Sentences with phrase «science over disease»

This intimate PBS documentary chronicles the story of the polio vaccine's success — a triumph of science over disease.

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Carlo Russo, who used to run the rare disease R&D unit over at pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline, is heading over to Italian biotech Genenta Science.

The new life sciences center, to be located in Milan, is to «receive $ 1.5 billion over the next decade and focus on genomics, personalized medicine, cancer, and neurodegenerative diseases,» Margottini wrote.

Hughes ran into conflict with the university and his former sponsor, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), over his efforts to diagnose genetic diseases — such as Tay - Sachs disease and cystic fibrosis — in test - tube embryos scheduled for implantation (Science, 24 January, p. 472).

«Understanding this previously ignored part of the human genome, its role in human development, and how it may be taken over by disease, opens a new frontier in science with important implications for medical advances,» said Philipp Kapranov, Ph.D., lead researcher at the St. Laurent Institute.

Now the same team have screened over 5,000 amphibians from four continents to ascertain the threat the new disease presents to other species.The results, published today in the journal Science, show that B. salamandrivorans is very dangerous to salamanders and newts, but not to frogs, toads and snake - like amphibians called caecilians.

Over a year, the patch appeared to stabilise the disease in all four treated eyes, while the untreated eyes continued to deteriorate (Science Translational Medicine, doi.org/cm38).

As the centerpiece of the medical innovation ecosystem, NIH not only supports the research that leads to treatments and cures for our most devastating diseases, but drives the life sciences economic engine, annually sustaining over 400,000 jobs and nearly $ 60 billion in economic activity nationwide.

It brings together over 300 leading institutions working in healthcare, research, disease advocacy, life science, and information technology.

They started researching prion diseases online, and invited over friends who are biologists and chemists, to help them understand the science.

Over the last century, there has been astounding progress in medical science, leading to the development of efficient, effective medications for treating cancer and a wide variety of other diseases.

We've got OpenSciLogs bloggers interested in exploring how the concept of science news has changed over time, what role journalists may play in the public health management of infectious disease outbreaks, and live science reporting from the Global South.

In light of spending cuts and concern over the UK's ability to translate world - class stem cell research into therapies to help treat disease, the SMC invited the Science Minster and several top stem cell scientists to brief journalists on the state of the sector.

Dr. Srinivasan: Over the past five years we've put a lot of work, the whole team, into learning the basic science of glaucoma, into really finding out what are the earliest changes in the disease.

Pioneering scientist, social activist, humanitarian — Mary - Claire King is also foremost a free spirit who for over four decades has marched to the beat of her own drummer, animated by the impulse to solve iconic scientific puzzles, a passion for victims of disease and social injustice, and a warm humility that belies her profound impacts on science, on medicine, and on society.

``... the disturbing story of nutrition science over the course of the last half - century looks something like this: scientists responding to the skyrocketing number of heart disease cases, which had gone from a mere handful in 1900 to being the leading cause of death by 1950, hypothesized that dietary fat, especially of the saturated kind (due to its effect on cholesterol), was to blame.

«Forks Over Knives» is about returning to that level of simplicity in our food consumption ~ ~ raw, whole foods with minimal processing with no animal product and minimal oil — the good doctors have the science behind the destruction of the endothelial lining of our blood vessels and the development of cancer and vascular disease when these animal products, processed foods and oils are consumed.

For over one hundred and fifty years, psychiatry has promoted the idea that what is called schizophrenia is a progressive, deteriorative disease of the brain, and that science is on the horizon of finally discovering the biochemical nature of this debilitating mental disorder.

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In an earlier study, co-author Richard Warner, an emeritus professor of natural resources and environmental sciences, followed about two dozen free - roaming cats over several years, and found that the two leading causes of cat deaths were other cats and disease.

«The greatest evils which stalk our Earth are ignorance and oppression, and not science, technology, and industry, whose instruments, when adequately managed, are indispensable tools of a future shaped by humanity, by itself and for itself, overcoming major problems like over population, starvation and worldwide diseases.»

They are nitpicking over issues analogous to the pressing questions of the times, such as whether witches actually fly or imagine that they fly, whether they fly on broomsticks or on wilow branches, and whether they consort with the Devil or only think they do.Their predecessors, they declared the science settled, i.e., witches exist and cause disease and cold weather, but assumed the «danger» still exists and posed faux disagreements over irrelevant «data» and «mysteries» to provide themselves with jobs.