Archive for August 2019

Trials for 'ethnic' Therapy

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Trials for 'ethnic' Therapy - This is billed as "the first ethnic drug" - a heart drug for African Americans - is about to be tested clinical trials. NitroMed, a company in New Bedford, Massachusetts, announced earlier this month it won Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clinical trial authorization...

Ticked Off

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Ticked Off - Troublemaker. Ixodes scapularis ticks can carry the bacteria responsible for Lyme disease. Lyme disease, the tick -Internet bane from the outside, has scientists scratching their heads. The controversy over how to treat the disease continues...

New for the treatment of cancer

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New for the treatment of cancer - Scientists have identified a potential drug that may be able to hit a variety of cancer cells while leaving healthy cells unharmed. If it works in human trials already underway, the drug would be a significant advance over current chemotherapy agents and may one...

Whither 'mad cow' disease?

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Whither 'mad cow' disease? - good news? If a mathematical projection is correct, the number could soon peak. Since the emergence of a new human disease linked to eating beef from cattle with "mad cow" in 1996, the British public has been seized by a question:...

Cracking cancer-causing Strategy Gut Bugs

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Cracking cancer-causing Strategy Gut Bugs - Haywire. commandeering a signaling pathway , H. pylori causes cells to malform. most pathogenic bacteria have been hunted for a long time, but for decades got a microbe with murder. Discovered in 1982, Helicobacter...

Put the brakes on

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Put the brakes on - releases Sometimes the biggest challenge for transplant patients just after receiving a new organ, when their bodies can reject as foreign. Now, scientists report in advance online edition of this week of Nature Immunology an immune cell that may be able to call out the immune...

Novartis Sows his future in American soil

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Novartis Sows his future in American soil - New excavations. Novartis install in this building owned by MIT CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS -. It was not a mere bluster policy when US Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA), last week called Kendall Square in Cambridge the "epicenter...

HIV superinfection Documented

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HIV superinfection Documented - BARCELONA, SPAIN -. Discourage new data presented at the XIV International AIDS Conference can significantly increase the bar for developers of vaccines against HIV researchers took heart in the long observation that people with HIV seem able to repel infection...

Beer Bellies fear

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Beer Bellies fear - Awesome. But a big belly may contribute to insulin resistance. Chubby belly depriving their owners of more than a svelte figure, according to a new study. abdominal flab in middle age rats causes insulin resistance, a common precursor to...

Green Light on Smallpox Shots

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Green Light on Smallpox Shots - Big shot. President George W. Bush says he will get the vaccine against smallpox. WASHINGTON, DC - After months of internal debate, President George W. Bush announced the details of its administration program to prepare today...

An Off-Switch for cancer?

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An Off-Switch for cancer? - Forever young. new drugs could limit the spread of breast cancer cells (pictured here) and other cancers by revoking their ability to divide indefinitely. cancer cells have the ability to divide indefinitely, thanks to an enzyme...

Tiny Transistors Scout for cancer

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Tiny Transistors Scout for cancer - NEW ORLEANS - Nanoscale electronics experts are often streaked to manufacture circuits Microchip companies already make millions of times better. But at the meeting of the American Chemical Society here yesterday, researchers described a nanoscale device that...

RNA Interference From counteracts hepatitis B

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RNA Interference From counteracts hepatitis B - wiped. RNA molecules triggering genes against hepatitis B protects liver cells in mice (right). RNA molecules Millions can protect mice against the damage caused by hepatitis B, a new study shows. The technique...

$ 100 million launches new

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$ 100 million launches new - Institute Gene bank. THE Eli Broad Business (left) is pledging $ 100 million to a new institute, led by Eric Lander (right). Supported by a billionaire entrepreneur and two prestigious universities, a team of scientists is preparing...

Pain and pregnancy do not mix

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Pain and pregnancy do not mix - Headache for moms grass. painkillers like aspirin can increase the risk of miscarriage. women trying to conceive should not take two aspirin and call your doctor in the morning, according to a new study. It shows that aspirin...

Frozen chips Order

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Frozen chips Order - Patchwork. a minor change could allow chilled platelets to keep the coagulation once transfused. the fight against a problem that hematologists and blood banks it has long abandoned it, a team of scientists has determined how to store platelets...

Borrowed weapon A Bacterium

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Borrowed weapon A Bacterium - dangerous liaison. vancomycin resistance probably jumped out of E. faecalis to S. aureus via a plasmid (black loop) carrying a transposon (red) that infested the local plasmid (blue) . The long dreaded superbug surface on a...

Human Pesticide Testing Get Nod

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Human Pesticide Testing Get Nod - green light. An expert panel said EPA should consider accepting studies that expose human volunteers to pesticides used on crops. Federal regulators should be allowed to use controversial studies in which people are intentionally...

Brief famine may boost the risk of cancer

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Brief famine may boost the risk of cancer - Lean times. average daily caloric intake in the occupied areas of the Netherlands has fallen sharply during the winter 1944-1945. the idea that a low calorie diet can reduce the risk of breast cancer has allowed to...

Sniff Far SARS

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Sniff Far SARS - purple peril. a new vaccine stimulates an immune response that blocks the virus SARS from attaching to cells. a growl of a new nasal spray vaccine may soon keep severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) at bay. The new vaccine, a hybrid of SARS...

Microbes Involved in Crohn's disease

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Microbes Involved in Crohn's disease - A new study gives ammunition to researchers who claim that Crohn's disease, an often devastating inflammation of the intestine is caused by a microbe usually infects cattle. But the study, published in this week's issue of The Lancet , it is unlikely to end...

Shots Make Monkeys Shoot Blanks

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Shots Make Monkeys Shoot Blanks - Sperm stopper. vaccinated monkeys suggests that a new type of male contraceptive is possible. When the early 1880s vulcanized rubber and the 1930 advent of latex mark the latest advances, we quickly understand the sorry state...

Beta Blocker Shocker

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Beta Blocker Shocker - WASHINGTON, DC - The doctors may have demonstrated why a common drug given to patients with heart failure fails to help nearly half of them: a genetic difference resulting in a change of a single amino acid appears to determine patient response to the drug. The results, announced...

Promising new class of anti-HIV drugs

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Promising new class of anti-HIV drugs - Displeased. inhibitors integrase keep HIV from entering our genes LYNN BRANDS / GLAXOSMITHKLINE DENVER, COLORADO -. Patients whose HIV infections have developed resistance to most available drugs may soon have a...

Journal Distances itself Breast Implant Study

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Journal Distances itself Breast Implant Study - Editors of the journal Analytical Chemistry yellow flags raised today on a paper on the toxicology of silicone breast implants . The original study, published on 1 May of the magazine, reported finding high levels of a potentially dangerous form of...

Not Your Type? Do not worry

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Not Your Type? Do not worry - Presto chango. Enzymes can convert type A and type B blood type O, which can be transfused to anyone. Corbis A new technique can convert type A and type B red blood cells into type O, the "universal donor" blood type that can...

Breast Cancer Drug effective against Mania

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Breast Cancer Drug effective against Mania - [booster Mood. Tamoxifen relieved the symptoms of mania in a small clinical trial. NIH Tamoxifen, a drug commonly used to prevent breast cancer recurrence, is also effective against the manic phase of bipolar disorder,...

The skin cells reprogrammed strut

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The skin cells reprogrammed strut - Correction. The blood of mice treated with iPS cells (above) does not show the cells sickle present in untreated mice (top). J. Hanna et al, Science Skin cells reprogrammed to act like embryonic stem cells -. A first...

A great success for Embryonic Stem Cells

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A great success for Embryonic Stem Cells - The full image. Human ES cells can potentially result in cells that resemble pancreatic beta cells (labeled ß). Kroon et al., Nature Biotechnology , Advance Online Publication (20 February 08) scientists have for...
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