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Nanogen Issued Patent for Electronic Microarray With Memory

...sophisticated information to predict, diagnose and treat disease. Research and clinical reference labs use the highly accurate and reliable NanoChip(R) Molecular Biology Workstation, NanoChip(R) Electronic Microarray and broad suite of analyte specific reagents to develop tests to detect infectious disease...

Researchers discover molecule that causes secondary stroke

...t "raises hopes of developing not only new ways to treat the condition, but also a diagnostic test to determine which hemorrhagic stroke survivors are at greater risk." Several spinal fluid components were suspected of causing the vasospasm, Dr. Clark explains. They included hemoglobin, bilirubin and pero...

Gene Vaccine Protects Mice Against Development Of Her2/neu Breast Cancer

...ries to produce Her2/neu proteinmay offer a way to treat some human breast cancers, say researchers atThe U...achman said.“This vaccine, however, like many that treat microbial infections,appears to create a memory in the immune system that produces a lastingprotecti...

Highly adaptable genome in gut bacterium key to intestinal health

...the gut's bacterial community to promote health or treat diseases. For example, the group is assessing how the bacterial capacity for processing dietary carbohydrates varies among individuals and what influence that may have on weight. ...

A comprehensive response to HIV could prevent 10 million AIDS deaths in Africa by 2020

...ries to produce Her2/neu proteinmay offer a way to treat some human breast cancers, say researchers atThe U...achman said.“This vaccine, however, like many that treat microbial infections,appears to create a memory in the immune system that produces a lastingprotecti...

Gene Therapy For Parkinson's Disease Moves Forward In Animals

...son's disease at its onset and another strategy to treat the devastating side effects that occur when treating the disease in its later stages. By inserting corrective genes into the brain, scientists studying small monkeys called marmosets prevented brain damage by producing therapeutic levels of a prote...

Studies reveal methods viruses use to sidestep immune system

...s called protease inhibitors currently are used to treat patients infected with HIV and have also shown promise in treating hepatitis C patients in experimental trials. "We now know that treating patients with a protease inhibitor will prevent the viral protease from cutting up the signaling proteins," Dr...

Potential Cure for Lymphoma in HIV patients

... as demonstrated inthis pilot study to effectively treat even refractory disease is highlyencouraging and certainly warrants further study."Researchers from the City of Hope Cancer Center studied 20 patients(aged 11 to 68) who had HIV and lymphoma, either Hodgkin’s ornon-Hodgkin’s. The selected patients ha...

Circles Of DNA Might Help Predict Success Of Stem Cell Transplantation

...y, irradiation and surgery). Physicians sometimes treat patients with stem cell transplants as part of therapy for a variety of diseases such as leukemia or sickle cell disease. In these cases physicians eliminate the patients' own stem cells that produce cancerous white cells or faulty red cells and repl...

New insight into people who 'see' colors in letters and numbers

... group together data from multiple synesthetes and treat them as if they all come from a homogeneous population. "The use of single case studies in synesthesia is also of concern because the results obtained with one synesthete may not generalize to other synesthetes. The researchers concluded that "Our ...

Beyond lithium for bipolar disorder

...thium, suggesting more direct targets for drugs to treat the disorder. Lithium is known to inhibit the production of an important cellular switch, called inositol monophosphate, so the researchers set out to find genes that were activated by this inhibition. They treated slices of rat brain with lithium c...

Simple drug has the potential to save many lives threatened by malaria

...nd suggest that rectal artemether could be used to treat severe malaria where qualified staff and equipment for intravenous therapy is not available. These are encouraging results, say experts in an accompanying editorial. Although a single trial of this size cannot alone be the basis for policy change, r...

Plants defy Mendel's inheritance laws, may prompt textbook changes

...ible that it will be an avenue for gene therapy to treat or cure diseases in both plants and animals." The study is published in the March 24 issue of the journal Nature. Pruitt and collaborator Susan Lolle found that Arabidopsis in which each parent plant had two copies of a mutant gene could produce pr...

Antibodies from plants protect against anthrax

...cco plants, human antibodies that could be used to treat anthrax exposure. They report their findings today...e medical countermeasures to enable authorities to treat individuals exposed to bioterror agents such as anthrax," says Les Baillie of the Naval Medical Rese...

Study of genomic DNA leads to new advances in cancer diagnostics

...mechanisms to develop new protocols and methods to treat cancer. Ultimately, the cellular changes that occur during cancer formation affect how the cell interacts with its microenvironment (ECM) and direct changes to the cytoskeleton and finally to the chromatin. Such changes can now be measured directly ...

NJIT Presidential Award winner takes stem cell research another step

...healing," Arinzeh said. "So the question is how to treat patients suffering from bone fractures and other defects that may not heal because they are also suffering from other disorders. We are looking at the current treatment for repairing bone defects, which is the use of allograft tissue, as well as newe...

TEL2 gene cooperates with MYC gene to provoke B-cell lymphomas

...e considered a potential target for novel drugs to treat this disease." Grosveld is senior author of the MCB report. The TEL2 gene is part of a family of genes called ETS transcription factors. Transcription factors prompt the cell to read the code of a specific gene and produce copies of RNA. RNA then di...

Examination of internal 'wiring' of yeast, worm, and fly reveals conserved circuits

...the wiring plan of human cells to more effectively treat diseases while also generating fewer side-effects. "We're basically now able to open the hood of yeast, worm, and fly cells and look at the protein interactions inside," said Trey Ideker, a bioengineering professor at the University of California, S...

Scientists solve structure of key protein in innate immune response

... may also lead to the development of drugs to help treat septic shock, an often fatal systemic bacterial infection that is triggered by LPS. "Pharmaceutical companies have tried to develop anti-septic shock agents for a long time without clear success," explains Dr. Lee. "Since LPS is an important inducer...

New Treatment Rivals Chemotherapy For Lymphoma, Study Finds

... U.S. Food and Drug Administration in June 2003 to treat follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma after other treatments have failed. The newly published research involves Bexxar as a first-line treatment for this disease. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, the nation's sixth leading cause of cancer death, is a cancer of t...

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