Sentences with phrase «tools for studying disease»

With most of the same genes as humans, but far easier to manipulate and study, mice are essential tools for studying disease.

These cells could then be used as a tool for studying these diseases and screening potential drug compounds, says Suzuki.

Stricter safety procedures and new ways to weaken pathogens to reduce their risks are leading investigators in industry, universities, and government to take a new look at human challenge trials, which offer a powerful tool for studying diseases and potential therapies.

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Because, as Belmonte rightly explains, the new «precisely targeted» tools can help us «study species evolution, biology and disease, and may lead ultimately to the ability to grow human organs for transplant.»

The study concludes that comprehensive screening for canine inherited disorders represents an efficient and powerful diagnostic and research discovery tool that has a range of applications in veterinary care, disease research, and dog breeding.

Biomarkers signatures, detected with panels of high - quality antibodies, are another powerful tool for studying neurological diseases and conditions.

The study of viruses far removed from human concerns has brought to light powerful tools for the study of human disease.

As for the Lund researchers, the method provides a tool for studying how neurons cooperate inside a healthy brain and in animal models with different neurological diseases.

Preliminary results of the study were presented at a World Health Organization (WHO) evidence review group meeting, while UNITAID has issued a call for further research into the use of endectocide class drugs, of which ivermectin is currently the only one registered for human use, as new vector control tools in the fight against malaria and other mosquito borne disease.

The Immunochip for fine - mapping is an important tool for conducting genome - wide association studies of the genetic components of disease.

«This approach, termed DiceCT, can be widely applied, not just for evolutionary studies but also as a powerful tool for biomedical investigations of brain development in disease, congenital defects, or injury,» she said.

The study also examines the use of lentiviral vectors for cell delivery in treating liver diseases, a tool traditionally used in treating blood disorders.

«Reprogramming patients» cells offers powerful new tool for studying, treating blood diseases.»

«This study allowed us to utilize all our tools — and even though this virus does not appear to affect mammals, we are continuing to refine those tools so we can be better prepared for the next outbreak of disease that could have an impact on human health.»

The study paves the way for CRISPR - Cas9 as a powerful gene editing tool with potential therapeutic applications for inherited diseases — leading to more widely available gene therapy techniques.

«Finches offer researchers a new tool with which to study Huntington's disease: Like humans, songbirds learn their vocalizations, suggesting they could be useful as models for certain disorders.»

Small - animal imaging has become an important research tool for preclinical studies of infectious diseases, according to senior author Thomas M. Bocan, Ph.D., of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID).

But the study, conducted through the new USTAR Center for Genetic Discovery at the U of U, shows that Phevor's unique approach allows it to identify disease - causing genes more precisely than other computational tools.

For now, they don't have a clue about the virus's origins or why it's suddenly causing an outbreak; in order to speed up the process, they want to share the virus and protocols for detecting it with anyone interested in studying the disease or developing diagnostic tools and vaccinFor now, they don't have a clue about the virus's origins or why it's suddenly causing an outbreak; in order to speed up the process, they want to share the virus and protocols for detecting it with anyone interested in studying the disease or developing diagnostic tools and vaccinfor detecting it with anyone interested in studying the disease or developing diagnostic tools and vaccines.

It also is an ability that is consistently impaired in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), and for University of Iowa neurologist Nandakumar Narayanan that makes «timing» an ideal tool to study cognitive problems in PD.

When epidemiological data are scarce, social media and Internet reports can be reliable tools for forecasting infectious disease outbreaks, according to a study led by an expert in the School of Public Health at Georgia State University.

In theory, the disease could be halted by limiting people's access to unaffected areas, but that would be a very unpopular policy and perhaps impossible to implement, he says.The rapid spread of sudden oak death is «such a dynamic system that a lot of our tools in ecology for understanding and predicting patterns are inadequate,» says Rick Ostfeld of the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York.

A recent study led by Alice Lam, MD, PhD, also of the MGH Epilepsy Service and lead author of the current study demonstrated a novel tool for detecting hippocampal seizures not detectible by scalp EEGs in patients with epilepsy, Cole adds, and his team is working to refine this tool and apply it to Alzheimer's disease.

«Additional recordings with FO electrodes in patients with Alzheimer's disease will help us develop better tools based on computerized analysis of EEG signals and possibly functional neuroimaging studies to ascertain how common silent seizures are in Alzheimer's disease without the need for the minimally invasive electrodes we used in these patients.»

Scientists for years have looked for the biological roots of the problem using tools such as genome - wide association studies and gene - linkage analysis, which crunch genetic and health data from thousands of people in an effort to pinpoint disease - causing genetic variants.

In 2009, he established the Center for Human Disease Modeling at Duke University, which aims to facilitate collaboration across disciplines and to develop physiologically relevant, scalable tools to study variation among human patient genomes.

the generation of novel mouse models of Cystic Fibrosis by exploring genetically - diverse murine populations that will provide unique tools for disease modeling and pre-clinical studies.

Since SCID mice have no natural immunity and can not reject tissue transplants, they have become valuable research tools for studying many diseases, including cancer and HIV.

Scientists from the UNC School of Medicine have developed a new tool for studying a key process in cells called G - protein signaling, which plays a central role in the normal functioning of cells and can go awry to cause severe disease, including cancers.

Not so long ago, the advent of powerful genomic tools and genetic engineering techniques made it seem that studies involving mice engineered to carry human disease genes would be the best approach for exploring human disorders, superior to looking at cells isolated in a laboratory.

NIMML researchers employ advanced computational tools in combination with experimental and clinical studies to capture variation and diversity of immune responses, and develop safer, more - effective precision medicine treatments for infectious and immune - mediated diseases.

«Our method promises to be a powerful tool for studying the mechanisms of human diseases and developing new therapies,» they wrote in the journal Nature.

Genetically modified goats are an important tool for producing valuable therapeutic protein [14]--[16] and studying human diseases as ideal biomedical models [17]--[19].

Genome sequencing has become a powerful tool for studying emerging infectious diseases; however, genome sequencing directly from clinical samples without isolation remains challenging for viruses such as Zika, where metagenomic sequencing methods may generate insufficient numbers of viral reads.

This resource constitutes an important infrastructure and tool for the study of complex genetic traits, the positional cloning of disease genes, the cross-referencing of mammalian genomes, and validated human transcribed sequences for large - scale studies of gene expression.

Humanized NSG ™ and NSG ™ - SGM3 mouse models are powerful tools for studying cancer, inflammatory and infectious disease, and hematopoiesis.

In addition to providing a much - needed diagnostic tool, this technique will provide a way to monitor lesions for future studies assessing new drug therapies for dogs with this devastating disease.