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UF researchers kill resistant bugs one bandage at a time

...und cleaner because it will keep the bacteria from getting back into the wound." Clinical trials of the coating in gauze will be conducted at UF later this year. Controlling moisture and staving off infection are two of the most important aspects of wound healing, said Jeffrey M. Davidson, Ph.D., president...

Researchers make 'embryonic-like' stem cells from umbilical cord blood

...lt to obtain enough cells to transplant as well as getting the right tissue type for the patient," Dr McGucki...million babies a year, there is a better chance of getting the right tissue type for the many patients out there waiting for stem cell therapy. There is also f...

Insight into the processes of 'positive' and 'negative' learners

...lt to obtain enough cells to transplant as well as getting the right tissue type for the patient," Dr McGucki...million babies a year, there is a better chance of getting the right tissue type for the many patients out there waiting for stem cell therapy. There is also f...

Can two killers make a cure?

...d one of the problems in developing a treatment is getting a working version of CFTR into a high enough proportion of cells to restore normal lung function. While HIV is good at adding genes to cells' genomes, it does not target lung epithelial cells. Ebola binds strongly to these cells, so Gary Kobinger at...

Researchers propose measures to curb lion attacks in Tanzania

...lt to obtain enough cells to transplant as well as getting the right tissue type for the patient," Dr McGucki...million babies a year, there is a better chance of getting the right tissue type for the many patients out there waiting for stem cell therapy. There is also f...

Computers close in on protein structure prediction

...h possible shapes," Baker said. "Where we were not getting the right answer on the computer, it was almost always the case that the actual structure had the lowest energy, so we would have succeeded if we had explored this part of the space." In a related paper published in the August issue of the journal ...

Researchers report breakthrough against world’s deadliest viruses

... the field, but it's satisfying to know that we're getting closer." According to Dr. Geisbert, this is the first vaccine system, or platform, that has protected nonhuman primates from both Ebola and Marburg. "In addition, the vaccine targets dendritic cells, which are the same cells that Ebola and Marburg a...

'Cookbook recipes' would cure disease with nontoxic DNA delivery systems

...ple, but delivering DNA to the proper location and getting the right amount of DNA expression without killing innocent cells has become the Achilles' heel in DNA delivery. Positively charged (cationic) synthetic molecules will readily bond to negatively charged DNA molecules and have been used for DNA deliv...

MSKCC researchers uncover structure of key protein complex in cells

...ruction. But in cells with damaged DNA, p53 evades getting tagged with ubiquitin to allow its accumulation, thus enabling the p53 suppressor protein to stifle the formation of tumors. Three scientists -- two Israelis and an American -- were awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work showing th...

Virginia Tech football player uses prototype cast

...ch vs. Boston College game. An added advantage to getting the design completed so quickly is that the biomaterials class is linked to the campus of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Virginia Tech spearheaded a partnership with this medical school in 2001, and formed the School of Biomedical Eng...

Scientists get first glimpse at how plants, most animals repair UV-damaged DNA

...said Zhong. "So we humans have more of a chance of getting skin cancer than an insect or a frog." Scientists would like to develop drugs that use photolyase's mechanism to repair UV damage in human skin, but they've had trouble with the first steps ?replicating the photolyase reaction in the laboratory, and...

What Makes The Brain Tick, Tick, Tick: Researchers Gaining New Insights Into Brain's Internal Clock

... from communicating, to orchestrating movement, to getting food, they said. In a review article in the October 2005 Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Buhusi and Meck discuss the current state of understanding of one of the brain's most important, and mysterious, clocks -- the one governing timing intervals in th...

Anti-cancer Compound In Beer Gaining Interest

...preventive properties, and the only way people are getting any of it right now is through beer consumption." Xanthohumol was actually first discovered in 1913, isolated as a yellow substance found in hops. Researchers started studying its molecular structure in the 1950s, but for decades the only people who...

Brains response to visual stimuli helps us to focus on what we should see, rather than all there is to see

...tudy demonstrates that neuroscientists "are really getting down to real nuts and bolts of cell type specificity, meaning that different types of neurons have different function, just like different blood cells perform different roles," he said. "We are not satisfied any more just to say what happens within a...

Careless reporting on HIV 'could cost lives'

...nd. This high variability shows the difficulty in getting information from trial organisers, says Mills. Mills, who used to run clinical trials but now works on human rights aspects of HIV trials, acknowledges that it is difficult to say what led the Cambodian prime minister and Cameroon's Ministry of Publ...

K-State researchers study insects' immune system

How insects avoid getting diseases they can carry and spread to humans is the focus of research at Kansas State University. Mike Kanost, university distinguished professor of biochemistry and head of the department of biochemistry, and researchers in his lab are studying how...

Prostate cancer uses Wnt signaling proteins to promote growth of bone tumors

...n, we may be able to prevent metastatic cells from getting a foothold in bone." In future research, U-M scientists will try to identify which of the nearly 20 known Wnt proteins is involved in bone changes associated with metastatic prostate cancer. ...

University of Delaware researchers develop cancer 'nanobomb'

... to succeed." Panchapakesan added, "We are just getting started in this area. There is plenty of work ahead to successfully translate this into clinical medicine." In addition to treatment, he believes nanotechnology can provide new tools for cancer diagnosis through the use of tiny nanosensors. "In th...

Gene therapy for muscular dystrophy fixes frail muscle cells in animal model, Stanford study finds

...nt techniques with variable success. One hurdle is getting genes into muscle cells all over the body. Another is convincing those cells to permanently produce the therapeutic protein made by those genes. The gene therapy technique Rando and postdoctoral fellow Carmen Bertoni, PhD, used was developed by Mic...

Seaweed yields new compounds with pharmaceutical potential

...place, she added. Because of the long timeframe in getting a drug to market, the project in Fiji provides other immediate conservation and economic development benefits to villagers and the government. ...

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