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Affymetrix and the Karolinska Institutet Announce Translational Medicine Strategic Alliance

...t a large number of patients worldwide. Systematic use of the genomic information obtained will enable de...trix Translational medicine research projects will use sufficiently large sample sizes to establish true clinical relevance of both gene expression and DNA...

Family trees of ancient bacteria reveal evolutionary moves

...p; Sciences, studying Cyanobacteria ?bacteria that use light, water, and carbon dioxide to produce oxygen...ogen, thermophily (love of heat), motility and the use of sulfide as an electron donor. "We will need lots of analyses of the micro-fossil record by serio...

Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease moves forward in animals

...de protection against Parkinson's disease. But its use has been debated since trials in humans ended last...ogy company, conducted the trials and later halted use of the drug because of safety concerns, creating an outcry from hopeful Parkinson's patients. But t...

FDA Approves New Drug to Treat Type I and Type II Diabetes

...ian labeling. Finally, the potential for off-label use in patients where the benefit/risk profile has not been characterized or demonstrated is also a concern and will be monitored by the sponsor. The Medication Guide informs patients that Symlin should only be used if they are already using their insul...

Implanted Devices Detect High-Risk Heart Failure Patients

...d from the device and entered into a computer. One use of the data in this trial was to create a "footpri...e treatment of heart failure, and how to make best use of the new data which they can provide. Additional trials will be needed to tease out the relationsh...

PCRM develops world's first cruelty-free insulin assay

...ganization dedicated to humane alternatives to the use of animals in research and you want to conduct res...diabetes trials," said Dr. Barnard. "One, we could use test kits with insulin antibodies grown in vivo--literally from cells injected into the abdomens of ...

Sequencing of marine bacterium will help study of cell communication

...udying for several years. Many different bacteria use quorum sensing. Stevens explains that cells releas...sting bacteria–host interactions, we must begin to use comparative genomic approaches with closely related pathogenic and beneficial microbial species." M...

Self-assembled nano-sized probes allow Penn researchers to see tumors through flesh and skin

...ings, which represent a proof of principle for the use of emissive polymersomes to target and visualize t... chemistry at Penn. "It should also be possible to use an emissive polymersome vesicle to transport therapeutics directly to a tumor, enabling us to actual...

Ophthalmologists Use Artificial Silicon Retina Microchip To Treat Vision Loss

...s created within the eye. According to Chow, "The use of the subretinal space to hold a device that artificially stimulates the retina seems a logical step in replacing the loss of photoreceptor cells of the retina. If the implant is tolerated well and is able to successfully stimulate the retina, it ma...

Sexual cooperation: Mating increases longevity in ant queens

... during a short period early in life and store and use the sperm of their mate for the rest of their lives. Sexual offspring are only produced after several months or years of colony growth, during which a sterile worker force is built up in the population. The fact that mates bond so early reduces the c...

International HapMap consortium expands mapping effort

...abetes or coronary artery disease, researchers can use the HapMap to compare the genetic variation patter...p will be so detailed, researchers will be able to use its SNP signposts to zero in on that particular genomic region and search for specific genes involve...

Bone Density Recovers After Teens Stop Injected Contraceptive

...Health. Previous studies had shown that women who use DMPA, marketed under the brand name Depo-Provera, ...ges 15 to 19, researchers were concerned that DMPA use might place adolescents at higher risk for bone fracture or osteoporosis later in life. “This study...

Children's taste sensitivity and food choices influenced by taste gene

...uld be because those who are most bitter sensitive use more sugar to mask unpleasant tastes in food, and thus come to prefer it more. Whatever the explanation, this is an important puzzle to solve." Unlike children, bitter receptor genotype did not influence sweet preference in adults. Instead, effects ...

Antibiotic might fight HIV-induced neurological problems

...rently, there's no drug to treat it directly." In use for more than 30 years, minocycline was specifical...V both affect the same tissues in the same way and use the same tricks to infect cells and outwit treatments, but SIV infects only non-human primates, and ...

Ophthalmologists implant five patients with artificial silicon retina microchip

...s created within the eye. According to Chow, "The use of the subretinal space to hold a device that artificially stimulates the retina seems a logical step in replacing the loss of photoreceptor cells of the retina. If the implant is tolerated well and is able to successfully stimulate the retina, it ma...

Protein offers way to stop microscopic parasites in their tracks

...xplains. "Because it's so much easier to study, we use Toxoplasma as a way to ask about very basic things...y's lab, Fabien Brossier, Ph.D., decided to try to use the recently completed Toxoplasma genome to search for the protein that lets the parasite detach glu...

Asthma gene clusters identified

...hat we believe will benefit patients, based on the use of novel algorithms and analysis from computational medicine. In this study, we show that asthma is controlled by two different genetic profiles. Now, in computational medicine, we will combine all of our clinical knowledge of disease with informatio...

Expression Project for Oncology (expO) completes first phase of standardized gene expression analyses

...searchers to form testable clinical hypotheses for use in future treatment decision making. Tissue collection and data dissemination will be conducted in a manner that fully protects patient privacy. Over a three-year period, IGC expects to obtain 2,000 to 3,000 tumor specimens representing a broad spect...

Mayo Clinic Researchers Create 'Obedient Virus'; First Step To Use Measles Virus Against Cancer

... lymphoma -- and is probably still years away from use as a human therapy. But the concept has at last been proved in mice with human cancer tumors -- and that's an essential step toward using this approach to expand and improve human treatments for a variety of cancers. The "Obedient Virus" "When I sa...

Artifical cornea lets woman blind 20 years see

...e been fortunate to see gradual improvement in the use of the keratoprosthesis over the years," Dohlman s...and Dohlman agree that their hope is for increased use of keratoprosthesis in the third world. "Worldwide, corneal blindness is a major problem due to inf...

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