" But, he added, "Whether exposures were long enough and high enough at Camp Lejeune to cause disease -- that's the question.
The aim is to map how genes and the proteins they produce interact within cells in order to gain a better understanding of what goes wrong in the body to cause disease.
At present doctors test for the presence of abnormal proteins called prions which are thought to cause the disease by killing off brain cells.
When those results were released in August, the lead investigator of the trial argued that Novartis' cox-2 was no more likely to cause heart disease than ibuprofen.
Merck is pouring tens of millions into an experimental treatment for a new type of Alzheimer's drug meant to limit the main ingredient in the brain-damaging plaques believed to cause the disease.
It tends to cause more severe disease than other influenzas, and has been a big player this season.
"We need to understand better what the normal microbiome is like and what happens to it when it changes to cause or influence disease, " Dr. Green said.
Small studies in ferrets at the CDC suggest that when compared with seasonal flu, the virus appears to cause more severe disease but also seems to spread less easily.
Only in the middle of March did China allow in a team of specialists from the WHO to help work out the cause of the disease and how best to prevent it spreading further.
They note that rare inherited gene mutations that seem to cause Alzheimer's disease by raising amyloid levels.
Nearly all drugs work by binding to proteins that help cause disease.
The second group were injected with a chemical to cause Parkinson's disease.
Several more cases of using DNA sequencing, which reads out the 6 billion DNA letters that contain the protein recipes that make one person different from another, to understand the cause of disease have been published.
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The agency is using toxicologists, epidemiologists, microbiologists, forensic chemists and veterinary researchers to investigate whether the treats could be causing dogs to suffer Fanconi syndrome, a kidney disease that can cause the organ to shut down.
The build-up of amyloid is believed to be the cause of this disease.
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The first time the group of researchers met, he piped up with research showing that mutations in genes related to JAK2 could also cause the disease.
They were valuable in steadying the heart-beat, and in providing clues to the cause of the heart disease, which might then be treated by conventional methods.
As well as identifying the lupus genes, the study will also attempt to recognise gene patterns that could cause more serious forms of the disease in order to monitor who could have acute problems in the future.
Some of these viruses have also been reported to cross the species barrier and cause disease or sub-clinical infections in humans.
The fat cells here are really active, producing toxic substances that cause damage which can lead to heart disease.
Eating contaminated meat or some other animal products from cattle that have BSE is thought to be the cause of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
U.N. scientific experts say a warmer world is likely to spread disease in tropical regions, cause sea levels to rise and increase the rate of severe storms.
Eating contaminated meat or some other animal products from cattle that have bovine spongiform encephalopathy is thought to be the cause of the fatal brain disease in humans that is called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
See, for instance, this case I wrote about a year ago, or this one, in which sequencing the part of the exome that was on the X chromosome allowed scientists to figure out the cause of a genetic disease that was killing young boys in a Utah family.
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They were established under a special provision of the bankruptcy code Congress passed just to deal with the millions of lawsuits filed by people who claim to have been exposed to the substance, which can cause lung disease and a rare cancer of the chest wall lining called mesothelioma.
On the other hand, global warming could be increasing the fungus' ability to grow faster on the amphibian and cause more disease.
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Verne Wisby, 68, suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a lung disease linked to smoking that can cause respiratory infections and breathing trouble.
It is not supported by any clinical research evidence that would allow claims to be made that it is the cause of disease or health concerns.
Cina also said Friday that coronary artery disease was a contributing cause to Khan's death, because the autopsy showed one of his major coronary arteries was 75% blocked.
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