Sentences with phrase «reproduce human diseases»
Many universities and pharmaceutical companies are engaged in research and development using genetically modified mice that have certain genes manipulated to reproduce human diseases.
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This will provide information that could be used to illuminate how malaria — a disease which causes more than half a million deaths a year — is spread from human to human by parasite - infected female mosquitoes which bite people to feed on blood they need in order to reproduce.
Understanding how the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) reproduces itself is crucial in the effort to fight the disease.
Specific genetic errors that trigger congenital heart disease (CHD) in humans can be reproduced reliably in Drosophila melanogaster — the common fruit fly — an initial step toward personalized therapies for patients in the future.
Researchers from CEA, Inserm, Paris - Sud and Paris - Descartes Universities, and CNRS have developed an animal model that reproduces the progression of the human disease.
Specific genetic errors that trigger congenital heart disease in humans can be reproduced reliably in Drosophila melanogaster — the common fruit fly — an initial step toward personalized therapies for patients in the future.
«We haven't had human cellular models that faithfully reproduce this feature of the disease,» said Gottesfeld.
«Progressive shortening of longer telomeres that are protective in mice not only reproduced the clinical disease caused by NOTCH1 mutation, it also recapitulated the spectrum of disease severity we see in humans.»
Although anti-abortion groups oppose embryonic stem cell research because they believe it destroys unborn human life and that it threatens to expand that destruction as stem cell research grows increasingly beneficial to humans already born and suffering from disease and debilitation, embryonic stem cells now are reproduced in labs from cells derived years ago from originals.