Sentences with phrase «range of other diseases»

Ingredients like high sucrose corn syrup, used widely in soft drinks, and palm oil, found in a variety of processed foods, have been promoted as and are arguably «natural» — but they have been linked to obesity, diabetes and a range of other diseases.

He has recently published similar pre-clinical work showing hESC - derived cells can be used to treat a range of other diseases, including multiple sclerosis and lupus, among others.

Not exact matches

Some small studies have suggested that synbiotics could provide benefits to a range of other conditions influenced by the gut microbiome as well, including obesity, diabetes, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, but larger - scale clinical trials focusing on each of those conditions are needed.

But before his arrest, he said he'd use KaloBios as a vehicle to nab another niche drug, this time for treatment of the parasitic infection Chagas disease, and dramatically increase its price to the $ 60,000 to $ 100,000 range after helping it win FDA approval (the drug is approved in other countries and is provided to patients in the U.S. on a special and selective basis).

That could have a range of consequences, including effects on blood sugar, regulation of body weight, inflammatory bowel disease, and how drugs and other chemicals are absorbed and metabolized by the body.

«The International Rice Research Institute and other research institutions have developed a wide range of sustainable technologies that will help reduce use of water, chemicals and energy in rice, and protect the crop from pests, disease and the impacts of climate change.

The Atlanta - based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the federal agency that collects data on a range of other health markers, only started tracking breastfeeding statistics in 1994.

Lung and heart diseases are the principal killers, but smoking contributes to a broad range of other maladies.

The team are now analysing large published datasets for the effects of other recommended food groups, including fruits and vegetables, on a wider range of diseases.

Researchers studied HIV positive individuals, ages 30 to 50 years, who did not have osteoporosis, had no history of immunological disease other than HIV, had serum vitamin D and calcium levels within the normal range, and normal CBC and blood chemistry profiles.

Studies by Schwarzschild's team and others have found that healthy people with naturally occurring blood levels of urate within the high normal range appear to have a reduced risk of developing Parkinson's and that the disease may progress more slowly in those with higher urate levels.

This opens up the possibility for the production and use of sentinel circuits, which produce other bioactive compounds in response to environmental or cellular changes, to target a range of diseases including cancer.»

The main constituents of hen dung are nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, with a wide range of traces of other minerals, but the near - certainty of transmitting disease through fungal infection must have outweighed any possible benefits.

Poinar suggested in the journal American Entomologist that the origins of this deadly disease, which today can infect animals ranging from humans and other mammals to birds and reptiles, may have begun in an insect such as the biting midge more than 100 million years ago.

It also provides comprehensive care for a full range of other lung diseases.

Many groups around the world are investigating a wide range of other applications, including treating heart attacks, blindness, Parkinson's disease and cancer.

The method can be applied to a range of fields, including clinical settings and fundamental biology research for cancer and other diseases.

«There are a range of metabolic diseases and other liver disorders where if you fix a mutated gene you might be really able to have an impact on human health,» Anderson says.

«This finding really excites us because it makes us think that this is a gene repair system that could be used to treat a range of diseases — not just tyrosinemia but others as well,» says Daniel Anderson, associate professor in MIT's Department of Chemical Engineering and a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES).

As to reasons for the decline, most analysts point to a range of factors including diversions of river water for farming, pollution, the intermingling of wild salmon with weaker, disease - ridden hatchery fish, and global warming — which creates some problems and exacerbates others.

Dysfunctional autophagy, on the other hand, is implicated in aging and a range of diseases including cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, muscular disorders, diabetes, and obesity.

Previous studies found patterns suggesting that some lineages and groups are hit harder than others, but in El Copé, the disease hit across the entire range of evolutionary history, wiping out some lineages and not others in a random way.

The participants — all free of cataracts or other eye diseases — had vision prescriptions ranging from nearsightedness (myopia) to farsightedness (hyperopia).

The findings suggest that RIPK1 may be involved in a range of other neurodegenerative diseases marked by axonal damage, including multiple sclerosis, certain forms of spinal muscular atrophy and even Alzheimer's disease.

In much of California, on the other hand, a witches» brew of pollutants cooked in the atmosphere can sear the delicate tissue lining the lungs and aggravate an astonishing array of other health problems, ranging from heart disease and lung cancer to dementia.

The authors propose that all law enforcement - related deaths — including people killed by police as well as police killed in the line of duty — be treated not just as criminal data but as a «notifiable condition,» and that they be reported to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) by public health and medical professionals and published on a weekly basis, as are a host of other conditions ranging from poisonings to pertussis to polio.

The «extra» deaths are mostly a result of flu - like respiratory disease, but deaths from heart attacks, strokes and a wide range of other ailments also increase.

Interestingly, the authors noted that since the study showed that microbiota in the gut can influence the brain, it «adds to evidence suggesting that the intestinal microbiota may play some role in the spectrum of brain disorders ranging from mood or anxiety to other problems that may include autism, Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis.»

«In the future we hope to apply this strategy to target other disease - causing RNAs, which range from incurable cancers to important viral pathogens such as Zika and Ebola,» added Research Associate Sai Pradeep Velagapudi, the first author of the study and a member of the Disney lab.

«We're hopeful this technique will eventually alleviate pain and suffering, perhaps even save the lives, of DMD patients who have a wide range of mutations and, unfortunately, have had no other treatment options to eliminate the underlying cause of the disease.»

The other fellows were mostly based in the USA and worked on the microbiota and / or a diverse range of infections including neglected tropical diseases, sexually transmitted diseases, vector borne diseases, food borne pathogens and anti-microbial resistance.

Knowing how cells exert force and sense mechanical feedback in their microenvironment is crucial to understanding how they activate a wide range of cellular functions, such as cell reproduction, differentiation and adhesion — basic physiological processes that underlie embryo development, tumor metastasis, wound healing and many other aspects of human health and disease.

Since the launch of SETI@home, various other computing projects have emerged, ranging from the search for molecular keys to pick the locks of deadly diseases to collaborative art projects that digitally mimic the process of natural selection.

The difference remained significant even after accounting for a wide range of other factors, including meeting criteria for Gulf War illness, the presence of an Alzheimer's disease risk gene (ApoE4), brain injury, or depression.

Other medical sequencing projects will use DNA sequencing to: discover new genes that are involved in common diseases; identify the genes responsible for dozens of relatively rare, single - gene (autosomal Mendelian) diseases; sequence all of the genes on the X chromosome from affected individuals to identify those involved in sex - linked diseases; and survey the range of variants in genes known to contribute to certain common diseases.

«We envision this treatment approach having a broad range of applications such as protecting military personnel from biothreat agents or protecting the public from other toxin - mediated diseases such as C. difficile and Shiga toxin - producing E. coli infections,» said Shoemaker, the paper's senior author.

Work ranges from analysis of the functions of genes identified to cause eye diseases when mutated, to the direct effects of UV - light and other agents associated with the development of eye disease on mitochondrial and other cell functions.

Researchers find BCX — red pigment abundant in sweet red peppers, paprika, winter and butternut squash, oranges, and tangerines, among other foods — appears to counteract nicotine's ability to accelerate the growth of lung tumors.Photo credit: IngimageXiang - Dong Wang, a cancer researcher at Tufts University, has spent a long time trying to figure out why carotenoids, the main pigments providing colors that range from yellow and pink to deep orange and red in most fruits and vegetables, seem to keep chronic diseases at bay.

This promise is reinforced by the strong commitment of the investment and scientific communities in exploring the potential applications across a wide range of vexing diseases and conditions, such as cancer, Parkinson's disease, and diabetes, among many others.

This research shows great promise as a therapy not only for β - hemoglobinopathies, but also for a range of other hematological diseases.

Despite the reasonableness of thinking that it would reduce the risk of a range of age - related diseases, so far «the vast majority of the epidemiological data does not support the hypothesis that body iron stores are directly related to the risk of developing CHD,» (2) and there's no evidence that it's protective against any other age - related disorder.»

Other DNA repair deficits can cause a range of diseases such as leukemia, breast cancer and hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer, a common cause of colon cancer in Western nations.

For example, deep brain stimulation (DBS)-- delivering an electrical current into the brain to modify nerve activity — has become a standard therapy for Parkinson's disease (PD), and it is now being adapted to treat a range of other conditions including depression and obsessive - compulsive disorder.

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.

We have measured immune responses including cytokines, chemokines, growth factors, antibodies and other biomarkers of immune response or pathology in a number of disease settings ranging from viral infections (HIV, HCV, HBV, West Nile, Dengue, Zika), parasitic infection (Chagas) and chronic diseases (cardiovascular disease, liver fibrosis, kidney disease and neuropathology).

The creative use of neuroimaging and other techniques is helping McLean scientists better diagnose and develop new treatments for a range of conditions including substance use disorders, neuropsychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia, major depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

The study is also a proof of concept that mRNA therapy could be applied to a range of other genetic diseases, especially where the therapeutic protein needs to be modified to have biological activity.

With over 30 years of experience as an effective and efficient nonprofit health organization, AAMDSIF offers a range of national partnership opportunities for companies and organizations who care about helping patients and families facing aplastic anemia, MDS, PNH and other bone marrow failure diseases.

Leveraging the unique insights of its founders and an internal team of outstanding scientists, the Company seeks to become an industry leader in the neural stem cell field with multiple therapeutic product candidates ranging from epilepsy and neuropathic pain to other potential opportunities in the broader neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disease space.

Whole grains, on the other hand, are a rich source of phytochemicals, enzymes, fibre, vitamins and minerals and omega - 3 fatty acids, which combine to give us a huge range of health benefits, including the ability to dramatically lower cardiovascular disease, balance blood sugar and even help us lose weight.