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Novel Delivery Method of Insulin Gene to Combat Juvenile Diabetes Developed

A safer method to deliver the insulin gene to diabetes patients u...nology to clinical use, the team developed a novel method to deliver the insulin gene to the target K-cells in the gut using nanoparticles. The nanoparticles ...

Gene Responsible for Blindness in Infants and Children Identified

...within a few months instead of several years. This method may become a model for identifying other retinal diseases and causes of blindness in the future, says Dr. Koenekoop, who is also associate professor in Ophthalmology and Human Genetics at McGill University. The same international research team iden...

"Pre-treatment Blood Test" A New Guide to Lung Cancer Therapy

...ent of lung cancer patients, but there has been no method for identifying these patients prior to treatment,...to benefit (poor) from the TKIs, Carbone said. The method was highly successful in predicting a survival benefit. In the gefitinib-treated group, patients cla...

New Insights into Antimalarial Drug Resistance

...i Comprehensive Cancer Center, employed an unusual method to construct the PfMDR1 gene. They first obtained the PfMDR1 protein sequence from the NIH PubMed data base. They then back translated the protein sequence using a computer program to change the parasite gene sequence -- which combines nucleotid...

Love Drug may Help to Bridge the Gap Between the Couples

...ing sessions. "We think oxytocin may offer a new method to enhance treatment rates," Guastella told The Australian newspaper. "If couples get their points across more effectively in the therapy room it could lead to long-term benefits."...

NASA Technology Helps Detect and Treat Heart Disease and Strokes

...e used in ArterioVision. "This is such a precise method of examining the carotid artery. It can distinguish between 256 shades of gray at a subpixel level," Selzer said. "You need that kind of detail to help catch heart disease as early as you can, often before there are any outward symptoms." During th...

Super Fruit Fly may Harbor Hope for Human Longevity

...ourselves, he added. Secondly, Roberts said, the method used by his research team to make the inhibiting p...t of new therapeutics. The study describes a new method for blocking receptors involved in aging and disease across many species, including humans. Recept...

Lack of Sun Does Not Explain Low Vitamin D in Elderly Who are Overweight

... dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA), a precise method for determining body composition. Individuals were grouped into quartiles of percent body fat: less than 28 percent, 28 percent to 33 percent, 34 percent to 40 percent, and greater than 40 percent. Blood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D were measured an...

Combination of Brain Scans, Reading Skill Tests can Predict Kids Reading Problems

...ldren, the researchers analysed the images using a method called voxel-based morphometry that uses the densi...sure of decoding. And it was determined which test method (either or both) predicted reading skill more strongly. Researchers found that the model combining...

Anti-smoking Ads at the Movies Doesnt Make Any Impact on Smokers

...ch the lead character smokes is not as effective a method as campaigners hope, for the only people such adverts really reduce the appeal of smoking to , are non-smokers. And, the news comes from a study that appears in the June issue of the journal Tobacco Control. The study was carried on 3,000 cinemag...

Lack of Sleep Affects Eye-steering Coordination Needed While Driving

... of eye-steering coordination may provide a useful method of detecting when a driver is in danger of losing control of a vehicle due to fatigue, before the driver actually falls asleep," said Chattington. Experts recommend that adults get between seven and eight hours of sleep each night to maintain good ...

Research Shows How Women Deal With the Stress When Trying for a Baby!

...out finding a solution that will suit them. Each method of coping also comes with its own unique timetable for taking action. The panickers look for answers as soon as they can while the decisives wait for up to six months to see what happens and the ostrichs can delay for as long as a year. Commenting on...

Indo-American Develops Model Linking Human Activity to Climate Change

...Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. If, however, our method says the events at the two locations are completely dependent, then the simultaneous occurrence remains a 100-year event overall, he said. "Once we understand the nature of these connections our hope is that we will be able to determine if there i...

Look Out for ICE in Emergency Situations

...is catching up quickly. It is simple, an important method of contact during emergency situations. As cell phones are carried by majority of the population, just store the number of a contact person or person who should be contacted at during emergency as ICE. The idea was thought up by a paramedic who fo...

Parkinsons Disease can Be Predicted by Metabolic Pathway

...t effects. Dr. Maraganore compares the change in method to the difference between gazing at faint stars with a telescope versus looking at the Milky Way with the naked eye. Instead of straining to observe the effects of single DNA variants scattered randomly across the universe of the human genome, we obs...

Recent Research Holds Wealth of Promise to Bone Marrow Patients

...ffected. Further testing and research of this new method is required before it can be employed, researchers said. SAV/B...

Unprotected Sex Among the Gays on the Rise

...their partner’s HIV Status. This is the prevention method used rather than use protection to prevent// catching the disease. The risky behavior of unprotected sex is a sure way of transmitting the virus, which is on the rise. In Britain, more than third of the gays are infected with HIV virus and they con...

A New Pill to Burn Away Unwanted Fat

...ting on the work, he said: "There has never been a method to 'medically' switch on fat burning before. "The finding that PPAR-delta co-ordinates this process, not only by switching on fat burning, but also to rebuild the muscle in a way making it more fit for fat burning, is of major interest, not least ...

New Blood Test to Diagnose Parkinson Disease

Researchers in Melbourne have found a breakthrough method of blood test to diagnose Parkinson disease. This test is done by measuring the proteins //in blood much before the symptoms arrive. The test is done by a team of Howard Florey Institute, Mental Health Research Institute and Melbourne University spec...

New Mechanism Identified for Resistance to Targeted Lung Cancer Drugs

...nt with both agents did induce cell death. "This method of reactivating the EGFR signalling pathway with MET may be a common resistance mechanism in other therapies that target receptors of the ERBB family, which are used against breast cancer, colon cancer, head and neck cancer, and the brain tumor gliob...

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