Sentences with phrase «understand modern diseases»

Ancient genomes can provide a baseline to help us understand modern diseases, Hayes says.

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It is a salutary exercise for Christians and Jews to better understand one of the more loathsome diseases of the modern era.

We have begun to understand what Gandhi really meant when he described modern civilization as a «disease».

Nevertheless, after intensive treatment, nearly half of adult women with anorexia nervosa relapse within a year... This work shows how modern neuroscience can lead to a new treatment and simultaneously improve understanding of perpetuating factors in a complex, multifactorial disease... Both mood and social function warrant further examination as potential neural factors that might perpetuate anorexia nervosa in adults.

A single cure is still elusive, but for people touched by his disease, modern understanding is paying off in better treatments, better prevention and brighter prospects

«In all the research on dogs, the question comes up over and over how modern breeds are related to one another genetically,» said Ostrander, whose research has concentrated on using the power of genetics to understand canine diseases.

Animal research plays an essential role in our understanding of health and disease and in the development of modern medicines and surgical techniques.

The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance, by Nessa Carey, Columbia University Press, 2012.

Virus genome analysis has played a bigger role in understanding the West African Ebola epidemic than for any other infectious disease outbreak for two reasons: modern advances in sequencing technologies and scientists who were unusually willing to share data.

He was one of the founders of modern molecular biology and his contribution enabled patients affected by genetic disease to gain an understanding of their condition and begin to hope for the possibility of a cure.

Rather than seeking dietary villains from among our most ancient traditional foods to blame for our most recent modern diseases, we should elaborate our understanding of how the many components within successful traditional diets work together to promote radiant and vibrant health.

Many lipid scientists began their career with the understanding that cholesterol molecules are inherently dangerous and that the modern diet is unusually high in cholesterol, hence modern cardiovascular diseases are unusually prevalent among industrialized nations.

Both from what we now understand of the biology around the development of heart disease, combined with robust modern scientific data, eating fat doesn't actually make you fat and saturated fat from the diet does not clog the arteries: it's just plain wrong to claim that it does.

Currently, his professional focus as a scientist and professor (Brigham Young University) is to better understand chronic modern - day diseases, with special emphasis on the origins and consequences of obesity and diabetes.

In fact, modern medicine is just beginning to understand that this bad type of inflammation is at the root of many diseases.

Thus, universal characteristics of preagricultural human diets are helpful in understanding how the recent Western diet may subject modern populations to chronic disease: Before the development of farming and the domestication of livestock practices, dietary choices would have been necessarily limited to minimally processed wild plant and animal foods.

Understanding how modern transportation enhances the transmission of this deadly fungus and other diseases like SARS and influenza is «the most pressing and practical scientific question,» and blaming CO2 warming has been the biggest distraction.

Understanding how modern transportation enhances the transmission of this deadly fungus and other diseases like SARS and influenza is ``