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Uniform tungsten trimers stand and deliver

...n a single layer of titanium oxide crystals ?holds promise as a platform for studying the behavior of early transition metal oxides. White noted, "While we have created the smallest nano-cluster of a uniform size you can imagine, it is a real oxide. The tungsten is in its normal oxide state. In principle, yo...

Biofuel cells without the bio cells

...nough to be commercially viable but they offer the promise of breaking down sewage and other biological waste while generating electricity directly from the same process. An example, Squier said, is a self-powering sewage treatment plant. Using pure protein opens up the possibility of shrinking biofuel cel...

Cardiologist's 'living chip' changes science of disease monitoring

... in developing new inventions, immediately saw the promise in Rosero's idea and enlisted the assistance of High Tech Rochester. "This type of product is referred to as a 'disruptive technology,'" said John Fahner-Vihtelic, deputy director of the Office of Technology Transfer. "It has the potential to chan...

Proteins anchor memories in our brain

... autoimmune disease." "The finding supports the promise of treatments targeting individual body proteins or antigens since we have shown that a single self-antigen can trigger disease," he added. A similar mechanism may be at play involving other autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, Anderson sai...

Autoimmune disease triggered if T cells miss a single protein early on

... autoimmune disease." "The finding supports the promise of treatments targeting individual body proteins or antigens since we have shown that a single self-antigen can trigger disease," he added. A similar mechanism may be at play involving other autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, Anderson sai...

Plague proteome reveals proteins linked to infection

...iomarkers associated with disease progression show promise as detection tools in public health and biodefense and can guide drug and vaccine designers in their quest to disrupt the microbe’s ability to infect. Y. pestis is the bacterium that caused the infamous Black Death plagues. Fleas are vectors for ...

Malaria vaccine prompts victims' immune system to eliminate parasite from mosquitoes

...th. "The experimental malaria vaccine shows great promise for combating a terrible disease that exacts a devastating toll on the world's children." The vaccine was developed by researchers in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Laboratory of Developmental and Molecular Immunity,...

Protect patients from exploitation by alternative medicines industry

...t, avoid this, and really believe this then we can promise you sincerely that you will be cured. And if the patient is not cured, it is the patient who has failed, not the alternative therapy. The patient has let down the alternative practitioner and disappointed his family who have encouraged his “treat...

Five new technologies that promise to transform medicine

...tions: these are some of the new technologies that promise to transform medicine, according to this week's Christmas issue of the BMJ. The forecasts are made by Professor Donald Combs of the Eastern Virginia Medical School and are based on existing technologies that are in varying stages of development and ...

A new jump start for aging blood vessels

Recent studies show promise for significantly reducing vascular aging by inactivating TNFa, which has been linked to blood vessel dysfunction and cell death. The related report by Csiszar et al., "Vasculoprotective effects of anti-TNFa treatment in aging," appears in the Janua...

Fat stem cells being studied as option for breast reconstruction

...t disease or regenerate tissue is believed to hold promise because of their potential to develop into different specialized cell types. Indeed, when exposed to specific conditions in the laboratory, fat-derived stem cells have been shown to differentiate into cells characteristic of those from tissues such a...

MIT nanoparticles may help detect, treat tumors

...nto a cancerous tumor. Nanoparticles also hold the promise of carrying medicines that could kill cancer cells, replacing radiation or chemotherapy treatments that cause negative side effects such as hair loss or nausea. The researchers hold a provisional patent on their work. ...

Scientists identify 36 genes, 100 neuropeptides in honey bee brains

...research," the researchers wrote, "it demonstrates promise for neuropeptide discovery in the large number of other new genomes currently being sequenced." ...

Crohn's disease gene identified

...ients with Crohn's disease, it also highlights the promise of the human genome project and subsequent investments by the NIH in large scale, collaborative research projects to unravel the causes of, and hopefully better treatments for complex, enigmatic diseases," said Stephen P. James, M.D., director of the...

Stem cell expansion

...volved in stem cell maintenance and had shown some promise for stem cell expansion in mice. To investigate the potential of HOXB4 treatment for HSC expansion before transplantation in humans, Kiem and colleagues therefore turned to nonhuman primates, an established preclinical model for HSC transplantation a...

Test reveals effectiveness of potential Huntington's disease drugs

...eatment and indicate that memantine holds the most promise based on its in vitro efficacy," Dr. Bezprozvanny said. "Whole animal studies of memantine in an HD mouse model will be required to validate these findings." ...

Bacteria could make new library of cancer drugs that are too complex to create artificially

...enerating analogues of streptorubin B with all the promise that holds for the development of new anti cancer drugs"...

Clot-busting drug helps revive cardiac arrest patients

...93 percent of them die. "Clot-busting agents show promise as a new therapy for this abrupt and catastrophic loss of heart function," said William P. Bozeman, M.D., an emergency medicine specialist at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and lead author on the study, reported in the June issue of th...

Embryos exposed in 3-D

...tial to become a valuable tool to help realize the promise of regenerative medicine, a field that scientists believe could produce significant breakthroughs in the treatment of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, bone injury and many other acute and chronic conditions. Lisa Bradbury, Ph.D., Director, R&D C...

New technology enables faster, more efficient cell harvest: Cell therapy meeting study

...tial to become a valuable tool to help realize the promise of regenerative medicine, a field that scientists believe could produce significant breakthroughs in the treatment of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, bone injury and many other acute and chronic conditions. Lisa Bradbury, Ph.D., Director, R&D C...

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