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Naked DNA Vaccination May Conquer Arthritis and Multiple Sclerosis

A novel modification of a new technology born of genetic engineering, and known as naked DN... can exacerbate the disease. Naked DNA vaccination technology may counter these undesirable effects. This consists of introducing engineered genes based on the cu...

New Way to "See" Genes, Evaluate Effectiveness of Gene Therapies Discovered

This technology essentially renders the body transparent and will ...ach targeted cells and work as they should. "The technology is expected to help patients with cancer and other illnesses, such as cardiovascular disease. The di...

Life Saving Cancer Drugs – From Chicken! Possible Says 'Dolly’ Creatos

...h Company Viragen Inc., have used nuclear transfer technology to harvest life saving drugs to treat many serious...rst cloned mammal: Using the same nuclear transfer technology it is possible, according to these scientists to create human therapeutic proteins in chicken eggs –...

Fight anemia by fortifying crops with iron!!!!!!!!

...gricultural research institute, Delhi say that the technology is already in vogue in the developed countries and...developing countries if they can develop their own technology to improve upon this idea. This way they say the huge problem posed by anemia in India can be checke...

And now live birth on the internet.com?

...is is called view baby project and the web casting technology used by view baby has been used for corporate video conferencing and to broadcast Madonna’s latest concert. The pilot project was free and the hospital authorities are yet to decide on the fee for this facility. Internet revolution is reaching dizzyi...

Oracle Corp. to help build world's first "Digital Hospital"

...ing doctors more efficient.Oracle will provide the technology that will allow Health South to improve record-keeping and patient care, officials of the two companies said in a briefing on Monday. Ultimately, they said, the improvements will reduce the overall cost of care.It was also added at the briefing that ...

Development of AIDS vaccine -- Chiron Corp in talks with four Indian cos

...for the proposed project, which entails an upfront technology transfer fee of $30 million being sought by Chiron...didate vaccine against AIDS claimed and offered as technology transfer by Chiron Corp. The vaccine is said to be close to being subjected to human trials. The Ma...

Award for TTK Chitra heart valve prosthesis

...ard for successful commercialization of indigenous technology 2001 for developing artificial heart valve prosthesis.It is a tilting disc valve design incorporating a metallic housing, which is integrally machined from a cobalt based wrought alloy. The circular disc inside is made of ultra high molecular weight ...

Scientists plan human cloning clinic in the United States

...t is considered to be more serious because cloning technology has matured and the principal investigators have e...tion to cloning occurs on many fronts. Because the technology is not yet perfected many believe that the process should not even by attempted on humans. It took 2...

Decision making made easier

...come to a decision they were happy with. The new technology opens the door to better-informed patients, and more rational treatment decisions. If the tool were available over the Internet, costs would be minimal. The main issue of concern is to ensure that the quality of material on the videodisc is of the hi...

Zydus Cadila and Kopran in strategic alliance

... said here. Zydus has also entered into a seperate technology transfer agreement with Kopran for zero impurity Atenol which includes milestone payments totalling Rs. 20 crores. "We saw Aten as a good fit in terms of its size and presence in the cardiac care market," Mr.Pankaj, Managing Director, Zydus Cadila...

New spray gel heals surgical wounds

...llege of Medicine, said the gel seemed to be using technology which is currently applied to external wounds. "Th... reaction. It would be very beneficial if the same technology could be applied to internal wounds ." she added....

DNA biochip for genetic screening

...t the University of Houston. “This highly parallel technology allows us to do thousands or tens of thousands of ...d a flexible, high quality and more cost efficient technology for DNA chips,” she says. “Our novel platform technology will allow scientists to make custom-design...

Stem cell research

...ng potential applications of [embryonic stem] cell technology in human medicine are based on the assumption that it will be possible to grow [embryonic stem] cells on a large scale, to introduce genetic modifications into them, and to direct their differentiation," the researchers wrote. Their success in mainta...

Robots craft medical history

...on link that used asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) technology to transmit the data. The operation took less than an hour's time and the patient was discharged from the hospital 48 hours later....

Unpredictable Premature Birth

...again, we see that it’s nearly impossible with the technology we have today to accurately predict who is going to give birth to a premature baby. If we truly want to help more babies be born healthy and lead healthy lives, we need more research aimed at preventing prematurity from occurring in the first place....

A novel augmentation

...ion. Makoto Asashima, who led the team, said the technology could provide an option to donor transplants. His team refined thousands of embryo cells in a retinoic acid solution for five days to draw ot various organs. Modifying the concentration of the retinoic acid led to the stem cells developing into diffe...

Computers may become surgeons

...heir findings. Currently, surgeons routinely use technology that is capable of producing multiple images that ...urgery, in which doctors use sophisticated imaging technology to perform surgical procedures....

New device for detecting artery blockages

...ing to a recent study a device was found using new technology which helps prevent stroke. One important way of screening people for potential stroke involves looking, by ultrasound, at any blockages in the carotid arteries that serve the brain.// Researchers at Texas University in the US have pioneered the us...

Screening device for ovarian cancer

...tial. Researchers in the US are using cutting-edge technology called proteomics //to differentiate healthy from diseased tissue. Proteomics involves creating a 'fingerprint' of tissue, based upon detecting and analysing the different protein molecules it contains. We already know that the protein profile of cel...

New methods to prevent injury of patients

...to medical personnel. In road safety, automobile technology improvements have brought benefits - rather than blaming the driver. Researchers feel that in hospitals, computerised prescriptions could stop drug errors more effectively than blaming doctors or nurses who make a mistake....

Computer Program can assist to detect Heart Attack

...axt and his colleagues set out to see how well the technology worked when some of the information it uses to mak...iagnosis was missing. The researchers applied the technology to 1,400 adults who arrived at the emergency department complaining of chest pain. On average, 5% of...

Drug trafficking via Internet a growing threat

...g advantage of encrypted e-mail and other Internet technology to sell their stashes, launder money and trade tip... closely guarded secrets, but with modern computer technology and chemists’ increasing willingness to share their knowledge, this information is now available to ...

Identifying bacteria made amiable

... in the area of DNA sequencing recently - DNA chip technology and comparative gene sequence databases. The Quee... at the same time as the emergence of the DNA chip technology meant that is was a superb opportunity to be able to make use of this explosion of data," said Dr Pa...

Approaching through Telemedicine benefits patients

...ogether with specialists through videoconferencing technology is an excellent way to extend the communication between doctors and patients.// Doctors from the Royal University College Medical School in London tested the "virtual outreach" method in a group of more than 2,000 patients seen at an urban and rural...

Laser technique assists beard problem

New research and technology has been inventing new techiques. Laser hair removal is a useful remedy for ingrowing hairs that develop after shaving. Many men suffer from irritating 'razor bumps' after they shave.// The medical name is pseudofolliculitis barbae (PFB) and it occur...

The issue of urinary incontinence

...terials, have banged upon a synthetic polymer. The technology came from the disposable nappy now in very widespread use. But doctors were slow to accept that adults could or should wear nappies -instead, they resorted to indwelling catheters, which compounded the problem because they raise the risk of urinary t...

Decrease in calories slows aging of the heart

...rking with middle-aged mice, they used 'gene chip' technology to analyse thousands of genes active in the heart. They found that on a full diet, the pattern of genetic activity alters with aging - for example, making heart cells larger. But when calories are restricted many of these changes were not seen. This ...

Treating acne with laser

...York, discussed how dermatologists are using laser technology to treat acne by altering the biological mechanisms responsible for this common condition. Acne is a chronic inflammatory disease of the sebaceous hair follicles. Each follicle contains a tiny hair and multiple sebaceous glands. Under normal circums...

Genetic indicates memory

...a standard learning task and then researchers used technology called cDNA to screen thousands of genes. They looked at genes in the hippocampus area, a brain region known to be important in learning and memory. The researchers checked the genes one hour after the task, six hours later, and then 24 hours later. ...

Decision making made easier

...come to a decision they were happy with. The new technology opens the door to better-informed patients, and more rational treatment decisions. If the tool were available over the Internet, costs would be minimal. The main issue of concern is to ensure that the quality of material on the videodisc is of the hi...

Bioengineering production strains - Microbia develops new methods

...uring pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals. This new technology enables the illumination of the best route to opti...latory nodes affecting lovastatin production. The technology described is a component of Microbia's Precision Engineering approach to biomanufacturing process im...

Biosensor chip to help drug development

...ro-Chip, which researchers claim is a breakthrough technology that will help scientific researchers to gain new ...standard complementary// metal oxide semiconductor technology extended with additional process steps to realize the capacitive sensors array. Researchers successf...

Likely reason which makes analgesics work against Alzheimer's

... also brought to light the benefits of using FDDNP technology for investigating new vaccines and drugs against Alzheimer's disease....

Liver cancers which spread are linked to a particular gene

...activity in liver tumors using the new 'gene chip' technology and found a way of detecting tumors that spread. They found that there is a difference between// those tumors that spread and those which do not. They found that a protein called osteopontin produced by a particular gene is necessary for spreading. T...

Curbing medication errors with new rules

...mber, identifying information about the drug. This technology would help prevent errors such as administering the wrong drug, the wrong dose, or the wrong method of treatment (for example by injection rather than by mouth). The second rule requires reporting all actual and potential medication errors received b...

Tech Wizards turn to build Anti-SARS gadgets.

...ive. Some of Beijings greatest mindsof the Chinese technology sector have created a newtrend in products. The new set of devices, christenedas Anti-SARS devices and gadgets. The gadgets are aweapon to fight the epidemic that is crippliong ourworld. Many such creation were unveiled at the Beijingtrade fair recen...

Hope for First New Melanoma Treatment in Decades

...ive tumor. A technique called chromosome transfer technology was used to transfer an entire chromosome 10 - about 5 percent of the genome - from healthy cells into the abnormal melanoma cells. The introduction of chromosome 10, which contains the PTEN gene, temporarily switched off the tumor cell growth in mic...

Skin Cancer “Reflection” Detectin

...ady gotten into my lymph system,” he says.// Now, technology called photonics may help doctors detect skin cancer much sooner. Optical scientists says it works similarly to ultrasound. "When you do ultrasound, you're measuring the time of the sound as you're imaging, where in optics, we're measuring, in a way,...

Wearable Body Monitoring

...ositive pathway. Ultimately,Researchers foresees technology like this being used by everyone from assisted living facility nurses to rehabilitation therapists to athletes and even people in the transportation industry....

Spinal Cord Patients Walk Again

...an do more, but it’s safe to say he’s mastered the technology enough to do daily activities, as well as some activities he thought he’d be forced to give up. "I ride my four wheeler standing up and stuff. That’s pretty neat." For the functional electrical stimulation to work, a person has to have spasticity in...

Test tube babies, 25 years later

...ccording to the reproductive society. And as the technology continues to grow, sperm donors, egg donors and surrogates have all become common. "You can't buy a baby in the United States," said Caplan. "... But you can buy the sperm, you can buy the egg and you can rent the uterus." Because multiple embryos a...

Meditation Works Medically

...e done using functional magnetic resonance imaging technology to look more closely at the effects of mindful meditation. They also suggest future research look into the biological consequences of this type of approach....

Rat joins list of cloned animals

...s they leave the ovary. This posed a problem for a technology that requires painstakingly removing an egg cell, taking out its nucleus, and replacing it with the nucleus from a skin or other kind of cell from the animal to be cloned. Genetic researchers described how they did it. They impregnated two rats wit...

How a man's mind really works

...le and female brain -- and scientists now have the technology to prove it. "What Could He Be Thinking? , this c...ian . The science part Such are the advances in technology and understanding that PET radioactive-imaging and MRI magnetic-imaging scans can now show whether a...

Common Cold Found to Fight Cancer

... virus responsible for the common cold. The latest technology is now patented, and researchers are collaborating to develop new therapies for cancer and other diseases that will be tested in a clinical setting. ...

PET Scans Found To Reveal Hidden Cancers

...cialists, unexpected cancers are identified by PET technology because it scans the entire body. Researchers however say that PET scans identify certain cancers but do not detect all cancers....

Risks Of An Enlarged Heart

...heart rhythm develops. At present with the latest technology identification of disease causing genes and the ability to identify at risk patients and prevent sudden death has greatly improved. Thus researchers say with a better understanding of the disease process, targeted treatments to treat symptoms and pr...

Imaging Modality That Might Help Diagnose Depression

...o diagnose melancholic depression using an imaging technology that allows them to observe // levels of certain substances in the brain. Melancholia is a relatively common form of depression marked by insomnia, loss of appetite, and loss of pleasure. Results of the study show low levels of the inhibitory trans...

Common Cold Found to Fight Cancer Cells

... virus responsible for the common cold. The latest technology is now patented, and researchers are collaborating to develop new therapies for cancer and other diseases that will be tested in a clinical setting....

Effective Diagnosis Of Spinal Cord Injuries

... study. According to neuroscientists in Canada MRI technology could determine //if performing surgery would benefit patients. They say they found that trauma-induced spinal cord compression on MRIs predict a poorer neurological recovery. Surgery can relieve spinal cord compression. However, unless surgeons are...

Shrinking Birthmark’s

...ful , thus researchers decided to see if using MRI technology during the procedure could help pinpoint all of the veins that require treatment. Researchers say their results were overwhelming as it was seen that under MR imaging the veins were as bright as light bulbs thereby making detecting and delineating of...

A Better Understanding Of The Brain Network

New technology may help people suffering from paralysis reprogram...omputer screen with 50 different targets. The fMRI technology identified signs that neurons in a specific area of the brain were processing and giving commands to...

The Bio-probe –“ Boon to women ?

...ty. Temple University will also look at using this technology to help prevent premature births by measuring cervical abnormalities....

Stanford Medical Center Implements The First Virtual Cardiac Ultrasound

...ned to show all angles of the patient’s heart. The technology uses an “intelligent” echocardiography system. The...he exact faults of cardiac functions. With such a technology available to cardiologists, it will become easier for them to assess and diagnose cardiac conditions...

New Technology In MRI Scan Help Test Brain Cancer Therapy

...gan, Comprehensive Cancer Center, say that the new technology will measure the water movement in the brain to as...d learn about the treatment effectiveness. The new technology hopes to elevate such tensions for the physicians and patients alike....

New technology to decipher neural connections dealing with heredity and environment

...ontrol. The researchers feel that the new use of technology in understanding developmental process will also help the scientists in understanding the role played by nature or heredity on nurture or environment. The computer model can also conduct a battery of tests to find out any injuries to the frontal lo...

Gold to be used for cancer detection

...er the microscope. The researchers hope that this technology may be used to perform low cost automatic detectio...the biopsies. The researchers also feel that their technology for scattering and absorption may be used with some modifications to test for cancer in human bodies...

Cancer diagnosis easier from microRNA

...vard. Researchers have also been able to develop a technology that will be able to test the microRNA profile thr...sion of microRNA and cancer. They have developed a technology that uses a bead-based miRNA capture method. In this process each individual bead will be marked wit...

It is possible to have stem cell based treatment for eye problems now

...lace any lost retinal cells by using the stem cell technology to create new retinal cells. Stem cells are undifferentiated cells that have the potential to regenerate self and develop into all types of specialized cells types that may form various types of cells of the tissue from which it was taken. Research...