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New strategies to reduce hospital-aquired infections

...to patient health, they are employing a variety of treatment technologies to attempt to eradicate microbes from..., are exhibiting resistance to commonly used water treatment methods as well as to the antibiotics used for treating infected patients. Further complicating the ...

Distributed Basic Local Alignment Search Toolkit (W.ND-BLAST)

...to patient health, they are employing a variety of treatment technologies to attempt to eradicate microbes from..., are exhibiting resistance to commonly used water treatment methods as well as to the antibiotics used for treating infected patients. Further complicating the ...

Microscopes at microscopic size

... to perform medical diagnostics, improving patient treatment by reducing the number of hospital visits needed for tests. The initial research has led to the creation of a spin-out company, BioStatus Ltd, supported by a BBSRC Small Business Research Initiative grant. BioStatus has developed the research to ref...

'Smart drug' targets deadly brain cancer

...ment Group (NCCTG) reports that a new "smart" drug treatment for an incurable form of recurrent brain cancer sl... tissue of adults, glioblastoma mutiforme. Current treatment outcomes for this type of cancer are extremely poor: median patient survival is 12 to 16 months, and...

Prescription Drug Patches Gaining Ground, Tackling New Therapies

...tegory. While quietly gaining market share for the treatment of chronic conditions such as angina, hypertension and HRT, the technology is set to make further inroads as transdermal patches for a host of new conditions wind their way through the development and clinical trial process. Growth in demand for pre...

Comprehensive biodefense text published

...h community. They describe the origin, effects and treatment of established pathogens that cause diseases such as anthrax, plague, smallpox, brucellosis, glanders, and Q fever, and discuss what is known about the aerosol route of infection and the process of decontamination. Contained in the 25 chapters is an...

TrueBlue Archive Will Store Raw Life Sciences Data for Proteomics and Drug Testing

...h community. They describe the origin, effects and treatment of established pathogens that cause diseases such as anthrax, plague, smallpox, brucellosis, glanders, and Q fever, and discuss what is known about the aerosol route of infection and the process of decontamination. Contained in the 25 chapters is an...

Research into how prions act in the brain could hold the key to defeating diseases

...ways of early detection and diagnosis so effective treatment can begin as soon as possible,' said Professor Perry. 'There is much we do not know about prions and prion diseases but our research teams are following several lines of investigation.' Prion diseases are extremely complex and understanding their pa...

Owl genomics presents a HEPATOCHIP for diagnosis of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis

...s in the liver tissue sample, providing monitoring treatment regimens to check progression/regression of these ...sease and allow healthcare professionals to tailor treatment to individual patients' needs. This chip also assess the efficacy of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis t...

Research shows smoking adds a decade to reproductive age of IVF patients

...rtility ?may be able to improve the success of IVF treatment by quitting smoking and losing weight." The resea...nvestigated the success rate of the first cycle of treatment in 8,457 women, analysing information on reproduction and lifestyle factors, combined with medical r...

UCLA study assesses cost-effectiveness of Hepatitis B drugs

... the study may help physicians worldwide in making treatment decisions. Researchers note that a degree of uncertainly exists on how to best initiate hepatitis B treatment due to a constant influx of newer, more expensive drugs that all have varying risks and benefits. "...

Next Generation Body Scanner Launched By The University Of Manchester

...ancers grow and develop and how different kinds of treatment might work. It will also help researchers looking into strokes and will enable them to understand the way the brain recovers in stroke patients. The scanner will also benefit researchers carrying out work into mental illness and will play a majo...

Penn Researchers Use Robotic Surgery

...o apply the attributes of surgical robotics to the treatment of head and neck cancer and we've successfully dev...en operating time and allow for minimally invasive treatment of more cancer patients. The self-contained daVinci robotic system has three main components: a mec...

Two new retroviruses—transmitted from animals—identified

...o apply the attributes of surgical robotics to the treatment of head and neck cancer and we've successfully dev...en operating time and allow for minimally invasive treatment of more cancer patients. The self-contained daVinci robotic system has three main components: a mec...

An (ecological) origin of species for tropical reef fish

...nisms may spur the development of a more synthetic treatment of speciation on land and sea. Coral reefs, like tropical forests, express an extreme of life's capacity for variation. Yet high biodiversity in tropical seas foil evolutionists' attempts to explain the splitting of one species into two on the basis...

Embryonic Stem Cells Treated With Growth Factor Reverse Hemophilia In Mice: UNC Researchers

...ade a discovery that may have implications for the treatment of liver-based genetic defects such as hemophilia A and B in humans. Mouse embryonic stem cells treated in culture with a growth factor and then injected into the liver reverse a form of hemophilia in mice analogous to hemophilia B in humans, the ne...

Mutation in clams protects against paralytic shellfish poisoning but raises human health risk

...ical research, she notes, leading to new drugs for treatment of neuromuscular disease. Because clams that possess the mutation are more likely to survive in red tide contaminated areas, the toxin and the mutation act together to influence the shellfish population, the authors conclude. ...

Scientists identify genes responsible for 'black rot' disease in vegetables

...ase when infected. To date, there is no effective treatment for Xcc infection, so in hopes of developing a tre...ty-related genes will lead to the development of a treatment for "black rot" disease. Employing whole-genome comparative genomic approaches, the authors sequenc...

Venom doc tracks down snake bioweapons

...focused on the use of snake toxins for therapy and treatment of diseases, including cancer, arthritis, and heart disease. "There is something peculiarly fascinating in the use of a deadly toxin as a life-saving medicine," Fry says. "The natural pharmacology that exists within animal venoms is a tremendous reso...

Natural Killers Could Lead to New Hepatitis Treatments

...ff?the NKT cell's pursuit and attack could offer a treatment for hepatitis and associated complications. The researchers, led by Dan Littman, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at New York University (NYU) School of Medicine, published their findings online on April 5, 2005, in the Public Library ...

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