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A large step forward in the fight against African sleeping sickness

... The recently published research results offer new possibilities for people who have contracted this disease. >African sleeping sickness About 400,000 people worldwide suffer from the deadly African sleeping sickness. The disease produces severe sleep disorders that ultimately end in coma, followed by death. ...

New weapon in battle against osteoporosis

...normal bone mass; they also open up completely new possibilities for therapy: "In many women with osteoporosis the CB2 receptor functions, so in their cases the disease has other causes. For them we could consider stimulating the receptor through medication and in this way slow down their bone loss." The possibili...

Computer scientist sorts out confusable drug names

...dministration (FDA) has been working to reduce the possibilities of these errors, such as a documented case in which a patient needed an injection of Narcan but received Norcuron and went into cardiac arrest. A few years ago, the FDA turned to Project Performance Corporation (PPC), a U.S. software company, to en...

Microscopic scaffolding offers a 'simple' solution to treating skin injuries

... in the next few years. The technology also offers possibilities for testing the toxicity of cosmetic and similar products, using materials grown in the laboratory that closely resemble natural skin. "Ultimately, we can envisage treatment of burns victims and the undertaking of reconstructive surgery using the ...

Delft water-purification method promises radical improvement

...Technology has a long tradition in researching the possibilities of water purification with aerobic granular sludge. The maturation of the technology is largely due to the research conducted by De Kreuk. During her PhD research with Prof. Mark van Loosdrecht, De Kreuk ?working together with DHV engineering bureau ...

UCLA scientists strengthen case for life more than 3.8 billion years ago

...n in the absence of life, Harrison considers those possibilities to be "extremely unlikely," especially in light of another discovery of rocks in Western Greenland, not far away, of the same age, and a similar ratio of 12C to 13C. The scientists see light carbon inclusions in a phosphate mineral called apatite, ...

Virtual realities against pain

... The ADTs simulate real-life situations, and the possibilities are infinite. For example, until now users could choose between taking a flight, driving, downhill skiing, exploring buildings and many more activities. In this study, peer-reviewed publications on ADTs and pain have been reviewed to determine the...

Researchers find cause of frontotemporal dementia

...n underlies FTD. New diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities This discovery does not directly result in a new remedy for FTD patients ?a lot more research is needed for that. But this finding does offer the prospect of a new treatment for FTD and possibly also for other diseases of the brain that entail the d...

Researchers unveil strategy for creating actively-programmed anti-cancer molecules

...d Lerner. "This new hybrid technology offers great possibilities for the enhanced treatment and diagnosis of a vari...ammed antibodies in vivo or in vitro, widening the possibilities for their therapeutic application. The compound could be created in vitro and delivered as a convent...

Report focuses on the role good microbes play in future medicine

...thwarting autoimmune disorders. A number of these possibilities are being explored in research labs and hospitals around the world," says Richard Walker of the Food and Drug Administration, a co-chair of the steering committee that produced the report. Probiotics can help prevent and treat disease through a numb...

UBC researchers find stroke death channel

...ch Chair in Neuroscience. "This finding offers new possibilities for stroke therapies and reinforces the value of investing in basic science research." When stroke occurs, hemichannels can form outside the junction and leak chemicals. The process drastically disrupts levels of critical brain cell ingredients such...

K-Staters design and build a low-cost remote sensing tool for environmental studies

...ng tool for nonmilitary applications opens up many possibilities for collecting reliable data in tricky or dangerous settings, such as studying dispersal of a smoke plume during a prairie fire; checking smokestack emissions; counting livestock in the pens at a feedlot; or checking crop fields for problem areas, fo...

Better sludge through metagenomics

...e a blueprint of the genes and hence the metabolic possibilities of the wastewater environment, with a view to understanding how the system works and predicting and averting failures or crashes. "This is a first step in a much broader strategy employing a systems biology approach to the study of microbial commun...

Microcapsules like it hot and salty

...view Letters, November 3, 2006). This opens up new possibilities for using the capsules to transport active substances in the body, as components of self-repairing car paints or as microsensors and micropumps. Ideally, medicines should only go to the sick regions of the body to prevent side-effects and to be as...

PLoS ONE is launched by the Public Library of Science

... else can benefit from the resulting dialogue. The possibilities are without limit, and the applications of this technology will no doubt hold some surprises. The beta version5 of PLoS ONE that is launched today is a work-in-progress. It is presented in beta because PLoS wishes the community to help shape PLoS O...

Three-dimensional, miniature endoscope opens new diagnostic possibilities

...es that other imaging tools cannot reach opens new possibilities for medical diagnosis and eventually treatment." Standard miniature endoscopic devices ?which give physicians access to hard-to-reach internal organs and structures ?utilize bundles of optical fibers to supply light to and transmit images from the ...

Embryonic patterning makes the feathers fly

...stions in evolutionary biology, and on new biotech possibilities including tissue engineering....

Mysterious 'neural noise' actually primes brain for peak performance

...the cranial world seems to be a confusing array of possibilities and probabilities, all of which are somehow, myste...arently designed in a similar manner--"coding" the possibilities it encounters into a format that makes it tremendously easier to compute an answer. Pouget now pr...

Edible coatings will be the packaging of the future

... application is yet to materialize. There are many possibilities ?on the one hand, they will prolong the useful life of foodstuffs in a healthy way and, on the other, they will be very beneficial for the environment given that they will reduce the use of plastics. Despite the advantages presented by the experts,...

Newts which regrow their hearts

...olved in regeneration in the newt will open up new possibilities for the repairing human patients’ damaged hearts. ...

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