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New Inhalation Anthrax Vaccine

...an anthrax recombinant protective antigen (rPA), a genetically engineered protein. Researchers say the powdered formula is more stable than the injected liquid version and can withstand wider temperature extremes, in more extreme conditions without refrigeration. The vaccine has not yet been tested in humans, b...

The Link Between Weight Loss and Heart Failure

... angiotensin-related weight loss in mice that were genetically engineered to produce more than the normal amount of IGF-1. Thus researchers believe these findings can be used to help develop new treatments for congestive heart failure and other wasting conditions....

New Oral Medication That Could Arrest Autoimmune Diseases In its early Stages

...that can destroy insulin-producing cells in people genetically predisposed to develop type 1 diabetes. In a more recent study, researchers used diabetes-prone rats to test the effectiveness of a zonulin inhibitor peptide called AT-1001. The peptide prevented diabetes from developing in the vast majority of anim...

Sleep cycles may be related to metabolism

...he hormone ghrelin in the hypothalamus of the mice genetically changed had caused them to be active when the rest of the species sleep. The gene that was modified in the mice were called the clock gene and these mice had showed a new setoff behavior patters like increased hunger, and physiological manifestatio...

In Search Of A New Drug To Target Cholesterol

...o the deadly plaque. After studying mice who were genetically altered not to produce ACAT2 researchers came to the conclusion that the mice had 85-percent less hardening of the arteries than mice who still produced the enzyme. When the normal mice were given a molecule known to block the effects of ACAT2, the s...

Grandmother’s diet in pregnancy can affect grandchildren’s blood sugr

...effects of intrauterine environments can be passed genetically from mother to daughter to next generation of offspring’s, especially the expression of several chronic diseases like obesity and diabetes. During the study, scientists have exposed first generation of female rats to a protein-restricted diet during...

In Search Of A New Drug To Target Cholesterol

...o the deadly plaque. After studying mice who were genetically altered not to produce ACAT2 researchers came to the conclusion that the mice had 85-percent less hardening of the arteries than mice who still produced the enzyme. When the normal mice were given a molecule known to block the effects of ACAT2, the s...

Virus to treat brain tumor

...rough their genetic code carried in their RNA. The genetically muted VSV strain had also been created that it cannot replicate itself while affecting the brain tumor cells. Researchers feel that non-replication may only lead to a few tumor cells being killed. Hence more research is required to make the virus af...

Fish is good for Alzheimer's patients

...abeled the same. The researchers, who had created genetically altered mice with Alzheimer's disease, had fed rats with diet rich in DHA. When compared against the rats with the disease and without the fortified diet, rats that were fed food with DHA had a 70% less build up of amyloid protein in their brain. Thi...

New insight for neuro-degenerative diseases discovered

...l prion proteins work. Researchers have observed genetically engineered mice producing prion protein without a glycophosphoinositol (GPI) cell membrane anchor that did not show the symptoms of scrapie disease when inoculated with scrapie prion protein. These mice had developed plaques in their brain, similar t...

Hope for Marburg treatment: vaccine successful in primates

...se vesicular stomatitis in the farm animals. After genetically modifying the virus to make it harmless, inoculations of the live virus makes the human bodies to identify the protein coverings of the virus and makes them fight the virus of Ebola and Marburg. The scientists had been able to successfully test the v...

New insight for skin cancer discovered

...le to generate human skin tissues, which have been genetically altered to express skin cancer//. The researchers for the study feel that this will provide them with new insight in the oncogenic potential of genes in development of skin cancer. Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer that results from the ...

New Race –Specific drug

...ve the controversy over// whether black people are genetically different from whites. BiDil, a drug combination for treating heart failure, has proved three times more effective in black patients than it has for their white counterparts, its manufacturer claims. If approved by the FDA, it wouldbe the first dru...

Infants at lower risk from digestive disease if introduced to cereal early

...have less chances of happening to children who are genetically more susceptible to this disease who are exposed to gluten containing food like cereals at the age of 4 months onwards than the children who are introduced to cereals at any other than during 4-6 months. Gluten-sensitive enteropathy is a disease tha...

Scientist discover secrets of ageing

...rring mutations. Researchers who had worked with genetically engineered mice that ages faster, have said that the symptoms of aging is more emphatic in some critical cells that are adult stem cells and hence are required for replacing the dying cells. This may lead to impairment of the regeneration process of ...

MicroRNA provides new insight into birth defects

...The researchers of UF Genetics Institute have used genetically modified mice to see how the microRNAs are responsible for the physiological growth of animals. When the mice were grown without the microRNA molecules they grew to be malformed and with nonfunctional limbs. MicroRNA (miRNA) are small RNA molecules ...

New Insight To The Role Of Peptide Signals

...al behaviors of animals. In their experiments with genetically controlled mice they had showed that the effects of the endogenous alpha-MSH are quite evident in the sexual behaviors of the mice. The researchers also conclude that there is a system in which the alpha-MSH generating neurons play an important part ...

Arsenic May Have Been Responsible For The Madness Of King George III Of England

...arsenic would exacerbate attacks of porphyria in a genetically predisposed individual. King George III was diagnosed to have suffered from Porphyria- a genetic defect leading to the faulty synthesis of a protein. However during his regime he suffered from five major episodes of prolonged and profound mental der...

New Discovery May Help Treat Infertility

... did not improve ovulation rates in mice that were genetically engineered to lack estrogen receptor beta. The estrogen receptor beta is one of two estrogen receptor proteins which mediate the effects of estrogen hormones and are present throughout the female reproductive tissues. The new data indicates that this...

Possibility Of Treatment For Permanent Hearing Loss

...lel studies with animals. The researchers gave a genetically deafened mouse interfering RNA that specifically prevents a gene from being expressed that would otherwise cause deafness. By preventing its expression, they had been able to prevent the deafness. Even at this early stage, the results are important f...

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