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An Anti-cancer Smart Bomb delivered using a Nanocell

...tastasis and other self-survival activities. The next obvious solution would be combining chemotherapy and anti-angiogenesis-dropping the bombs while cutting the supply lines. But combination therapy confronted an inherent engineering problem. "You can't deliver chemotherapy to tumors if you have destro...

Fasting, Feasting Your Way To Health

...ht and stay fit is to fast one day and feast// the next - the way our hunter-gatherer ancestors did. The ...oing without food one day and making up for it the next is not nearly as difficult to cope with as being permanently hungry, as is the case with dieting. A...

Hyderabad To Have Asia’s First Catheter Making Uni

...er. Trial production is slated to begin by January next year. The Rs.80 million facility, coming up at Manglapalli village in neighbouring Ranga Reddy district, will have the capacity to produce half a million catheter-based products annually. To be developed as per US Food and Drug Administration (FDA...

Women Less Likely To Conceive Post-Caesarean

...ey were more likely to suffer an ectopic pregnancy next time around, with 9.5 occurring per 1,000 pregnancies, compared to 5.7 per 1,000 pregnancies for women with spontaneous delivery. Future studies may help explain whether this fall in conception rate following a caesarean is due to women who undergo...

Revolution in Genetics to Open Avenues for Treating Cancer

...ncer is the most common type of cancer among women next only to skin cancer. Breast cancer mostly occurs in women over the age of 50, and the risk is especially high for women over age 60. The identification of four new genes related to breast cancer offers a new ray of hope to breast cancer patients. If...

Increasing Insulin Response In Type 2 Diabetics With New Protein Mixture

...ects with type 2 diabetes. Researchers say their next target is to investigate whether these findings are confirmed after a real meal rather than a test drink. Diabetes on Medindia: Diabetes apart from being one of the most prevalent diseases in the world, also a disease that opens up a Pandora's b...

New Flu Vaccine Can Give Lifetime Protection

...t will give you 80% less chance of getting the flu next winter. For further information contact: Karine Clauwaertkarine.clauwaert@vib.be32-9-244-6611VIB, Flanders Interuniversity Institute of Biotechnology (News Source: http://i-newswire.com/pr40686.html) Medindia on Influenza Virus: Cold is an ill...

Sox 18 Slows Cancers

... we may be ble to slow or stop the cancer, and the next step will be to establish which genes interact with Sox 18 to control blood vessel development and also what processes are required within cells to produce the final effects," Dr Koopman said. This gene could also be manipulated to do the reverse: to...

A Mirror Miracle!

... silic acid in simulated human blood plasma. Their next process will be to fill in the pores of the mirror with chemicals that bind to specific cancer markers, these markers would leach into tissues around the implant and bind to the chemicals in the mirror's pores to give desirable effects....

Larynx transplant restores patient's voice after 20 years

...could eat anything. Dr. Strome said he hopes next to perform the operation on someone whose voice box has been removed because of cancer, and who has been disease free for atleast 5 years. Such an operation may be even more challenging because it could be difficult to locate the ends of nerves that ...

Fight oral cancer with gene therapy mouthwash

...he 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 shows that in future we shall have mouthwash to fight cancer as we...

Protein causing spread of colon cancer identified

... human tumour biopsies. This being successful, the next step would be to develop a drug to block the action of Pa 28 alpha. They are also hoping to inject tumour cells into mice from which the protein has been removed, to check if the tumour cells still spread to the liver....

Cow's vein used in man to treat varicose ulcer.

...ears away from widespread use doctors say that the next step will be to increase the number of patients and the number of places where the procedure is performed....

Disease chromosomes identified

... to be associated with genetic disease. Over the next 20 years the research at the Wellcome Trust's Sanger Centre, near Cambridge, eastern England will have a large impact on treating all kinds of major ailments ranging from asthma to Alzheimer's disease as well as depression and other mood disorders.//...

A new replacement

...id the version of TruScan to be trialed within the next two months will be covered with a hygenic sheath complete with electrodes and optical windows.TruScan is expected to be released in Europe this year and on the Australian market in 2002....

Hearty tomatoes

...tids of a fertile food crop and transferred to the next generation. Plants have DNA in three places in their cells: most is concentrated in the nucleus, with a smaller amount in mitochondria and chloroplasts. Traditionally, geneticists place genes into nuclear DNA, but the DNA in chloroplasts, unlike nu...

Arthritis risk reduced by exercise

...s such as walk, but this is the first to go to the next level and examine prevention of disability, researchers said. This study gives a strong foundation to current medical support for exercise. According to Dr. Marian Minor of the University of Missouri, exercise probably is best for people in early s...

Prostratin- Drug to eradicate HIV

...l to test their hypothesis in patients as early as next year. Prostratin could be a crucial second tier treatment in the battle against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. In the last five years, anti-HIV drugs, known as highly active antiretrovirus therapy (HAART), have brought the virus under control by d...

A ray of hope in Angioplasty dilemma

...r testing. They could be on the market as early as next year.// During angioplasty, doctors fish tiny ball...pproval, are expected on rival products within the next year....

Molecule aids fight E. Coli Infections

...rmal counterparts, the researchers observed. "The next question to ask is whether this protein plays a related role in humans. Understanding the role these proteins play could eventually lead to new ways of fighting infection and to helping us figure out why some people are more susceptible to specific i...

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