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Neurologix announces positive results of gene therapy clinical trial in Parkinson's disease

...t site in the brain in order to transfer a gene to treat Parkinson's disease. The gene encodes glutamic ac...DA-approved clinical trial to test gene therapy to treat Parkinson's disease, is an open-label dose-escalation study with four patients in each of three esca...

VCU Massey Cancer Center study shows enzyme linked to spread of breast cancer cells

...e, we would be able to design better tools to help treat cancers," said lead author Sarah Spiegel, Ph.D., chair and professor in the VCU Department of Biochemistry and co-leader of the Massey Cancer Center Cell Signaling program. Spiegel, who is internationally recognized for her pioneering work on new l...

AIDS expert says global strategy needed to combat feminization of HIV/AIDS

...dical progress is to be made on how to prevent and treat the disease, then developing specific strategies that empower women will be key to its success. The article appears in the journal Science online June 10. ...

Researchers create infectious hepatitis C virus in a test tube

...y stage of the HCV life cycle and develop drugs to treat this life-threatening disease that affects more than 170 million people around the world. "The inability to reproduce aspects of the hepatitis C virus life cycle in cell culture has slowed research progress on this important human pathogen," says se...

Molecular miners find pain relief drugs from the sea

...ays neuropathic pain is the most difficult form to treat and typically responds poorly to conventional painkillers such as morphine or aspirin. Other treatments have also been found to be largely ineffective. The great potential of ACV1 is that eliminating neuropathic pain is where it works best. BACKGRO...

Quantum dots provide a faster, more sensitive method for detecting respiratory viral infections

...caused by viruses. There are specific medicines to treat some viral infections and there are definitely antibiotics to treat bacteria. Yet current detection tests take up to five days to tell you if a virus is present and ano...

Researchers identify genes associated with lung transplant rejection

...tient's ability to breathe, it's often too late to treat effectively. Caughey and his fellow researchers studied lung biopsy samples from 22 lung transplant patients, with the goal of detecting genes and gene products associated with inflammation and formation of scar tissue in breathing passages. Using a...

Researchers make 'embryonic-like' stem cells from umbilical cord blood

...ess in applying the new cells to cure difficult to treat conditions such as juvenile diabetes, stroke, heart and liver disease." Dr Urban who chairs UTMB's Internal Medicine department and serves as director of its Stark Diabetes Centre said he looked forward to the next phase of what was proving to be a ...

Insight into the processes of 'positive' and 'negative' learners

...ess in applying the new cells to cure difficult to treat conditions such as juvenile diabetes, stroke, heart and liver disease." Dr Urban who chairs UTMB's Internal Medicine department and serves as director of its Stark Diabetes Centre said he looked forward to the next phase of what was proving to be a ...

Women cautioned against using herbal supplements

...n the United States use herbal medicines, often to treat premenstrual or menopausal symptoms and premenstrual syndrome, to aid in breastfeeding or to decrease breast cancer risk. Warren reviewed the literature on herbal supplements and breast cancer risk for his report, which was reviewed by two internati...

Can two killers make a cure?

...ed to develop an effective form of gene therapy to treat the lung problems of people with cystic fibrosis. The condition is caused by a mutation in the CFTR gene, and one of the problems in developing a treatment is getting a working version of CFTR into a high enough proportion of cells to restore normal ...

Researchers propose measures to curb lion attacks in Tanzania

...ess in applying the new cells to cure difficult to treat conditions such as juvenile diabetes, stroke, heart and liver disease." Dr Urban who chairs UTMB's Internal Medicine department and serves as director of its Stark Diabetes Centre said he looked forward to the next phase of what was proving to be a ...

Menopause Symptoms May Come Back After Stopping Menopausal Hormone Therapy

...n the United States use herbal medicines, often to treat premenstrual or menopausal symptoms and premenstrual syndrome, to aid in breastfeeding or to decrease breast cancer risk. Warren reviewed the literature on herbal supplements and breast cancer risk for his report, which was reviewed by two internati...

Clear rules needed to govern deep sea bioprospecting: UNU

...ofits from a compound derived from a sea sponge to treat herpes: US$ 50 million to US$ 100 million; * Value of anti-cancer agents from marine organisms: US$ 1 billion a year. Marine-derived drugs can be used as antioxidant, anti-fungal, anti-HIV, antibiotic, anti-cancer, anti- tuberculosis and anti-m...

A Father’s Day Gift: Free DNA Paternity Testing

...ofits from a compound derived from a sea sponge to treat herpes: US$ 50 million to US$ 100 million; * Value of anti-cancer agents from marine organisms: US$ 1 billion a year. Marine-derived drugs can be used as antioxidant, anti-fungal, anti-HIV, antibiotic, anti-cancer, anti- tuberculosis and anti-m...

Researchers discover how malaria parasite disperses from red blood cells

...parasite is growing resistant to the drugs used to treat it, and new knowledge is essential for developing ...process is a potential avenue for new therapies to treat the disease, Dr. Zimmerberg said. By first understanding how the parasite brings about these steps,...

Stem cells bring fast direct improvement, without differentiation, in acute renal failure

...rapeutic interventions that are urgently needed to treat this common, devastating and costly human disease," Westenfelder said. Challenging the accepted theory of stem cell operation In a new study, Westenfelder's team reported that injecting stem cells similar to the type used in bone marrow transplants...

New understanding of jet lag

...light. The study also has implications for ways to treat shift workers - health care providers, factory employees, truck drivers, etc. - who encounter alertness problems, and those with sleep disorders. A team of researchers at the University of Virginia and at Leiden University Medical Center in the Neth...

Genomics researchers discover protein deficit that causes drug toxicity

...rugs differently. Thiopurine therapies are used to treat patients with childhood leukemia, autoimmune diseases and organ transplants. The Mayo researchers say their finding advances the field of pharmacogenomics, which tailors medicine to a patient's personal genetic makeup. In the current issue of the Pr...

UCSD discovery may provide novel method to generate medically useful proteins

... to target these new proteins to specific cells to treat disease," said Stephen McMahon, a former postdoctoral fellow in Ghosh's lab who conducted much of the research. "This idea has already been picked up by the biotech industry." The function of the massively variable phage protein is to tether the ph...

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