Tag: "technology" at medical news

Naked DNA Vaccination May Conquer Arthritis and Multiple Sclerosis

A novel modification of a new technology born of genetic engineering, and known as naked DN... can exacerbate the disease. Naked DNA vaccination technology may counter these undesirable effects. This consists of introducing engineered genes based on the cu...

New Way to "See" Genes, Evaluate Effectiveness of Gene Therapies Discovered

This technology essentially renders the body transparent and will ...ach targeted cells and work as they should. "The technology is expected to help patients with cancer and other illnesses, such as cardiovascular disease. The di...

Life Saving Cancer Drugs – From Chicken! Possible Says 'Dolly’ Creatos

...h Company Viragen Inc., have used nuclear transfer technology to harvest life saving drugs to treat many serious...rst cloned mammal: Using the same nuclear transfer technology it is possible, according to these scientists to create human therapeutic proteins in chicken eggs –...

Fight anemia by fortifying crops with iron!!!!!!!!

...gricultural research institute, Delhi say that the technology is already in vogue in the developed countries and...developing countries if they can develop their own technology to improve upon this idea. This way they say the huge problem posed by anemia in India can be checke...

And now live birth on the internet.com?

...is is called view baby project and the web casting technology used by view baby has been used for corporate video conferencing and to broadcast Madonna’s latest concert. The pilot project was free and the hospital authorities are yet to decide on the fee for this facility. Internet revolution is reaching dizzyi...

Oracle Corp. to help build world's first "Digital Hospital"

...ing doctors more efficient.Oracle will provide the technology that will allow Health South to improve record-keeping and patient care, officials of the two companies said in a briefing on Monday. Ultimately, they said, the improvements will reduce the overall cost of care.It was also added at the briefing that ...

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

...for the proposed project, which entails an upfront technology transfer fee of $30 million being sought by Chiron...didate vaccine against AIDS claimed and offered as technology transfer by Chiron Corp. The vaccine is said to be close to being subjected to human trials. The Ma...

Award for TTK Chitra heart valve prosthesis

...ard for successful commercialization of indigenous technology 2001 for developing artificial heart valve prosthesis.It is a tilting disc valve design incorporating a metallic housing, which is integrally machined from a cobalt based wrought alloy. The circular disc inside is made of ultra high molecular weight ...

Scientists plan human cloning clinic in the United States

...t is considered to be more serious because cloning technology has matured and the principal investigators have e...tion to cloning occurs on many fronts. Because the technology is not yet perfected many believe that the process should not even by attempted on humans. It took 2...

Decision making made easier

...come to a decision they were happy with. The new technology opens the door to better-informed patients, and more rational treatment decisions. If the tool were available over the Internet, costs would be minimal. The main issue of concern is to ensure that the quality of material on the videodisc is of the hi...

Zydus Cadila and Kopran in strategic alliance

... said here. Zydus has also entered into a seperate technology transfer agreement with Kopran for zero impurity Atenol which includes milestone payments totalling Rs. 20 crores. "We saw Aten as a good fit in terms of its size and presence in the cardiac care market," Mr.Pankaj, Managing Director, Zydus Cadila...

New spray gel heals surgical wounds

...llege of Medicine, said the gel seemed to be using technology which is currently applied to external wounds. "Th... reaction. It would be very beneficial if the same technology could be applied to internal wounds ." she added....

DNA biochip for genetic screening

...t the University of Houston. “This highly parallel technology allows us to do thousands or tens of thousands of ...d a flexible, high quality and more cost efficient technology for DNA chips,” she says. “Our novel platform technology will allow scientists to make custom-design...

Stem cell research

...ng potential applications of [embryonic stem] cell technology in human medicine are based on the assumption that it will be possible to grow [embryonic stem] cells on a large scale, to introduce genetic modifications into them, and to direct their differentiation," the researchers wrote. Their success in mainta...

Robots craft medical history

...on link that used asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) technology to transmit the data. The operation took less than an hour's time and the patient was discharged from the hospital 48 hours later....

Unpredictable Premature Birth

...again, we see that it’s nearly impossible with the technology we have today to accurately predict who is going to give birth to a premature baby. If we truly want to help more babies be born healthy and lead healthy lives, we need more research aimed at preventing prematurity from occurring in the first place....

A novel augmentation

...ion. Makoto Asashima, who led the team, said the technology could provide an option to donor transplants. His team refined thousands of embryo cells in a retinoic acid solution for five days to draw ot various organs. Modifying the concentration of the retinoic acid led to the stem cells developing into diffe...

Computers may become surgeons

...heir findings. Currently, surgeons routinely use technology that is capable of producing multiple images that ...urgery, in which doctors use sophisticated imaging technology to perform surgical procedures....

New device for detecting artery blockages

...ing to a recent study a device was found using new technology which helps prevent stroke. One important way of screening people for potential stroke involves looking, by ultrasound, at any blockages in the carotid arteries that serve the brain.// Researchers at Texas University in the US have pioneered the us...

Screening device for ovarian cancer

...tial. Researchers in the US are using cutting-edge technology called proteomics //to differentiate healthy from diseased tissue. Proteomics involves creating a 'fingerprint' of tissue, based upon detecting and analysing the different protein molecules it contains. We already know that the protein profile of cel...

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