Sentences with phrase «understanding causes of diseases»

This group's achievements clarified the neural basis of size constancy and are expected to be helpful in improving 3D image - recognition techniques and understanding causes of diseases manifesting size perception disorder.

Understanding the causes of these diseases is another step toward prevention and treatment.

The team also recently obtained a grant from the National Medical Research Council in Singapore to pursue a study using the probe to examine the relationship between key Parkinson's disease - linked genes and MAO - B expression and activity to further understand the causes of the disease and illuminate the role of MAO - B in this.

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«They said, «Apart from the fact that improper reproduction of the DNA molecule causes genetic disease and deformities, we haven't understood anything else,»» says Mitra, who published his findings in the British Journal of Educational Technology last year.

What it does: The role of this bacteria, which is most well - known for causing syphilis and Lyme disease, is still not well - understood in humans.

«I do think the science is becoming mature enough that we are starting to understand really at a molecular level how a lot of these diseases are caused,» Fontoura said.

The more we understand what causes a disease the more hope we have of finding a cure or a way to prevent it, or in the best case scenario, of wiping it out as we did smallpox.

I have instructed the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to: Appoint an advisory committee on alcoholism; establish in the Public Health Service a center for research on the cause, prevention, control, and treatment of alcoholism; develop an educational program in order to foster public understanding based on scientific fact; work with public and private agencies on the state and local level, to include this disease in a comprehensive health program.

Many of the people from these same institutions advocate against abortion, but pretend not to understand the realistic benefit of the morning after pill or even basic contraception; their unrealistic wishful thinking is causing the death of many at the hands of disease.

Neither Jesus nor Christ would have been able to understand medical technology, the national economy, the causes of disease, or medical science.

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Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of deaths worldwide — yet researchers still don't fully understand how blood flows or even which components within blood can lead to cardiac issues.

AAAS calls for a better understanding of the root causes of gun violence by freeing up research funding for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A new understanding as to how plants defend themselves against some pathogens that cause crop diseases is proposed by researchers from the University of Hertfordshire to help scientists breed new, more successful disease - resistant agricultural crops.

Using iPSCs, researchers developed a novel cellular disease model to probe the neurobiological causes of schizophrenia, which are not well understood (ChangHui Pak, abstract 032.29, see attached summary).

By analysing the structure of uromodulin, the researchers write in the journal PNAS that they can better understand the mutations that cause these kidney diseases.

However, locating this additional leprosy cause significantly adds to our understanding of the ancient disease.

In Huntington's disease, mice carrying the pathologic genetic variant of the huntingtin gene are being used to understand how this genetic lesion causes degeneration of striatal neurons and to develop novel treatments for the illness.

Science has not yet fully understood the causes of Alzheimer's disease, either (and certainly has found no cure); the logical conclusion is not that man just decided to get Alzheimer's disease.

Mooney added, «Understanding and characterizing potentially functional HD protein interactions gives scientists new tools to connect genomic, genetic, proteomic and other molecular changes to identify the causes of this deadly disease.

Lead researcher Professor Ray Norton from Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS) said experts around the world have yet to fully understand the causes of autoimmune diseases, which have risen significantly in parts of the world.

Real - time continuous biological, behavioral and environmental data can greatly improve understanding of the underlying cause of disease.

Understanding the organization of the mitotic chromosome will help to understand how things go wrong in disease caused by chromosome disorder such as cancer or Down syndrome.»

The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.

There is not only a great interest worldwide to understand the causes and consequences of fatty liver disease, but also to diagnose fatty liver disease at an early stage.

«This finding will contribute to the understanding of cartilage - related degenerative diseases and congenital abnormalities that are caused by genomic mutation and genome - based drug discovery for treatment of diseases and cartilage regeneration,» says Ohba.

Researchers are far from a complete understanding of what causes schizophrenia and how it affects the brain, and some psychiatrists contend that treating a patient for a disease not yet manifest is a clear violation of a basic tenet of medicine: to do no harm.

This finding will contribute to the understanding of cartilage diseases caused by genomic mutation and genome - based drug discovery for disease therapies.

New, sophisticated gene sequencing techniques are leading to an increasing understanding of the causes of genetic disease, and can help parents with affected children make informed reproductive choices, the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics will hear.

Our study advances our knowledge of Sox9's role in causing this terrible disease — and brings us one step closer to understanding how to potentially treat it.»

Ausiello likens the ventures to the Human Genome Project — but instead of understanding the vast library of our genes, CATCH and Google are building a library of the behaviours and environments that can prevent or cause disease.

Researches are now able to understand for the first time the evolution of these parasites, causing disease in humans and animals.

We're just now beginning to understand how our normal microflora does such a good job of preventing our colonization by disease - causing microbes.

Meet Nebula Genomics, a new company that Church announced yesterday in a «white paper» that spells out how this Brangelina can lead to a better understanding of the causes of diseases, improve drug development, and, ultimately, tap into «a genomic data market worth billions of dollars.»

He also could not understand why Old World diseases would cause massive deaths 20 years and then 55 years after the arrival of the Spanish.

Findings from the study could help improve understanding of the causes of some diseases — including cancer — that are triggered by errors in the cell division process, the team says.

The goal of the database is to identify DNA that causes genetic disorders and have a better understanding of how to treat diseases.

I think it gives a framework for understanding how, once you do have an infection, the toxins are causing the disease,» said senior author D. Borden Lacy, Ph.D., associate professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology and of Biochemistry.

«My hypothesis is that the degree to which the root cause of a given disease is understood and the degree to which that disease is treatable will have a big impact on the kinds of medical discoveries which generate the greatest online attention.

Continuing research to investigate the link between Zika virus and a range of neurological disorders requires a better understanding of the pathogenic mechanisms causing severe disease.

«Gastrointestinal diseases are a major cause of mortality in wild and captive pandas but scientists understand very little about their digestive process,» says co-author Ashli Brown Johnson, state chemist and Mississippi State University associate professor of biochemistry, molecular biology, entomology and plant pathology.

«People may tell you their opinions and make claims,» he adds, «but even though we have a tremendous amount of information on West Nile stockpiled, we still don't really understand why it causes more or less disease year to year.»

Projects range from the development of artificial organs and advanced diagnostics to groundbreaking cancer treatments and understanding the fundamental causes of disease.

However, the causes of the disease are not well understood and no disease - modifying treatment is available today.

Besides helping scientists better understand the risks of P. aeruginosa colonizing equipment on spacecraft or causing diseases such as urinary tract infections among astronauts, the experiments may improve scientists» ability to predict whether other species of bacteria might become more virulent in space.

The researchers are investigating other mutations identified through the genetic screen and plan to undertake more genetic analysis of HLHS patients to better understand the molecular and genetic factors that cause the disease.

These new genomes are «a major step in understanding how this organism causes disease,» says John Iandolo, a microbiologist at the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City.

«Given that abnormal synapse formation causes various neurodevelopmental diseases such as autism spectrum disorders and epilepsy, understanding activity - dependent mechanisms of initial synapse formation will be important for developing new therapeutic strategies for these conditions,» explained Dr. Kwon.

These findings could have a significant impact on our understanding of retinal degenerative diseases that cause blindness.

Their findings will contribute to a better understanding of the mechanisms behind inflammatory liver disease caused by hepatitis C viruses and open up new avenues for therapy development.