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Gene Therapy for Parkinsons Disease

...nt over the last three years ,a novel gene therapy technique is safe and may be effective at staving off worsen...safely and may benefits patients. The gene therapy technique was developed by Neurologix, a New Jersey-based company. Parkinson's is a movement disorder caused...

New Transgenic Mushrooms Raise Hope for Mass Production of Human Drugs

...te. As part of the study, scientists developed a technique to genetically modify Agaricus bisporus, which is the predominant edible species worldwide by attaching a gene that confers resistance to hygromycin, an antibiotic, to circular pieces of bacterial DNA called plasmids, which have the ability to multip...

Indian Yoga Expert Teaches Fitness Mantras to Lahoris

...ne is angry, no yoga expert can help him. The best technique is to drink a glass of water and try to smile, the Daily Times quoted him as saying....

India to Get a Taste of 'British' Curries

...th added Indian spices. She has adopted the same technique here, albeit with different ingredients. "On the show, I will replace some of these ingredients with those that are easier to get (in India)," Malhi said. Soya chunks will be used instead of tofu, chicken sausages rather than pork ones, and lamb ...

Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Initiates Patient Enrollment In New Cotara(R) Brain Cancer Trial

...nvection-enhanced delivery (CED), an NIH-developed technique that delivers the agent to the tumor with great precision, achieving up to a 10,000-fold greater concentration in local therapy exposure than conventional intravenous drug administration, while minimizing unwanted exposure to healthy tissue. This del...

Papworth Breathing Technique Cuts Asthma Symptoms by a Third

...ppropriate breathing habits were also reduced. The technique improved the relaxed breathing rate but there was no significant improvement in specific measures of lung function. The authors say: To our knowledge, this is the first evidence from a controlled trial to demonstrate the effectiveness of the Papwor...

Highly Effective Method for Screening Drug-resistant Forms of HIV Developed

...-resistant mutations by using a new DNA sequencing technique called pyrosequencing, which enables determination...rug resistance in a single test. The new screening technique also uncovered four rare, minor drug-resistant mutations in the patient samples of HIV that had gone...

DNA Transplant Brings Creation of Artificial Life a Step Closer

...he accomplishment of his goal. He says that the technique can be used to insert a DNA sequence that he has b...he Times Online quoted Dr Venter as saying. The technique may allow scientists to create and insert artificial chromosomes carrying added genes into the genom...

Girls With Cancer Given Fertility Hope

...erty were too immature to be extracted. The same technique could also be employed on older women with cancer, some of whom cannot be given hormonal drugs to stimulate the ovaries before egg collection. Dr Ariel Revel, who led the team, said: "No eggs have yet been thawed, so we do not know whether pregnan...

"Decryption" of Enzyme's Functions Paves Way for Future Drug Discovery

...e researchers achieved this success by modifying a technique called molecular docking, a computer-aided modeling strategy used to search for potential drugs. Docking works by allowing researchers to first determine the atom-by-atom structure of an enzyme and then screen many thousands of molecules for one t...

New Research Promises To Take The Pain Off Breast Feeding

... by Dr. Colson. Dr. Colson advises women on the technique called biological nurturing where the mother lies ...its tummy on top of her. To look at whether this technique promotes feeding reflexes in the baby, she videotaped 40 women breastfeeding in a sitting-up positio...

New, Less Painful Wound Treatment for Pediatric Patients

...y in Wound Repair and Regeneration shows that this technique has a wide range of applications with children, and can be life-saving. This wound therapy is usually delivered via a vacuum system which applies negative suction pressure to the wound base through a sponge sealed to the wound by an adherent drape,...

More and More American Women Go for Facelifts to Get Jobs

... cut back on expensive employees no "rejuvenating" technique will prevail. The cult of youth has grown more vicious in response to the downward pressure on employees' wages. Those who submit to false advertising and the cult of youth make it harder for their friends and colleagues to resist. They put econo...

Scientists Discover Rare gene-for-gene Interaction That Helps Bacteria Kill Their Host

...ia were less virulent. The researchers then used a technique known RNA interference to prevent the insects from producing the phenoloxidase enzyme. These insects were more susceptible to regular Photorhabdus bacteria. But when the two were combined, it was found that not being able to produce ST made no diff...

New Technique Dissects Stem Cells' Picky Likes, Dislikes

...es that might produce these and other effects, the technique could hasten efforts to develop stem cell therapie...ys Kiessling. Moreover, her team's chemistry-based technique not only allows scientists to test molecules from nature, but synthetic ones, as well. "One provo...

DNA Repair Proteins Monitored at Double-strand Break

...ure of DNA, breaking it into two pieces. Using a technique developed specifically for this project, the St. J...esponse to double-strand DNA breaks over time. The technique provides significantly more information about the proteins that repair DNA than is possible using th...

New Cancer Therapy That can Be Less Painful

Australian researchers say they have developed a technique to attack and destroy tumours without causing such...oncentrated into a little parcel." In tests, the technique reduced tumours in animals without side effects - and by using only a very small amount of drug. T...

Quick, Innovative Procedure Helps Men Minimize Incontinence After Prostatectomy

...ournal Urology. "Modifying existing tissues, our technique added only a few minutes to standard robotic prost...o the standard prostate-removing operation. "Our technique uses tissues that would normally remain behind after prostatectomy tissues that we can flip around ...

Novel Catheter Technique Successfully Patches Holes in the Heart

A novel catheter technique for patching holes in the heart may make it possible for many patients to avoid surgery altogether and others to regain enough strength to safely undergo surgical repair at a later date, according to a study reported at the 30th Annual Scientific Se...

Innovative Procedure Helps Men Minimize Incontinence After Prostatectomy

...ournal Urology. "Modifying existing tissues, our technique added only a few minutes to standard robotic prost...o the standard prostate-removing operation. "Our technique uses tissues that would normally remain behind after prostatectomy tissues that we can flip around ...

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