Sentences with phrase «treat incurable»

In 1993, a breakthrough new technology, known as CRISPR, gave scientists a path to treat incurable diseases through genetic editing.

Stem cell therapy is used to treat incurable diseases like Cerebral Palsy, Brain Hemorrhage and Stroke, Spinal Cord Injury & Paraplegia, Autism, Parkinsonism, Motor Neuron Disease, Muscular Dystrophy, Liver Diseases, Huntington's Disease, Chronic Kidney Diseases, Optic Neuritis, Multiple Sclerosis, Cerebellar Ataxia and Friedrich Ataxia.

An adapted CRISPR technique could be used to treat incurable diseases, such as diabetes and muscular dystrophy, by turning up the volume on selected genes.

AstraZeneca PLC (LON: AZN) ticked higher even as it went ex-dividend after the US Food and Drug Administration granted orphan drug designation for Selumetinib, a drug used to treat incurable genetic condition Neurofibromatosis Type 1.

Not exact matches

Ligand gets royalties on sales of Amgen's Kyprolis drug, which treats a form of incurable blood cancer.

The death rate for this virus stands at around 55 % and although medics can treat the symptoms, it is incurable.

Proponents, however, insist that animal research has played, and is continuing to play, a vital role in treating and preventing many illnesses and diseases once thought incurable.

Federoff believes that this vaccine approach might work to treat people who contract variant Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease (vCJD), a currently incurable human form of prion disease, related to mad cow disease (BSE).

But Knutson does see this finding as more relevant for possibly treating other incurable iron overload disorders such as thalassemia.

A new study by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James) provides evidence that genetically modifying immune cells might effectively treat multiple myeloma, a disease that remains incurable and will account for an estimated 24,000 new cases and 11,100 deaths in 2014

In addition to new drugs, we need to ensure that patients with incurable disease are treated with dignity and afforded the care they need.»

They discovered that people with both head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and the KRAS - variant who were treated with standard treatment, but not with cetuximab, had a higher risk of failing treatment and developing metastatic disease, meaning the cancer spreads to distant organs and is incurable.

THREE patients with incurable neck and head cancer have survived for three years after being treated with a combination of chemotherapy and a cold virus that has been modified to attack tumours.

Luca Santarelli, head of neuroscience at the Basel - headquartered giant, said «we found the science behind this programme very compelling, with the potential to help treat a currently incurable condition».

This technology is already leading to novel ways of treating previously incurable human diseases.

Luca Santarelli, Global Head of Roche Neuroscience, said: «We found the science behind this programme very compelling, with the potential to help treat a currently incurable condition.

The treatments typically use autologous stem cells (those obtained from one's body) to treat everything from bad knees to incurable disease such as ALS or Parkinson's.

The treatment has essentially cured almost all the participants, suggesting a transformative change is on the horizon in how this previously incurable genetic disease is treated.

Being diagnosed with a «progressive and incurable» neurological disease at the age of 23 has been my greatest burden but also my greatest gift because of the juicy life lessons I have learned through the daily and sometimes menacing struggles of living with, treating and healing from a debilitating and disabling disease.

Nearly one in four patients with incurable gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) treated with

It seems conventional medical advice has been relying on the reduction in blood sugar response as the best way to treat diabetes, however we know that this conventional treatment results in type II diabetes being categorized as an incurable chronic disease.

After having treated countless patients over the years with gastrointestinal problems ranging from mild to most severe and debilitating as well as many women suffering from chronic vaginal thrush and men with «incurable» cases of jock itch, I have come to the conclusion than in most all these cases the patients had a history of antibiotic use.

My daughter was prescribed very strong antibiotics to treat a very nasty strain of candida, which in turn completely stuffed up her digestive system where she now suffers from gastroperesis which is making her life hell and you read online horror stories that it is incurable.

I realistically believe that I have developed a high level of clinical skill in treating and achieving results with chronic psoriasis, enabling me to assist those with seemingly «incurable» psoriasis, even of many years duration.

Thanks to the discovery of penicillin in the early 20th century, syphilis and gonorrhoea can now be treated with antibiotics, but both infections were once incurable.

Researchers will determine if a promising new drug used to treat dogs with hemangiosarcoma would benefit dogs with other incurable cancers.

This is a serious, incurable, sometimes difficult to treat disease.

Treatment e etc. (I say in theory because in practice treatment often requires multiple follow up visits, treatment extends life span which results in more end of life care requirements, and and «treating» diseases many of which are incurable by having everyone sit in the dr.'s office waiting for an antibiotic prescription that will do no good for their virus just provides a convenient way for the virus to spread, but I digress).

Because dilated cardiomyopathy is an incurable disease, which can only be treated by managing the symptoms that it causes, the insurance companies are going to want to make sure that what has originally caused you cardiomyopathy to occur has been «cured» and / or «managed».