Archive for 2022

Enzyme apathetic Alzheimer

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Enzyme apathetic Alzheimer - ESCAPED an enzyme? These plates characteristics can accumulate in the brains of some people with Alzheimer's disease because an enzyme can not break b amyloid. SAN DIEGO - When you hear of insulin, you probably think of diabetes,...

Hampered Virus Kills Cancer cells

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Hampered Virus Kills Cancer cells - Scientists have modified a common respiratory viruses to destroy cancer cells while leaving healthy unharmed, said a report in tomorrow's issue of Science . The next step - a clinical trial in human cancer patients - is already underway The cancer killer pathogen...

An American Original: Cancer Deaths Decline

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An American Original: Cancer Deaths Decline - WASHINGTON, DC - A deadlock that has gripped the longest and most expensive war in modern times - war against cancer - can finally eased. The cancer death rate in the US fell by 2.6% between 1991 and 1995, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) announced...

This Little Piggy Going to Market Organ

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This Little Piggy Going to Market Organ - LONDON - claims in the British media this week that the government is ready to give fire green transplantation of organs from genetically modified pigs in human patients were dismissed as "pure speculation" by a Ministry of Health official. The official...

Bacchus Knows Best: drugs against cancer in grapes

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Bacchus Knows Best: drugs against cancer in grapes - [? a laboratory of tests indicated that a chemical found in grapes and other fruits and vegetables is a potential antitumor agent. But experts warn that the compound, described in a report in tomorrow's issue of...

Vaccine protects against cholera in Vietnam

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Vaccine protects against cholera in Vietnam - A vaccine against cholera cheap performed well in a pilot in Vietnam. The discovery, published in the tomorrow The Lancet , is a breakthrough in the search long and frustrating in developing countries an effective vaccine against cholera, a potentially...

Mary Had a Little ... Clone

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Mary Had a Little ... Clone - Creating a new organism from a single cell was more science fiction than science. Not anymore. Scientists have cloned a sheep using a cell nucleus taken from the udder of an adult sheep, according to a report is expected later this week Nature . The breakthrough has...

A better recipe against Parkinson's disease?

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A better recipe against Parkinson's disease? - At work. Nurr1, shown in white in the brain of embryonic mice, invites the development of nerve cells of the midbrain dopamine. People with too little dopamine in their brains develop the debilitating symptoms...

Moles and melanoma

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Moles and melanoma - The number and shape of moles on your skin can indicate your risk of malignant melanoma, the most dangerous type of skin cancer. The results, reported in tomorrow's issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association , suggest that doctors should regularly examine moles...

Soot and death

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Soot and death - Scientists have linked two major air pollutants with mortality rates increased in 12 European cities. The findings, published in the issue of tomorrow British Medical Journal , are sure to fuel a contentious debate in Europe and the United States on proposed standards that greatly...

Retrieving ravages of HIV

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Retrieving ravages of HIV - The scientists found that immune systems ravaged by AIDS patients can bounce back from the state of the art drug treatment kept the HIV at bay for a year. But the findings, reported in tomorrow's issue of Science * it clear that the complete reconstruction of a devastated...

Composition for the diagnosis

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Composition for the diagnosis - A computer that can diagnose common psychiatric disorders could be a useful aid for busy physicians and make screening more common mental disorders. And for some disorders, patients seem more willing to confide in telephony based system than in their personal physicians,...

A Childhood Diarrhea vaccine on the Run

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A Childhood Diarrhea vaccine on the Run - A vaccine against rotavirus significantly reduced the number of deaths from childhood diarrhea in Venezuela, according to a study published in the tomorrow of New England Journal of Medicine . But critics say that the effectiveness of the vaccine has not...

A Versatile Vaccine Shockingly

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A Versatile Vaccine Shockingly - For vaccines to teach the body to recognize a pathogen, they must insert a diagnostic fragment in macrophages and other cells of the immune system. Viruses can do the job, but they can be dangerous - especially in patients whose immune system is already weakened by...

Miniature Balls Medicine

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Miniature Balls Medicine - Blood vessels, such as highways and roads that reach most addresses, run through almost all tissues of the body. The problem for doctors is that drugs of this transportation system moving almost everywhere find their way to many more nooks and crannies than they are supposed...

Rapid test for infants Infections

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Rapid test for infants Infections - New blood test can quickly reveal whether a child has a bacterial infection. If the test, described in the March Journal of Pediatrics , can be developed for widespread use, it could help doctors save the lives of some infants, as well as millions of dollars in...

Wild Rides Arterial

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Wild Rides Arterial - Blood is known spiral as it flows through the arteries, but researchers at a conference Royal Academy of Engineering announced yesterday in London that the helical flows Whirl like a corkscrew. In addition, the twists and branches of blood vessels promote the swirling flow,...

Thymus Perks Up in HIV patients

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Thymus Perks Up in HIV patients - AIDS patients survive longer these days, but most still succumb to opportunistic infections that escape an immune system weakened by HIV. Now, however, scientists have evidence that immuno-cell field which stops naturally with age may be able to return to active...

Cocaine Top Blocked by Epilepsy Drug

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Cocaine Top Blocked by Epilepsy Drug - An epilepsy drug used in Europe removes key signs of addiction to cocaine in baboons and rats, according to a study in Synapse this week . If confirmed in human studies, the finding may lead to a new way to help cocaine addicts kick the habit. The drug, called...

Duo Drug Fights Hepatitis C

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Duo Drug Fights Hepatitis C - A drug combination therapy for hepatitis C cured almost half of the patients tested. Experts say the results described in tomorrow New England Journal of Medicine , make a good case to give both ribavirin and interferon alfa-2b as a standard treatment. But they note...

Fishing for toxic chemicals

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Fishing for toxic chemicals - A NAHEIM , C ALIFORNIA - Many toxicologists can remember of be stubborn at some point by people opposed to chemical testing on animals, particularly mammals. Now, a researcher has taken another step to facilitate the disapproval that he and his colleagues often...

Gene involved in cancer of the prostate

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Gene involved in cancer of the prostate - A gene linked to breast cancer can stimulate cancer growth of advanced prostate that kills some 44,000 American men each year. The finding, from a study of transplanted tumors in mice and reported this month in Nature Medicine , raises the prospect of one...

Expert emphysema

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Expert emphysema - Today is the birthday of Ines Mandl, an American biochemist who has conducted pioneering research on enzymes and elastic tissue that led to progress in the understanding of pulmonary emphysema. Mandl, who was born in 1917, studied collagenase - a group of about 20 enzymes that...

Prosthesis Prevents Phantom Pains

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Prosthesis Prevents Phantom Pains - For people missing an arm or a leg, a sophisticated artificial limb can do more than simply restore some of their capabilities. A report in the June issue of Nature Neuroscience suggests that a so-called "myoelectric prosthesis" - which captures the electrical...

New Tick-Borne Pathogen Identified

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New Tick-Borne Pathogen Identified - Ticks, already notorious as carriers of disease, get another black mark tomorrow New England Journal of Medicine . A document, it indicates that ticks can infect people with a new, potentially life-threatening disease. The culprit is a bacterium known as Ehrlichia...

a retrovirus may cause breast cancer?

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a retrovirus may cause breast cancer? - A virus that has made the human genome permanent residence for a long time can be a major cause of breast cancer, if a study presented last week at a conference in Sydney Virology, Australia is correct. Researchers say they have found a piece of the virus -...

Kill the pain Killing Neurons

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Kill the pain Killing Neurons - Researchers have found a new approach for the treatment of chronic pain: destroy a small group of spinal cord nerve cells pivots with a chemical " smart bomb. " Treatment is less sensitive to pain rats, according to a study published in the current issue of Science...

genetic trick to Rejuvenate Livers

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genetic trick to Rejuvenate Livers - Some 20 million people in the US alone suffer from liver disease, and more than 40 000 of them die every year. liver transplants could save many of these lives, but there are only enough donor livers to treat about 4,000 US patients each year. Now researchers...

Chipping the causes of aging

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Chipping the causes of aging - Rides, thinning hair, bones and weak muscles - physical degeneration of aging is well known. But it is still a mystery why the body breaks down as it gets older. Now, using a hot new technology, researchers finally found the genes that make cells show their age. DNA...

successful transplant for diabetes Reported

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successful transplant for diabetes Reported - A new transplant technique has enabled eight diabetic patients to completely stop their insulin injections. The study, described this morning at the meeting Transplant 00 in Chicago, is "truly a milestone in the treatment of diabetes," said Hugh Auchincloss...

Overloaded Circuit brain in Schizophrenics

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Overloaded Circuit brain in Schizophrenics - In people with schizophrenia, a brain circuit that regulates emotion is overwhelmed by a chemical messenger called dopamine. The new discovery confirms a long-standing hypothesis about schizophrenia and provides the most direct evidence to date on why...

Hunting BRCA3

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Hunting BRCA3 - An international team of scientists is homing on the site of a third gene that might be involved in the development of hereditary breast cancer. If the gene is found, the work will pave the way to improved genetic counseling and cancer screening and treatment for family members with...

Microbe vs. microbe in Battle of Candida

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Microbe vs. microbe in Battle of Candida - Irritating . Candida albicans , the fungus that causes yeast infections. The old saying "put a thief to catch a thief" is best known as the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 film To Catch a Thief . But with...

Fresh Out of arsenic-73

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Fresh Out of arsenic-73 - Hot product. Purify radioisotope in Los Alamos, where a shortage of an isotope sparked an outcry from scientists. researchers are trying to assess the hazards of arsenic have encountered an obstacle: They need an arsenic isotope for...

No chemotherapy hair loss?

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No chemotherapy hair loss? - preserve hair. CDK2 inhibitor, when rubbed on mice heads (down) prevented hair loss caused by chemotherapy drug. chemotherapy may save lives, but it comes with unpleasant side effects. Drugs target rapidly dividing cells, allowing...

Cancer researcher Scores New Rich Price

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Cancer researcher Scores New Rich Price - Winner. Arnold Levine takes home the first prize Albany. When the Albany Medical Center in New York announced last November that it would assign a new annual award in biomedical research, something made the price stand...

Poisoning Treatment Resistant

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Poisoning Treatment Resistant - Poison. The dust from peeling paint containing lead is the main cause of lead poisoning in the US The children suffer lasting brain damage from poisoning lead moderate even when treated quickly with a drug that removes lead in...
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