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Scientists use gene transfer technology and common virus to block neuropathic pain

...e what it's like to have that burning pain in your hands or feet all the time and know there's virtually nothing you can do about it. It's called neuropathic pain, and it's a common complication of many diseases and medical conditions, especially diabetes. Drugs have little effect on this type of pain, wh...

LIAI scientists make major finding on potential smallpox treatment

...les of the smallpox virus may have fallen into the hands of terrorists at some point. This concern has led to the creation of worldwide stockpiles of the smallpox vaccine over the last several years. Kronenberg said that if further study continues to validate the safety and effectiveness of Dr. Crotty's...

FDA: 'Highly Unlikely' Green Tea Lowers Cancer Risk

...he da Vinci robot is an extension of the surgeon's hands in a way not previously possible with minimally in... "Robotic surgery allows us to virtually place our hands inside the patient without the need for large incisions," Boggess said. After sleeve placement, the...

Screen all at risk for HIV, plus pregnant women

...he da Vinci robot is an extension of the surgeon's hands in a way not previously possible with minimally in... "Robotic surgery allows us to virtually place our hands inside the patient without the need for large incisions," Boggess said. After sleeve placement, the...

Surgical Robot 'Scrubs In' At UNC, May Be More Precise Than Conventional Surgery

...he da Vinci robot is an extension of the surgeon's hands in a way not previously possible with minimally in... "Robotic surgery allows us to virtually place our hands inside the patient without the need for large incisions," Boggess said. After sleeve placement, the...

Scientists use gene transfer technology and common virus to block neuropathic pain in animals

...e what it's like to have that burning pain in your hands or feet all the time and know there's virtually nothing you can do about it. David Fink, M.D.It's called neuropathic pain, and it's a common complication of many diseases and medical conditions, especially diabetes. Drugs have little effect on this ...

Results of world's first gene therapy trial for arthritis show approach safe, feasible

...urgery involving the four knuckles on one of their hands and one additional joint. In the weeks prior to joint replacement surgery, synovial tissue was removed from the additional joint that required surgery. Cells from the tissue were then cultured for several weeks, after which time half the cells had th...

Monkeypox mystery: New research may explain why 2003 outbreak in the US wasn't deadly

...m Congo, we might have had a bigger problem on our hands and very well might have seen patient deaths." Researchers from the University of Victoria, Washington University School of Medicine, U.S. Army Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, the University of Alabama, East Carolina University and the Ce...

Beetle-inspired switch uses water for bonding

...ogy bridges the gap between scales as large as our hands and nanoscales," said Steen. "We need devices that allow us to communicate between the two scales." Co-authors include Michael Vogel, a postdoctoral researcher in Cornell's Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and researcher Peter ...

Stem cell training program to make its Stanford debut

...hange completely.?/p> “We actually have in our hands now the ability to do things that a chemist might not be able to do, or if a chemist was able to do it, it could be expensive and time-consuming,?said Noel. “I think it’s a completely novel way to approach the whole area of bio-prospecting and new na...

Promiscuous Catalytic Activity Possessed by Novel Enzyme Structure

...hange completely.?/p> “We actually have in our hands now the ability to do things that a chemist might not be able to do, or if a chemist was able to do it, it could be expensive and time-consuming,?said Noel. “I think it’s a completely novel way to approach the whole area of bio-prospecting and new na...

Purdue scientists may have found key to halting spinal cord damage

...lleague Richard Borgens and I have already had our hands in developing PEG, a substance that coats damaged spinal cells so that their membranes can heal and also oscillating field stimulator implants that encourage the tissue to regenerate," Shi said. "We are hopeful that detoxifying acrolein will allow do...

Determining The Fate Of Cells In The Human Body

...defects - holes in the heart, cleft pallet, webbed hands -- which are outcomes of inappropriate molecular programs due to miscommunication at the cellular level. If we can understand what is going wrong, we may be able to correct these problems before birth," said Dr. Firulli. Co-authors of the study are ...

Carnegie Mellon scientists develop tool that uses MRI to visualize gene expression in living animals

..., with our approach, we have put this job into the hands of the molecular biologist. Using off-the-shelf molecular biology tools we can now enable living cells to change their MRI contrast via genetic instructions." "The new imaging method is a platform technology that can be adapted for many tissue types...

Study: Soap And Water Work Best In Ridding Hands Of Disease Viruses

... disease-causing viruses than simply washing one’s hands with good old-fashioned soap and water. Among the...ers tested what happened when people cleaned their hands for only 10 seconds, Sickbert-Bennett said. That represented the average length of time researchers ...

New Technique for Tracking Gene Regulators

...s role in the research. “It’s as if we have in our hands agiant book of life, but we are barely beginning to learn how to readit.?“Our technique gives us a new way to index the code, to find the placeswhere regulators act ?where the on/off switches are that determinewhich genes are at work in different typ...

Newly discovered virus linked to childhood lung disorders and Kawasaki disease

...e mouth or throat,rash, redness or swelling of the hands or feet, and swollen cervicallymph nodes. The investigators then analyzed respiratory secretionsfrom 11 children diagnosed with Kawasaki disease and 22 childrenwithout the disease. Eight (73 percent) of the Kawasaki patients butonly one (5 percent) o...

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