Sentences with phrase «tumor disease»

The illness, known as devil facial tumor disease, produces open wounds on a devil's mouth, which soon spread and become large tumors on its face and neck.

In turn, the scientists were able to grow a tumor - associated virus to better understand certain tumor diseases.

ChHV5 is associated with fibropapillomatosisa tumor disease affecting endangered green turtles.

A Rochester Institute of Technology scientist and an RIT alumnus are close to completing the genetic blueprint, or microbiome, of grape crown gall tumor disease — the bane of vineyards worldwide.

Esophageal cancer is the eighth most common tumor disease in the western world.

«Our findings provide a significant advancement in studying FP, and may eventually help scientists better understand other herpes virus - induced tumor diseases, including those of humans.»

Monitor MMTV - PyMT + / tg; Postn + / + and MMTV - PyMT + / tg; Postn − / − female mice for tumor development and keep until tumor disease is fully developed and the metastatic disease is estimated to occur.

Dr. Grier is an active member of the Bone Tumor Disease Committee and the Soft Tissue Sarcoma Committee of this group.

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: June 12, 2008 - Suzy Esstman's initial encounter with her brain tumor disease was less swift and dramatic than Sen. Kennedy's.

The projects will begin during the fall and are intended to improve our understanding of the molecular mechanisms surrounding tumor disease, heart failure, diabetes, inflammatory diseases, asthma and COPD, CNS diseases and stem cell biology.

Moreover, knock in animal models for syngeneic studies and allowing us to isolate transgenic armed effector cells are developed in order to show proof of concept for the diverse applicability of our modular targeting systems including for tumor diseases, autoimmune diseases, GvHD, transplantation / rejection as well as viral infections.

At the adult phase, some sea turtles are inflicted with a potentially fatal tumor disease known as marine turtle fibropapilloma, the cause of which is still unknown.

Since devil facial tumor disease was first discovered in 1996, it has wiped out about 80 percent of the Tasmanian devil population.

The total environmental DNA of grape crown gall tumor disease is revealed in the genetic profile based on 52 tissue samples of crown gall tumor taken from 16 grapevine species.

So understanding the strange tricks that devil facial tumor disease, or DFTD, has evolved to ensure its survival should shed new light on cancer writ large.

Since its first recorded sighting in 1996, devil facial tumor disease (DFTD) has maintained a steady westward march in Tasmania, depleting devil populations by as much as 90 percent in some areas.

An estimated 5,000 devils are infected with devil facial tumor disease, which typically causes death within six months of the appearance of a tumor.

How it spreads: Unlike normal cancers, where the disease - causing mutation is confined to one organism, devil facial tumor disease (DFTD) cells have evolved the ability to spread from devil to devil.

Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor Disease (DFTD) has ravaged the world's largest carnivorous marsupial since it emerged in 1996, resulting in a population decline of over 90 %.

These cancers include the canine transmissible venereal tumor, transmitted by sexual contact, and the Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease, transmitted through biting.

A contagious cancer called devil facial tumor disease (DFTD) has been decimating the Tasmanian devil population for the past 15 years — except for one group of devils in northwestern Tasmania that seemed to be resistant to the disease.

ChHV5 is associated with fibropapillomatosis, known as FP, a tumor disease affecting green turtles worldwide but particularly those in Hawaii, Florida and Brazil.

New sequence of the endangered marsupial's genome could help future generations fight off devastating facial tumor disease

The devil facial tumor disease has wiped out about 80 percent of the Tasmanian devil's population since it was discovered.

The proteins could be the key to stopping the transmissible facial tumor disease that is threatening the species.

Tasmanian devils suffer from a transmissible cancer called devil facial tumor disease.

Researchers in Australia claim to have successfully used immunotherapy to treat devil facial tumor disease.

The marsupials» genomes show evidence of a rapid evolutionary response to selection imposed by devil facial tumor disease.

Andrew Storfer, WSU professor of biology, and an international team of scientists discovered that two regions in the genomes of Australia's iconic marsupials are changing in response to the rapid spread of devil facial tumor disease (DFTD), a nearly 100 percent fatal and transmissible cancer first detected in 1996.

Most were also sick with a tumor disease called fibropapilloma.

More than two decades after the discovery of Tasmanian facial tumor disease, the Tasmanian devil is on the verge of extinction, with some areas reporting a 95 percent decrease in their population.

These diseases include infectious pneumonia (fungal, bacterial, parasitic), feline heartworm disease (cats are aberrant hosts for the canine heartworm disease parasite), primary lung parasites, and tumor disease (either a lung tumor, or one that has metastasized or spread to the lungs from elsewhere in the body).

Conservation Management of Tasmanian Devils in the Context of an Emerging, Extinction - threatening Disease: Devil Facial Tumor Disease

Scientists are now using high - tech gene sequencing machines in a desperate attempt to save the Tasmanian devil from an infectious cancer called devil facial tumor disease that is threatening to wipe out the species.