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Cancer Scientists' Gene Research Offers New Treatment Hope

... molecules of RNA to silence a gene that otherwise protects brain tumours from being attacked by the body's immune system. In experiments on mice with malignant brain cancer all the tumours decomposed completely because they were no longer being protected by the silenced gene - known as TGF-beta. "We saw ...

Royal College Issues Revised Guidelines for Face Transplantation

...transplantation to progress in a rational way that protects the interests of vulnerable patients," comments Sir Peter Morris of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Centre for Evidence in Transplantation, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. "Face transplantation raises a number of comp...

Special Children Need to Be Taught Sexual Safety

...abuse. We need to know what a safer community that protects children from sexual abuse looks like. What conditions promote sexual abuse. And what conditions reduce the risks and give children the skills to protect themselves. Source-Bio - Bio Technology...

Why Immune System Doesn't Attack Small Intestine?

...bsorbs essential nutrients from food and drink and protects the body from invasive microbes, is literally teeming with bacteria, which help break down waste. The presence of so many bacteria is a potential trigger for an immune system response. Why do T cells almost always ignore the small intestine, leaving ...

A Gene Associated With Severe Kidney Failure in Diabetes Found

...he University of Heidelberg has proven that a gene protects some people with diabetes from developing severe kidney failure or "end-stage renal disease." The carnosinase 1 gene, located on human chromosome 18, produces the protective factor, said Barry I. Freedman, M.D., the John H. Felts III Professor and ...

Genetically Altered Cells Prevent Lethal Infections in Substituted Skin

...sings soaked in antimicrobial drugs. Although this protects the grafts, Supp says, it can also contribute to the emergence of drug-resistant strains of bacteria. "When you give the patient the same drug topically and orally, the risk for drug-resistant bacteria to emerge is greatly increased," says Supp. "W...

Gender Of Children May Be Linked To Risk Of Prostate Cancer

... in men producing some of the seminal fluid, which protects and nourishes sperm cells. The Israeli researchers studied 38,000 men, and compared history of 712 men diagnosed with prostate cancer with other men and found that overall, compared with men who had at least one son, those with only daughters were ...

Unfolded Proteins May Protect Cells from Dying

...found that the unfolded protein response initially protects retinal cells from death in the fly model of ADRP, the cells eventually die, leading to blindness. How the cell death pathway becomes activated is still a mystery, and Steller makes the point that although blocking cell death is a worthwhile therapeu...

Canada Faces Skin Donation Shortages

...s body. Skin, one of the body’s largest organs, protects us against infections caused by fire. It is usually taken within 24 hours of death from cadavers of people who have agreed to donate organs and tissue. The donated skin is used as a natural dressing when a seriously burned patient doesn't have enou...

Durable Critters Provides Better Way to Human Egg Preservation

...coat of an egg doesn’t freeze well. The jelly coat protects the egg from mechanical stress and serves as a receptor for sperm. Sperm must pass through the coat then penetrate the interior plasma membrane. As soon as a single sperm penetrates, it triggers intracellular signaling that transforms the coat int...

Birth Order and Brain Tumor: Related?

...heir older ones, seem to develop a resistance that protects them in late childhood, postulates the researchers. Researchers clarified that other socio economic factors that affect development of brain tumors cannot be entirely ruled out. MST...

Blocking Glucocorticoid Prevents Stress-Induced Skin Abnormalities

...rmalities induced by psychological stress. Skin protects The skin is the body’s largest organ and plays a...etween the environment and the internal organs. It protects us from harmful microorganisms, ultraviolet light, toxic chemicals, and more. However, its most impo...

NMNAT Protein Protects Against Nerve Cell Degeneration

... Biology that appears online today said that NMNAT protects against nerve cell degeneration in fruit flies and mice. The finding begs the question if a drug might be developed that could stimulate extra protein production and thus neuronal protection – both in injured cells and in those degenerating because...

Downstate Researchers Target Multiple Sclerosis

... known to destroy the myelin sheath that coats and protects the nerves. In a paper published in the Journal of Neuroimmunology, SUNY Downstate and Maimonides Medical Center researchers described the use of the calpain inhibitor for the treatment of a mouse model of MS. Whether administered by injection or b...

Gene Therapy Shows Promise Against Hereditary Lung Disease

...ople, alpha-1 antitrypsin is made in the liver and protects the lungs by counteracting inflammatory products that destroy lung tissue. But about 100,000 Americans have alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, according to the Miami-based Alpha-1 Foundation, a national not-for-profit organization devoted to finding a c...

Advance Australia Active – AM

...r physical activity helps to maintain good health, protects against a range of chronic diseases, and plays an important role in managing many chronic diseases,” he said. At the core of the Position Statement is the principle that Australian Governments must do more to encourage ordinary Australians to incor...

Why Public Should Really Know About HPV?

...emphasizing a different point of view: the vaccine protects against cervical cancer; the vaccine protects against cervical cancer and sexually transmitted infections; or, the vaccine protects against cervic...

Fruit Yogurt Could Play An Important Role In Diabetes Management

...ioxidant enzymes to shift into a defense mode that protects tissues from chronic disease, many of which are associated with damaging free radicals. 'The numbers of people with environment-related diseases are going through the roof,' says Shetty, noting that in the United States alone more than 20 million p...

Hoosiers Live at the Mercy of Nursing Homes

...rotection Advocacy Services, the state agency that protects Hoosiers with disabilities. According to Gray for every case such as the Byron woman, at least 10 more exist. 'Somebody needs to look at what the quality of care is,' he said, 'what the quality assurance is going to be for the most vulnerable peo...

The need to revamp cervical cancer prevention programs

...d consider the role of the vaccine Gardasil, which protects against strains of the sexually transmitted human papilloma virus implicated in cervical cancer development. Gardasil's developer, CSL, has proposed a public program to immunise adolescent girls before they are sexually active. " Gerry Wain, Direct...

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