Archive: 04/12/2013
Successful repair of bone defects using a novel tissue engineered bone graft
Researchers at the Department of Orthopaedics, of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, led by Dr. Kunzheng Wang and Dr. Pei Yang have developed a novel biomimetic tissue engineered ...
Dec 4, 2013
Not in the mood but want to be? New studies bring women hope
For women, passing midlife can deal a blow to their sex drive. But two new studies just published online in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society, offer hope to women who want to get their sexual ...
Dec 4, 2013
MassBiologics receives orphan drug status from FDA for hepatitis C treatment
MassBiologics of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) has received an orphan drug designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for MBL-HCV1, a monoclonal antibody developed to prevent hepatitis ...
Dec 4, 2013
Study finds inflammation linked to obesity in adults may be protective in young children
The first study of its kind, led by Melinda Sothern, PhD, CEP, Professor and Director of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health, reveals that the same pro-inflammatory ...
Dec 4, 2013
Predicting ovarian cancer survival through tumor-attacking immune cells
One way to predict survival of many types of cancer is by counting the number of tumor-attacking immune cells that have migrated into the tumor in an effort to eradicate it – a sign of the body's immune response to the ...
Dec 4, 2013