And to understand different diseases, they'll need to create lines from human embryos that suffer from a genetic disorder.
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This technique could be used to fight different diseases and could, for example, cause cancer cells to kill themselves.
For example, the data might be useful for predicting different diseases or chronic conditions based on certain patient factors.
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"Other sponsors can come in and establish their own prizes for different diseases in order to increase the impact, " he said.
Already, he says, there seems to be a biological linkage between autism and what seem to be very different diseases, like schizophrenia.
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That's because obesity leads to so many different diseases--diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, mental disease--that it's hard to separate out the reasons for the reduction in costs once the employee loses weight.
Differences that explain why identical twins - who share exactly the same DNA and very similar environments - can sometimes look so different, and often develop and die from different diseases.
In 2001 Grove and a doctor friend at Stanford University sent a letter to NIH director Elias Zerhouni with advice on how to organize NIH research grants around different diseases, including Parkinson's.
The Buck Institute's Dr. Kennedy led a team earlier this year that found that another form of rapamycin was effective in increasing the life spans and improving symptoms in mice with two different diseases caused by other mutations in the progeria-connected Lamin A gene.
Nonsense mutations contribute to 1, 800 different genetic diseases.
Even if the complete repair of a broken nervous system is a distant dream, researchers think that engineering better neural prosthetics will help treat different nervous system diseases.
"The next step is to link these changes to childhood conditions and assess whether these children have different risks for diseases, how severe their conditions are and what the patterns of these diseases are, " she says.
The parents want different scientists researching the diseases to share data about the patients so the children won't need to participate in so many studies.
Comparing the two diseases, which are from different virus families, is difficult, said World Health Organization spokesman Gregory Hartl.
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And further, for those diseases, there are many different mutations in the genes that can give rise to them, said Rubin.
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Even a researcher working on dermatological diseases, who determined that different levels of metabolite were appropriate, was threatened with suit because Prometheus suspected she had used their levels in her research, Singer said.
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This is a very different situation from gene test for rare inherited diseases where most everyone who has the bad gene will get sick.
Yet the distinction is crucial, since the diseases have to be treated with very different kinds of chemotherapy.
His group is especially interested in promoting the technique for treating mitochondrial diseases -- these organelles posses a different set of DNA than that contained in the nucleus of cells, and are responsible for generating the energy needed for cells to function.
Further complicating the landscape is the realization in the past decade that, rather than being a single disease, breast cancer is at least five distinct diseases, with (to some extent at least) different risk factors, pathology, prognosis, and treatment.
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It might also be applied, in different ways, to the great number of people who have various cognitive problems due to neurodevelopmental disorders or neurodegenerative diseases.
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