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Twisted bypass grafts work better

...in the blood vessels, the blood flows twisting and turning as the artery goes. However in case of a shunt, the blood flows unhindered that can lead to difference in change of flows, stagnant areas etc which can cause health problems. That is why shunts may fail in a number of cases where they have been graft...

Controlled Gene Expressions Can Cure Many Diseases

...go on to create a protein. Current techniques for turning genes on or off focus on controlling the messenger RNA once it’s already produced. But blocking all the copies of messenger RNA before they can make a protein within a cell is akin to using a bucket to catch all the streams of water coming out of a y...

Integrin helps healing process in cells

...e second integrin essentially blocked laminin 5 by turning off the first integrin. These findings are reported in the April 30 issue of The Journal of Cell Biology. This breakthrough gives us the chance of unraveling the unknown truths of wound healing....

Revolution in surgery

...al heart bypasses. Doctors in Germany succeeded in turning a vein into an artery to bypass a blockage in the heart of a 53-year-old patient. The operation works a little like redirecting traffic. The blood is sent to the heart muscle instead of going to the heart's pumping chambers.// Dr Stephen Oesterle, ...

Heart Patients Use Alternative Medicine

...ealth System, found that heart patients seem to be turning to alternative therapies even more than the general population, even while they stick to mainstream drugs too.// "But they may not know that some of these substances could pose a hazard when taken with certain heart medications, and if they don't te...

Newborns Know how to make eye contact

...archers initially caught the infants' attention by turning on a tiny blinking light in the center of the screen. Once the infant focused on the screen, the light was turned off. Farroni and her colleagues videotaped the infants' eyes as they showed them the two photographs. The babies looked more often towa...

Malignant virus in polio vaccine combined to Cancer

... that proteins from SV40 have a powerful effect in turning off tumor suppressor genes in humans. Gazdar and the other researchers said that the recent SV40 discoveries also could help lead to effective cancer treatment, by using SV40 as a target for therapies. ``A vaccine targeting SV40 in mesothelioma is n...

An Enzyme That Turns a One –time Experience into a long-time Memor

...nzyme protein kinase C plays a fundamental role in turning a one-time event into a lasting memory. The enzyme activates genes to express certain proteins. How the enzyme is related to gene expression is currently under study. Current research is trying to identify the genes associated with memory in mice. H...

Yet Another Use For Botox

...ike restlessness and fatigue. Some doctors are now turning to Botox as an alternative to drug therapy. Botox has a very local treatment, so you do not get side effects related to it, and it works right in the area that is involved with gastroparesis. Botox is injected into the muscle that sits at the end of ...

East Or West Yoga Is The Best

More people in the West are turning to yoga now to keep themselves fit physically as well as mentally. "Yoga provides a good feeling and enormous satisfaction," Kumud Schramm of the German yoga association said// . "If you practise yoga regularly you become more alert and are not t...

Genetic Tests Could Become As Affordable As Blood Tests

... ways where you can transform DNA into a metal, or turning DNA into semiconductors." He also plans to try DNA printing with other things like proteins, antibodies and viruses. --IANS...

Nobel For Ulcer-Defying Aussie Scientists

...iscovery has helped millions of ulcer sufferers by turning around the focus of the treatment of ulcers to antibiotics and related drugs. "To be honest we knew it was an important discovery right from the start, but it of course took quite a few years to convince everybody else of that," said Dr Marshall of h...

Sugar Helps Control Cell Division

...CK-nack), is used inside cells to modify proteins, turning the proteins off or on, helping or preventing their interactions with other proteins, keeping them from destruction or allowing their destruction. The comings and goings of the sugar on proteins seem to be important controllers of cell division, say ...

DNA Identity Mix-Up In Bone Marrow Donors, And Miscarriages Of Justice Involved

...be informed of the small risk of their DNA profile turning up in a crime database if the recipient later commits an offence. Medindia on Bone marrow: Bone marrow is the tissue present inside our long bones, which are responsible for producing blood cells. It contains stem cells, the base for producing re...

Discovery of a built-in 'fat sensor'

...for dieters if researchers can figure out a way of turning it off to make fatty foods less tempting....

Canadians flocking to India for quick and efficient medical treatment

...g. Patients who suffered in silence so far are now turning to the World Wide Web to find medical help in India, where they are assured of speedy-and inexpensive treatment for their maladies. Businesses in major Canadian cities are making a quick buck arranging trips for ailing Canadians seeking medical help...

Aussie teens applauded for declining sun tan

Australian teenagers are turning their backs on tanning amid growing concerns over skin cancer, according to The Cancer Council's National Sun Survey. The survey shows that teenagers are resisting the urge to tan because of skin cancer risks. // The Survey interviewed 5,073 Austral...

Cervical Cancer Can Now Be Better Handled With Gene Silencing Therapy

...cervical cancer. The technique is targeted towards turning // the cancer causing genes on and off to help cer...successful in killing the cervical cancer cells by turning of the production of these genes in cancer cells. Furthermore, gene silencing was found to enhance t...

Malaria Vaccine May Be 10 Years Away

...o produce in mass quantities. Medical workers are turning to a new drug called artemisinin, derived from an herb indigenous to Asia. Drawing on lessons learned from treating HIV and AIDS, doctors are using artemisinin with other drugs. But production is slow and expensive. 'It's a plant that takes 18 month...

Guidelines For Better Management Of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

...d defects in their appearance, with many sufferers turning to surgery instead of psychiatry for treatment. The guidelines launched with the aim to improve the identification, diagnosis and treatment of OCD, stress that specialist teams should be established in every primary care trust to diagnos...

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