Surprising findings reported about iron overload
UAB and international scientists studying iron-overload disorders have made the unexpected discovery that Asians and Pacific Islanders have the highest levels of iron in their blood of all racial/ethnic groups who were screened. Individuals who develop hemochromatosis/iron overload absorb an excessive amount of iron from food and supplements ingested. The abnormality affects many people wo...Findings have implications for tracking disease, drugs at the molecular level
Researchers in the laboratory of Boston College Chemistry Professor John T. Fourkas have demonstrated that gold particles comparable in size to a molecule can be induced to emit light so strongly that it is readily possible to observe a single nanoparticle. Fourkas, in collaboration with postdoctoral researcher Richard Farrer and BC undergraduates Francis Butterfield and Vincent Chen, coaxed the...Study findings offer potential new targets for antibiotics
A new study of genetic changes in bacteria may ultimately help drug makers stay a step ahead of disease-causing bacteria that can become resistant to antibiotics. Many currently used antibiotics alter a ribosome's ability to make proteins, said Kurt Fredrick, a s...Findings advance use of adult stem cells for replacement bone
In a significant advance for regenerative medicine, researchers at Rice University have discovered a new way to culture adult stem cells from bone marrow such that the cells themselves produce a growth matrix that is rich in important biochemical growth factors. The research, which appears online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is notable not just because...Oops! Researchers publish new findings on the brain's response to costly mistakes
It happens to all of us, no matter how hard we try. Whether it's deleting a computer file and realizing a split-second later that we can't get it back, or dropping a bag of groceries, or realizing that our gas tank is nearly empty on a lonely stretch of highway, we all make mistakes that aren't just annoying, but potentially costly. Now, a team of University of Michigan researchers has loo...NimbleGen microarrays speed genetic findings
Researchers at the discovered new genetic causes of mental retardation, document...New Findings for Repeated Miscarriages
New research shows the immune system may play a key role in women who have had repeated miscarriages. About 50 percent to 70 percent of all conceptions // fail, and around 1 percent to 3 percent of couples experience recurrent pregnancy loss. While many of the cases are due to fetal abnormalities, others are due to the maternal response to the fetus. New research links the reproductive hormone se...Latest Findings On The Deadly Disease - SARS
Scientists continue to gain new insights into how the deadly disease - SARS spread so quickly during last year’s outbreak.// The latest discovery researchers have made is that the virus doesn’t always cause the pneumonia doctors believe is typical of the disease. They say that explains why some people got SARS even though it looked as if they’d never been around anyone who had the disea...New Findings Could Reduce The Extent Of Spinal Cord Injuries
Neuro scientists say new findings in animals suggest a potential treatment to minimize disability after spinal cord and other nervous system injuries . "Our approach is based on a natural mechanism cells have for protecting themselves,// called the stress protein response," say specialists . Researchers say the goal of their work is to prevent or minimize the "secondary" cell death that...New findings come to light about monkeypox
The monkeypox virus, which had attacked 72 people in US in 2003 in an outbreak// of the disease, did not kill anybody, although it is considered to be fatal disease. A new research unveils that these cases were amongst the few strains of the virus that are not fatal. Monkeypox is a very rare viral disease said to originate from African continent. It had been so named because it was fir...BioSante Pharmaceuticals Announces New Findings for Potential Bird Flu Vaccine
LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 11, 2007 - BioSantePharmaceuticals, Inc. (Amex: BPA) today announced new positiveresults demonstrating that its calcium phosphate (CaP)nanoparticle-based vaccine adjuvant, BioVant(TM), may serve as aneffective vaccine adjuvant for the development of a dose sparingvaccine against H5N1 avian flu, widely known as bird flu. The new results are based on...Molecular Target of Bradmer's Neuradiab Further Validated by Independent Findings
TSX: BMR TORONTO, July 10, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - BradmerPharmaceuticals Inc., a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to thedevelopment and commercialization of cancer therapies, todayannounced that new research published by an independent team inBasel, Switzerland validates tenascin as an important moleculartarget for the development of new treatments for glioblastomamultiforme (G...