Magnetically levitated tissues could speed toxicity tests
In a development that could lead to faster and more effective toxicity tests for airborne chemicals, scientists from Rice University and the Rice spinoff company Nano3D Biosciences have used magnetic levitation ...
Medical research
Jan 24, 2013 |
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Japan researchers say kidney tissue grown from stem cells (Update)
Researchers in Japan said Wednesday they have succeeded in growing human kidney tissue from stem cells for the first time, in a potential first step towards helping millions who depend on dialysis.
Medical research
Jan 23, 2013 |
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Gold nanoparticles show new way to kill lymphoma without chemotherapy
How do you annihilate lymphoma without using any drugs? Starve it to death by depriving it of what appears to be a favorite food: HDL cholesterol.
Cancer
Jan 21, 2013 |
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Scientists increase the success rate of tooth implants
Elderly or people with osteoporosis, smokers, diabetics or people who have had cancer are sometimes not eligible to receive dental implants as their bones are unable to correctly integrate the new prostheses ...
Medical research
Jan 21, 2013 |
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New study confirms immune cells are guided by gradients
(Medical Xpress)—A group of researchers in Austria and Switzerland has for the first time proven that immune cells migrate along chemical concentration gradients. This process has long been assumed but ...
Immunology
Jan 18, 2013 |
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Study shows how immune cells navigate through the skin by sensing graded patterns of immobilized directional cues
A research paper by the group of Michael Sixt, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), published today in Science, provides new insights into how immune cells ...
Medical research
Jan 17, 2013 |
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Cancer biology: Keeping bad company
The p53 tumor suppressor protein manages DNA repair mechanisms in response to genetic damage and kills off precancerous cells before they multiply. The loss of p53 due to mutation greatly increases risk of ...
Cancer
Jan 16, 2013 |
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Scientists engineer the Schmallenberg virus genome to understand how to reduce disease caused by the virus
Researchers from the MRC Centre for Virus Research at the University of Glasgow in Scotland have developed methods to synthesize and change the genome of Schmallenberg virus (SBV). SBV is a recently discovered pathogen of ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 10, 2013 |
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Two-drug combination may slow deadly thyroid cancer
A combination of the drugs pazopanib and paclitaxel shows promise in slowing anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC), according to a Mayo Clinic-led study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine. The two drugs togeth ...
Cancer
Jan 08, 2013 |
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Inherited retinal disease research may lead to treatment
Inherited retinal disease is a major cause of vision impairment in early life - and a researcher at The University of Western Australia hopes a study in which he was involved will contribute towards the development ...
Medical research
Jan 08, 2013 |
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Understanding cell organization to tackle cancer
Scientists at The University of Manchester have identified how cells know which way up they need to be. The discovery could help in the fight against cancer because in the early stages of the disease the cells become disorganised.
Cancer
Dec 23, 2012 |
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Serendipity points to new potential target and therapy for melanoma
(Medical Xpress)—A University of Colorado Cancer Center study in this month's edition of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology describes a new target and potential treatment for melanoma, the most d ...
Cancer
Dec 20, 2012 |
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Neurons die in Alzheimer's because of faulty cell cycle control before plaques and tangles appear
The two infamous proteins, amyloid-beta (Aβ) and tau, that characterize advanced Alzheimer's disease (AD), start healthy neurons on the road to cell death long before the appearance of the deadly plaques and tangles by working ...
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Dec 17, 2012 |
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Rare, lethal childhood disease tracked to failure to degrade nerve cells' filaments
For the first time, a defective protein that plays a specific role in degrading intermediate filaments (IF), one of three classes of filaments that form the structure of nerve cells, has been discovered by an international ...
Medical research
Dec 17, 2012 |
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Better understanding of the cause of Alzheimer's disease: New suggestion for a possible treatment
Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, affecting over 35 million people worldwide. It is generally assumed that the clumping of beta-amyloid (Aß) protein causes neuronal loss in patients. Medication focuses ...
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
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