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The phenomenon of sexual attraction

...eve pheromones may help people choose biologically compatible mates....

Sniff to compatibility

...ls similar to a woman's father is likely to have a compatible immune system. The natural odours that all humans produce are called pheromones. They are influenced to a degree by a cluster of genes related to the immune system called the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) . 50 unmarried women were tested b...

Filtration treatment assigns more live kidney donation

...kidney from a live donor //means they must be of a compatible blood group. But doctors at Johns Hopkins University may have a way around the blood barrier. They are treating the recipients blood prior to transplant, filtering out the antibodies that would otherwise destroy the foreign organ. This will allow t...

Alternative to blood Transfusions

...rgery. It can also fill an unmet medical need when compatible red blood cells are not readily available or when there is a need or preference to avoid blood transfusions."...

Diabetes Cure With Gene Therapy

...uppressive drugs and eliminates the need to find a compatible donor....

WHO hopes to wipe away Iodine deficiency diseases by 2005

...an be carried out with a level of salt consumption compatible with WHO's recommendations of up to 5 g/day. WHO hopes that to meet the goal of eliminating iodine deficiency by 2005. The United Nations General Assembly at the Special Session for Children in 2002, accepted to undertake this programme by 2005. How...

Delhi Hospital Opens Up Avenues For Computer-Aided Knee Replacement

...nee arthroplasty every year. The surgery cost is compatible with the traditional knee replacement surgery and works out to be around Rs.180, 000, with the promise of better results. So what are you waiting for? Source: Indo-Asian News Service...

Researchers Question The Effectiveness Of Homeopathic Remedies

...een in placebo-controlled trials of homeopathy are compatible with the placebo-hypothesis. In an accompanying Comment, Jan Vandenbroucke (Leiden University Medical Centre, Netherlands) states: “Science is an intrinsically human affair. When new theories are created and new evidence sought, judgment will retain...

Two Babies Undergo Transplant Surgeries

... in another state passed away, and its organs were compatible to the two babies who were in need of the transplants. The dead child’s heart and lungs were transplanted to Jason, while the heart of Jason was transplanted to Kayla. This was considered safe as a lung transplant alone involved more sewing and su...

New Method Developed To Cut Down Chemotherapy Deaths

...ent's body. These fibres are bio-degradable and compatible with body tissue, which means they would not be rejected by the patient's body. They gradually turn from solid to liquid, releasing a regular flow of the chemotherapy chemical into the cancer site, and a much lower dose to the rest of the body. Th...

Innovative solution to help reduce the waiting times for kidney transplants

...f their own healthy kidneys because they weren't a compatible blood type. Tom McCabe in his early 60s, gave one of his kidneys to 46-year-old Joe Leung. At the same time, Heidi Leung, 44, happily gave one of her healthy kidneys to Antoinette McCabe, in her late 50s. Joe Leung, the father of two teenage girls...

Stem Cell Technology Gives Hope in Spinal Cord Injuries

... data for moving GRPs to clinical trial as soon as compatible human cells can be obtained.’ However Davies points out that the lack of availability of stem-cell lines in the United States was a big hurdle to be crossed as hundreds of thousands of the GRP cells would be required to act in a person. Young sti...

Heparin Based Nanoscale Materials Developed For Dialysis Treatment

...ls, using heparin//, an anticoagulant. These blood compatible could revolutionize medical treatments, including dialysis, a routine form of treatment for renal failure patients. Furthermore, these medical devices could have numerous diagnostic and therapeutic applications that are not foreseen at the moment. ...

DNA-bound p53 Tumor Suppressor Protein Structure Determined

...omehow lock the protein into a conformation that's compatible with the dimer binding to DNA. We used a chemical ...llowed us to trap the form of the p53 dimer that’s compatible with DNA binding. And we solved the structure. We saw what it looked like." (Source: Newswis)...

Domino Transplants Creates new wave In the Field Of Kidney Transplantation

... living organ donor is matched with an altruistic, compatible donor. The incompatible kidney from the recipient'...ntended donor is then domino-matched with the next compatible patient on the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) waiting list. This strategy can be further use...

A Comprehensive CD-ROM On HIV/AIDS Released By Center for HIV Information

... training and by individual request. The disk is compatible with both Windows and Mac operating systems. Its contents cover a wide range of topics about HIV, including natural science, diagnosis and clinical management, transmission and prevention, clinical manifestations, and associated malignancies. 'This...

Families of the Dead no Longer Have the Last Say

... transplants involving two pairs of strangers with compatible tissue types. At present over 8,000 people in the UK need a transplant, but the organ shortage would mean that fewer than 3,000 are carried out each year. Chris Rudge of UK Transplant, which provides organ matching and allocation services, said: ...

Stem cell transplant recipients face significant risk of second cancer

...cells in the bone marrow and replacing them with a compatible donor's stem cells offers the chance of cure for a disease that otherwise has a high mortality rate with non-transplant therapies. While the procedure can be lifesaving, it is associated with serious short-term adverse effects, such as mucostitis, in...

The Other Side of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant

...cells in the bone marrow and replacing them with a compatible donor's stem cells offers the chance of cure for a disease that otherwise has a high mortality rate with non-transplant therapies. While the procedure can be lifesaving, it is associated with serious short-term adverse effects, such as mucostitis, in...

Limited Calorie Intake Holds the Key to Delay Ageing

...term basis. Results elicited thus far prove a more compatible reaction from the immune system, with improved T-cell production, reflected by better resistance to infectious diseases .28 other monkeys were also part of the study with normal diets. The study suggests that by improving resistance to infectious dis...

Researchers Create Genetically-Matched Embryonic Stem Cells for Transplantation

...ithout the risk of rejection because the cells are compatible with the recipient’s immune system. Though done in mice, the work establishes the principle of using unfertilized eggs as a source of customized embryonic stem cells that are genetically matched to the egg donor at the genes that control recognition...

Therapy Modulates Highly Sensitized Immune System to Let Mother Give Kidney to Daughter

...he result of a therapy that makes the incompatible compatible and the impossible a reality in many cases. Soraya had expected to live a shortened life, dependent on kidney dialysis -- a painful, expensive, time-consuming procedure that cleans blood well enough to maintain existence but not well enough to cont...

Anti-rejection Therapy a Boon for Patients With "anti-donor" Antibody Levels

...he result of a therapy that makes the incompatible compatible and the impossible a reality in many cases. Soraya had expected to live a shortened life, dependent on kidney dialysis -- a painful, expensive, time-consuming procedure that cleans blood well enough to maintain existence but not well enough to cont...

Highlights from World Transplant Congress

...cal role in matching organs for transplantation to compatible donors. The World Transplant Congress, held July 2006 in Boston, was the first joint meeting of three leading professional societies: The Transplantation Society, the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, and the American Society of Transplantat...

Family and Friends Team Up to Provide LA Man With Kidney Transplant

... to go on dialysis.// His sister was a willing and compatible donor. But Eliud was in Los Angeles, where he lives, and Jacqueline Lopez was in Guatemala, and there appeared to be no way to get the two together. Three Christmases ago, Eliud, who turned 33 on Dec. 23, the father of two daughters, 9 and 5, was h...

Make Healthcare Accessible, Affordable, Urges Kalam

...y to gear up for designing and manufacturing DICOM compatible X-ray and other imaging equipment which can be used optimally in conjunction with tele-radiology," said Kalam. He said India was importing medical equipment to cater to the requirements of its billion-plus population. "The cost must come down dr...

President’s Address on the ‘Tele-Radiology’ Set Up of Krst

...e a great boost to manufacture of indigenous DICOM compatible equipment. The availability of tele-radiology in hospitals enables easy data storage and retrieval of patients’ history and use of this history as valuable diagnostic tool to deal with the current medical situation. With these words, I inaugurate ...

'single–parent' stem cells to replace adult mice organ

...rs of either sex can use this technique to produce compatible stem cells, much like you might donate blood for your own use in advance of an operation." Parthenogenesis, the act of creating an embryo without fertilization, is common in some plants, insects and animals, including the recent and celebrated case...

Scientists Produce Neurons from Human Skin

...ent’s skin cells and use them to produce perfectly compatible neurons, thus eliminating the risk of rejection. We could then transplant these nerve cells in the diseased areas of the brain," explains Berthod. "This type of procedure seems particularly interesting for diseases such as Parkinson’s, but it’s all t...

Research Improves Kidney Transplant Chances for Sensitized Patients

...dict which sensitized patients on the list will be compatible with any given donor. A five-year Emory study, pub...rately predicting which of these patients would be compatible with the donor kidney. The survival rate of a kidney transplant in sensitized patients in the five-y...

Nepal Gets Its First Graduate Goddess

... the basis of certain secret signs and a horoscope compatible with the king's. The four-year-old lives in her own palace, never walks on the ground and is worshipped by all, including the king, who never bows before another human being. The little goddess, however, turns mortal when she reaches puberty and a ...

Biocon Unveils Renal Therapies for Kidney Disorders

...come immune to any side effects and make them feel compatible with the new organ. Similarly, Erthropoetin (Epo) will increase the hameoglobin level to develop resistance," Bicon chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw said at a preview of the product. Prior to the launch, the company has undertaken extensive trials a...

Stem Cells Hold Promise for Treating Neurodegenerative Diseases

...r layers and in a "defined" culture medium that is compatible with clinical use and demonstrating for the first time that such preparations are consistent with a therapeutic impact. Sandhoff results from a genetic mutation that reduces the body's supply of an enzyme, called hexosaminidase ("hex"), used by bra...

Gender Linked to Development of Skin Cancer

...e to validate the findings, but noted the data are compatible with other studies suggesting a potential biological basis for gender difference in the development of cancer and other diseases. Source-Eurekalert SRM...

Gender Linked to Development of Skin Cancer

...e to validate the findings, but noted the data are compatible with other studies suggesting a potential biological basis for gender difference in the development of cancer and other diseases. Source-Eurekalert SRM...

More and More American Women Go for Facelifts to Get Jobs

...cial irregularities, lines and spots are perfectly compatible with charm, expressiveness, good grooming or whatever is meant by beauty. Gray or white hair looks better on us as we move into our middle years and beyond. (Dye-jobs often clash with our skin tones)." GPL/B...

More and More American Women Go for Facelifts to Get Jobs

...cial irregularities, lines and spots are perfectly compatible with charm, expressiveness, good grooming or whatever is meant by beauty. Gray or white hair looks better on us as we move into our middle years and beyond. (Dye-jobs often clash with our skin tones)."...

Kalam Urges for Using Tele-radiology to Help Rural Poor

...e a great boost to manufacture of indigenous DICOM compatible equipment. The availability of tele-radiology in hospitals enables easy data storage and retrieval of patients' history and use of this history as valuable diagnostic tool to deal with the current medical situation," he said. Kalam asked ECIL to ...

Kidney Donor Alleges Fraud by Doctors

...plantation reports showed that her kidney would be compatible and the transplantation was done June 11. However, three days later, doctors informed them that the transplanted kidney had developed complications and stopped functioning. They later removed the transplanted kidney. However, the father and daughte...

New Research to Make Science and Technology Work for the Poor

...l: Meeting the needs of billions of people in ways compatible with a livable planet is a moral imperative but a huge challenge to our standard ways of thinking and working, in both North and South. Research which challenges assumptions underpinning failed, outmoded and unsustainable models of development is c...

Chennai Hospital Conducts Bone Marrow Transplantation Successfully

...he doctors successfully networked an unrelated but compatible American donor whose cord blood matched Howard's n...t there was only a 30 percent chance of locating a compatible family donor whose stem cells could be used for treating some advanced conditions. Now, it is no lon...

Parental Match-making Blossoms in a Beijing Park

...ere desperate fathers and mothers struggle to find compatible spouses for their overworked and overqualified children, a kind of parental speed-dating. Despite their desire for a potential match, these proud parents are rigorous in their search for someone they think will be good enough for their children. ...

Belgian Doctor Restores Woman's Fertility With Ovary Graft

...sters who were not identical. However, they were compatible in a group of genes called the human leukocyte antigen (HLA), which regulates the immune response to transplanted tissue. "There was no rejection of the graft despite the absence of immuno-suppressors" and from six to 11 months after the operation ...