Sentence examples for degenerative from inspiring English sources

A trained joiner, she said she had been evicted from her council flat after becoming disabled with lumbar degenerative disc disease and having her benefits sanctioned.

I was born with cystic fibrosis, a genetic, degenerative disease that makes it hard to breathe and digest food.

He added of time and its degenerative effects: "I'm not obsessed [with the subject], not any more.

But the list of ailments that are being worked on leans towards the chronic, expensive degenerative diseases of old age.

Along with scrapie in sheep and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, it is a member of a class of strange degenerative diseases of the brain known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or TSEs.

This "pluripotentiality" makes them a promising source of replacement cells for people with degenerative diseases.

This potential has sparked the interest of desperate patients and nimble entrepreneurs, who are keen to find new treatments for diabetes, Parkinson's disease and other degenerative conditions.But just how versatile stem cells are is a matter of debate, in legislatures as well as laboratories, as politicians try to regulate this new technology.

FORGETFULNESS is one of the most frustrating features of Alzheimer's disease a slow, degenerative condition that robs patients of their speech, movement and mental agility.

Drugs that instead stimulate the growth of such cells might be useful in a range of degenerative illnesses, such as Parkinson's disease, that are now hard to treat.

That may have been what happened to Gloria Taylor, a Canadian assisted-suicide campaigner with Lou Gehrig's disease (a degenerative illness).

Its aim, though, is not procreation but rather to create a source of so-called "stem cells", whose unusual properties make them a possible source of replacement tissue for a range of degenerative diseases.