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Alcohol Does Not Destroy Brain Cells

...sor Perry Bartlett, the notion that heavy drinking destroys large sections of brain cell function similar to a napalm bomb strike, is erroneous. The research, presented to a conference of the world's top neuroscientists, claims that there is no evidence that drinking alcohol directly leads to the death of c...

New Genetic Clue to Type 1 Diabetes

...e. Type 1 diabetes occurs when the immune system destroys cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, the hormone that regulates blood glucose. It is also called "juvenile" or "childhood" diabetes, because it often emerges in a patient's early years. The research led by Hakon Hakonarson, of the Children...

UK Hospital Performs Heart Surgery Using Robotic Arm

...ecific areas of heart muscle. The electric current destroys tiny portions of heart tissue which cause an abnormal heartbeat. With the Sensei robot, surgeons use a joystick on a computer console to more accurately position and control the wires, which often need to be placed in locations that are difficult ...

Now, Store Your Body's Immune System for Future Use Against Deadly Diseases

...he patient"In the case of HIV, which progressively destroys immune cells, the process could be repeated perhaps once a year, by multiplying up and re-storing fractions of the samples," DelaRonde said. However, it might not be possible to generate all the white blood cells, for some types of white blood cell,...

Stem Cells Aid in Hearing Recovery

...drug-induced hearing loss. This model specifically destroys cochlear fibrocytes and leads to acute hearing loss. Although partial recovery occurs over many weeks, high-frequency hearing remains extremely diminished. Using this system, the investigators examined whether direct administration of stem cells i...

No More Smelly Feet With Bamboo Socks

...than cotton, and contains a natural substance that destroys smell-making bacteria. Asda plans to sell the socks for less than 2 pounds, and is planning to use it in knickers, T-shirts, sheets and towels. "We believe that fabric made from bamboo will become one of the biggest fashion trends over the next...

Honey, I Shrunk The Abscess!

...ion and offset the final blow of amputation. Honey destroys bacteria due to its acidic nature. The therapy was experimented on a 79-year-old diabetic patient who had a severe abscess that was not responding to any of the conventional treatments. When all treatment measures had failed, honey helped in healin...

AIDS Vaccine Still a Long Way Off

...ls, which regulate the immune response, and slowly destroys them. Researchers rapidly identified the molecule that grants HIV entry into those cellsa surface protein called gp120, which inserts itself into CD4 receptor molecules on the helper cells. Early tests of a gp120 vaccine looked promising, but opti...

Scientists Activate New Cancer Drug Using Light and Oxygen

... works to produce a reactive form of oxygen, which destroys only the cells that have been marked by the cancer-fighting drug, thereby sparing other normal healthy neighboring cells. The process really is about controlling the drugs ability to produce this reactive form of oxygen, explains Dr. Zheng. For th...

Study Refutes Theory on HIV's Effect on White Blood Cells

...refore theyve been unable to fully explain why HIV destroys the bodys supply of these cells at such a slow rate," said Jaroslav Stark, Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London. "Our new interdisciplinary research has thrown serious doubt on one popular theory of how HIV affects these cells, and m...

Vaccine Hope for Malaria

...gnises the parasite and, together with antibodies, destroys it. In trials the team showed that human antibodies given to the mice protected them from the parasite. The team, who were funded by the Medical Research Council and the European Union, are now hoping to refine the model with a view to starting th...

First-Ever Robotic Pancreatectomy Performed at UIC

...the pancreas, is a life-threatening condition that destroys the pancreas and often results in severe abdominal pain, weight loss, fever, nausea, vomiting and, in some cases, cancer. Gallstones, a combination of environmental and hereditary factors or heavy alcohol use can cause the disease. Sometimes the caus...

New Insights into Antimalarial Drug Resistance

...ug works by preventing heme crystallization, which destroys the parasite by building up toxic levels of non crystalline heme. But because of the overuse of chloroquine, isolates of P. falciparum from around the globe have developed genetic mutations that make them resistant to that drug as well as other s...

World Largest Hair Congress Convene in Vancouver

...ry from cicatricial alopecia, a rare disorder that destroys the hair follicle and replaces it with scar tissue, and alopecia areata, an autoimmune skin disease resulting in hair loss, to more common disorders such as male pattern hair loss and women who have too much hair. Session topics include chemotherapy-...

Genes Responsible for a Blinding Condition Identified

... is a disease associated with aging that gradually destroys sharp, central vision. Central vision is needed for seeing objects clearly and for common daily tasks such as reading and driving. AMD affects the macula, the part of the eye that allows you to see fine detail. AMD causes no pain, though. In som...

Dining Out is Risky for Food-allergic Consumers

...mount of allergen is safe (24 percent); fryer heat destroys allergens (35 percent); and, removal of an allergen from a finished meal was safe (25 percent). Food allergy registries indicate that reactions in restaurants accounted for up to 25 percent of accidental exposures in persons with peanut and tree nu...

HIV/AIDS- Possible Cure From Within

...racting just one of its 20 protein building blocks destroys its ability. The report published in the journal Cell, describes how the scientists increased the anti-viral potency a hundred fold by just changing two amino acids in the sequence. As of now, the licensed manufacturing company VIRO Pharmaceutica...

Stem Cells Provide New Tool for Studying Disease and Identifying ALS Drugs

...a fatal neurodegenerative disease that selectively destroys motor neurons, messenger cells responsible for virtually all voluntary movement. Until now, scientists have not known whether motor neurons in ALS die because of a problem within the cell—or from outside the cell. The study by Eggan's group describ...

Arsenic in Chicken Feed may Cause Health Complications

...loyed in chicken feed assists in enhancing growth, destroys parasites and perks up the pigmentation of chicken meat. In its pure form roxarsone may not cause much harm. The same compound under certain anaerobic conditions gets transformed into toxic forms of arsenic. Arsenic is known to cause cancer of the lu...

Stem Cell Therapy Shows Promise for Rescuing Deteriorating Vision

...neration, an age-related affliction that gradually destroys central vision, is a scourge of old age, robbing people of the ability to read, recognize faces and live independently. The finding that the brain cells protected the cells in the eye was a surprise, according to Raymond D. Lund, an author of the ...

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