Such approaches are invaluable in our quest to distill large, heterogeneous, multi-omic data down to a form that leads to a better understanding of how disease develops and how it might be treated more effectively.
Over the course of my 40-year career in dentistry and periodontics, I have seen a recurring theme in how gum disease develops.
This latter finding provides a better explanation than the current dogmas for how the disease develops in patients bearing these mutations, which is a highly controversial issue that has been dogging the field of CD research.
If they wanted to facilitate the study of genetic diseases, they would have injected a disease nucleus and then watched how the disease develops in the stem-cell line.
And the changes in olfaction observed in schizophrenia, researchers believe, may also contain clues to how the disease develops.
"We just don't know all the science about how this disease develops and is transmitted".
Their chief interest is to derive embryonic stem cell lines from patients with specific diseases, and by tracking the cells in the test tube to develop basic knowledge about how the disease develops.
But as more has been learned about how the disease develops and who may be most at risk, experts in gynecological cancer have made significant changes in the recommended screening schedule.
Since 2008, researchers have been monitoring the brains of subjects who have mutations in any of three genes that cause Alzheimer's to see how the disease develops before symptoms occur.
"Studies like this could reveal new ways to target the very roots of cancer and help us better understand how the disease develops over time.
Dr Julie Sharp of Cancer Research UK, said: "This study shows that doctors need to consider treating men with prostate cancer and a faulty BRCA2 gene much sooner than they currently do, rather than waiting to see how the disease develops.
