Medical researchers have made a significant advance in understanding multiple sclerosis, a common neurological disease that causes symptoms ranging from muscle weakness to paralysis.
This principle would seem self-evident, but its first enunciation more than 300 years ago by Nicolaus Steno represented an enormous advance in understanding.
While this seemed to be an advance in understanding synuclein's natural role, many were doubtful that a finding in yeast could have any significant bearing on what happens in human brain cells or Parkinson's disease.
For example, his joint work with Jonathan Mattingly constitutes a significant advance in understanding a stochastic version of the Navier-Stokes equation, a nonlinear PDE that describes wave motion.
Dr. Mark Hanson, director of molecular microbiology for MedImmune of Gaithersburg, Md., which has developed a vaccine candidate it has licensed to a major drug maker, called it a "big advance" in understanding how a Lyme vaccine has to work.
A significant recent advance in understanding the basis of sexuality and desire has been the discovery that genes may have a direct effect on the sexual differentiation of the brain.
If researchers can discover why vaccinia, and other pox viruses, are so good at evading the efforts of immune cells, they will make a significant advance in understanding the way the human immune system works.
Although cholesterol is not a terpene, the demonstration that it has a terpene as a precursor in metabolism represented a major advance in understanding the biochemical relationship between the two important classes of compounds.
If confirmed, the finding represents a significant advance in understanding the deadly disease.
To review recent advance in understanding the causation and management of Paget's disease.
This is a major advance in understanding the evolution of the vertebrate immune system, says Gary Litman, a geneticist at the All Children's Hospital in St .Petersburg, Florida.
