Beer guards against Colon Cancer
...ars to protect against colon cancer -- at least in laboratory rats. They found that it is the ingredients in beer, not the alcohol content, that offers protection against colon cancer. // Hajime Nozawa, a researcher with the Kirin Brewery Co. in Yokohama, Japan, said that researchers fed rats a diet that conta...Important substance in curry conciliate Inflamed Colon
According to a research, on laboratory animals, the curry spice turmeric may help reduce and even prevent inflammation of the intestines. The spice contains curcumin, a compound thought to be a potent anti-inflammatory agent effective in wound healing. Dr. Ken Sugimoto, of the department ...New treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis
...or RA as well. In a new study, researchers treated laboratory mice with endostatin for RA, and found the volume of new blood vessels, as well as inflammatory cells, was significantly decreased....Assisting stroke patients to recover balance
...ilkete and her colleagues at the Lyon neurological laboratory of INSERM the French medical research agency, gave wedge shaped spectacles with prismatic lenses to patients with postural problems. These made objects appear 10 degrees farther to the right or the left than they were. As expected, when the patient...... in cells would inhibit the infection by HIV,'' in laboratory work.The RNA interference process is a very new development in biological science and is quite exciting,'' he said. ``It will move out of the lab soon ... in the next several years.''......tient's family history be considered alongside the laboratory evidence for the presence of a cancer gene. This n...e problem of the test kits, and has concluded that laboratory evidence alone could be highly misleading....Stroke risk might be linked to antibody
...troke and 300 of the women had not. Using several laboratory tests, researchers found women with aPL antibodies were 1.65 times more likely to have a stroke. These results were obtained even after the researchers took into consideration the other major risk factors for stroke in the participants. Lead author R...... cancers: increase a patient's immune cells in the laboratory to recognize and fight the patient's own tumor, th...of skin cancer, melanoma, then exposed them in the laboratory to a small segment of the patient's tumor. The cells learned to recognize the tumor fragment as a fo...Implication of virus in colon cancer
...nfection and colon cancer. First, they report on laboratory studies that show how human cytomegalovirus (CMV) can disrupt normal cellular processes, leading to malignant growth, especially in the context of colon cancer. Then the researchers went on to test colon tumour samples for CMV. They looked at colorec...Beehives to curb dental caries
Now scientists are confirming in laboratory studies that one of the substance-propolis, a resinous product collected from beehives--may inhibit the development of tooth decay. Researchers at the University of Campinas, Brazil, found that propolis// considerably reduces dental plaque formation....Gene defect linked to dilated cardiomyopathy(DCM)
... also suffered severe damage to its heart. Further laboratory tests also showed that this defect disrupts the calcium pump in heart muscle cells. Scientists also found that people with this defect would suffer a chronic malfunction of calcium regulation in their heart muscle. Over time this would lead to heart ......hewing the researchers crushed raw broccoli in the laboratory and tested the results. Researchers said that broccoli obtained from common supermarket contains 20 per cent anti-carcinogenic kind of the sulphoraphanes. They also warned// that over-heating the green would reduced its cancer-fighting goodness. This......we call confirmed cases are only confirmed through laboratory tests and they are only between 60 and 65 per cent.... In Pune, four patients who had been confirmed by laboratory tests to be suffering from SARS were discharged from a Hospital Of Infectious Diseases this morning ......O. has received wide praise for organizingteams of laboratory scientists, epidemiologists andhealth officials from around the world immediatelyafter it declared SARS a global health risk on March12. The teams quickly identified the virus that W.H.O.believes causes SARS and the ways it can be spread. Yesterday, ...Key enzyme protects against Alzheimer's
... uncovered an unexpected cancer connection too. In laboratory studies, Lu noticed that the enzyme is over-expressed in human cancers, many of which are more common as people grow older. They believe it could be a link between the two types of age-related illnesses....Therapy Boosts Chemotherapy Effects
...atment with chemotherapy. Studies conducted in the laboratory show growth factors can increase the sensitivity of AML cells to chemotherapy, and a few small and uncontrolled studies in patients seem to back up this premise. However, large controlled studies have been lacking. In this study, investigators rando...Even mid-life diet change can extend life
...et and life in the journal Science dealt only with laboratory fruit flies, but researchers said some of the same effects may apply to mammals, perhaps even humans.// In the study, British researchers compared the effects of different calorie-restricted diets on the mortality of fruit flies. They found that fr...Stem cells grown into sperm cells
... The work is very preliminary, and was done in the laboratory with mouse stem cells. The next step would be to see if it can be repeated in live animals. The work was headed by Toshiaki Noce of Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute of Life Science in Japan. Noce and his team incubated the stem cells with other cells th......mage cells -- the cell membrane and the DNA." The laboratory study involved a type of DNA damage caused by a product of the COX-2 enzyme, which is known to play a role in inflammation and is blocked by aspirin and other drugs known as COX-2 inhibitors. Researchers took the damaged DNA molecule and inserted it ...