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To Patent or Not-A Question of Life

... of people stranded without life saving drugs. In defense Novartis says that patents enable income needed for drug research and production. The company says that AIDS affected persons soon grow resistant to antiretroviral drugs and newer ones need to be developed. This needs money and that can be derived th...

Molecular Link Between Inflammation and Cancer Discovered

...nking chronic inflammation and cancer.” Cellular defense is a rapid process compared to cellular developmen...referred to the parallel sets of steps in cellular defense and development as “mirror image pathways.” His team showed that these pathways are not distinct fro...

Are We Prepared for Flu Pandemic?

...e population to preventive measures and ensuring a defense until the vaccine arrives. As Dr. Morse pointed out the often-neglected area between the protection of persons and the community is what he called the “excluded middle”—public buildings, work places, shopping areas and homes. Immediate attention sh...

Understanding Autoimmune Disease

...m is often described as a kind of military unit, a defense network that guards the body from invaders. Seen in this way, a group of white blood cells called T cells are the frontline soldiers of immune defense, engaging invading pathogens head on. These T cells are commanded by a second group of cells call...

Advantage, Obese Men!!

...o is leading this research disclosed that nutrient defense may aid patients suffering from cardiac problems. JYT...

Researchers Explore the Effect of Engineered Immune Cells on HIV

...pletely new way of manipulating the body's natural defense system. "Rather than focusing on conventional vaccines that boost the immune system, we are experimenting with a way to help the immune system produce antibodies that can neutralize the virus," says Wang. "If we can design a modified virus that wil...

Lethal Staphylococcus can Be Fatal to Pneumonia Patients

...aged lung tissue and immune system. As a part of defense mechanism, washing hands and following a stringent hygiene programme would come in handy to combat this bacterial attack. JY...

Drawing Parallels to H5N1 Virus and a 1918 Flu Virus

...exhibited a strange type of reaction //wherein the defense mechanism of the body itself proved counter productive to the person affected. American researchers reconstructed this virus in a laboratory condition on seven macaque monkeys. The lungs of the monkeys were damaged within a week. A rush of body flu...

Dual Gene Therapy Suppresses Lung Cancer in Preclinical Test

... form of cholesterol to protect it from the body's defense mechanisms. 'You can't deliver naked DNA for cancer therapy,' Ji says. The nanoparticles accumulate mainly in the lungs, particularly in the tumors, Ji says. The positively charged nanoparticles are delivered to the negatively charged cancer cell m...

In Search of Truth - 'Lie Detector

...class, creed and color. It is generously used as a defense weapon to save trouble, either with the law enforcers or with any figure of authority. Most of us lie and indulge in deception at some stage of our life, even if it is only in complimenting the looks of a person who is having a ‘bad hair day’! Many ...

Genetically Altered Cells Prevent Lethal Infections in Substituted Skin

...t exist throughout the body as part of its natural defense system. Researchers have only recently begun targe...ed skin substitutes, it would provide an important defense system boost during the initial grafting period, when the skin is most susceptible to infection," ex...

Health Claim from FDA Promotes Dairy Products to Fight Osteoporosis Risk

...ng bones in kids and teens, and providing the best defense against developing osteoporosis later in life," says Frank Greer, MD, FAAP (Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics), chairman of the AAP Committee on Nutrition. "While calcium supplements and non-dairy foods such as calcium-fortified beverages ...

Glaucoma: Silently Stealing Sight from Millions

... expected to double in the next decade. The best defense against glaucoma is detecting it early, said Andrew Iwach, MD, Academy spokesperson. “Knowing you have glaucoma is one of the most important factors in treating the disease and preventing vision loss,” he said. “So many people are losing their sigh...

3 –D Image of Influenza Virus – A Definite Breakthrouh

...y infect the human body, as well as understand the defense offered by the human body. Says Dr Stephen I. Katz, NIAMS Director,” Being able to visualize influenza virus particles should boost our efforts to prepare for a possible pandemic flu attack. This work will allow us to ‘know our enemy’ much better." ...

Scientists Come Up With A Powerful Weapon To Fight Drug Resistant Bacteria

... two different types of weapons used by the innate defense systems of organisms, and is hence more effective. The first is a "magnetic" weapon - a natural antibiotic produced by all organisms. Because these antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are positively charged, they are attracted to the bacteria's negative...

Unfolded Proteins May Protect Cells from Dying

...ve therapy. 'When it comes to avoiding cancer or defense against virally infected cells, cell death is a good thing,' says Steller. 'But when cells are stressed, and as a result are dying too easily, blocking the pathways that lead to the activation of cell death would be an ideal way to fight disease. Usi...

Underground Air - Associated With - DNA Damages

...r a powerful inflammatory response (i.e. a general defense reaction in the body). Levels of these particles are particularly high in the spring, when road surfaces dry out and cars are still fitted with studded winter tyres. "It’s a serious problem, as these particles exist in large concentrations in envi...

GGC - A New Ingredient To Fight Ageing

...ial health benefits. Glutathione is the body's key defense for detoxifying harmful compounds implicated in cancer, diabetes, aging and other diseases and degenerative conditions. After nine years in development, UNSW researchers Dr Wallace Bridge and Dr Martin Zarka have established a new, cost-effective p...

Researchers Discover Internal Compass of Immune Cells

...y roles// in inflammation and in the body’s immune defense against bacteria – navigate to sites of infection and inflammation. These findings could potentially lead to new treatments for serious infections and inflammatory diseases in patients. The research, reported in the December 15, 2006 issue of the jo...

Study Explains How NSAIDs Halt Cancer Growth

...sue damage, acute inflammation serves as a natural defense to guard against injury or infection.However, in cases of chronic inflammation – for example, inflammatory bowel disease – certain signaling pathways that modulate the inflammatory processes become “stuck” in an activated state. Among other outcomes,...

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