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Ancient DNA helps UF researchers unearth potential hemophilia therapy

...therine P. Ponder, M.D., an associate professor of medicine and a hemophilia researcher at Washington University in St. Louis. "They're a very attractive cell type to express it." It also was the first time researchers attempted such an approach on an animal so young. In adult mice, the immune system normall...

Free HIV tests cheaper than charging when goal is preventing AIDS

... an associate professor of infectious diseases and medicine at Duke University Medical Center. "Providing free...or John Crump, M.D., a Duke assistant professor of medicine who works full-time at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre in Tanzania. "One reason is because ...

Human trial proves ricin vaccine safe, induces neutralizing antibodies; further tests planned

..., said Dr. Robert Munford, a professor of internal medicine and a collaborator on the study. Based on the protection they observed in the mice injected with ricin mixed with human-produced antibodies, the researchers projected that a RiVax-vaccinated human could withstand a lethal dose of injected ricin. Ac...

Genetic key to growth of new arteries is identified

...of nephrology at SFVAMC, professor in residence of medicine at UCSF, and one of the co-authors of the study. The mice carried a marker gene, beta galactosidase, that turns tissues blue. Different strains of the mice had different fragments of the MMP2 gene coupled to the so-called blue gene. Leg muscles tur...

New peptide antibiotic isolated from American oyster

... any oyster species, he says. NC State veterinary medicine postdoctoral research associate Jung-Kil Seo, as well as scientists J. Myron Crawford and Kathryn L. Stone of Yale University's Keck Biotechnology Resource Laboratory, collaborated with Noga on the study."The results may be used to better understand ...

Scientists directly view immune cells interacting to avert autoimmunity

...pathology; and Richard Locksley, PhD, professor of medicine and an investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at UCSF. Other co-authors are Pau Serra, a graduate student, and Pere Santamaria, MD, PhD, professor of microbiology and infectious diseases, both at the University of Calgary. ...

Access to existing medical treatments could save more lives than spending to improve the treatments

...ished by a Virginia Commonwealth University family medicine and public health physician. "For every dollar Congress gives the National Institutes of Health to develop blockbuster treatments, it spends only one penny to ensure that Americans actually receive them," said Steven H. Woolf, M.D., professor and di...

Performing monkeys in Asia carry viruses that could jump species to humans

...in Seattle, Wash., a clinical instructor of family medicine at the UW, and a co-author on the study. "The animals may be sick or in bad shape there, and they're mixed with other animals that potentially could have pathogens, and then they're put into contact with a dense human population." In this study, the...

Expert dispels bird flu paranoia

... eat chicken and keep pet birds, according to bird medicine specialist Dr Bob Doneley. "The chances of getting bird flu off a pet bird or your neighbours birds are so infinitesimally small," UQ School of Veterinary Science Adjunct Professor Dr Doneley said. "You're more likely to have a light plane hit by...

Gene expression profile helps predict chemotherapy response in ovarian cancer patients

... Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. "However," he adds, "due to the lingering presence of chemotherapy-resistant cancer cells, most patients will unfortunately experience a relapse. The goal of our current research is to help determine which patients will ...

NIH launches comprehensive effort to explore cancer genomics

...as Pilot Project is a revolutionary step in cancer medicine that leverages advances in cancer biology, genomics technologies, biorepositories, and bioinformatics for the ultimate benefit of cancer patients. Key challenges for the TCGA Pilot Project include not only addressing cancer's complexity, but also dev...

Children overprescribed antibiotics for sore throat

...unts for 6 percent of visits by children to family medicine physicians and pediatricians, according to background information in the article. The most common manifestation of acute pharyngitis is sore throat. The main bacterial cause of sore throat and the only common cause of sore throat warranting antibioti...

Langerhans cells regulate immune reactions in the skin

...o senior author Shlomchik, professor of laboratory medicine and immunobiology at Yale, "We now have a new view of these cells, not just as sentinels or stimulators of immune reactions as previously thought, but more as peacekeepers with the environment, which poses a constant challenge to skin. Most such chal...

Johns Hopkins flu expert calls for mandatory vaccination of health care workers

...h promotion," says Perl, an associate professor of medicine and pathology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. "It's now time to go the extra step, requiring active declination or even making vaccination a mandatory part of the job, linked to patient safety, along with such tasks as keeping ha...

UCLA discovery will aid in treatment of patients with a deadly brain cancer

...an associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and a Jonsson Cancer Center researcher. Mischel and his colleagues say in an article in the Nov. 10 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine that the discovery could change the way doctors treat glioblastomas, the most common type of malignant b...

UK sperm donor crisis

...sday 10 November) in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction[1]. They reveal that ...ltant gynaecologist and specialist in reproductive medicine at the Newcastle Fertility Centre at LIFE, to call for a change of tactics in recruiting donors. ...

Feds give researchers ok for safety test of adult stem cells in patients with heart disease

... grafting (CABG). Dale Adler, M.D., vice chair of medicine at Case and UHC, will lead this study. The Harvard Clinical Research Institute (HCRI) has been contracted to help run the trial and will establish an independent data and safety monitoring board to ensure patient safety and data integrity. "This ...

Engineered Stem Cells Show Promise For Sneaking Drugs Into The Brain

...s and other neurodegenerative disorders is getting medicine to the right place in the brain. The brain is a c...n effectively integrate into the brain and deliver medicine where it is needed. The Wisconsin team obtained and grew large numbers of progenitor cells from hum...

Gene variation affects tamoxifen's benefit for breast cancer

...says Rae, research assistant professor of internal medicine at the U-M Medical School. "Our study suggests that women who inherit a genetic variant in the CYP2D6 gene appear to be at higher risk of relapse when treated with five years of tamoxifen." Researchers at the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center were amo...

Implantable pumps extend lives of patients too sick for transplant

...e control group, which was receiving the best care medicine has to offer, we can only keep ten percent of them alive after one year. We need to focus on this as a group of patients, since most are still in the prime of life and can still be quite productive." To be considered for the trial, patients had to b...

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