Sentences with phrase «which particular disease»

This workshop provides a week of intensive training sessions in pathology and histopathology as well as didactic sessions in which particular disease areas and models will be discussed.

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Now, Google has invested in a company called Calico, which it says will focus on health and well - being — in particular, the «challenge of aging and associated diseases
Although the code identified a list of banned topics, via its «general principles» («be carefuls») and its «particular applications» («don'ts»), the Hays Office couldn't stop filmmakers from skirting or ignoring its recommendations, which included: no use of profanity or depictions of nudity; no mention of drugs, perversion, prostitution, miscegenation, or venereal disease; no ridicule of clergy or creed, race or nation.
Micro greens are considered to be in the group of what are newly referred to as «functional foods» which are food products that contain particular health promoting or disease preventing properties that are additional to their normal nutritional values.
Residents of the United States seem to be at particular risk, with each person in the U.S. having about a 4 % chance of developing Alzheimer's disease, likely due in part to the Western dietary pattern, which tends to include a large amount of meat consumption.
Rennie: Right, there are a lot of very practical applications for being able to track, for example, which types of mosquitoes are carrying a particular disease; lots of different applications in medicine and agriculture that come out of this.
«Gut bacteria provide immense physiological benefit, and we do not yet have the data to know which particular species are problematic or beneficial in Parkinson's disease
While several studies in the intervening years have investigated whether particular genes were responsible for modifying HD onset, this is the first to employ genome - wide association (GWA) analysis, which scans an individual's whole genome to identify chromosomal regions containing variants that are associated with the disease traits that are being studied.
Scientists generally cringe at setting firm timelines for research goals and for cancer in particular, which is a complex disease that experts consider a set of more than 200 diseases.
The interplay between these microbes — which include beneficial and pathogenic species of bacteria and fungi — and the biochemical defenses determine how susceptible the amphibian is to a particular disease.
Osteoporosis is a common disease, which easily leads to bone fracture, and hip fractures in particular can have serious consequences.
«Overall,» Dr. Schwartz added, «the study underscores the importance of rational drug design, in which drugs are designed to interact with specific molecular pathways involved in a particular disease.
The findings, which appear Nov. 25 in the Journal of Neuroscience, implicate one family of molecules in particular — thrombospondins — that may have therapeutic potential for the treatment of degenerative eye diseases.
«Use of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology» — which involves taking skin cells from patients and reprogramming them into embryonic - like stem cells capable of turning into other specific cell types relevant for studying a particular disease — «makes it possible to model dementias that affect people later in life,» says senior study author Catherine Verfaillie of KU Leuven.
Interestingly, IBS biologists uncovered additional miRNA end modifications after DROSHA processing, which are expected to be important for the regulation of miRNA biogenesis, whose dysregulation is often associated with diseases, in particular with cancer.
This enables them to study the mechanisms by which certain genes can predispose an individual to a particular disease.
In particular, we were interested in inflammatory bowel disease which has previously been associated with higher risk of acquiring this infection and obesity, which has never been examined,» explained corresponding author Nahid Bhadelia, MD, MALD, associate hospital epidemiologist at BMC and assistant professor of medicine at BUSM.
One study even identified two genes in which particular variants can slow the onset of AIDS, demonstrating the potential of this approach for understanding why people vary in their susceptibility to infectious diseases.
Genome - wide association studies, which try to find correlations between particular genetic variations and disease diagnoses, are a staple of modern medical research.
The technique, which captures a molecular fingerprint of the disease, can be used to customize therapy to best fight a patient's particular type of cancer.
Pinpointing which rheumatoid arthritis patients need stepped - up heart disease prevention efforts has been a challenge; research by Mayo Clinic and others has found that standard heart disease risk assessment tools may underrate the danger a particular person faces.
In particular, evidently reduced levels of certain fatty acids and blood fats could be seen, which is of importance to the development of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Instead, alcohol - dependent patients at all stages of liver disease had dramatic overgrowths of one fungal type in particular — Candida, which includes the species that causes yeast infections.
What may be unique at the intersection of genomics and infectious disease control are ethical challenges that stem from the inherent tension between the goals of personalized medicine, which are to benefit particular individuals, and those of public health - to benefit and protect entire populations.
Dr. Goldberg added that he derives particular inspiration from his clinical role as a glaucoma specialist, from which he continues to encounter patients who are losing functional vision due to delayed diagnosis or the aggressive nature of their disease.
Then we briefly describe some of the epidemiologic characteristics and recent genomic advances associated with four particular infectious diseases - Ebola, pandemic influenza, hepatitis B and tuberculosis - that have large - scale public health consequences but differ in terms of ease of transmission, chronicity, severity, preventability and treatability, factors which affect a range of ELSI issues.
In particular, mechanisms through which toxins cause disease are often poorly understood.
The first diseases which benefited from gene therapy were rare genetic diseases in which the gene responsible had been identified, in particular severe immune deficiencies
«In particular, his approach can be thought of as a very advanced biological therapy for the treatment of breast cancer; one that uses viruses, which are better recognized to cause disease, to treat human breast cancers.»
These specialised processes involve proteins that are mainly expressed in this particular cell type throughout the body, which are often modulated in vascular disease.
His group gives particular thought to ways in which scientists document and describe the nonrandom pattern of human genetic variation and its link to disease risks in different populations.
She is working on methods that analyze large - scale experimental data compendia in order to improve our understanding of how, and which, genes work together to produce a particular disease state.
The identification of this disorder, which before Knut was only recognized as a human disease, must now be considered a disease of mammals with consequences for diagnosis and management in veterinary medicine in particular.
Such claims, they point out, are often based on estimates of «disease - specific mortality,» which measures how likely a person is to die from a particular disease within a particular window.
SRM - MS analysis will permit us to directly use small - sized samples, such as the individual CSF samples, enable verification of marker candidates that currently do not have available antibodies (hence not amenable to conventional analyses such as ELISA or Western blots), and provide robust statistical analyses on individual candidate markers or combinations of them to determine which would make the best biomarker (s) for a particular disease condition.
Of particular importance is our research in metabolic memory, a phenomenon in which cells «remember» diabetes and act like they are still diseased, even after normal glucose levels are achieved.
Treatment of this disease is complicated by its many forms, depending on which particular gene functions incorrectly.
In particular, the immune response was associated with a common form of a gene found in the immune system, which may explain why many people with Parkinson's disease carry this gene variant.
In particular, sitting too much increases your risk of diabetes and heart disease, plus it makes your hip flexors tight, which can contribute to low back pain and stiffness.
This particular strain of bacteria is a type of Carbapenem - resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), which are dangerous because they typically are highly antibiotic - resistant and have steep mortality rates, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.
Sugar, and fructose in particular, can act as a toxin when consumed in excess, driving multiple disease processes in your body including insulin resistance, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and systemic inflammation — any of which can shorten your life.
As for breast cancer, this year, a study in Current Developments in Nutrition found an INVERSE relationship between dairy consumption and the disease, which the scientists attributed to yogurt intake in particular.
The particular fat content of vegetable oils also upsets the balance of essential fatty acids in the body, contributing to systemic inflammation, which further contributes to disease.
Regardless of the particular disease, the underlying cause is an overactive immune system, which explains why autoimmune disorders are commonly treated with steroids and other immune - suppressing medications.
The persistent inflammation can also result in the enlargement of the gland itself, which is of particular concern to people living with Graves» or Hashimoto's disease:
In particular, calorie - focused thinking is inherently biased against high - fat foods, many of which appear to be protective against obesity and the diseases of metabolic syndrome, and supportive of refined starch and sugar replacements, which are clearly detrimental, and exclusive of their calories and effects on weight gain [27], [28].
The video discusses vitamin C from supplements, which can not only be a waste of money, but can be potentially detrimental to your health, particularly in large doses like vitamin A, see: http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/herbalife®-supplement-liver-toxicity/ There is also evidence that rather than protecting from disease, multivitamins can actually increase the risk of breast cancer: http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/multivitamin-supplements-and-breast-cancer/ Also, I wouldn't put so much emphasis on one particular «superfood», because there are many others that contribute to longevity, like cocoa (but of course without the milk and sugar that many folks tend to add for palatability), see: http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/kuna-indian-secret/ and: http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/new-antioxidant-superstars-2/.
A particular gene, HLDRB1 can mean that you are vulnerable to developing an autoimmune disease in response to vaccines which may be why vaccine movements have started recently.
Not having any stools for a while could mean a blockage, which tends to be more common in people with inflammatory bowel disease (and Crohn's disease in particular).
«In particular a number of studies have found that the flavonoid Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), which is found in tea, can reduce the levels of Aβ in the brain, which could delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease,» she said.
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