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Hooked on the Hookah, a’int no good

... published a study in the July/August issue of the pathology journal Acta Cytologica about a new method his group developed to collect cheek cells from inside a participant's mouth, which can then be stained to gauge the chromosomal condition of these cells. They used this technique to study waterpipe smoking ...

Two Americans Share 2006 Nobel Medicine Prize

...ts Institute of Technology and is now professor of pathology and genetics at Stanford University School of Medicine in California. Mello, born in 1960, earned his doctorate at Harvard University, and is professor of molecular medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The Nobel prize for m...

Human Stem Cells Delay Start of Lou Gehrig’s Disease in Rat

...assilis Koliatsos, M.D., an associate professor of pathology and neuroscience at Hopkins. Although all the rats eventually died of ALS, Koliatsos believes his experiments offer “proof of principle” for stem cell grafts and that a more complete transplant of cells - already being planned -- along the full le...

Basis for Nerve fiber Damage in Multiple Sclerosis Discovered

...ich is a new area researchers are exploring in the pathology of MS."MS is a chronic central nervous system disease that can cause blurred vision, poor coordination, slurred speech, numbness, acute fatigue and, in its most extreme form, blindness and paralysis. Some 400,000 Americans have this disease. Its caus...

Videoconferencing, an impetus to Pediatric Oncology

...on therapy techniques, and the benefit of external pathology review for cases where the diagnosis is difficult. The authors note that pediatric oncology twinning initiatives should be multidisciplinary and should include neurosurgeons, radiation oncologists, pathologists and neuroradiologists. They conclude: "...

A Novel Technique That Detects "Cancer Genes" From The Breath Of Smokers

...hin, Ph.D., an associate professor of medicine and pathology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "This assay represents a new way to screen for disease that appears to be applicable to pancreatic cancer, and potentially, to other cancer types." The assay contains the largest panel of blood-ba...

Parkinson's Mutation Stunts Neurons

...ss of dopamine-producing neurons is central to the pathology of PD, and loss of connections among such neurons ... central to the enzyme's defective function. The pathology of PD caused by mutated LRRK2 also includes formation of abnormal deposits, or "inclusions," in the ...

Prestigious Wilson Award Goes To Yale Cell Biologist Joel Rosenbaum

...ve evidence for the importance of cilia in the PKD pathology by demonstrating that the polycystins, gene products of the PKD genes, were located on these cilia. Because cilia were related directly to the disease, this became known as the “ciliary hypothesis of PKD.” “Researchers at the NIH and Yale Medical Sc...

Memory Complaints Are Associated With Alzheimer's Disease

...en their self-reported memory complaints and brain pathology associated with Alzheimer's disease,' said Lisa L....earchers found that each unit of Alzheimer-related pathology was associated with one point higher score on the memory complaint scale. 'Our results suggest that ...

21 Kg Tumour Removed From Woman

...led," said Premi. The tumour has been sent to the pathology department for tests. Source-IANS...

Juvenile Diabetes may Be Caused by Mad Cow Protein

...p of what to avoid.' Laboratory Investigation, a pathology journal has the following results published this week. KOM...

Doctors And Staff Resign En Masse At Janakpur Zonal Hospital

...hary charging that the hospital came up with false pathology reports on his diabetes test showing high sugar levels. Relatives reported that the lab chief has put the patient's life at risk with the false report, while a report received after the test at another lab proved that the patient was free from diabet...

Gene Discovered by Researchers Tied to Pancreatic Cancer

...tey and her former student, Dr. Mana Parast, now a pathology fellow with Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Otey has shown that palladin is involved in the formation of scar tissue on nerve cells in the brain or spinal cord, and it’s found in cells that are moving, including embryonic cells and cells at t...

Protein ‘Fingerprint’ in Spinal Fluid Could Spot Alzheimer’s Disese

...al fluid that identify the presence of Alzheimer’s pathology and distinguish it from other conditions that cause dementia. “Some of these studies have met with limited success, but most have correlated their findings with patient’s clinical symptoms rather than working with the gold-standard of autopsy-prove...

'Clumping' Protein Linked to Return of Ovarian Cancer

... Ie-Ming Shih, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pathology at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. The research also suggests that drugs capable of blocking NAC-1 activity may be a useful strategy in preventing and treating recurrences as well. A report on the research, the first to link NAC-1 to cancer, ap...

Increase Testosterone Levels To Slow Down Alzheimer’

...ry-related behavior and measures of Alzheimer-like pathology were measured in the different groups of mice. The castrated models that received the placebo showed poor working memory and high brain levels of Aa. However, both Aa accumulation and cognitive decline were prevented in mice treated with the hormone ...

First Potential Treatment for Dengue

...though there may or may not be any hemorrhage. The pathology of this disease is unknown thus there is no treatment or vaccine available. The only prevention is vector control. This context brought IRD immunology and virology specialists and their research partners (1) to focus on these little-known biological...

Protein Essential for Kidney-to-Bladder Urine Transfer

...uthor Wojciech Swat, Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology and immunology. "If untreated, this leaves urine s...s Stappenbeck, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology and immunology and of molecular biology and pharmacology, noticed that many had swollen kidneys. "...

Why Immune System Doesn't Attack Small Intestine?

...ates Turley, who is also an assistant professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School. "But it has been unclear how dendritic cells, which are extremely sensitive to microbial agents such as bacteria, teach T cells to resist attacking healthy intestinal cells." In the new study, Turley and her colleagues fo...

Common Anaesthetic Drug Can Kill Brain Cells

...overproduce the toxic molecule responsible for the pathology of Alzheimer's disease, particularly amyloid-beta,' Tanzi said. This is a warning, he said. 'Isoflurane may be one reason why the elderly are more prone to cognitive dysfunction following anaesthesia.' The researcher believes that isoflurane sho...

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