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Researchers at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD) announce the development of a new method of triggering the release of encapsulated drugs right inside the human body. The method could reduce side-effects associated with techniques currently in use.
UCSD experts say that this applies only to drugs tha... |
23 November 2011
09:37 GMT |
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Cells communicate with their environments through chemical signals, which they release in specific patterns and concentrations. A new study shows that the mechanism works both ways, and that cells can adjust the volume of their chemical output accordingly.
Before this investigation, researchers were convinced that c... |
17 November 2011
06:52 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Cambridge are excited to announce that the coronation of nearly 30 years of hard work is at hand – a new type of treatment for multiple sclerosis. The condition is currently lethal and incurable, so any breakthrough could literally be life-saving.
The prospect of having access... |
14 November 2011
09:38 GMT |
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Between 30 and 50 percent of all modern-day drugs are destined to affect the way a class of molecules called G protein-coupled receptors (GPRC) works. A research group featuring researchers from around the world recently managed to create a precise model of how these receptors are organized.
The study, which also ... |
30 September 2011
08:46 GMT |
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One of the primary issues with diabetes is that beta cells in the pancreas – which play a critical role in the production of insulin – are damaged irretrievably. In a new investigation, experts were able to uncover the mechanisms that lead to the development of such cells.
With this remarkable breakthr... |
12 September 2011
05:33 GMT |
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Scientists at the Wake Forest University and the University of Southern California announce the development of the first-ever memory prosthetic device. The instrument can be used to restore some of the brain's lost functions, and also to improve the retention of short-term memories. Thus far, the device has only... |
23 June 2011
10:57 GMT |
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University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine investigators have finally cracked the mystery surrounding how the relentless ringing in the ears known as tinnitus develops. The condition is oftentimes life-changing, and discovering its root cause was one of the last remaining obstacles to developing a cure.Tinnitus is t... |
19 April 2011
04:58 GMT |
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An early-phase, preliminary study conducted by investigators at the University of California in Los Angeles Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center revealed that administering a personalized dendritic cell vaccine to each patient suffering from glioblastoma increases their median survival time. Glioblastoma is an incurab... |
22 March 2011
08:57 GMT |
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A team of investigators from the United States announces the discovery of a new molecular mechanism in the human eye, that apparently plays an important role in the development of geographic atrophy.This condition is one of the major causes driving the rate of untreatable blindness cases up in the industrialized worl... |
7 February 2011
04:46 GMT |
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Finding cells in the cornea that may develop into cancerous cells is now possible, announces a collaboration of researchers from Japan and the United Kingdom. The team says that precancerous cells can be identified by using absorbance spectra data. Having this ability could mean the difference between blindness ... |
12 October 2010
11:00 GMT |
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The recipient of the Nobel Prize in psychology or medicine for this year has finally been revealed, announce those in charge of distributing the prestigious scientific awards. The Prize will be given to British researcher Robert Edwards, who is responsible for pioneering in-vitro fertilization (IVF), an assisted repr... |
5 October 2010
09:19 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) announced recently that it managed to discover the cell of origin for prostate cancer. The discovery has tremendously important implications, given that it may open the way to creating new and advanced drugs for fighting off this terribl... |
30 July 2010
04:16 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Miami announce the development of a new method of hunting down and killing cancer cells roaming free in the bloodstream. The group says that the technique has thus far only been used in test tubes and on animal models in the lab, but adds that a viable, generally-available version, ta... |
18 May 2010
11:03 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new discovery, scientists from the United States managed to unlock one of the enduring mysteries surrounding the way the human brain functions. The investigators, based at the Iowa State University (ISU), were recently able to find out that a single protein, called synaptotagmin1 (Syt1), is in cha... |
10 May 2010
11:47 GMT |
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A team of scientists at the University of Colorado in Boulder (UCB) believes it may have set the foundations for a new approach in investigating human inflammatory diseases. In a new study the group conducted on unsuspecting lab mice, they discovered that rodents infected with the known bacteria salmonella exhibit a ... |
26 February 2010
10:29 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison announce the development of a new, super-strong type of collagen, the elastic tissue inside our bodies. The new variant is extremely strong, and represents a highly stable version of the one inside humans, its creators say. They add that the material could soon be mad... |
13 January 2010
04:02 GMT |
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Experts at the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) announce that they recently determined a new mechanism underlying severe cocaine addiction. The key epigenetic mechanism works inside the human brain, promoting cocaine's addictiveness, and making it one of the most... |
8 January 2010
05:00 GMT |
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A new set of researches seems to suggest that exposure to radiation emitted by cell phones may have a beneficial effect on memory. In the case of mice, the research group behind the new study says, it would even appear that exposure to this radiation generates a protective effect against Alzheimer's disease. In ... |
7 January 2010
06:59 GMT |
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According to experts studying the human brain, we regularly employ the help of three different types of memories in our daily lives. One of these types is the declarative memory, which helps us remember facts, people and places, another is the procedural memory, which allows us to learn how to play a sport or learn a... |
28 December 2009
01:23 GMT |
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In a move that could see the field of cancer therapy completely reshaped, scientists in the United Kingdom announce the completion of their laborious work in cracking the entire genetic code of cancer. This was only done for two of the most common forms of cancer, that of the lungs and the skin. Together, these two v... |
17 December 2009
07:01 GMT |
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Scientist have suspected for a long time that we may be receiving extra information from within our bodies, in addition to the data we receive from our nervous system. The latter allows us to touch and sense objects, and is made possible by countless free nerve endings, right underneath the skin. But now, experts say... |
9 December 2009
05:52 GMT |
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Experts working with the AIDS Institute at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) have recently announced that they managed to find a type of stem cells that could fight against HIV. The cells can be activated in such a manner, that they instantly start searching and attacking all cells that have been inf... |
8 December 2009
10:57 GMT |
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Researchers have known for a long time that the human body is equipped to detect and fight precursor cancer cells, but finding the cells responsible for this mechanism has proven to be a somewhat elusive goal for many years. What makes this goal nearly impossible is the fact that precursor cancer cells are usually de... |
30 November 2009
06:05 GMT |
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Bacteria are extremely small organisms, and in many cases, they consist of only a few cells. There are species that only have a single cell, and therefore keeping it intact is a major priority. Over the course of their evolution, the organisms have set up a clever and ingenious defense mechanism against aggressive ox... |
21 November 2009
04:49 GMT |
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In a new study conducted on unsuspecting mice, Swedish researchers at the medical university Karolinska Institutet managed to accomplish a major breakthrough in the field of neuroscience, when they identified a mechanism related to the formation of long-term memories. Their find essentially controls the brain's ... |
10 November 2009
17:31 GMT |
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Bacteria are the most helpful and the most harmful organisms for the human body in the world today. While the thousands of species in our guts keep us healthy, and help us digest food, other species, just as numerous, can cause us significant damage, and even death. Therefore, knowing how these microorganisms functio... |
9 November 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Lung diseases such as cancer and edema can easily cause a person to die, if advanced enough. For these people, getting a lung transplant is oftentimes the only chance they have at life. In the United States alone, there are currently over 1,800 people waiting on transplant lists, but the thing is that insufficient or... |
30 October 2009
11:59 GMT |
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Out of the people who develop life-ending cancer, 90 percent die because their condition metastasizes, as in the cancer spreads from one organ to another, non-connected, non-adjacent organ. In other words, pancreatic cancer may affect the liver, lungs or the brain, with an inevitable outcome. Once the disease spreads... |
29 October 2009
06:36 GMT |
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In case of an infection, when pathogens pour freely through an open wound inside the body, the immune system must be quick on the spot with its response. Various types of immune cells need to be activated, and all of this must be done within moments of the time when the invading microorganisms were first detected. Fa... |
26 October 2009
09:55 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it may be that conditions such as epilepsy (a disease of the brain) and heart arrhythmia (irregular beats of the heart) may have a single molecular root problem. Misfiring electrical signals cause both these afflictions, and researchers say that the newly found knowledge may help ... |
19 October 2009
21:01 GMT |
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One of the most important types of immune-system cells in the human body is the natural killer (NK) cells. They are among the first to respond to an emergency, such as a pathogen infection, by arriving at the scene and immediately beginning to kill off the intruders. Once activated, these little killers stop at nothi... |
2 October 2009
09:05 GMT |
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Gene therapy is one of the most promising forms of treatment out there today, and experts hope that it may one day be used against a large variety of diseases, from cancer to AIDS. But there are still numerous problems associated with it that need to be dealt with first. One such issue is understanding exactly the ro... |
22 September 2009
06:23 GMT |
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In a breakthrough accomplishment that could have significant implications for humans as well, experts at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) managed to cure rats suffering from spinal-cord injuries, using nothing more than electrical stimulation, and a daily routine of exercises. The small rodents were... |
21 September 2009
02:58 GMT |
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One of the most impressive things about our immune system is that it is essentially everywhere in the body. Where there's blood, there are bound to be at least a few white blood cells (WBC) just patrolling around and doing their job. When a chemical trigger runs through the blood, announcing that a pathogen has ... |
17 September 2009
06:39 GMT |
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For the first time ever, scientists at the Imperial College London (ICL) identified the gene that controlled the expression of NK (natural killer) cells, which are an important part of the human immune system. The gene's action in fact triggers the differentiation of blood stem cells into NK cells, which makes i... |
14 September 2009
02:44 GMT |
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Particular DNA segments can be found in various amounts from one person to another, even if they are in the same line, as in family. These variations play an important part in our evolution. They can hold the key to boosts of the immune system and to developing resistance to certain diseases, but can also make it a l... |
31 August 2009
04:44 GMT |
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Experts from the Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, have recently announced that they are working on a new electronic nose that will have the ability to detect early signs of lung cancer, before the disease advances far enough to show up on conventional viewing methods such as X-rays and MRI. Relying on the po... |
31 August 2009
01:40 GMT |
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Scientists have known for a long time that a causal connection exists between diabetes and obesity, but new drugs and therapies developed in the lab have always focused on treating either one of the two, and not both at the same time. However, as Reuters reports, a new medicine apparently has the ability to make lab ... |
28 August 2009
15:11 GMT |
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In groundbreaking, new studies, genetics engineers have managed to create monkeys that have none of their parents' mutations, which are usually passed from one generation to the other via mitochondrial DNA. In their experiments, the research team, from the Oregon National Primate Research Center, in Beaverton, s... |
27 August 2009
06:19 GMT |
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For decades, doctors and researchers have used electricity to study or treat the human brain. Such investigations have led to the discovery of important centers in the cortex, such as the motor center and the pleasure one. Some treatments for conditions such as Parkinson's and even depression have been developed... |
27 August 2009
02:58 GMT |
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In some serious heart conditions, patients' only hope for survival is related to receiving a heart 'patch,' a piece of engineered cardiac tissue, which is grafted directly onto their hearts. However, in order for the transplant to survive, it must receive a steady supply of oxygen and nutrients. In an ... |
25 August 2009
03:46 GMT |
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Diabetes is a severe disorder, which is characterized by insufficient insulin production in the body, or the inability for the hormone to be properly absorbed. This results in high levels of glucose (sugars) in the blood, which lead to severe complications, including blindness, vascular disease, and death, to name bu... |
25 August 2009
03:28 GMT |
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Experts at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio (UTSC) have recently identified a new molecule that is able to detect two of the most common respiratory viruses. Upon detecting the pathogens, the structure is able to mount and coordinate an immune-system attack on the intruders and annihilate ... |
24 August 2009
10:29 GMT |
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With an estimated 37,000 new patients every year, thyroid cancer is among the leading types of the terrible disease. Treating it most often implies removing parts of the thyroid gland, or even the entire formation, and this is usually done through a three- to five-inch incision in the front of the neck. Now, a new me... |
24 August 2009
02:35 GMT |
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After centuries in which meningitis was free to wreak havoc among small children and the elderly, researchers from the University of California in San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences have finally managed to discover how the bacteria causing the disease move fr... |
19 August 2009
03:58 GMT |
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Most viruses that are able to infect the human body, as well as other animals, require living cells in order to replicate and create more viral agents. However, they also need specific chemicals and proteins located inside these cells, without which their replication cycle cannot be started. Researchers have, for ins... |
16 August 2009
15:31 GMT |
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Scientists have taken a major step towards curing blindness recently, when they managed to devise a method that allows patients suffering from the rare, inherited form of blindness known as Leber congenital amaurosis to see light for the first time in their lives. People born with the disease are completely blind sin... |
14 August 2009
01:52 GMT |
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Carbon nanotubes have long been touted as a very promising material in areas such as engineering and computer sciences, but it now seems that medicine has good uses for them as well. A large collaboration of scientists at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, the Wake Forest University Center for Nanotechnol... |
4 August 2009
05:47 GMT |
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New investigations have revealed an amazing fact about a large number of pathogens – bacteria, microbes and viruses – they carry within them tools that destroy them, and we can make use of them. The find, made by experts at the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (FIB) Department of Molecular and Cellula... |
31 July 2009
07:02 GMT |
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When looking at cancerous cells and their healthy neighbors under the microscope, it's very difficult not to distinguish the two, as everything about their appearance and function is different. But a new research shows that the same simply doesn't hold true for the nanoscale level, where formations as small... |
8 July 2009
18:31 GMT |
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