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New Cancer Drug Hits the Mark

...cancer drug is being hailed by researchers for its ability to target cancer cells and keep them from multiplying//. The drug being called ON01910 works by interfering with a molecule known as Plk1, which cancer cells need in order to divide and multiply. This molecule is found in higher numbers in cancerous...

Fungal Infections Effectively Controlled By Light Therapy

...uired for light sensing does not contribute to the ability of the fungus to cause infection. However, surprisingly it contributes to the rapidity with which the fungus causes life threatening infection in the host. It is therefore conceivable that light could be used as a therapy for fungal infections, parti...

Traffic Smoke May Damage DNA

...esses and suggest ways to control the damage. The ability to control DNA damage varies from person to person and how to go about it may need extensive study regarding the genetic and nutritional information of the patients....

Gene Therapy To Treat Deafness

...cells in the inner ear may restore partial hearing ability of the deaf mammals, say a recent study// published in Nature Medicine. Scientists are of the opinion that viral vector found in a developmental regulatory gene called Atoh1 can be used to encourage new hairs to grow in the cochleae of the inner e...

Exercise can improve functional limitation of arthritis patients

...ith arthritis. Functions, which were checked, were ability to do tasks pertaining to daily living and specialized activities of daily living that involved rigorous activities. Account was taken of other factors as well like health, behavior patterns, economic factors. The results showed that the functional...

New medicine for ovarian cancer

...spread the cancer. The drug also reduces the cells ability to get nourishment from the blood vessels by a process called angiogenesis. The new drug is a derivative of an immuno-suppressant drug called rapamycin. Cancer in humans includes a high level of activity of an enzyme called AKT. This enzyme control...

Promising cure for West Nile Virus

...eated have certain disadvantages like their varied ability to fight the disease, etc....

Compound from cottonseed for neck and head cancers

... Surgeries on such cases have proved to affect the ability of the patient to talk, swallow or breathe. The newly effective compound from the cottonseed oil has been able to kill carcinogenic cells to a success rate of 70% to 90%. The treated cell cultures of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma with gossyp...

Early identification of autism possible

...mmunicative skills, social interactive skills, and ability to develop any interest. Autism is said to stem from neuro-developmental abnormalities. The results of the study showed that by 12 months of age, infants who were later diagnosed with autism may be different from the other infants in a number of res...

New gene therapy for Alzheimer’

...ain symptoms of the disease are decreasing memory, ability to reason, creative abilities and learning powers. One of the main features of this disease is the destruction of cholinergic neurons. The new trials target a genetic change in the nerve growth factor. Nerve growth factor (NGF) stimulates cholinergi...

People suffering from Alzheimer’s: can they take decisions about their treatment

... had used Mini-Mental State Examination, cognitive ability rating scale to help predict the decision-making abilities of 48 patients suffering from mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease. ...

New info about Huntington's disease found

...ase is a genetic disorder that slowly destroys the ability of the person to think or move on his own. Early symptoms of the disease may be depression, mood swings, forgetfulness, and inability to concentrate or remember. In severe condition, the person is unable to take care of himself, and may die of infect...

New technology to decipher neural connections dealing with heredity and environment

...ntal lobe. It is a well-known fact that the human ability to behave in any situations appropriately, also called cognitive control, resides in the pre frontal lobe of the brain. This are develops more slowly and only reaches maturity when human beings reach adolescence. The research is published in the cu...

Scientists reveal the secrets of sarcasm

... scientists from Israel, had experimented with the ability to understand sarcasm by giving their study participants stories dealing with sarcasm and normal dialogues. The study participation consisted of 25 participants with prefrontal-lobe damage, 16 participants with posterior-lobe damage and 17 healthy co...

New ways developed to understand dyslexia

... sight from the ‘noise’ that seems to affect their ability to perceive correctly. Using a new approach, researchers had tried to find out if the two types of visual sensations of dyslexic children are indeed affected, as claimed by previous studies. Their experiments with magnocellular (M) pathway that pro...

Air pollution to affect diabetes patients’ cardiovascular risks

...ays the air contains more pollutant particles, the ability of the blood vessels to control blood flow gets impaired in diabetic people. Impaired vascular reactions in diabetic patients are known to cause higher rate of hospitalizations and death from cardiovascular problems for diabetic patients. Research...

Exercising is good for you at all ages

...ifestyle can reduce the rapid deterioration of the ability to move for the elderly people. The research done was a pert of the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study that followed the health of 3075 people in the age group of 70 and 79 years olds for a periodof seven years....

New protein found that could slow pancreatic cancer

...opeful of finding a procedure that will affect the ability of the Smad7 protein from affecting the retinoblastoma proteins. The new research also sets the pathway for developing drugs that will target on increasing the function of retinoblastoma proteins that will remain unaffected in the face of attack from...

Gum inflammation increases the risk of Alzheimer’

...ain symptoms of the disease are decreasing memory, ability to reason, creative abilities and learning powers. Researchers had studied identical twins in finding out the risk of Alzheimer’s, as previous studies have established that Alzheimer’s disease may be hereditary by nature. They had measured the incid...

Acrolein may be the key to halting spinal cord damage

...ible." When a spine is damaged, the change in its ability to function follows a well-defined pattern. In response to the initial shock, the spine immediately becomes completely nonfunctional but then starts to recover quickly. Over the course of the next few days, in response to the secondary damage, the sp...

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