Smokeless Tobacco: Not a Harmless Substitute
HARRISBURG, Pa., May 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At least 28 cancer-causing chemicals have been identified in smokeless tobacco products and its use increases the risk of oral cancer by approximately 50 times. Smokeless tobacco is not a safe alternative to cigarettes. The Pennsylvania Dent...Cornell receives federal grants to create fabrics to render toxic chemicals harmless
Cornell fiber scientist Juan Hinestroza is working with the U.S. government to create fabrics made of functional nanofibers that would decompose toxic industrial chemicals into harmless byproducts. Potential applications include safety gear for U.S. soldiers and filtration systems for buildings...Scientists Develop a Harmless Multi-Tasking Reovirus
For the past two years, researchers at Oncolytics Biotech have been developing a harmless virus as a potent cancer killer//, but they have also been accumulating data that suggests in addition to directly killing tumor cells, the reovirus may prime the immune system to mount a separate, powerful an...Passive smoking may be harmless
Researchers at UCLA suggests that passive smoking does not cause health problems for nonsmokers. Epidemiologists concluded that second hand smoking does not increase the risk for lung cancer and heart disease. An experiment was conducted on more than 35,000 California residents. Those who were part...Nanotechnology Transforms Pain Relief
... Choosing a topical pain reliever like MyOmega(R) is ideal because it offers a healthy alternative to pills and pain relief patches. Seemingly harmless drugs like Acetaminophen and Methyl Salicylate have potentially fatal effects. Acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol(R) and other commonly p...Diagnostic tools and innovative therapies improve patient prognosis
...d as screening tools; however, their two main drawbacks are the lack of discrimination between cancerous and benign lesionsmost lesions turn out to be harmless after needle biopsiesand the inability to detect pre-cancerous lesions. It has been known for decades that sputum (phlegm) from lung cancer patient...Vein Condition May Mask Serious Clot Disorder
... Superficial vein thrombosis linked to deep vein thrombosis, study says MONDAY, July 20 (HealthDay News) -- A supposedly harmless condition -- superficial vein thrombosis, or varicose veins that have become swollen and painful -- may herald the presence of a more dangerous proble...Econiche(TM) Vaccine Efficacy Summarized in July Issue of Foodborne Pathogens and Disease
...e amount of E. coli O157 shed into the environment by beef and dairy cattle and, in turn, reduce the risk to human health. Most strains of E. coli are harmless but some, like O157:H7, can cause severe illness and even be fatal when ingested by humans from contaminated meat, vegetables or water. Vaccination of...Deaths, Injuries Increase With Higher Speed Limits
...onmental and occupational health sciences in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Their results show that seemingly harmless policy decisions can have long-term repercussions, the researchers said. They called for implementation of a national speed management policy that wou...Stopping harmful oral bacteria in its path is goal for Case Western Reserve researcher
...e professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine, aims to understand how to build roadblocks for a common bacterium that's harmless in a mother's mouth but can turn deadly when it reaches an unborn child. She has received a five-year, $1.85 million grant from the National Institut...Gene Therapy Corrects Sickle Cell Disease in Laboratory Study
...cations MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Using a harmless virus to insert a corrective gene into mouse blood cells, scientists at St....hnique to insert the gene for gamma-globin into blood-forming cells using a harmless viral carrier. The researchers extracted the blood-forming cells, performed...Evidence of Benefit Lacking for Many Common Ways of Treating Osteoarthritis of the Knee
... benefits to relieve knee pain caused by osteoarthritis and improve physical functioning, appear to be no more effective than placebos. A placebo is a harmless substance given to selected patients in a clinical trial that looks like the real drug or injection being studied, but which has no medical effect. T...Cortex Area Thinner in Youth with Alzheimers-Related Gene
...much aging-related tissue loss in the entorhinal cortex before they cross a critical threshold, explained Shaw. But the early thinning appears to be a harmless genetic variation rather than a disease-related change, as it did not affect youths intellectual ability. Only long-term brain imaging studies of heal...Progenics Announces Positive Results in Clinical Trial of Novel HIV Therapy
...ceptor on healthy immune system cells and thereby protects them from viral infection. HIV in the bloodstream that cannot enter a host cell is rendered harmless and rapidly cleared from the body. In contrast to PRO 140's mechanism of action as a viral-entry inhibitor, most antiretroviral drugs are designed to ...Artificial induction of immunity
...e specific diseases, Pasteur isolated the infectious agent from anthrax . He then derived a vaccine by altering the infectious agent so as to make it harmless and then introducing this inactivated form of the infectious agents into farm animals, which then proved to be immune to the disease. Pasteur also i...Green tea boosts production of detox enzymes, rendering cancerous chemicals harmless
PHILADELPHIA − Concentrated chemicals derived from green tea dramatically boosted production of a group of key detoxification enzymes in people with low levels of these beneficial proteins, according to researchers at Arizona Cancer Center. These findings, published in the August issue o...CSHL research ties harmless viruses to cancer
Research led by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) may link viruses that have been considered harmless to chromosomal instability (CIN) and cancer. "If the model that we propose is correct, protecting the body against viruses, or preventing the cell fusion that they cause may decrease the freque...Study: Harmless virus kills some cancers
Six days is all it takes for a common, non-disease-causing virus to kill cervical, breast, prostate and squamous cell cancer cells in laboratory cultures, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. "Our results suggest that adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV2), which infects the ma...PNNL scientist garners early career presidential award
...mple -- react chemically with rocks and bacteria. Modeling that activity allows researchers to trap contaminants and in some cases transform them into harmless minerals. Similar processes occur when injected carbon dioxide meets what's underground. According to Mike Kluse, PNNL's laboratory director, Tarta...Novel handheld device detects anthrax with outstanding accuracy and reliability
...o reduce the large costs and losses in productivity and peace of mind caused by our current inability to easily distinguish between anthrax spores and harmless white powder. These new data definitively confirm the validity of the detection concepts underlying the Ceeker and should help fuel its wider use amo...Mars mission could ease Earth's energy supply crisis
...eatment of this type of unconventional hydrocarbon deposit," said Professor Sephton. "Moreover, these extraction helping materials are environmentally harmless to the extent that they are edible. Our research at Imperial College combines first rate scientific investigation with practical engineering design." ...Understanding plants' overactive immune system will help MU researchers build better crops
...e has the potential to be highly deleterious to the plant and needs to be tightly controlled. Certain suppressors protect the plant from responding to harmless stimuli and from overreacting to pathogens. If there is a mutation in these suppressors, the immune system can actually do more damage than good." ...NC State researchers find soy may aid in treating canine cancers
... Suter hopes that veterinarians will be able to offer this therapy to canine patients in the near future. "Since GCP is a dietary supplement, it is harmless to patients," he adds. "Plus it's inexpensive and easy to administer in a pill form. There's really no downside here." ...Tiny samples could yield big predictive markers for pancreatic cancer
... A handful of proteins, detected in incredibly tiny amounts, may one day help doctors distinguish between a harmless lesion in the pancreas and a potentially deadly one, say researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center. The researchers believe that these protein bioma...New approach may render disease-causing staph harmless
Researchers at the University of Illinois helped lead a collaborative effort to uncover a completely new treatment strategy for serious Staphylococcus aureus (Staph) infections. The research, published Feb. 14 in ScienceXpress, the online version of Science magazine, comes at a time when strains o...Novel handheld device detects anthrax with outstanding accuracy and reliability
...o reduce the large costs and losses in productivity and peace of mind caused by our current inability to easily distinguish between anthrax spores and harmless white powder. These new data definitively confirm the validity of the detection concepts underlying the Ceeker and should help fuel its wider use amo...MIT virus battery could power cars, electronic devices
...lectrodes to the iron phosphate and transferring energy in a very short time. The viruses are a common bacteriophage, which infect bacteria but are harmless to humans. The team found that incorporating carbon nanotubes increases the cathode's conductivity without adding too much weight to the battery. I...Safer nanoparticles spotlight tumors, deliver drugs
...a team of scientists has created miniscule flakes of silicon that glow brightly, last long enough to slowly release cancer drugs, then break down into harmless by-products. "It is the first luminescent nanoparticle that was purposely designed to minimize toxic side effects," said Michael Sailor, a chemist...Gene against bacterial attack unravelled
...ens this sets off an alarm in the immune system and the defence mechanism is activated. Yet B. pseudomallei fools the system by entering the code of a harmless bacterium. As a result the body's defence system remains on standby. Yet some people are resistant: they become infected but not ill. Wiersinga fo...STC.UNM Signs License Option Agreement With GeneThera for E. coli O157:H7 Vaccine
...nces Center, and Dr. Chengru Zhu, formerly of UNM but now Chief of Environmental Microbiology in the Maryland Department of Health. These bacteria are harmless to humans and animals because the key virulence genes of the bugs are mutated by molecular approaches. According to the CDC, " ... there may be abou...NIST and partners identify tiny gold clusters as top-notch catalysts
...exploiting gold's exceptional ability to catalyze a wide variety of chemical reactions, including the oxidation of poisonous carbon monoxide (CO) into harmless carbon dioxide at room temperatures. That process, if industrialized, could potentially improve the effectiveness of catalytic converters that clean a...