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Producing Vaccines from genetically modified crops

...rns ,however they say that Pharma-Planta hopes the technology it will develop over the course of its initial five years of funding will eventually boost the global supply of treatments. Current methods used include genetic modification of human cells and microorganisms such as bacteria. These techniques are l...

Possible location of lung cancer genes found

...urrent study demonstrates that high-resolution SNP technology is powerful enough to identify copy-number alterations that previously hadn't been found in lung cancer cells." Working with 70 specimens of lung cancer tissue and 31 laboratory-grown lines of lung cancer cells, the investigators used high-resoluti...

Advent of New, More Effective and Personalized Medicines

...ossible treatment option for this individual. This technology has enabled the development of targeted therapies like Herceptin for metastatic breast cancer, Gleevec for chronic myeloid leukemia and Erbitux for metastatic colorectal cancer. This new approach will allow medicines to be uniquely crafted to maximi...

Emergence Of New Gene Scanning Technology In Disease Research

...icroplate array diagonal gel electrophoresis. The technology devised by Professor Ian Day from university of Southampton in collaboration with Bristol, University college London, British Heart foundation and Department of Health identified a mutant gene causing high, moderate cholesterol levels among 10,000 mi...

CoQ10 bioavailability increased by Nanotechnology

... of CoQ10 delivered into beverages using its novel technology which will interest manufacturers of CoQ10 product...dosages, therefore saving on costs. The patented technology uses common food-grade emulsifiers and solvents to trap water droplets in oil. Modified, swollen mic...

Developing a new vaccine using a new technology

...ew technology. The human primate adenovirus vector technology was derived from research conducted by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania. The technology is owned by the University and is exclusively licensed to GSK. According to the agreement, IAVI an...

Yoga Can Be Good For Breast Cancer Patients

...is looking towards a plan to utilize brain-imaging technology (with PET scans) to pinpoint precisely where changes take place in the brain. Previously some research has shown that Yoga meditation affects certain brain regions. Dr HR Nagendra, the President of "Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana" has...

The Use of Radio Frequency Identification ( RFID) to tackle the growing menace of counterfeit drugs

...it drugs. Electronic Product Code (EPC) based RFID technology uses RFID tags affixed on cases/consignments and a serialized EPC for identification to facilitate detection and subsequent segregation of genuine and counterfeit drugs. They feel that RFID tracking would help to improve the supply chain and that com...

Ultrasounds To Detect Changes In Heart Motions

...seconds and are unnoticeable to the human eye. The technology allows slow-motion comparisons of these events separately between the inner and outer layers of the cardiac left ventricle. The researchers’ published measurements demonstrate how a rapid succession of motions occurring within tissue of the ventricul...

New Bioinformatics Centre to open in Andhra

...unity of research institutions developing advanced technology in computational biology and bioinformatics in the post-genome age," said Bhaskar Patnaik, managing director of Sun Microsystems India. "Sun technologies will help set up one of the world's largest genetic databases, enabling scientists to share an...

Revolution in Genetics to Open Avenues for Treating Cancer

...rch for the breast cancer genes. This cutting edge technology is believed to trigger a parallel increase in the speed at which new cancer treatments reach the patient. It has been reported that tumors that are aggressive have multiple copies of the genes and if these results are confirmed, it might provide a ...

E-Mail Affects Brain More Than Marijuana

Today’s technology has replaced the smoking pot and cigar of the 70s....-to-face conversations, and restricting the use of technology during meetings and important tasks. The computer company also advocates helping colleagues prioriti...

Researchers Gather Stem Cells From Discarded Placenta

...s of the human body. Researchers feel that if the technology progresses suitably, then it might be possible to preserve the stem cells from amniotic epithelium for future emergencies of the newborn child. However the researchers also point out the fact that despite the similarities between the amniotic epithel...

Sleep pattern to lead to depression

...as 'short REM latency' is not common. It takes the technology of a sleep laboratory to find short REM latency. The activity of the brain, muscle and eye movements are monitored in the patients for three nights while they sleep. Since not all depressed people have short REM latency, and many healthy people do t...

Xenotransplantation “breakthrough”

...o create the five piglets.The first use of the new technology is likely to involve the production of islet cells for the treatment of diabetes. Such cells will be transplanted into primates initially, but the researchers say that human trials could start in around four years’ time. In addition to hyperacute re...

Perfect babies boon or a bane?

...modify the sperm and egg cells themselves. Another technology currently under development would be to insert artificial chromosomes into eggs or sperm, or the cells from which they derive. Already, one technique is being used which introduces inheritable changes, in treating mitochondrial genetic diseases. Mit...

Womb may have impact upon Blood Pressure

... at the University in England said that because of technology advances, people are able to study children who have had serial measurements of size in (the uterus) that follow their growth, and these observations take us back into early pregnancy. The study, led by Dr. Kevin Blake at the University of Western ...

Genetic failure in cloned animals

...ld be banned.// However, the researchers noted the technology still could be used safely for therapeutic cloning techniques, such as producing embryonic stem cells to treat diseases ranging from Parkinson's to diabetes. Cloned animals have major dysregulation of multiple genes so they are not normal at all, p...

Arsenic in drinking water

...cessary to remove arsenic from drinking-water. The technology for arsenic removal for piped water supply is moderately costly and requires technical expertise. It is inapplicable in some urban areas of developing countries and in most rural areas world-wide. New types of treatment technologies, including co-pr...

Cultivating gold on a fig tree

...ng diseases and controlling genes and enzymes. The technology can also be used in developing nanomaterials and nanoelectronics. The research group took a micro- organism called Rhodococcus from a fig tree, and exposed it to a liquid containing gold ions ( which are electrically charged gold particles). They fo...

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