Cutting calories slightly can reduce aging damage
...d damage happens, UF researchers tracked levels of biomarkers - chemicals and molecules present in the liver - i...stem. The researchers also plan to assess the same biomarkers in a study of rats' hearts, muscle and brains. The research team was surprised to find one of the b...Joslin discovers signs of residual islet cell function in people with long-term type 1 diabetes
...ed a subset of 125 people with type 1 diabetes for biomarkers of insulin function. Of this group, 12.7 percent h.... "This is the first study to look at the specific biomarkers for islet cell presence in people with a 50-year duration of insulin-dependent diabetes." Other Josl...Links between DNA damage and breast cancer studied
...obtained, may prove to be convenient and sensitive biomarkers for assessing oxidative DNA damage and for signaling an increased breast cancer risk. ...Precision biochemistry tracks DNA damage in fish
...nd others like them, can be used as very sensitive biomarkers to provide a direct measure of the impact of conta...he damage in the absence of further insults, these biomarkers also might be used to help assess the efficacy of pollution remediation efforts. The work was funded...The loss of a protein favors lung tumor growth
...at permit the detection of tumors of smaller size, biomarkers that make early detection possible, as well as a greater understanding of the alterations that occur. All of this in order to discover specific therapies for correcting these errors. ...Biomarkers may hone anti-aging therapies
...ell & Developmental Biology. "The quantifiable biomarkers we've characterized could be useful for monitoring... therapies that alter the aging process." The new biomarkers are changes to the DNA of cellular organelles called mitochondria. Mitochondria, which have their ow...AIDS-related cognitive impairment exists in two separate forms
...ish research team has found that just four protein biomarkers can predict death from colorectal cancer, independent of the stage or location of the cancer, or the age or gender of the patient. In this study, blood taken from 654 colorectal cancer patients just before they had surgery was retrospectively analyz...Markers of gene, protein, or micro-RNA activity predict outcome in prostate and colorectal cancers
...ish research team has found that just four protein biomarkers can predict death from colorectal cancer, independent of the stage or location of the cancer, or the age or gender of the patient. In this study, blood taken from 654 colorectal cancer patients just before they had surgery was retrospectively analyz...Pittsburgh researchers discover that certain chemicals in the blood may indicate brain injury
...Care Medicine, both at Children's, have found that biomarkers may able to assist in identifying infants who have...searchers were then able to determine how well the biomarkers established which children had SBS, which mostly likely had a routine childhood illness, and which w...Scientists closer to new cancer detection method
...remely complex fluid or tissue samples to pinpoint biomarkers - proteins that signal that something is amiss. "Even when the cancer biomarkers are in extremely low concentration we have been able to detect them," said Weihong Tan, Ph.D., a UF ......ted at Cambridge University. Researchers are using biomarkers in the shape of epiphytes ('air-plants' which grow on other plants) to find out how their photosynthesis and water evaporation have been affected by climate change over the last 50 years. Using types of epiphytes known as bromeliads, Monica Mejia-Ch...U-M researchers identify new blood test for prostate cancer
...ensive Cancer Center have identified a panel of 22 biomarkers that together provide a more accurate screening fo...rface, and were able to narrow the field to the 22 biomarkers that most often pinpointed the cancerous blood samples. More than 230,000 men will be diagnosed wi...Nanowires can detect molecular signs of cancer, scientists find
...cs and proteomics research has elucidated many new biomarkers that have the potential to greatly improve disease...he scientists write. "The availability of multiple biomarkers is believed to be especially important in the diagnosis of complex diseases like cancer, for which d...New mitochondrial DNA gene chip may be early cancer diagnosis tool
...liability of potential diagnostic techniques using biomarkers before further clinical evaluation in other laboratories of the EDRN. The lab found that full mitochondrial genome sequencing using capillary electrophoresis detected mtDNA changes associated with early cancer. In ongoing work, NIST is comparing capi...Fluorescing lab worms signal longer life spans
...pendently, he said. "We suspect several different biomarkers exist that represent the many different stress-res...vably analyze human fluid samples for a variety of biomarkers similar to HSP-16 in order to determine a person's life span, said Rea. "They might even be able to ...Life detection instrument passes key test on road to Mars
...instrument is a thousand times better at detecting biomarkers than any instrument put on Mars before." The instrument has been chosen to fly aboard the European Space Agency's ExoMars mission, now scheduled to launch in 2011. The MOA will be integrated with the Mars Organic Detector, which is being assembled b...Researchers Find New Technique To Identify Fetal Genetic Material From Amniotic Fluid
...mental research, as well as the cultivation of new biomarkers for assessment of the living fetus." ### (JAMA. 2005; 293:836-842. Available post-embargo at JAMA.com) Editor's Note: This study was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health. Co-authors Drs. Larrabee, Johnson, and Bianchi have f...Gov't Creates Gene Database of Normal Human Tissues
...es, immune-based vaccine treatments, and potential biomarkers to help with diagnosis," explained Javed Khan, M.D., chief of the Oncogenomics Section of NCI's Pediatric Oncology Branch. A study validating the database appears in the March 2005 issue of Genome Research. "The NCI database is an important addition...Biomarkers isolated from saliva successfully predict oral and breast cancer
...d neck cancers. "These results indicate that such biomarkers found in saliva, called salivary transcriptomes, can be exploited for robust, high-throughput and reproducible tools for early disease detection," said David T. Wong, professor and associate dean of research at the UCLA School of Dentistry and the Jo......o detect and validate infinitesimal amounts of the biomarkers in blood. Research by Klein and his colleagues su...d with billions and have already experimented with biomarkers for AIDS and prostate cancer. This research was supported by both NSF's Engineering Research Center...