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molecular medicine
noun
- the study of disease or injury at the molecular or cellular level.
- medical tests or treatments for such diseases or injuries.
Example Sentences
One paper, authored by Verónica Delgado-Benito at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin, Germany, showed that PDAP1 was crucial for upholding cellular stress responses in immune cells that make antibodies to fight infections and diseases.
“Previous research has shown that heredity is important for the levels of cholesterol, other lipids and circulating immune cells in the blood, but now we see that heredity also affects the composition of smooth muscle cells in the blood vessels of atherosclerotic patients,” says Ljubica Matic, docent at the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery at Karolinska Institutet who led the study.
“Your genetics actually plays a role in this increased risk of developing future heart attacks and stroke,” said James Hilser, a Keck doctoral candidate in biochemistry and molecular medicine who helped write the paper.
Ghosh, a professor in the Departments of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, and Irina Kufareva, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of California San Diego, are the corresponding authors on the paper.
In a peer-reviewed opinion article publishing May 22 in the journal Trends in Molecular Medicine, Fejzo dispels common morning sickness myths and discusses potential treatments, including sensitizing people to GDF15 prior to pregnancy, similar to the way we treat allergies.
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