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Nanoparticles offer new hope for detection and treatment

..., associate professor of medicine. "We believe the technology is very close to being useful in a hospital settin...ed on melanoma tumors, the researchers believe the technology should work for most solid tumors, because all tumors must recruit new blood vessels to obtain nutri...

Buying Time Through Hibernation on Demand

...odels, they foresee the first clinical use of this technology in humans could involve treating people suffering from severe fevers of unknown origin. Currently, when a person comes to an ER with such a fever they run the risk of brain-damaging seizures during the crucial time it takes to diagnose the bacterial ...

Anti cancer virotherapy well tolerated in first human administration, research finds

...iversity associate professor, Darren Shafren. The technology is licensed to Australian Stock Exchange listed bi...) and DAF (decay accelerating factor). This CVA21 technology which has been identified by Professor Shafren and his team to be effective in killing cancer cells,...

U-M team recovers ancient whale in Egyptian desert

...odels, they foresee the first clinical use of this technology in humans could involve treating people suffering from severe fevers of unknown origin. Currently, when a person comes to an ER with such a fever they run the risk of brain-damaging seizures during the crucial time it takes to diagnose the bacterial ...

Strongest proof yet found for prion hypothesis

...at a tremendous increase in efficiency of the PMCA technology played a crucial role in the work of his team, which included study co-authors Joaquín Castilla, Paula Saá and Claudio Hetz. By mimicking the natural mechanism of prion formation but doing so at a much higher rate, PMCA made it possible to produce th...

Silence the gene, save the cell: RNA interference as promising therapy for ALS

... the Swiss researchers designed a gene replacement technology that allows the knock-down of all mutant SOD1 form...t be surprised to see, in the next ten years, this technology used for treating diseases of the nervous system, particularly diseases that involve toxic gain-of-f...

Genetically Modified Natural Killer Immune Cells Attack, Kill Leukemia Cells

... cells." A potential clinical application for the technology developed in this study is in leukemia patients who are treated with hematopoietic (blood cell-forming) cell transplantation. In this case, NK cells will be derived from the transplant donor, expanded and genetically modified. These modified NK cells...

Technique may allow cancer patients to freeze eggs, preserving fertility before starting treatment

...has used mouse oocytes but U-M expects to make the technology available in the clinic soon. "With traditional s... a clinic setting, Smith says. "This is a very new technology and it requires education both of patients and physicians," Smith says. U-M has cryopreserved eggs ...

Different microarray systems more alike than previously thought

...historical data to future experiments, even if the technology changes or people make different choices in their ...o years ago, microarray platforms were an exciting technology in the medical and biological sciences, but comparisons of results from different platforms had prov...

Study: 'homemade' gene expression technology unreliable

...greatest importance. Spencer's group is using the technology in two National Institute of Environmental Health ...ds publication. "The gene chip is a revolution in technology that is hoped rapidly to advance understanding of biological mechanisms and methods to assess the ac...

Duke engineers develop new 3-D cardiac imaging probe

... heart in the time it takes for current ultrasound technology to image a single heart cross section. The new pr...ep. "Three-D ultrasound is already an established technology in many hospitals," Smith said. "With our new real-time 3-D transesophageal probe, we have all the b...

Scientists journey to southern Africa to unravel the secret world of elephant communication

...s a deterrent against poachers. "There is military technology to detect and track tanks seismically," Larom explains. "This could potentially be used to track poacher vehicles as well." Eventually, O'Connell-Rodwell hopes to broaden her research to include other large animals that produce low-frequency vocaliz...

First technology to remove prions that cause vCJD from blood launched

... Reduction Filter System. It is the first and only technology that removes infectious prions that may be the causative agent of vCJD from red cells, the most commonly transfused blood component. Variant CJD, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, is the human form of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), also kno...

FDA Works To Speed The Advent Of New, More Effective Personalized Medicines

...onding to a particular medication or regimen. This technology has enabled the development of targeted therapies ...Deputy Commissioner for Operations, FDA. "This new technology will allow medicines to be uniquely crafted to maximize their therapeutic benefits and minimize thei...

Turning viruses into allies against cancer

... this work will take another two years before this technology will be available for testing in patient studies," said Blechacz. ...

Novel gene-silencing nanoparticles shown to inhibit Ewing's sarcoma

...80 percent. The scientists then tried their novel technology in laboratory mice grafted with human Ewing's sarcoma tumors. Following three consecutive days of treatment, the scientists observed strong, but transient, inhibition of tumor growth. However, when used over longer durations (twice-weekly injections...

Integration of Agilent's MS technology, Proteome Systems' software to help scientists in proteomics research

..."The combination of Agilent's robust, sensitive MS technology with our cutting-edge, automated glycomics system creates a powerful integrated solution that will streamline the study of glycoproteins." The co-marketed product is expected to be available this summer. Agilent and Proteome Systems will also collab...

Researchers find promising cancer-fighting power of synthetic cell-signaling molecule

...ugs using funds from EmTech Bio -- a life sciences technology business incubator operated by Georgia Tech and Emory. This research is coordinated with Slainte Bioceuticals, a start-up biotechnology company in metro Atlanta that is helping to bring this potential drug to market. "Even if Enigmols are effective ...

UN votes to ban human cloning

...ased therapies based on research involving cloning technology to produce DNA molecules, organs, plants, tissues, cells (other than human embryos), or animals (other than humans).They believe that nations should "actively pursue the potential medical and scientific benefits of these scientific methods, which hav...

Friendly bacteria in humans may protect against HIV

..." "The major roadblock in the development of this technology is the lack of financial support. Drug companies and venture capitalists are not interested because the beneficiary populations are infants and women in poor countries," says Tao. He is currently seeking sponsorship from charities or philanthropists ...

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