When treating cancer in the brain, delicacy is the operative word. Any and all methods of treatment, be they chemotherapy, surgery or nanoparticle-based alternatives, need(s) to be able to target the diseased cells specifically, and leave the surrounding networks of neurons undamaged. A newly devised technique does j... |
24 August 2009
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Before the best course of treatment for cancer tumors is established, analyzing them is the top priority. Biopsies are at this point the main way to do this, but they consume lots of time and resources, and also offer only a one-angled view of the problem, at a specific point in time. That is precisely why oncologist... |
18 August 2009
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Antibody drugs are among the most potent forms of medication that the world has ever seen, but their efficiency is counteracted by a built-in deficiency – the fact that the actual antibodies inside the drugs tend to clump together if they spend too much time on the shelves, causing them to become ineffective. D... |
30 June 2009
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Scientists and researchers from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, in the US, have managed to create a synthetic immune system-like molecule, able to fight the dreaded human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in monkey test subjects. After being injected with the new chemical, the animals proved able to withstan... |
18 May 2009
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HIV has remained impervious to advancements in medicine over the last 25 years, and all the research paths explored by scientists seem to dead-end at some point. The current approach is to engineer super-molecules made from compounds found outside the human body, and to make them face the virus head-on. A new method ... |
16 March 2009
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