Sentences with phrase «treat incurable diseases»

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.

Not exact matches

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).

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.

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

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.

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.

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».