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Gene therapy promising for growing tooth-supporting bone

A University of Michigan research team has found that introducing a growth factor protein into a mouth wound using gene therapy helped generate bone around dental implants, according to a new paper in the February issue of the journal Molecular Therapy. In a patient with a sizeable mouth wound, replacing a tooth takes more than simply implanting a new one---the patient also needs the bone...

Best research work in the area of wine growing

Researchers in the area of Vegetable Production Vegetal of the Department of Agricultural Production at the Public University of Navarra have been awarded the prize for the best research in the area of viticulture. The presentation took place at the V Iberian Congress of Horticultural Science recently held in Oporto (Portugal). The awarded work, entitled "Recovery of photosynthetic activity in 4...

Elderly mice yield clues to the process of growing old

Delving deep into the molecular subtleties of a strain of mice engineered to age rapidly, scientists have found that an accumulation of genetic mutations prompts a cascade of programmed cell death that seems to underpin the aging process. Writing today (July 15, 2005) in the journal Science, a team of scientists led by University of Wisconsin-Madison geneticist Tomas A. Prolla describes a...

Researchers find gland that tells fruit flies when to stop growing

Many baffled parents have wondered whether their teenagers would ever stop growing. The answer is obvious, but researchers have never really quite understood just how an organism determines when it has reached its optimal size and growth should cease. Now University of Washington biologists studying the physiology of Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly, have discovered an organ t...

UT Southwestern researchers unravel control of growing blood vessels

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered a basic mechanism by which smooth muscle cells that line the blood vessels can grow ?sometimes abnormally ?suggesting methods of treatment for various coronary diseases. Abnormal growth of cells inside blood vessels is involved in hypertension, coronary artery disease, tumors called leiosarcomas and other conditions. "By underst...

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Power services firm JT Packard isn't through growing

As founder of , Cason presides over a rapidly expanding power service provider. The company has grown by 500 percent over the past three years, and now is the largest uni...

Medical device industry growing in importance in Midwest

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Growing Venture Capital in Wisconsin

MADISON, Wis. - Its not news that Wisconsin trails national averages in venture capital availability, but the hows and whys of it are broken down and detailed in a new report, The Wisconsin Technology Ne...
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Drug trafficking via Internet a growing threat

Czech traffickers arrange drug deals at internet cafes. Australians use courier companies’ Web sites to track packages of pills. American dealers swap recipes for amphetamines in restricted-access chat rooms. Worldwide, drug traffickers increasingly are taking advantage of encrypted e-mail and other Internet technology to sell their stashes, launder money and trade tips and techniques, the Intern...

Problems Of a Growing Company

A growing waistline is bad for your health, but now a new study says a growing business could also be bad for your health.// When a company downsizes, it often has a negative health impact on workers. Clearly, the workers are concerned about their job and their future. But new research surprisingly shows when a company expands quickly, workers also have health problems. Workplaces that...

Growing trend of delay in completing vaccination schedule

In the recent issue of Journal of American Medical Association, researchers have pointed out that there seems to be a growing// trend in delaying the vaccination schedules of the children resulting in increase in risk of the vaccinated diseases affecting the children. According to the latest study, most of the vaccines that need to be completed during the first two years of age in chi...

Re –growing Brain cells destroyed by Parkinson’s disease

Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disease of the substantia nigra ,an area in the basal ganglia. The disease was // first discovered and its symptoms documented in 1817 by the British physician Dr. James Parkinson and the associated biochemical changes in the brain of patients were identified in the 1960s. Although some genes were identified only recently, others still remain a mystery....

The growing availability of Fake drugs in the market

With a wide range of medications available , one must also be wary of the fake drugs available in the market //. According to the Drug Control Department, 63 batches of spurious drugs, mainly comprising antibiotics, painkillers and cardiac medicines, are being sold in Bangalore. Most of the drugs were found to have a very small percentage of medicine and in some no medicine at all. K...

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Independent Publication Confirms Growing Therapeutic Challenge of T315I Mutation in Patients with CML, Notes ChemGenex

MELBOURNE, Australia & MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May21, 2007 - ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals (ASX: CXS, NASDAQ: CXSP) notesthe publication of new clinical data relevant to the developmentstrategy for Ceflatonin(R) (homoharringtonine). The paper "Targetedtherapy and the T315I mutation in Philadelphia-positive leukemias"by researchers Simona Soverini and colleagues at the University...

Independent Publication Confirms Growing Therapeutic Challenge of T315I Mutation in Patients with CML, Notes ChemGenex

MELBOURNE, Australia, and MENLO PARK, CaliforniaU.S.A. (May 21, 2007): ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals (ASX: CXS, NASDAQ:CXSP) notes the publication of new clinical data relevant to thedevelopment strategy for Ceflatonin® (homoharringtonine). Thepaper "Targeted therapy and the T315I mutation inPhiladelphia-positive leukemias" by researchers Simona Soverini andcolleagues at...

Human Genome Sciences Reports Growing Evidence That Its TRAIL Receptor Antibodies Have Significant Potential in the Treatment of a Broad Range of Cancers

- Journal of Clinical Oncology publishes first clinical study ofHGS-ETR1 - ROCKVILLE, Md., April 27, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- HumanGenome Sciences, Inc. today reported that clinical and preclinicalevidence continues to emerge demonstrating that its TRAIL receptorantibodies, HGS-ETR1 (mapatumumab) and HGS-ETR2 (lexatumumab), havesignificant potential for use in the treatment of a bro...
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