Background: Chronic diseases (CD), miasms or reactional modes, remain one of the darkest concepts of homeopathy. They are supposed to be heritable and originate after suppression of other diseases. Besides this nothing is known about how they might produce the large number of diseases mentioned ...
Such hereditary metabolic diseases can appear at any age, but the earlier the mutation manifests itself, the more likely it is to lead to severe symptoms and even death. Diagnosis is difficult, typically requiring genetic and molecular testing, and statistics on prevalence are therefore deficient. ...
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As an immune-mediated disorder, a large proportion of patients with ITP will undergo repeated outbreaks and tend to run a protracted course, or are eventually diagnosed with thrombocytopenia secondary to connective tissue diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Therefore, it is critical ...
The increased specificity and sensitivity of these modern approaches do not, however, necessarily lead to the rapid diagnosis of all inherited diseases. Even once a linkage has been established between RFLP locus and a disease the path is still a long one: as demonstrated in Duchenne's muscular...
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Complicated diseases are confluences of numerous effects, because pleiotropy means that any given protein can act at different points in the body. Startups like Pharnext assume that drugs can also be pleiotropic, acting on more than one protein and more than one interaction in the body at the...
We’ve already come as far as genome engineering in our pursuit to create a healthier world. Now, through CRISPR, or Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, mankind might be able to eliminate deadly viruses and cure genetically-inherited diseases. ...
yourchancesof living a long life come down to luck. She says: "If you have parents and grandparents who made it into their eighties and nineties there's a chance you haveinheritedgood genes. You are more likely to have a strongimmune systemand are less likely to developchronic diseases."...
Over time, all eukaryotic organisms inherited the code—including us. In fact, this ancient genetic element wrote about one-third of the human genome—and was considered junk DNA until relatively recently. Thisgenetic componentis known as LINE-1, and its aggressive intrusion into the genome can ...