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St. Jude announces breakthrough in eye cancer treatment

...atal if left untreated. The new treatment holds promise for a simpler, more effective and less-toxic treatment for retinoblastoma that would eliminate the need for the current, complex therapy, according to senior author Michael Dyer, Ph.D., a Pew Scholar and associate member of the St. Jude Department of...

Antibiotic inhibits cancer gene activity

A little-known antibiotic shows early promise as an anti-cancer agent, inhibiting a gene found at higher-than-normal levels in most human tumors, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. Their findings appear in the Oct. 1 issue of Cancer Research....

Cloned mice created from fully differentiated cells, a milestone in cloning research

...lized cell type, they have been heralded for their promise for treating a variety of diseases and conditions. Yet, even for cloning of an embryo to the blastocyst stage, from which embryonic stem cells can be generated, adult stem cells have yielded disappointing results, with success rates in the range of 1...

Preliminary study finds holographic imaging system promising for cancer treatment planning

... University Medical Center in Chicago say it holds promise in the treatment of cancer. The Perspecta® Spatial 3D system, developed by Actuality Systems, Inc., creates holographic images inside a 24-inch dome. The full-color, full-motion system can display images of the body revealing the exact location of...

Bacteria in small sea life yield new way to make potential cancer drugs

...n lead to changes in small drug molecules. "The promise of genes is that you can access the tremendous natural diversity of the world's organisms to find new natural compounds for human health," Schmidt said. "You can also use genetic engineering to modify these compounds and invent new drugs to target hu...

Solution to bacterial mystery promises new drugs

... their membranes has led to a discovery that holds promise for effective, new antibiotics against these bacteria, according to investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The finding is significant because the biochemical step the antibiotic would block is not used by humans. Therefore, such a dr...

Molecular 'marker' on stem cells aids research, perhaps therapies

...ossible medical applications. The cells have shown promise in early clinical studies elsewhere, where scientists tested their use to repair bone defects and to attenuate the effects of bone loss in diseases such as osteoporosis. The study is available online and will be published in the Feb. 15 issue of th...

Researchers seek to design first treatment for neuroAIDS

Experimental drugs are showing promise against neuroAIDS, the nerve damage caused by HIV infection that lessens many patients' ability to think and move. As evidence of the progress, researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center today received a $7 million grant to confirm tha...

NHGRI aims to make DNA sequencing faster, more cost effective

...o seeing which of these technologies fulfill their promise and achieve the quantum leaps that are needed to take DNA sequencing to the next level." "$1,000 Genome" Grants NHGRI's "Revolutionary Genome Sequencing Technologies" grants have as their goal the development of breakthrough technologies that w...

Transplanted brain cells hold promise for Parkinson's disease

Transplanted neural stem cells hold promise for reducing the destruction of dopaminergic cells...but to us, it’s an indication that stem cells have promise for Parkinson’s disease," says Dr. Cesario V. Borlongan, neuroscientist at the Medical College of Ge...

LSD treatment for alcoholism gets new look

... experience saved their lives." In spite of the promise LSD showed as psychotherapy tool, its subsequent popularity as a street drug, and the perception of it as a threat to public safety, triggered a worldwide ban in the late 1960s--including its use in medical experiments. However, the ban on its use in...

Studies find general mechanism of cellular aging

... these cells as well. Sharpless cautions that any promise of a potential new aging treatment based on p16INK4a should include two important caveats. "First, even though old mice lacking p16INK4a show enhanced stem cell function, they do not live longer. This is because p16INK4a is an important cancer-sup...

Need to pull an all-nighter?

... slumber. Rosenberg sees the most pharmaceutical promise in developing drugs that prolong wakefulness by curbing production of nitric oxide or scavenging the gas once it's produced. The opposite ?a sleeping pill made from nitric oxide donors -- would be much harder, he says, since these compounds would lik...

'Erectile dysfunction' drugs heighten natural anti-cancer activity

...lood vessels and produce an erection now also show promise in unmasking cancer cells so that the immune system can recognize and attack them, say scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. Tests at Hopkins on mice with implanted colon and breast tumors showed that tumor size decreased two- and th...

Muscle and bone from an ink-jet printer

...ltaneously in the same culture dish. The long-term promise of this new technology could be the tailoring of tissue-engineered regenerative therapies. In preparation for preclinical studies, the Pittsburgh researchers are following up this work by combining the versatile ink-jet system with advanced live cell...

Novel mechanism of action of new drug for MS identified

...mechanism of action of a new drug that shows great promise for the treatment of multiple sclerosis. The researchers report the unique action of FTY720, or Fingolimod, an immunosuppressant drug that was already known to affect the functioning of the immune system by preventing the egress of white blood cells...

Replacing insulin is top-ranked breakthrough foreseen for health in developing world

...ies is treatable. Regenerative medicine holds the promise of more affordable treatments than corneal grafts ...eveloping countries, these technologies offer real promise in the field of health. It is a young field and there's great opportunity to shape it now while it ...

An artificial cornea is in sight, thanks to biomimetic hydrogels

...lymer that holds a lot of water. That material may promise a new view for at least 10 million people worldwide who are blind due to damaged or diseased corneas or many millions more who are nearsighted or farsighted due to misshapen corneas. Called Duoptix TM , the material can swell to a water content o...

Biologists probe the machinery of cellular protein factories

... to the development of novel antibiotics that hold promise for use against germs that have developed resistance to current drugs. Drug-resistant staph infections, for example, are a serious problem in hospitals. Noller's laboratory achieved breakthroughs in 1999 and 2001, producing the first high-resolutio...

Down syndrome: It's not just the age factor

...herapeutic restoration of a stringent screen holds promise not only for Down Syndrome." ...

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