Sentences with phrase «scientists about human disease»
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«This may contribute to antibiotic resistance, [and] scientists are more concerned about disease - causing bacteria that develops resistance in farm animals to then infect human beings.
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By comparing our genetic make - up to the genomes of mice, chimps and a menagerie of other species (rats, chickens, dogs, pufferfish, the microscopic worm Caenorhabditis elegans, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and many bacteria), scientists have learned a great deal about how genes evolve over time, and gained insights into human diseases.
Not only can these social scientists correctly arrange all 206 bones that make up an adult human skeleton, they can also determine facts about peoples» lives — age at death, sex, stature, nutritional deficiencies, levels of work stress, exposure to infectious disease and traumas — from a careful examination of the bones.
Unravelling this mechanism could also help scientists understand more about human cell dysfunctions linked to disorders such as diabetes, Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases.
During every recent human outbreak of the Ebola virus — which often causes victims to bleed to death — gorilla carcasses have turned up in nearby forests, but scientists were uncertain about the extent of the disease's impact.
The genome is expected to answer questions about how the organism causes disease, which is not exactly clear to the scientists, and to point the way to a human vaccine.
«Because scientists can selectively switch off genes in mice, more will be learnt about human disease from the mouse genome than from the human genome.
«For a nice two decades scientists have dreamt about using human embryonic stem cells to treat diseases... that day has finally come... scientists have used human embryonic stem cells to successfully treat patients suffering from severe vision loss»
The findings provide scientists with a valuable tool to learn about the human sense of taste and how it functions in health and disease.