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Tag: "tools" at medical news

Experiments In Outer Space To Determine single Cell Survival

...pel harmful bacteria from the surfaces of surgical tools like catheters. Finally, the method also offers a simple method to genetically modify cells. "This is not the end of the story, but the beginning," says Brinker. "No one else has created these symbiotic materials and observed these effects. It's a...

NHGRI Aims To Sequence Primate Genomes

...his effort will allow researchers to develop basic tools to better understand human variation, such as distinguishing functional from non-functional variations within genes. A final set of sequencing targets was chosen to address the question: What genes and other genomic features were responsible for th...

Is Nicotine Lozenge A Safe Smoking Cessation Product?

...ement products promote their products as effective tools to help people manage cravings in areas where they can't smoke, such as airplanes and restaurants. This would end up in people getting addicted to nicotine replacement products in addition to continuing their smoking habits....

Novel Approach Assists in Locating Leads for Drug Discovery

...chemical 'tools' for biological exploration. These tools will help researchers in both the public and private sectors unlock the mysteries of gene function and signaling pathways throughout the human body, opening the door to the development of new drugs," said NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. In a pap...

Cell Behavior Better Understood with Nano Probe

...t devastating human diseases. Most sophisticated tools currently used for studying cell communications su...er from significant deficiencies. Typically, these tools can detect only a narrowly selected group of small molecules or, for a more sophisticated analysis, ...

New Technique To Diagnose Cancer At Molecular Level

...gely proved futile because there are few molecular tools to recognize the fingerprints. The UF team sought to create these tools in the form of aptamers, or short strands of chemically synthesized DNA. These aptamers exploit the ...

Adherence to Dietary Recommendations Measured

...people follow dietary recommendations contained in tools like the Food Guide Pyramid and the new MyPyramid have been deveoped by researchers at the University of Alabama.// According to them young children's adherence to the recommendations decreases as the children get older. The dual purposes of the st...

Tougher Guidelines Needed To Prevent Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

...elieve vCJD could also spread by infected surgical tools as the protein which triggers the disease sticks firmly to the stainless steel tools used for surgery and is not effectively removed by sterilization. Also, recent cases of vCJD have b...

Scientist Study New Treatment Modality for Psychiatric Disorders Using Mice

...e deficits in human mental dysfunction or with the tools we use to study the mechanisms that underlie disorders in people.’ Garner and his colleagues designed a task to measure a process called set shifting in which a focus on one object must be abandoned in favor of another object or task. This test long ...

Genetics Of Mental Retardation

...ngton and first author on the paper. "Having these tools in hand gave us, in a single experiment, what would otherwise have taken months of work using conventional methods, and allowed unprecedented insight into the underlying biology and mechanism of genomic disease." The deletion on chromosome 17 was s...

Cystatin C Test- A Reliable Test to Detect Chronic Health Risks

...inical kidney disease," or pre-CKD. "We have the tools to slow kidney disease," he notes, including blood pressure control, sugar control for diabetes, and specific medications known as ACE inhibitors. "It's well-established that end-stage kidney disease is rising at a rate of 10 to 20 percent per year. ...

Is There a Connection between Hearing loss and High-speed Dental Tools?

...y is delving into the subject of high-speed dental tools and their relationship with hearing loss//. Appare... loud noise such as music at a rock concert, power tools or gunfire. The subsequent ringing indicates damage to the tiny hair-like structures within the inne...

Nanotechnology – to detect and treat ovarian cance

...rian cancer earlier using highly sensitive imaging tools and develop drug carriers that can deliver therapeutic agents inside tumor cells." "A nanotechnology based approach is needed because diagnosis of early stage cancer requires the detection and characterization of very small quantities of biomarker,...

Three-Part Program To Lower Cholesterol

...ave to help them do it. This guide offers a set of tools to help people get started and to embrace a heart-healthier way of living," said the NHLBI's James Cleeman, M.D., coordinator of the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP). The 80-page easy-to-read booklet is based on the NCEP's guidelines o...

Latest Enhancements to the Free Access Grid Toolkit Now Available

...ation on which researchers can build collaborative tools for enabling discovery, allowing them to communica...d-class research efforts along with the knowledge, tools and facilities to revitalize high end computing and enable scientific leadership. The nation's fir...

From genes to alcoholism

...NIDA Director Dr. Nora D. Volkow. "We now have new tools that will allow us to better understand the physiological foundation of addiction." "This is an important contribution to studies of the genetics of alcoholism and co-occurring substance use disorders," adds Dr. Ting-Kai Li, director of the Nationa...

MitoChip v2.0 – the new Mitochondrial DNA sequencing too

The latest versions of High-tech laboratory tools such as computers with greater analytical capaciti...ell nucleus, scientists lacked the needed research tools throughout most of the 20th century to systematically study the chemical composition of the mitochon...

Study to Identify People at Risk of Alcoholism

...NIDA Director Dr. Nora D. Volkow. "We now have new tools that will allow us to better understand the physiological foundation of addiction." "This is an important contribution to studies of the genetics of alcoholism and co-occurring substance use disorders," adds Dr. Ting-Kai Li, director of the Nationa...

High -tech Mitochondrial DNA Sequencing Tool Updated

...ell nucleus, scientists lacked the needed research tools throughout most of the 20th century to systematica...tiguous genes. But because of the balky sequencing tools of the day and their high cost, much of the subsequent research progressed slowly or stalled. By ...

Feedback Loop Governing Ovarian Development Unraveled

...he ovary does this." There were no experimental tools to let her study the entire process. She needed to be able to test many genes, many conditions, and find markers of those conditions so the results would be visible under the microscope every step of the way. Over several years, Dr. Gilboa developed ...

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