Sentences with phrase «worked against the disease»

New strains have emerged that resist the last few antibiotics that still worked against the disease.

In this month's issue of Nature Medicine, scientists show that the virus causes the symptoms in much the same way as faulty genes do, suggesting that a single therapy could work against the disease.

Not exact matches

Friday marks World AIDS Day, an occasion for recognizing the myriad struggles, successes, and work left undone — societal, political, and medical alike — in the battle against HIV infection and the immune system - compromising disease it causes, AIDS.

We can work against illness and disease, by the use of such knowledge and techniques as are acquired through the study of those ills.

[1] It is comprised of a network of cells and organs working together to defend the body against infection and sickness by producing secretions and disease - fighting cells.

We believe that our target group can help Indian organizations such as the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease and the Public Health Foundation of India to work towards plain packaging.

Work to inoculate your baby against disease begins in the delivery room, where he or she will be given Erythromycin eye ointment to protect the eyes against certain infections.

Additionally, working in the garden has fantastic benefits for supporting their microbiome and gut health, allowing them to build up a strong gut that will help protect against disease and illness.

The Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease at Floating Hospital for Children is home to preeminent researchers who are working to find improved ways to protect against and treat infectious diseases.

At first he worked on a vaccine against Chagas disease, but then he noticed some recent findings made by other researchers in the lab.

The Washington Post and Times - Herald reported in 1956 that Soviet health officials had declared that penicillin no longer worked against venereal diseases.

Together, the two studies advance the idea that gut microbes play a role in turning the immune system against nerve cells, causing MS.. It will take a lot more work to develop cures or preventive strategies based on that, but the research raises the intriguing possibility of treating an often - devastating disease with something as low - tech as fecal transplants or probiotics.

VaxInnate is testing a universal flu vaccine that would work against all strains of the disease by using a Toll - like receptor (TLR) technology platform.

The population study findings, including those from the JACC study, suggest that even the partial inactivation of ANGPTL3 — carriers typically have one mutant copy of the gene and one working copy — may be powerfully protective against coronary artery disease, which has long been one of the leading causes of death in developed countries.

To make a compound work better against a specific disease target, medicinal chemists optimize the drug, tweaking its structure or physical properties to make it more effective and safer.

The work, published this week in mBio ®, an online open - access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, suggests that immunizing pregnant women against HSV and similar infections could prevent serious brain disease related to these conditions in fetuses and newborns, said senior study author David A. Leib, Ph.D., professor of microbiology and immunology at the medical school.

In addition, relevant U.S. government agencies should continue efforts against malaria through the President's Malaria Initiative and collaborative work with partners toward elimination of the disease, the report says.

Researchers only discovered this process in the late 1990s, but they've already begun dozens of clinical trials to gauge whether infusing patients with these small RNAs works against a range of diseases, from lung infections to liver cancer to age - related macular degeneration, a sight - stealing condition that mainly affects people over the age of 50.

siRNAi therapy could also work against other liver diseases, says molecular geneticist John Rossi of City of Hope in Duarte, California.

A new study shows that loneliness may change how certain genes in the body work, leaving chronically lonely people with less effective immune systems and lower defenses against disease.

In this episode, Scientific American news editor Phil Yam discusses how veterinarians, physicians and multinational food companies need to work together in the global fight against animal - borne infectious diseases; and University of Wisconsin evolutionary biologist Sean Carroll talks about recent research tracking the evolution of yeast genes with specific functions descended from a single, duplicated gene with multiple functions.

Cohen's first breakthrough in this area occurred when he discovered, working with worms, that reducing the activity of the signaling mechanism conveyed through insulin and the growth hormone IGF1, a major aging regulating pathway, constituted a defense against the aggregation of the Aβ protein which is mechanistically - linked with Alzheimer's disease.

«I myself grew up in a poor family in Northeast Thailand where the disease is endemic,» he says, «And when I started working with communities in my province, I found that the liver fluke problems still persisted with nearly three - quarters prevalence in certain villages, despite over 30 years of Thai government campaigns against the parasite.»

«The findings from this trial are very encouraging to those of us who have spent many years working on vaccine candidates to protect against dengue, a disease that is a significant burden in much of the world and is now endemic in Puerto Rico,» said Stephen Whitehead, Ph.D., of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

The winners of the prize are Maged Al - Sherbiny from Egypt, for his research on vaccines and diagnostics against hepatitis C and schistosomiasis; plant scientist Felix Dapare Dakora from Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, in South Africa for his work on legumes and soil bacteria; and Rossana Arroyo of the Centre for Research and Advanced Studies of Mexico's National Polytechnic Institute, who studies trichomoniasis, a parasitic disease.

Now that they have shown how this defense mechanism works in cultured cells, they hope to study the importance of LINE - 1 jumping and the defenses against it in specific diseases.

«In addition to how well a vaccine works to protect against disease, safety is another important aspect for vaccine development,» said Chopra.

Earlier diagnoses are currently our strongest defence against these devastating diseases and, while our work is preliminary and ongoing, digital brain atlases are likely to be at the core of this defence.»

The Illinois team, led by veterinary clinical medicine professor Dr. Matt Allender and his colleagues at the Illinois Natural History Survey, are targeting every aspect of the disease — its epidemiology, how it grows, how it is transmitted, how to treat it, and even which disinfectants work or don't work against the primary fungus associated with the disease, Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola.

The new process, called Extensive Combinatorial Refinement (ExCoR), could help improve the development of drug candidates that depend to a great degree on detailed structural analysis to determine how they work against specific disease targets.

For over three decades, Gladstone has worked to overcome cardiovascular disease, and our scientists have made significant progress against this devastating illness.

While working in the Kantorow laboratory, her research efforts were focused on understanding protective mechanisms that defend against eye disease.

The scientific work at the HZI Department of Vaccinology and Applied Microbiology includes the elucidation of mechanisms of host responses to infection and vaccination, discovering new mucosal adjuvants, and developing and validating vaccines against specific infectious diseases.

«We are working to increase our understanding of Alzheimer's disease all the time, and there are already a number of drugs in clinical testing that are targeted against amyloid.

Their work has «opened up new avenues for the development of prevention and therapy against infections, cancer, and inflammatory diseases,» according to the Nobel Foundation.

«These genetic differences between people are the biggest reason why it is difficult to make a vaccine that works for everyone — people respond differently, and not all the responses will protect against disease.

Working with Ye, postdoctoral fellow Sung - Wuk Jang identified a compound called 7,8 - dihydroxyflavone that can duplicate BDNFâ $ ™ s effects on neurons and can protect them against damage in animal models of seizure, stroke and Parkinsonâ $ ™ s disease.

Dr. Baldwin has been at IDRI for over six years and currently works on projects related to development of next - generation vaccines against infectious diseases.

An experimental vaccine poised to win World Health Organization approval as the first to even partially protect children against malaria works better against one strain of the disease - causing parasite than others.

The work by the Houdusse team and Cytokinetics highlights how specific modulators of myosin activity have great potential to provide new treatments against human diseases.

Another potentially deadly insect - borne tropical disease called Chagas disease has already made it to three southern U.S. states, and the same researchers are working on a vaccine against it, too.

These specialized cells serve as the immune system's police force, working to control inflammation and guard against autoimmune and inflammatory disease.

«This work could lead to major progress in our fight against frontotemporal dementia and other diseases involving tau that affect millions of people across the globe.»

Working through a number of global collaborations, we are developing this necessary infrastructure — scientific, technical and institutional — to support the use of genomics as a tool in the fight against infectious diseases.

PFIE works according to the certification ISO 9001 and is open to the whole research community, from either academic or private sectors, studying farm animal and zoonotic diseases, testing new diagnostic tools or vaccines against infectious diseases.

Hope in the battle against common diseases A team led by biochemistry professor Felix Hausch is working on substances that offer a new approach to treat three widespread diseases: depression, chronic pain and obesity.

Aside from being delicious, strawberries offer a boost of vitamin C and a wealth of antioxidants that work against damaging free radicals and have been linked to reducing risks of heart disease and diabetes.

The only serious heart medication that you can buy at a gas station, aspirin works wonders against heart disease.

Here's how it works: Silymarin protects against depletion of glutathione, a powerful antioxidant that helps fight oxidative stress, which can lead to skin, breast, prostate and cervical cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.

Every bite of food that we take is converted into a symphony of chemical substances that can either serve us by promoting and supporting our well - being, or work against us by promoting inflammation and, ultimately, disease.