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Heart can repair itself after heart attack

...d back to stem cells.// This finding raises hope that it may be possible one day to induce cardiac stem cells to migrate to a damaged area of the heart to repair it with new cells. Dr. Anversa speculated that this could also be used to treat other condition that lead to heart failure through tissue...

Fight oral cancer with gene therapy mouthwash

...y have partially cleared up in others. The doctors hope to test the approach in 20 patients. If that goes will, the next step will be experimental treatment in people with especially severe cases of precancerous patches, as well as those who already have had mouth cancer and risk recurrence. This s...

OCT - Optical Coherence Tomography - the buzzword in cardiology

...letely clogged vessels, thereby bringing cheer and hope to millions around the world....

AIDS research and genetics...

... But till anything substantial happens lets hope the new approach to control HIV/AIDS works. It is early days yet. ...

DNA and clones

... be sufficient to stuff genes into the nucleus and hope for the best," said Dr Walter. "We may need to think about targeting them to specific environments within the nucleus. We need to think of the genome not just as a linear DNA sequence but as a three-dimensional structure."The results may also have ap...

Revolution in surgery

A pioneering procedure offers the hope of a less painful technique than traditional heart bypasses. Doctors in Germany succeeded in turning a vein into an artery to bypass a blockage in the heart of a 53-year-old patient. The operation works a little like redirecting traffic. The blood is...

New Anthrax Vaccines Will Take time

...oxin those bacteria produce in people's blood. The hope is that immune globulin would neutralize the toxin....

Innovative yeast genome may handle Cancer Clues

... all the genes in a second type of yeast that they hope will provide new insights into basic cell biology ...er and simpler genome of fission yeast, scientists hope to discover new clues about cells and how diseases like cancer develop in humans. "Many decisions th...

Antibiotic, Gene Therapy Help Treat Angina

...ngioplasty or bypass surgery. Ultimately, we would hope to use similar techniques to prevent heart attacks and stroke."...

A vaccine for lymphoma

...to mop up any cells which are left over. "We would hope to see an immune response quite early, but it will be a long time before we know the final outcome." It is hoped that the treatment can be refined and extended to other cancers of the blood - including myeloma and myeloid leukaemia....

Heart grows new cells

...ced back to stem cells. This finding raises hope that it may be possible one day to induce cardiac stem cells to migrate to a damaged area of the heart to repair it with new cells. Dr. Anversa speculated that this could also be used to treat other condition that lead to heart failure through tissue...

Breakthrough in Type II Diabetes

...Type 2 diabetes at their later age. Let us hope that future collaborations between the Yale and University of Pennsylvania research teams will result in further understanding the disease. "This is the future of how we will come to understand the pathology of diabetes."...

Perfect babies boon or a bane?

...g parents with inheritable diseases hold out great hope for IGM technology, which offers them the possibility of avoiding passing diseases such as Huntington’s Disease and schizophrenia on to their children.// However, the report warns that IGM could be used not only to treat inheritable diseases, but to...

Research on HIV takes new direction

A new ray of hope in AIDS research. A new set of anti-viral compound...important direction for HIV research, Tor said. We hope these compounds can inhibit the interactions that allow the HIV to spread. This area is still in the...

Stem cells form blood vessels

... organs, bone, skin and other tissues. Researchers hope to direct the transformation of such cells to treat ailing hearts, livers, brains and other organs. Langer said his team cultured the cells in such a way that they were allowed to develop into the various types of cells that are precursors to mature...

Malignant virus in polio vaccine combined to Cancer

...cientists added that their findings may also offer hope for new therapies for the malignancies. The Salk polio vaccine, administered by injection in the United States and worldwide from 1950 through 1960, was grown on minced kidney tissue from rhesus monkeys. At the time, the manufacturing process was co...

Chemo may not assist in fighting cancer

...hemotherapy followed by tamoxifen offered the best hope of disease-free survival. Tamoxifen works by blocking the action of estrogen, a hormone that can promote the growth of cancer cells. Richard D. Gelber, a biostatistician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston hopes that, this study will quest...

A man who lost both of his arms in an accident

...rmed on Sullivan is limited to amputated arms. The hope is that one day it can be applied to other limbs as well. Sullivan said the experimental surgery was worth the uncertainty at first if it can help others later."If this benefits another person then it is well worth it," Sullivan said. "And it has be...

CT Scans Said to Accurately Detect Small Cancers

...c scans and procedures. Thus researchers say they hope that MDCTU can become the first and only imaging test used for evaluating high-risk patients with urinary system symptoms, and that it will soon allow patients everywhere to get accurate early diagnoses that might improve their outcomes....

Advances In Stem Cells Research

...ey grow well, and are easy to handle.” Researchers hope that sharing the cells will speed up the pace of scientific discoveries. ...

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