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Blood-compatible nanoscale materials possible using heparin

..."Our results show these novel materials have great promise in the development of improved medical devices that are blood compatible." The research team is led by Robert Linhardt, the Ann and John H. Broadbent Jr. '59 Senior Constellation Professor of Biocatalysis and Metabolic Engineering at Rensselaer, an...

Diabetes research takes wing thanks to long-lived fruit fly

...ercent longer than the average fly? Because of its promise for human health. New findings on aging, diabetes, and stress converge on the fly the team created. Later this month Bohmann will discuss the fly's implications for aging and health at a symposium in Sweden sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundations an...

UCLA study of community health project shows how group dynamics affect fitness, eating habits

...ronment must change. "The model we studied holds promise for extending the reach of worksite wellness programming to organizations, at-risk populations and communities not traditionally engaged by such efforts," she added. "However, many obstacles to organizational and individual engagement are apparent. R...

Brain-computer link lets paralyzed patients convert thoughts into actions

...d chief scientific officer of Cyberkinetics, "hold promise to one day be able to activate limb muscles with these brain signals, effectively restoring brain-to-muscle control via a physical nervous system." "Our researchers initiated the clinical trial with the hope of being able to develop a non-obtrusiv...

Allergy battle could be won in five years, says scientist

...ts do not 'travel' with allergy sufferers. "ADIs promise to be significantly better because taking a medicine is easier than rigorous housework and pills are portable." Professor Garrod, who is based within Manchester's Faculty of Life Sciences, said work on the first ADI chemical was well advanced and p...

New research examines genetics of successful aging

...fying such genetic and behavioral factors may hold promise for better understanding the aging process and perhaps one day enriching or extending the lives of other individuals." ...

Gold nanoparticles could improve antisense cancer drugs

...proteins such as those that cause cancer, have the promise to be more effective than conventional drugs, but the pace of development of these new drugs has been slow. Using gold nanoparticles combined with DNA, scientists at Northwestern University now have demonstrated a new method for developing antisense...

Protein-coated dental implants could improve bone regeneration

...led bone morpheonetic proteins ?have already shown promise as a regeneration therapy for craniofacial reconstruction. "None of us had any idea at the time how or if those proteins could be useful in treating tooth loss," Dr. Wikesjö says. To find out, researchers placed the proteins around teeth and impl...

Schepens scientists are first to discover angiogenesis switch inside blood vessel cells

... "This is a significant discovery that holds great promise for future treatments," says principal investigator and senior Schepens scientist, Dr. Andrius Kazlauskas, who adds that scientists have long suspected an "intracellular" switching process, but until now have known very little about it. "Current drug...

Scientists discover why cornea is transparent and free of blood vessels, allowing vision

...a profound scientific mystery, but also hold great promise for preventing and curing blinding eye disease and illnesses such as cancer, in which blood vessels grow abnormally and uncontrollably, since this phenomenon, present in the cornea normally, can be used therapeutically in other tissues. "This is a ...

Injection may prevent infertility in men receiving cancer chemotherapy

...e analysis results. "These results hold out much promise for fertility preservation in men undergoing cancer treatments", he said. "We now intend to study the mechanism of protection, which is still unclear. Our work suggests that in addition to the direct damage caused by the treatment, significant tes...

Novel therapy combinations gain ground in treating hepatitis

...treatment using a new antiviral therapy is showing promise in suppressing the virus, according to a phase II US multi-center study. The therapy, valopicitabine, has shown anti-HCV activity alone and in combination with pegIFN (pegylated interferon) in early trials, without viral breakthrough for study perio...

Research highlights how bacteria produce energy

...y in Orlando, Florida. "Microbial fuel cells show promise for conversion of organic wastes and renewable biomass to electricity, but further optimization is required for most applications," says Derek Lovley of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Earlier this month, Lovley announced at a meeting th...

NHGRI announces latest sequencing targets

...f a high-quality DNA sample and the selected bat's promise as a biomedical model. NHGRI has recently approved the sequencing of the horse (Equus caballus) to high-density genome coverage. A set of five fungi known as dermatophytes, which are the most common sources of human fungal disease, will also have t...

New tiger report release: Tiger habitat down from just a decade ago

...ian Far East and India. Southeast Asia also holds promise to sustain healthy tiger populations although many areas have lost tigers over the last 10 years. "As tiger range spans borders, so must tiger conservation," said Eric Dinerstein, chief scientist and vice president of conservation science at World ...

Magnetism and mimicry of nature hold hope for better medicine, environmental safety

... advances in medicine and environmental protection promise to emerge from a new method for biochemical analys...re less power to operate, he says. It also holds promise for improving public safety and homeland security efforts, Picraux says. The method could aid in mor...

MIT 'seeing machine' offers hope to blind

...asier to see and read. But although the SLO held promise as more than a diagnostic device, it had serious drawbacks. In addition to the prohibitive cost, the SLO is large and bulky. Goldring determined to develop a more practical machine for the broader blind public. She did so by collaborating over the ...

Finding a better way to make biodiesel

...est Central Cooperative, said the technology shows promise for improving the efficiency of biodiesel production. But he said it still needs to be tested at larger and larger scales to see if the economic benefits are there. Tests also need to prove if the technology works in continuous-flow production rather...

Radiation-armed robot rapidly destroys human lung tumors

...m effectiveness, Ozhasoglu and his colleagues find promise in this new approach to treat lung cancer and other tumors that move during breathing. At the University of Pittsburgh, Ozhasoglu and approximately 30 colleagues form one of the largest US teams devoted to the CyberKnife, a radiation delivery syste...

For Stanford scientists, RNAi gene therapy takes two steps forward, one step back

...re, Kay and Grimm went on to find a way that shows promise in resolving this side effect. "Just like any other new drug, it is just going to mean that we need to proceed cautiously," Kay said. In traditional gene therapy the inserted DNA produces a gene to replace one that carries a mutation. In hemophilia...

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