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Largest computational biology simulation mimics life’s most essential nanomachine

...ith HIV-1 subtype C in resource-poor settings, who receive antiretroviral (ARV) therapy, can achieve comparable results to those in the developed world. A fully supported health care delivery system and infrastructure help ensure this success, according to data published in November 2005 issue of the Journal...

Making medicine 'smarter'

...the first College of Engineering faculty member to receive a National Institutes of Health Career Award, which comes with $695,000 in research funding. With the money, she will lead a five-year project to give doctors a new tool to better diagnose breast cancer. The aggressive disease claims the lives of mor...

Sensors, a smart dose of medicine for cancer treatment

... healthy tissue. The result is that patients only receive a high radiation dose where they need it and healt...mes increasingly difficult to verify that patients receive the prescribed dose of radiation. "IMRT prescriptions are based on very complex computer simulations...

Access to existing medical treatments could save more lives than spending to improve the treatments

...s only one penny to ensure that Americans actually receive them," said Steven H. Woolf, M.D., professor and d...o could benefit. They cited reports that Americans receive only half of recommended health care services and that disparities in care are worse for minorities ...

Bioengineers create stable networks of blood vessels

... of Sciences. For body tissue to survive it must receive oxygen delivered through the finest of blood vessels. Led by Erin Lavik, assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering, this study shows that the fine network of blood vessels can be formed. Further, detailed microscopic studies showed that the vascu...

Birth defects: 8 million annually worldwide

... there is a 25 percent chance that each child will receive both copies of the gene and be affected. The database prepared for the March of Dimes report details the prevalence rates and the numbers of affected births in 193 countries. The data collected include information on single-gene disorders, chromoso...

Stem cell mobilization therapy appears to be ineffective in repairing damage caused by heart attack

...et of symptoms. Patients were randomly assigned to receive by injection either a daily dose of 10 µg/kg of G-CSF or placebo (an inactive substance) for 5 days. The patients were treated between February 2004 and February 2005. Treatment with G-CSF produced a significant mobilization of bone marrow stem cell...

Duke to test bird flu vaccine dosing

...ng response, Walter said. Trial participants will receive varying strengths of the H5N1 vaccine, either with or without an aluminum hydroxide adjuvant. An adjuvant works by increasing the body's immune response to a vaccine, Walter said. Aluminum hydroxide is commonly used in pediatric and adult vaccines, i...

Canine cancer vaccine program shows early promise

...e as long as dogs in previous studies that did not receive the vaccine. Further work is needed to improve the vaccine so that a higher percentage of dogs with melanoma will respond. "It's the closest thing to a miracle I've ever seen," says Maggie Hoefling, of Largo, Florida. Following vaccine therapy, her...

Pacific Islands paradise protected

...evenue that the Kiribati government would normally receive from issuing foreign commercial fishing licenses. However, an innovative plan will compensate Kiribati for these lost revenues. Under a memorandum of understanding signed by the Republic of Kiribati, the New England Aquarium and Conservation Intern...

'Bad' enzymes may wear white hats after stroke

...sive brain damage, compared with rats that did not receive an inhibitor. The team also looked for MMPs withi...ompleting a behavioral task than rats that did not receive an MMP inhibitor. While current efforts to design MMP-targeted drugs aim to inhibit the enzymes com...

Mice studies illustrate potential of chimp/human antibodies to protect against smallpox

...ice that were given the vaccinia virus but did not receive the antibodies--experienced continuous weight loss for five days after virus injection, which the researchers correlated with viral replication in the lungs. In contrast, mice injected with either of the two types of hybrid antibodies did not lose we...

How the brain learns to become addicted

...ting increase in activity by the animals when they receive the drug and is an indicator that the animals are experiencing an increased craving for the drug. Importantly, when the researchers "microinjected" directly into the VTA region of animals a drug that blocks orexin receptors, they found they could bl...

Pittsburgh researchers discover that certain chemicals in the blood may indicate brain injury

...ren ?are often misdiagnosed because doctors rarely receive a history that an infant has been shaken, the patients are too young to talk, and the symptoms such as vomiting and fussiness are common in many childhood illnesses. Infants who are misdiagnosed may be inadvertently returned to a violent caretaker ...

University of Utah to help build bionic arm

University of Utah researchers will receive up to $10.3 million to help develop a new prosthet...te the bionic arm, including a device implanted to receive signals from the brain instead of nerves in the residual limb. After two years, project leaders at...

Both alcoholism and chronic smoking can damage the brain's prefrontal cortex

University of Utah researchers will receive up to $10.3 million to help develop a new prosthet...te the bionic arm, including a device implanted to receive signals from the brain instead of nerves in the residual limb. After two years, project leaders at...

Stem cell study for patients with heart attack damage seeks to regenerate heart muscle

...dy is double blind; two thirds of the participants receive the stem cells and one-third receive a placebo. To be eligible for the trial, patients must have experienced a first heart attack within ...

How nerve cells stay in shape

...l of Cell Biology, January 17, 2006). Nerve cells receive signals from other nerve cells via dendrites, which branch out like the branches of a tree. The cell-body receives incoming information, and transmits it further through the axon, a long projection from the cell. Nerve cells make contact with each ot...

World first research to speed up cure for ear infections

... average person to take up to 10 years before they receive medical treatment. "We tend to ignore ear infections thinking they will go away or we might have a reluctance to visit the doctor ?but in third-world countries the problem is common due to the lack of available treatment," he said. Dr Ghassemifar s...

Chemical guidance of T cells leads to immunologic memory and long-term immunity

... and chemical cues guides them to sites where they receive activation signals. Specifically, two molecules kn...tion of these two chemokines that the CD8+ T cells receive best as a signal, says Dr. Germain. By interfering with the action of these chemokines, he and his ...

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