Stem cell cure for peripheral vascular disease: New hope on the horizon
...ts’ own bodies to repair damaged blood vessels and grow new ones thus restoring blood flow and oxygen to damaged tissue. TheraVitae, Ltd, a private, multinational company focuses on using stem cells from the patient's own blood in order to treat a variety of disorders, especially cardiovascular diseases...Limb Regeneration In Humans: A Future Possibility
...le future generations to heal without scarring and grow their own replacement limbs. A research team at Ma...frogs retain the capacity and salamanders can even grow new tails and limbs when severed. According to Prof Amaya, humans most likely lose this perfect heal...United Kingdom Is Lagging In Novelty In The Field Of Pharmaceuticals
...experienced similar landslides it has been able to grow to higher proportion in the field of new biologics. This is not happening in the case of Europe. “The decline is real and is likely to get worse,” noted independent biotech consultant David Glover, former research director of Cambridge Antibody Techn...HIIP- A Novel Inhaled Insulin Delivery System As An Alternative To Injectable Insulin Therapy
The disease burden of diabetes continues to grow and currently affects more that 18 million Americans and their families. These data emphasize a need for alternative diabetes therapies with earlier more physiologic use of insulin.// The delivery of insulin by the lung may provide an attractive al...India to maintain Public domain Registry database of clinical trials conducted in India.
...on of Indian Industry has estimated that this will grow to $200 million in 2007 and between $500 million and $1 billion by 2010. Remarks: The Contract Research Organizations (CROs) found India an attractive destination, more than five CROs conducted 70 percent of the outsourced clinical trials worldwi...Plump Infants Getting Obese Later In Life In More Cases
...and later obesity.// Large infants, and those who grow rapidly during the first two years of life, are at increased risk of obesity in childhood and adulthood, a study reveals. There is an urgent need to tackle rising levels of obesity in the population. However it is not clear how early in life prevent...A Possible Cause Of Prostate Cancer Discovered
... to other parts of the body. Most prostate cancers grow very slowly and never cause symptoms or spread, but some prostate cancers can grow and spread quickly. The people most likely to get prostate cancer are men over age 50....DNA Identity Mix-Up In Bone Marrow Donors, And Miscarriages Of Justice Involved
...n Anchorage asserts that as forensic DNA databases grow and more people undergo bone marrow transplants, the risk of a miscarriage of justice increases. Until recently, bone marrow transplants involved destroying the patient's own bone marrow. In such cases their blood will contain the DNA profile of the...Teens not interested in early sleep
.... Researchers has found that as they children’s grow up they still don’t have the pressure of their parents who insist on them to go to bed early resulting in a reduction of chemically driven pressure leading to sleep building up more slowly. Study was conducted in 13 boys and girls between 10 and 16; ...Primrose oil reduces Breast cancer cell growth
...ivation of the receptors makes the cancer cells to grow and these patients do not respond effectively as negative receptors to chemotherapy and/or anti-estrogen therapy such as tamoxifen. It is found that the Drug Herceptin is effective in treating patients with Her-2/neu receptors. Researchers have now...Autism nothing more than an extreme form of male brain development
...derstanding of the disease process. Boys' brains grow more quickly than girls'. In the brains of people with autism, this growth appears to occur to an even more extreme degree. The findings are consistent with the fact that males generally have greater early growth of certain brain regions, and less he...Sugars Could Contain Key Cancer Inhibiting Compounds
...treatments, "Because adults don't normally need to grow new blood vessels, this discovery could lead to a highly specific and effective treatment for many types of cancer. However, this research is still at an early stage and it will be essential to develop these sugars further and test their actions in p...Scientists Seek New Ways To Grow Hair On Bald Pates
...ople can begin next year. He said follicles that grow from the transplanted cells should resist balding, because they come from a part of the head that balding doesn't touch. Ordinary hair transplants show that follicles from these resistant regions stay resistant even when planted in bald regions, he s...Sperm stem cells could be an alternative to embryonic stem cells in future
...udy was the development of a new culture medium to grow the cells and the incorporation of a tag, the gree...nipulate male germ-line stem cells and get them to grow and self-renew is a major step," said Dr. Garbers, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at...Novel Biological Pacemaker Under Construction for Weak Hearts
...skin. These construction blocks are much easier to grow and handle in the lb....Another Potential Of Stem Cells Discovered: Used For Growing Cartilage
...ially be able to take stem cells from the patient, grow them in a laboratory, and then transplant them aft...ioactive scaffold, which was used as a scaffold to grow the stem cells on. Dr Archana Vats, first author of the study, said: ‘The ability to gro...Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) Has An Answer Now!
...on. When PP2A isn't working properly, cancer cells grow uncontrolled. Earlier studies by Perrotti showed forskolin could restore PP2A function. In the current study, Perrotti and his research team tested the effects of forskolin on normal, Gleevec-sensitive and Gleevec-resistant CML cells, and discovered...Tamil Nadu To Undertake Stem Cell Research
...eart muscles, nerve cells and if primary cells can grow into specialized cells. "It is a matter of great prestige that the CMC has been selected for this important project. It will have far-reaching implications in the lives of people and it is a tribute to the staff of CMC and its vision to provide as...Infectious Diseases of the Wild to grow
...ls, such as SARS, Avian flu and AIDS are likely to grow as people travel more and have increased contact w... transportation. With world air travel expected to grow at about 5 percent a year for at least the next 20 years, the problem of emerging infectious disease......ll animal foods, their babies are born small, they grow very slowly and they are developmentally retarded, possibly permanently.'Her stand is that many nutrients can only be derived from consumption of animal foods. In a strongly worded statement she said, 'If you're talking about feeding young children,...