products they buy have been produced without exposure to antibiotics used in human medicine.

Proving that unfertilized eggs will produce stable tissues in humans remains an obstacle, says Alan Trounson, president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

Using a mouse model of HSV - 1 as well as autopsied samples of human adult and fetal tissues, investigators from Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine found that antibodies against HSV - 1 produced by adult women or female mice could travel to the nervous systems of their yet unborn babies, preventing the development and spread of infection during birth.

«This is a great study — it was very carefully done, it addressed an important organism in the human microbiome, and it produced some very interesting results,» says Martin Blaser, a physician and microbiologist at the New York University School of Medicine in New York City.

In a screen of more than 100,000 potential drugs, only one, harmine, drove human insulin - producing beta cells to multiply, according to a study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, funded by JDRF and the National Institutes of Health, and published online in Nature Medicine.

Many scientists argue that so - called research cloning, in which cloned human embryos might be used to produce embryonic stem (ES) cells, could be a boon to medicine.

For the animal experiments, Savio Woo of the Center for Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and his colleagues first isolated liver cells from transgenic mice that produce the human protein a1 - antitrypsin in their livers, from where it is secreted into the blood.

«In this study, we show for the first time that fructose can be produced in the human brain,» said first author Janice Hwang, M.D., assistant professor of medicine.

«At doses roughly equivalent to half or a single joint, ∆ 9 - THC produced psychosis - like effects and increased neural noise in humans,» explained senior author Dr. Deepak Cyril D'Souza, a Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine.

Suddenly, the idea of herds of identical prize bulls, or sheep producing medicines for humans in their milk, seemed wholly plausible.

Human - produced noise in the ocean is likely harming marine mammals in numerous unknown ways, according to a comprehensive new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Their work, published in Science Translational Medicine, provides proof of concept for producing antibodies against a broad range of human pathogens.

iBET's infrastructure comprises 16 laboratories fully equipped with state - of - the - art technology (70 m2 each), including a BSL2 laboratory for working with viruses; a GMP Analytical Services Unit certified by the INFARMED (the Portuguese medicines authority, EMA Portuguese branch) and by DGAV (the Portuguese veterinary authority) for quality control and batch release of human and veterinary pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals as well as experimental new drugs; a GMP Mass - Spectroscopy Unit that provides state - of - the - art MS services to the scientific community and Industry; a 2600 m2 bio-pilot plant supporting production and purification of proteins ATMPs and vaccines from bench top to 300 L scale and privileged access to GeniBET Biopharmaceuticals, an iBET spin - off producing ATMPs under cGMP certification for phase I / II / III clinical trials.

Coleen McNamara, MD, a Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Virginia, recently discovered a B cell subset that produces natural antibodies to protect from diet - induced atherosclerosis in mice, and she hopes to gain insights into the equivalent mechanisms in humans.

Scientists at Penn State College of Medicine, working alongside an international team of researchers, have produced the most complete encyclopedia of functional elements in the mouse genome to date and compared it to the human genome.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have transformed cells from human skin into cells that produce insulin, the hormone used to treat diabetes.

But because stem cells can become any kind of tissue, human - animal research in the field of «regenerative medicine» raises greater ethical issues and adds, for some, a visceral unease about the organism that could be produced.

As we produce more human - relevant data with our Organ - Chips, we look forward to making a positive impact on informing R&D decisions, reducing drug candidate attrition in human clinical trials, and helping to deliver better and safer medicines to patients.»

The most profound medicine is produced in the human system for free!

Researchers from the Department of Medicine at the University of Virginia found that fasting for just two days produced a 5-fold increase in human growth hormone (HGH).

In August 2003, the Journal of Veterinary Medicine carried an Italian study which showed that dogs also develop vaccine - induced cancers at their injection sites.5 We already know that vaccine - site cancer is a possible sequel to human vaccines, too, since the Salk polio vaccine was said to carry a monkey retrovirus (from cultivating the vaccine on monkey organs) that produces inheritable cancer.

A team of researchers led by Purdue Veterinary Medicine Assistant Professor of Human - Animal Interaction Maggie O'Haire has produced valuable scientific data documenting the nature of the effect of service dogs on veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).