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Scientists use stem cells to grow cartilage

...encouragement that replacement cartilage could one day be grown for transplantation. Cartilage is the dense connective tissue usually found between bones to allow the smooth movement of joints. Research to be published in Tissue Engineering shows how the Imperial team directed embryonic stem cells to ...

New GM mosquito sexing technique is step towards malaria control, report scientists

...amage through insecticides. This advance could one day make a major impact on the burden of ill health caused by malaria, and is another step towards how genetic modification can be used safely to deal with global problems." ...

Software might revolutionize glucose monitoring in critically ill patients

...itor glucose levels manually ten to twelve times a day and record their measurements on paper. A total of 179 patients were monitored using GRIP and 22nurses filled in a questionnaire about the program. Vogelzang et al.'s results show that 61% of the patients had theright glucose levels more than 75% o...

Womb needed for proper brain development

...e parts of the brain didn't change at all from the day the babies were born until they reached what would have been a full-term birth date." These results have clinical relevance in how premature babies are cared for, as they indicate that the early brain may be compromised by being subjected to complex...

PET imaging reveals the immune system at work

... The new research is important because it may one day aid physicians in the diagnosis and treatment of i... developed should now enable scientists -- and one day clinicians -- to observe the ebb and flow of the immune system over the course of an episode of dise...

Jefferson biologist coaxing human embryonic stem cells to make dopamine with simpler, faster method

... The new research is important because it may one day aid physicians in the diagnosis and treatment of i... developed should now enable scientists -- and one day clinicians -- to observe the ebb and flow of the immune system over the course of an episode of dise...

'Creationism is not science' ?making the case for Darwin at UCL

... Grant, a Darwinist, who opened it in 1828. On the day of the relaunch, the first "Annual Robert Grant Lecture" was given by the palaeontologist, Steven J Gould. This year's lecture promises to be just as topical as the first. Dr Helen Chatterjee, Curator of the Grant Museum of Zoology at UCL, said: "T...

Gene variation affects tamoxifen's benefit for breast cancer

...rther studies are needed, but researchers hope one day this finding may lead to a genetic test that could help doctors determine which women are most likely to benefit from tamoxifen. This type of test is not currently offered clinically. Rae and Daniel F. Hayes, M.D., director of breast oncology at t...

Seal rookeries could provide a reliable food source for endangered California condors, study finds

... Chamberlain concludes. "It would be fabulous some day to see condors feeding all along the coast, from Mexico to Canada, the way they did when the Europeans arrived here three centuries ago." ...

New research examines genetics of successful aging

...er understanding the aging process and perhaps one day enriching or extending the lives of other individuals." ...

Study shows combination of immune substances to be safe

...g, kidney and bladder and melanoma. On the first day of treatment, patients were given IL-12, initially by injection and then intravenously. That was followed by injections of interferon over the next five days. On average, patients received five such cycles over the course of the study. The drug com...

Expert dispels bird flu paranoia

...gies. "We're getting three or four phone calls a day from people wanting to know if they should sell their house because their neighbours have got birds. Some ways that bird owners can minimise risk are: Build pens to keep domesticated poultry away from wild birds. Stop domesticated poultry from a...

New technique puts brain-imaging research on its head

...ersity School of Medicine faculty in hopes of some day developing therapeutic remedies for traumatic brain injuries and concussions. "The most immediate application of our data will be in the development and validation of computer simulations of traumatic brain injury, which may ultimately reduce the ne...

Travelers can avoid jet lag by resetting their body clocks

...ticipants continued on this sleep schedule through day 10 of the study. Days 11 through 13 marked the tr.... The study ended with a final phase assessment on day 14. The researchers found that those given melatonin experienced significantly larger phase advance...

Targeted drug delivery achieved with nanoparticle-aptamer bioconjugates

...mal models of prostate cancer with the goal of one day using them on patients with hormone refractory prostate cancer where the current therapeutic modalities are far from adequate." These results mark the first ever example of targeted drug delivery using nanoparticle-aptamer bioconjugates. Significant...

Researchers use 'trickery' to create immune response against melanoma

...mal models of prostate cancer with the goal of one day using them on patients with hormone refractory prostate cancer where the current therapeutic modalities are far from adequate." These results mark the first ever example of targeted drug delivery using nanoparticle-aptamer bioconjugates. Significant...

Bees solve complex colour puzzles

...dings of the National Academy of Sciences, may one day lead to the design of autonomous robotic systems. In the UCL study, scientists from the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology trained bumblebees to find artificial flowers of a particular colour using a nectar reward. They then tested the bees' ability to ...

Stress substantially slows human body's ability to heal

... the results showed the following: Wounds took a day longer to heal after the arguments than they did a...that even this can bump the healing back an entire day for minor wounds says that wound-healing is a really sensitive process." Glaser added, "This suppo...

Scientist measures role of science's coolest player: The snow

What would the Earth be like if one fine day all the snow melted away? Obviously, it would be a much warmer place. But what's interesting is how much warmer, says Stephen Vavrus, an associate scientist at the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Working with com...

Common molecular 'signature' identified in solid tumors

...). Croce predicts that miRNAs themselves may one day be used as treatments. "If we can replace miRNAs that are lost and block those that are overly abundant, then maybe we can prevent some of the very earliest changes that happen in the development of cancer. There is a lot of work that still needs to ...

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