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Development of AIDS vaccine -- Chiron Corp in talks with four Indian cos

...ntage of possessing recombinant DNA technology for producing vaccines,'' Mr Reddy said. The collaboration with Chiron Corp would help in giving India a lead of couple of years in the realisation of a viable AIDS vaccine. The funds for carrying out the relevant research and development, however, have to be rai...

Gene Therapy shows promise in treating Hemophilia

...ws signs of helping these men fight the disease by producing the blood clotting protein they lack. None of the patients suffers side effects even after one year of the treatment. The study was designed only to test the safety and not the effectiveness of the treatment of hemophilia. This disease is genetica...

New antiperspirant in action - Botox does the difference

... medications." It can stop sweat glands from over producing when nothing else works - when surgery is the only other option left. "Botulinum toxin is a weakening agent, that, when injected, results in a chemical disconnection of the nerve, which is called chemodenervation," says Dr. Mitchell F. Brin, associa...

WORM! WORM! all the way

...nce they are in the body, and preventing them from producing too much of the drug or vaccine they are engineered to make...there is no question helminths play an important if not essential role in the maintenance of human health....

Blocked viens block eye sight

...ltra hot plasma formed at the tip of the electrode producing a rapidly expanding vaporized bubble. By alternating the voltage the bubble could expand and collapse within a millionth of second. Palanker and Flecther plan to mix a drug called tissue plasminogen activator into the saline solution within the prob...

Simple Therapy

...rowing their own islets, the cells responsible for producing insulin. In addition Denise Faustman and colleagues at the Massachusetts General Hospital have rid the mice of the immune cells that attack the pancreas and the islets in the first place.// Once the mutinous cells were eliminated,the ...

Tomatoes for the heart

...cessed into paste.This suggests the possibility of producing tomato-based products with increased health benefits....

Babies of the deaf communicate

...their hands,'' Petitto said. ``They were literally producing a bite-sized nugget of a sign.'' This finding shows that babbling serves a linguistic purpose, rather than acting solely as an accidental byproduct of jaw motion....

UV Radiation induces Melanoma

...at DNA damaged cells will reproduce and take hold, producing a tumour. Melanoma accounts for roughly 10% of reported cases of skin cancer and can spread rapidly throughout the body, forming secondary tumours in the liver, lungs, bone or brain....

Poisonous Parkinson's molecule discovered

...mination of the patient. But it's known that cells producing a chemical called dopamine - which controls muscle activity - in an area of the brain called the substantia nigra slowly die as the condition progresses. What kills these cells?// Researchers at the University of Texas have been studying a group of...

The phenomenon of sexual attraction

...aid the oral contraceptive pill could stop a woman producing pheromones and undermine her ability to pick up the right chemical signals from men. Scientists believe pheromones may help people choose biologically compatible mates....

More about HIV

...e positive. The immune system begins to respond by producing antibodies and cytotoxic lymphocytes.Stage II: Clinically Asymptomatic Stage. Patients in this stage are free from AIDS symptoms for an average of ten years. HIV in the blood may drop to undetectable levels but people remain infectious. The virus is ...

Creating brain cells from bone marrow

...f the stem cells into neurons. The cells were also producing specific brain chemicals like serotonin, a compound that's lacking in depression. The hope is to create neurons that would produce dopamine, which is depleted in Parkinson's disease, as the basis for a brain implant using the patient's own bone marro...

Cirrhosis on the rise

...rns of heavy drinking are potentially dangerous in producing culmulative damage to the liver." "Women are thought to be more susceptible and they get problems with alcohol earlier and quicker so they are more likely to develop cirrhosis of the liver for relatively small amounts of alcohol." Far more deaths a...

Sniff out flatulence

...er, are difficult to digest and are well-known for producing hydrogen sulphide, the substance which puts the sting into flatulence. It was described as giving a rotten egg smell by the scientists while dimethyl, another gas isolated in tests, had a "sweet" bouquet. The researchers selected two judges who had ...

More People Seeking Treatment for Depression

...felt stigmatized before. Another major force in producing the treatment trends was the debut in the late '80s of the antidepressant drugs called selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, such as Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil. About 30 percent of patients on these medications still have significant and ...

New treatment for diabetics

...rients from the body //and stimulates the insulin- producing cells.Some diabetics have to inject insulin more t... cells that borrow nutrients from the body to keep producing insulin indefinitely. "As long as the body produces glucose, the cells will respond with insulin." ...

A novel augmentation

...aid a lower concentration activates a set of genes producing bundles of cells like eyes, while a higher concentration activates genes producing ears. In a similar but simpler procedure, the researcher said he had previously grown frog kidneys...

Computers may become surgeons

...rgeons routinely use technology that is capable of producing multiple images that are merged to provide a three-dimensional map of a patient's brain. However, these images are often up to a day old and, if certain conditions change, can become useless. And although the small number of magnetic resonance imag...

Shortage of MMR vaccine

...serve the remaining supply. Even though Merck is producing some MMR vaccine, supply has not kept up with demand in a nation that uses 1.8 million doses a month. In October and November, the average delivery of the MMR vaccine fell 61% below national demand, according to the Centers for Disease Control, which...

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