Sentence examples for substantially prolong from inspiring English sources

Many were convinced of their benefit by a small and inconclusive study published more than a decade ago indicating the groups could substantially prolong patients' lives.

In fact, telomeres make it much easier to believe people like Michael Rose when they say that by tinkering with the body's machinery we can substantially prolong life, for if there are genetic changes capable of shortening telomeres in progerics, then shouldn't there also be changes capable of making them longer in the rest of us?

CHICAGO — A drug that delivers a powerful poison to tumors without some of the side effects of traditional treatments can delay the worsening of breast cancer and also appears to substantially prolong lives, according to results of a study presented here Saturday.

Protective wear resistant coatings deposited by PVD can substantially prolong cutting tool lifetime.

A drawback of the approach is that it needs to be corrected in cases where the model is multistable; this remains common weakness of all straightforward methods unless one uses randomized initial conditions and longer transients that could overall substantially prolong the simulation time.

In addition, most of newer antitumour agents introduced after PE (e.g., irinotecan and topotecan) failed to substantially prolong survival in the first-line setting over the standard PE regimen [11], [12], [13], [14], [15].

The findings showed that oxygen therapy of more than 13 hours a day substantially prolonged patients' lives.

As for MDG 6 – the battle against HIV/Aids – the UN has reported progress globally, with new infections falling by 40% and life expectancy substantially prolonged for people with the virus.

Repeated RL2 treatment substantially prolonged the lifespan of mice with intravenously injected tumor cells.

Two commercially used multilayer films have been analyzed, for both films the potato chip's shelf life can be substantially prolonged by varying the head space gas composition.

The biopolymer shell substantially prolonged the release period of BSA (2 3 weeks from shelled nanospheres vs. within 1 week from bare nanospheres), and the release rate was highly dependent on the shell composition (PEG > PLA).