In the long term, Rogers believes the technology could provide an electronic link to the body's most subtle processes, including the movement of enzymes and antibodies, to track the path of disease.
Models combining landscape genetics with ecological epidemiology could be used to determine the most likely path of disease spread, at the landscape scale, between the location of a documented positive case and one or many nearby cities to assess, among other things, health risks for human populations.
CURRENT THERAPIES Our focus for therapies, at this point, is for managing the path of the disease, for comfort, rather than stopping the onset of the disease.
So "Pox Americana" sifts carefully through journals and records of the late 18th century to reconstruct the path of the disease.
They have been able to follow the path of the disease closely.
This type of research has allowed us to understand the path of the disease closer to its origin.
Federal health officials said they had some indications, from watching the path of the disease in Australia and New Zealand, which often portends patterns here, about early cases.
Government officials are especially concerned because, unlike the path of the disease in cattle, the sheep variety may be transmitted from infected ewes to their offspring.
If the gorillas are infecting one another, the path of the disease will be fairly predictable, and vaccination may be able to stop it, Dr. Walsh said.
For example, identifying the upregulation of enzymes that breakdown tissues and then showing the crucial role of any degradative enzyme, then therapies can be designed to target those enzymes, to stop the path of the disease.
We are not much closer to learning the common elements among these different cases than we were a few years ago, despite our better knowledge of the path of the disease.
