Sentence examples for therapeutics from inspiring English sources

The principal application of radium is the use for therapeutic purposes of the biological action of the rays (see RADIOTHERAPY; THERAPEUTICS).

If further studies on patients back Dr Adams's findings, motion platforms may one day be integrated into hospital beds and ambulances, and spring into action whenever a monitor attached to a patient detects a heart attack.Dr Sackner admits these are still early days for acceleration therapeutics.

These innovations will include the ability to detect disease from the presence of a few molecules; medical imaging at a level approaching molecular resolution; and targeted therapeutics capable of finding diseased tissue and delivering treatment to it and it alone.One example of the latter, developed by BIND Biosciences, which we co-founded, is known as BIND-014.

In April 2006 GlaxoSmithKline, another of the pharmaceutical industry's ruling elite, dangled the same figure in front of Alnylam's main rival, Sirna Therapeutics.

They are using fields generated by a magnetic-resonance imaging (MRI) machine to ferry small beads through the bloodstream with the goal of delivering therapeutics close to tumours.

He calls it "acceleration therapeutics".The passive exerciser, which sells for $35,000, has been registered with the Food and Drug Administration as a medical device for therapeutic use.

This firm, the creation of Craig Venter, an entrepreneurial geneticist who once took on the American and British research establishments in a race to sequence the human genome, plans to re-engineer several sorts of organism phages included into what it hopes will be useful products.The phage work is run by Sammy Farah, head of the firm's vaccines and therapeutics unit.

"We're at the beginning of genomics-based diagnostics and therapeutics," states Dr DeRisi.

This should allow the robots to crawl around the GI tract and obtain detailed images, dispense therapeutics or, with the right surgical tools, perform biopsies.Some assembly requiredDr Dario's group is also collaborating with other European researchers on an ambitious project called ARES (short for Assembling Reconfigurable Endoluminal Surgical system).

Leroy Hood, the genius behind the DNA sequencer, which made the rapid and automated sequencing of the human genome possible, sums it up: "In the future, diagnostics and therapeutics and prevention will all fuse into a continuum .Anne Schukat is a freelance science and technology writer based in Palo Alto, California.

(See also therapeutics).