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The negative advancement

...ing lamps and many types of skin cancer like basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma. Researchers from the Dartmouth Medical School in the US interviewed almost ...

Broccoli's role against cancer

...ts studied sulphoraphane’s effects on a variety of cell types and oxidants in laboratory experiments, they report in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Sulphoraphane is particularly abundant in three-day-old broccoli sprouts. <br...

Immune cells halt round in space

An immune cell swallows a small capsule-shaped bacteria. The immune cells which help protect us from disease does not generally work the way they should in space travellers and it could be something to do with their shape. Researchers at NASA's Johnson Space Cente...

Zinc may enhance growth in Young sickle cell patients

Sickle cell disease, sometimes called sickle cell anemia, is a hereditary condition that causes red blood cells to become sickle-shaped, which makes i...

WBC linked with periodontitis

...arch has established that a decreased white blood cell function can lead to early-onset periodontal disease, or aggressive periodontitis.The scientists showed that at six weeks of age the// genetically engineered mice had lost 27 percent of their alveolar bone whereas the normal mice had no bone loss. T...

Prototype Detector detects Anthrax Quickly

...Fatty acids are found in all living organisms with cell membranes. Analyses of gases driven from the bacte...immediately vaporizes the fatty acids in anthrax’s cell walls to create the FAME that form a unique fingerprint of the bacteria. The wafted gases are distin...

Tomato Sauce reduces Cancer Risk- Study

...as is done to make spaghetti sauce, may break down cell walls of the fruit and allow the body to absorb more lycopene....

Pain Killers Keep the Virus Away

...cox-2 inhibitor, the number of virus copies in the cell fell more than 100-fold. "There's a significant block there in the virus production," says Thomas....

Scientists found ancient Human Germ Killer

...he mutation appeared. Next they added it to human cell cultures in a laboratory dish and exposed the cell...`I have to emphasize that these things are done in cell culture,'' Cole said last week. ``We're a long way from putting these things into humans. We are not...

Failure of Drug-Coated Stent

...ive of the cancer drug paclitaxel - which inhibits cell division - failed to keep blood vessels open in the majority of a small group of patients, resulting in heart attacks in 3 cases. In angioplasty, a balloon-tipped catheter is threaded into a blocked artery and inflated, flattening fatty plaques agai...

Early Warning System For Breast Cancer

...me involved in changing the internal skeleton of a cell - changes that allow a cell to polarize or move. That ability is important in muscle cells, which produce a lot of RhoC. But in ...

A question on study of Adult Stem Cell

...onic stem cells, whose ability to sprout different cell types has spawned debate between those who think s...m cells taken from one tissue can directly produce cell types of other tissues and organs.// It may be that this capability, revealed in recent research, ma...

Attacking therapy with electricity

The holes in the cell membranes which is being punched by electrical pul...he difficulty of getting drug molecules in through cell membranes. Researchers in San Diego, California, have been developing a new way of delivering drugs ...

How brain works

...aid the release of neurotransmitter from one nerve cell to another. When a human or other animal has any...nsmitter filled balloons and release them from one cell to another, he stated. Jorgensen said the research was aimed at understanding how the brain works...

Avacado protects from liver damage

...tance that causes liver damage by interfering with cell synthesis and results in cell death. The rats fed the avocado obtained the least amount of liver damage. The Researchers discover...

Stem Cell Transplants May Be Effective For MS Patients

...nt this treatment, which is called autologous stem cell transplantation. Their results were followed for a...ultiple treatments with no success. After the stem cell transplant, 24 patients were stable, with no change in their amount of disability. Seven patients sh...

Cell transplants used to fend off Parkinson's symptoms

...ses. This is the first human intracerebral retinal cell implantation study in the world and we are encouraged by the results so far. In the implantation procedure, doctors use brain imaging to select specific sites to deposit the cells. Then they pass needles through the forehead and top of the skull to ...

Plavix Gets FDA Okay for New Indication

...x reduces the "stickiness" of platelets, a type of cell that plays a key role in blood clot formation. It is usually given in addition to aspirin. To get FDA approval for acute coronary syndrome, Bristol-Myers submitted data from a trial that was published in The New England Journal of Medicine. In that ...

Compressed DNA aids gene patients

...ay allow the modified genes to slip right into the cell nucleus.A single strand of DNA contains a complete...methods involve using viruses - which "infect" the cell and pass on the new genes that way, or encasing the DNA in fatty globules called liposomes, which ar...

Clotting Protein plays a role in nerve repair

... the brain and spinal cord, while a second type of cell has at least "limited capacity" to repair myelin in the brain. According to him, fibrin has two effects on the repair process. As it does in other types of injury, the protein helps stop bleeding, he said. But fibrin also helps choreograph the repai...

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