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Bone marrow stem cells may heal hearts even years after heart attacks

...llege of Cardiology. "This new therapy is able to treat until now irreversible heart complaints and function disturbances in patients with chronic coronary artery disease after myocardial infarction, even many years after heart attack. Therefore there is hope for this large amount of patients with previou...

New antibody shows promise as cure for anthrax

...that it could lead to a simpler and cheaper way to treat anthrax. The new antibody is produced in bacteria...ax bacteria. Before 2002, nothing was available to treat the large amounts of deadly toxin released by those bacteria, which is what leads to death in patien...

Dendritic cells offer new therapeutic target for drugs to treat MS and other autoimmune disease

...a deadly form of leukemia may provide a new way to treat autoimmune diseases, including multiple sclerosis. Their tests in cell cultures and mice suggest that blocking the pathway by interfering with a blood cell growth gene, known as FLT3, targets an immune system cell often ignored in favor of T-cell tar...

Emerging staph strains found to be increasingly deadly and deceptive

...lin-resistant S. aureus, or MRSA, are difficult to treat and are increasing nationally at an alarming rate,... world are stymied by the inability to effectively treat patients suffering from severe S. aureus infections," says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "Th...

Gene therapy reverses genetic mutation responsible for heart failure in muscular dystrophy

...r the first time used gene therapy to successfully treat heart failure and other degenerative muscle problems in an animal model that is genetically susceptible to a human muscular dystrophy. Reporting in the Oct. 25 edition of the journal Circulation, the authors say that this is the first successful atte...

Amphetamines reverse Parkinson's disease symptoms in mice

...est that amphetamines themselves should be used to treat Parkinson's," Gainetdinov said. "However, the chemical structure of amphetamines may lead to new, amphetamine-like drugs, that might provide a more lasting and beneficial alternative to L-DOPA in the treatment of Parkinson's disease." ...

Anthrax stops body from fighting back, study shows

...Infectious Diseases. The need to find new ways to treat victims of bioterrorism has increased since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the anthrax attacks that killed five people exposed to inhalation anthrax through the mail. The UF findings could lead to treatments that block anthrax from paralyz...

Minimally Invasive Cancer Treatments Highlighted

... ablation) or freezing the tumor (cryoablation) to treat cancer locally, without harming the healthy cells ...uency ablation (RFA) is as effective as surgery to treat single small cell hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer) in a study of 162 patients, in terms of ov...

Gene therapy works in mice to prevent blindness that strikes boys

...how they successfully used gene therapy in mice to treat retinoschisis, a rare genetic disorder that is passed from mothers, who retain their sight, to their sons. "Currently there is no treatment," said William Hauswirth, Ph.D., the Rybaczki-Bullard professor of ophthalmic molecular genetics. "These chil...

Customized gene chip provides rapid detection of genetic changes in children's cancer

...entifying the correct risk level allows doctors to treat aggressive cancers appropriately, while not subjecting children with low-risk cancer to overtreatment. Cancer researchers have pinpointed specific genetic abnormalities that influence the aggressiveness of neuroblastoma. An important abnormality is ...

Zebrafish may hold key to improved cancer research

...able to rapidly test and develop new approaches to treat cancer." ...

Building a better mouse model of lung cancer: FHIT counts

...e may be a good model in which to test new ways to treat or prevent the disease, says Huebner. "There are some other useful mouse models out there, but they generally reflect genetic mutations that happen later in the disease, when tumors are clearly visible and successful treatment unlikely," says Huebner...

'Nanospheres' that block pain of sensitive teeth

... significantly reduced. Currently, the only way to treat this condition is through good dental hygiene - using special toothpastes and fluorine mouthwashes which encourage re-mineralization of the dentine coating. Jonathan Earl, David Wood and Steve Milne from the Institute of Materials Research at the U...

Sickle cell disease corrected in human models using stem cell-based gene therapy

...h because the patient's own stem cells are used to treat the disease." Sickle cell disease is a genetic c...own cure other than stem cell transplantation. To treat SCD, Sloan-Kettering scientists devised a novel engineering strategy combining RNA interference with...

University of Delaware researchers develop cancer 'nanobomb'

... could actually be used in medical applications to treat human beings. "Make no mistake, we are focused on eradicating cancer," Panchapakesan said, explaining that the nanobombs are the result of work over the past two years with carbon nanotubes, which are atoms of carbon arranged in tubular form. O...

Cyberkinetics, Case to develop system to help restore extremity function

...in interface technology, is developing products to treat nervous system diseases and disorders by bringing together advances in neuroscience, computer science and engineering. Cyberkinetics' products are based on over ten years of technology development and cutting-edge neuroscience research at leading aca...

Gene therapy for muscular dystrophy fixes frail muscle cells in animal model, Stanford study finds

...common form of the disease. Using gene therapy to treat muscular dystrophy isn't a new idea. Thomas Rando, MD, PhD, associate professor of neurology and neurological sciences, said that researchers have tried several different techniques with variable success. One hurdle is getting genes into muscle cells...

Fruit fly research set to revolutionize study of birth defects

...(MTX), a popular cancer-fighting drug also used to treat psoriasis, ectopic pregnancies, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus, lasts a long time in the body and causes birth defects in children from women who have it in their systems. The study of the drug's effect on fruit flies has allowed Queen's researchers...

Scientists determine structure of enzyme that disrupts bacterial virulence

First step toward developing enzymes to treat diseases such as cystic fibrosis, reduce bacterial biowarfare threatsA team of biomedical researchers from Brandeis University and the University of Texas at Austin has determined the first 3-dimensional structure of an enzyme that may be pivotal in ...

Anti-cancer drugs may hold promise for premature aging disorder

...enior author. The new work involved using FTIs to treat skin cells taken from progeria patients and grown ...archers saw the same effect when they used FTIs to treat cells grown from skin biopsies of progeria patients: Cell blebbing decreased to near normal levels. ...

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