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New study shows patients more willing to consider self-injectable HIV therapy than many physicians anticipate

...s implement improved care to HIV patients and help pave the way for better acceptance and integration of other new innovative drugs such as monoclonal antibodies that are increasingly being developed for the management of HIV and other diseases. The study was conceived to look at attitudes to FUZEON (e...

Research Permits First-Ever Visualization of Psychological Stress in the Human Brain

...aging marker of psychological stress -- which will pave the way for the development of improved strategies for preventing or correcting the long-term health consequences of chronic stress. The researchers' study appears in the November 21 online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ...

Locusts' built-in 'surface analysis' ability directs them to fly overland

...urce of "surface analysis" ?a discovery that could pave the way for efforts to effectively combat this periodic scourge by controlling their natural inclination to fly over land rather than water. The desert locusts, known scientifically as Schistocerca gregaria, are able to swarm for great distances and...

Elderly mice yield clues to the process of growing old

...DNA defects or improved mitochondrial function may pave the way for strategies to retard aging. "The idea would be to reduce the level of cell death and improve function. If that pans out, then we can begin to think about pharmaceutical interventions to retard aging by preserving mitochondrial function." ...

NIH renews network focused on how genes influence drug responses

Findings will pave the way for individually tailored therapiesContinuing its strong support for studies on how genes affect responses to medications, the National Institutes of Health anticipates spending more than $150 million over five years to renew its Pharmacogene...

Researchers extend mouse lifespan by protecting against free radicals

...tifying these steps and pathways, scientists could pave the way for future development of drugs or other treatments that protect the body from free radicals and possibly some age-related conditions. "People used to only focus on specific age-related diseases, because it was believed that the aging proces...

Computational Tool Predicts How Drugs Work In Cells, Advancing Efforts To Design Better Medicines

...only validate the tool’s capability but could also pave the way to investigations of a potentially new class of therapeutic compounds. In addition to Gardner, Collins, Schaus, and Elliott, the research team included Diego di Bernardo, an investigator at the Telethon Institute for Genetics and Medicine in...

Structure-building cell signals also may influence learning and memory

...t immediately applicable to treating disease, they pave the way for future experiments on the roles played by ephrins in memory, learning, and other nerve cell functions, and potentially even in certain cancers. By inserting chicken ephrin genes into rat cells, Fumitoshi Irie, Ph.D., Professor Yu Yamaguc...

OneWorld Health drug receives 'Orphan' designation from U.S. and European regulatory agencies

...ption from certain registration fees, and may help pave the way for approvals in other countries. OneWorld Health will file for approval of paromomycin in India this year where the need is greatest. It will begin the drug approval process with the FDA and/or the EMEA next year. "We are pleased with the ...

Discovery Could Lead To Novel Approaches In HIV Treatment

...lymphocyte production by the thymus.These findings pave the way to the development of novel immunotherapiesof HIV-infected individuals. Such immunotherapies could be alsoapplicable to patients requiring bone marrow transplantation to curetheir cancer....

Wisconsin scientists grow critical nerve cells

...d one day help victims of spinal-cord injuries, or pave the way for novel treatments of degenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. With healthy cells grown in the lab, scientists could, in theory, replace dying motor neurons to restore function a...

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