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Gene in Melanomas

...sensitive to a family of regulatory molecules that normally play a role in switching it off, known as INK4 proteins.The INK4 proteins usually have a 'double-negative' effect, blocking Cdk4's neutralising effect on another growth-suppressing protein. When INK4 proteins are disabled, cell growth continues unche...

Genetic failure in cloned animals

...imal to treat disease. The inserted cells function normally and there does not appear to be any problem, he said. His group reported earlier this year they had used therapeutic cloning to cure a mouse of an immunodeficiency disease. Scholer felt that it was working perfectly right. Embryonic stem cells deri...

Cultivating gold on a fig tree

...es in Rhodococcus, its cells continued to multiply normally , as the metal ions used were not toxic to the cells . This eco- friendly step is important as more gold would be formed as the cells multiply. " This (the nanoparticles) is much more uniform than the particles formed using other biological methods. ...

Pill might be able to reduce the damage loud noise does to your hearing

...wo weeks of the noisy training, an experience that normally erodes a bit of hearing ability from about 10 percent of trainees. And if all goes as hoped, hearing tests will show that a substance dissolved in the drink made a difference. Noise-induced hearing loss is one of the most common occupational disease...

A Likely Breakthrough For Prostate Cancer Patients

...ostate-specific antigen test. But since PSA levels normally go up and down over time, it’s hard // for doctors to know what a high reading is and what may just be normal for any particular man. Hence men with higher levels have to undergo repeated biopsies to determine whether they have cancer or not. Resea...

Digoxin Pill To Fight Against Both Heart Diseases And Cancer

...Digitalis, which comes from the foxglove plant, is normally used to help the heart beat efficiently by maintaining the rhythm of the heart and treat heart diseases. The chemical nature of the drug is changed by the team of researchers from University of Wisconsin-Madison to make the drug fight against cancer/...

How balanced are you? Need Help!!!

...replace missing balance information that the brain normally receives from a nerve in the inner ear. The study, which, included nine people with balance disorders and normal controls revealed significant improvement in the stability status with usage of the device. The audio feedback from the device was seen...

New Infertility test to be offered by Reliance

...f cells to detect these abnormalities. These would normally not be reflected in the blood. In addition to offering infertility tests, the centre now offers Maternal Fetal Medicine (MFM) and gynecology endoscopy. MFM is evolving specialties even in the west were pregnancies are monitored from the initial stage...

Lady Doctor from Nepal to Help Katrina victims

Dr Luanne Freer normally treats mountaineers caught in avalanches and slipped in crevasses. She heads the Everest Base Camp Medical Clinic in Nepal, has now offered to cope with a new emergency// - the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in the US. Freer left for Louisiana on Th...

Risk of colon cancer to be assessed by simple blood test

...material. An epigenetic process called “imprinting normally controls the IGF-2 gene" in which the level of protein production proteins on which parent the copy came from. For IGF-2, only the gene copy inherited from the father should be turned on, and that from the mother should be off. In about five percent...

Sitagliptin, Under Investigation For Type 2 Diabetes

...IV inhibitors, which inhibit the DPP-4 enzyme that normally inactivates the incretin gut hormones GLP-1 and GIP.The patients studied exhibited a safety and tolerability profile similar to placebo. In addition, patients taking Sitagliptin experienced no significant weight gain and a low risk of hypoglycaemia. ...

Cryopreservation of Ovaries for Cancer patients undergoing treatment

... Dr Arav said that the ovary was still functioning normally three years after the operation. "We are aware that a great deal more research and discussion is required before this will become an ethically and clinically acceptable treatment," said Clare Brown, chief executive of The Charity Infertility Networ...

An answer to obesity: weight control protein

...xplained. Leptin is a hormone produced by fat that normally decreases food intake and increases energy expenditure. In many species, including humans, the hormone acts to stabilize weight and glucose balance through activating its receptors in the hypothalamus. The current study shows that SH2-B also regula...

BCG vaccine to be boosted to effectively prevent tuberculosis

...e need for utilizing the urease C gene of BCG that normally plays a role in pH neutralization of the phagosome. The lack of urease C allows phagosomal acidification and provides an ideal pH environment for listeriolysin. The new BCG vaccine strain has been found to protect mice against tuberculosis significan...

Indian Researcher Discovers Reason For Malignancy of Skin Cancer

...tration of the notion that certain embryonic genes normally involved in transferring cells from one part of the body to another are also involved in enabling cancer cells to spread," Weinberg said. Additional authors of the paper are from Tufts University, New England Medical Center, the Broad Institute of M...

Chest Pain Can Be Identified By New Tracer Chemical 30 Hours After Pain Relief

...interruption of blood flow and oxygen. The heart normally uses fatty acid as its primary fuel source for ene...nce that slows down or halts the way fatty acid is normally utilized. The condition is called myocardial ischemia. The disturbance causes the heart to switch fr...

An Answer To Obesity: Weight Control Protein

...xplained. Leptin is a hormone produced by fat that normally decreases food intake and increases energy expenditure. In many species, including humans, the hormone acts to stabilize weight and glucose balance through activating its receptors in the hypothalamus. The current study shows that SH2-B also regula...

Flu Vaccine Can Be Used To Treat Lung Cancer

...tute of Applied Microbiology. "Influenza viruses normally cause flu in human beings, and thereby an extremely dangerous illness, which for some patients even ends fatally." "But now we want to treat an even more dangerous illness, lung cancer, with them," he said. The researchers explained that the huma...

Sex Played A Vital Role For Evolution Of Infectious Diseases

...ve reported//. The fungus, Cryptococcus gattii, is normally restricted to the tropics and subtropics. The ev...tion with pigeon droppings, the rarer C. gattii is normally restricted to tropical and subtropical areas, often in association with Eucalyptus trees. It is su...

Predictors Of Wound Infection In Ventral Hernia Repair

...s the protrusion of an organ through the wall that normally contains it. An incisional hernia occurs in the abdomen in the area of an old surgical scar. A part of an organ in the abdomen, such as the bowel or intestines, protrudes through the weakened area of the abdominal wall....

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