Mayo Clinic Researchers Create 'Obedient Virus'; First Step To Use Measles Virus Against Cancer
An international team of Mayo Clinic-led researchers is first to devise a system that consistently converts the measles virus into a therapeutic killer that hunts down and destroys cancer cells -- and cancer cells only. Their research findings appear as an advanced electronic article of Nature Biotechnology. The researchers harnessed the viral trait for attacking and commandeering cells,...Chronic Sinus Infection Thought To Be Tissue Issue, Mayo Clinic Scientists Show It's Snot
Mayo Clinic researchers have found that the cause of chronic sinus infections lies in the nasal mucus -- the snot -- not in the nasal and sinus tissue targeted by standard treatment. The findings will be published in the August issue of Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and "This strikingly teaches against...Mayo Clinic collaboration discovers protein amplifies DNA injury signals
A Mayo Clinic-led research collaboration has discovered that the protein MDC1 amplifies weak DNA injury signals so genetic repair can begin. Once amplified, even low-level damage signals become strong enough to activate the cell's natural repair processes while the injury is most tractable to repair. How this "distress call" was communicated wasn't clear until this finding, which appears...Mayo Clinic researchers challenge sepsis theory
A Mayo Clinic research team has challenged the accepted theory on the cause of sepsis -- a condition in which the body's cells generate fever, shock and often death. Sepsis is thought to occur when poisons from bacterial infection interfere with the cells. The Mayo researchers challenge that long-held concept with a new theory in an opinion piece in the current issue of Trends in Molecular...Mayo Clinic researchers discover cancer cells may move via wave stimulation
Mayo Clinic researchers have uncovered a new cellular secret that may explain how certain cancers move and spread -- a feature of cancers that makes treatment especially difficult. If the mechanism that drives cancer movement -- also called metastasis -- can be understood well enough to manipulate it, new and better treatments can be developed for patients with metastatic cancers. Signi...Merge subsidiary to provide software to Mayo clinic
Cedara Software, a Canadian subsidiary of Milwaukee-based Merge Healthcare, said it will provide planning software to The company's OrthoWorks product will be integrated with Mayo's existing picture archiving and communications system (PACS), helping support joint arthroplasty, spine, trauma,...Teramedica Signs Deal With Mayo Clinic - Digital Imaging solution improves healthcare
MILWAUKEE, Wi - in Roche...San Francisco Mayor Proposes An Alternate Plan For The Uninsured City Residents
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said that he has a plan that will enable the uninsured in the city to have access to health care facility. // The taxpayers, employers and the recipients of the insurance coverage, will cover this insurance. His plan has the potential to benefit tens of thousands of city residents. Supervisor Tom Ammiano who is a member of the health care legislation sai...Mayo Clinic Researchers Find Two New Genes Predict Breast Cancer Outcomes
Mayo Clinic researchers have announced that two new genes found with breast tumors can predict the outcomes of the cancer with a faire degree of accuracy//. In the report appearing in he April 1 issue of Clinical Cancer Research, they say that these genes could help identify women at risk for an early relapse of breast cancer. "The HOXB13 and IL17BR gene profile was previously discovere...Mayo Clinic and Indian Health Service Form Clinical Practice Collaboration
Mayo Clinic and the Department of Health and Human Services, on behalf of the Indian Health Service (IHS), will sign a Memorandum of Understanding pledging to collaborate in seeking ways to reduce the burden //of cancer and other diseases in American Indian and Alaska Native communities. The public signing will incorporate several American Indian ceremonial elements, including drummers...Tailor-made Cancer Treatment for Multiple Myeloma Patients Offered by Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, has singled out tumor specific alterations in cellular pathway by which drug bortezomib (Velcade) works.// This drug is administered to patients suffering from multiple myeloma.researchers have identified almost nine genetic mutations in cancer cells that might improve chances of patients responding to the agent. These findings may help physicians to frame...Mayo Researcher Discovers Target Site for Developing Mosquito Pesticides
A Mayo Clinic researcher has discovered a target site within malaria-carrying mosquitoes that could be used to develop pesticides// that are toxic to the Anopheles gambiae mosquito and other mosquito species. It would not affect humans and other mammals. If supported by further studies, the findings could offer a safer and more effective control of mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria....