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While on trail of dioxin, scientists pinpoint cancer target of green tea

Green tea appears to protect against cancer by affecting a "promiscuous" protein that pharmaceutical experts are already targeting in an effort to develop a new drug to stop the disease, scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center have found. The research, which buttresses beliefs about the health benefits of green tea with solid scientific evidence, has been cited as part of the bes...

Gene therapy for muscular dystrophy fixes frail muscle cells in animal model, Stanford study finds

A new gene therapy technique that has shown promise in skin disease and hemophilia might one day be useful for treating muscular dystrophy, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine. In the study, scheduled to be published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of Jan. 2, the researchers used gene therapy to introduce...

Scientists make first step towards 'holy grail' of crystallography

Scientists from Imperial College London and the University of Surrey have developed a new technique for crystallising proteins, a discovery which could help speed up the development of new medicines and treatments. Crystallisation is the process which converts materials, such as proteins, into three dimensional crystals, thus enabling their atomic structure to be studied. The three dimensi...

History-hunting geneticists can still follow familiar trail

As the world's first explorers branched away from humanity's birthplace in east Africa some 65,000 years ago, distinct mutations accumulated in the DNA of each population, essentially providing a genetic trail for modern researchers to follow. Recently some scientists have raised doubts about this classic genetic system to study ancient migrations of people and to estimate the populations...

Researchers hot on the trail of brain cell degeneration

A research team headed by Academy Research Fellow Michael Courtney has identified a new molecular pathway in neurons. The pathway is a factor in the degeneration of brain cells, which in turn plays an important role in neurological conditions and diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy and stroke. Courtney and his team, based at the A. I. Virtanen Institute of the University of Kuopio, jo...

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Human sTRAIL Receptor-1 (DR4), Unconjugated from PeproTech

Description:TNF-Related Apoptosis Inducing Ligand-Receptor-1...
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Wisconsin leads in stem cell science, but trails in producing companies

That question arose during a recent presentation by UW-Madison Professor Gabriela Cezar on the state of stem cell science in the United States and around the world. The answers say something about Wiscons...

Two UW-Madison professors named to National LambdaRail Networking Research Council

, have been named to the National LambdaRails Networking Researching Council (NNRC), which will make key policy decisions regarding the high-...

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Frailty in Older Women may be due to Chronic Infection

In an interesting study it was found that older women suffering from chronic cytomegalovirus// (CMV)(a lifelong viral infection- acquired early in life) were found to have more than triple the risk of being frail than those who did not have the infection. This was reported in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. This is the first time an association between CMV and frailty synd...

Obesity may cause frailties in elderly women

Women who are above 60 years of age and have a body mass index of above 30 will be// known as obese and this may add to their woes more, apart from other health problems, as researchers have been able to relate obesity in elderly women to heightened risk of falling and hurting themselves, and other physiological vulnerabilities. Frailty is a condition that is associated with increased...

Railway Station Contributes to Create Awareness on AIDS

In a unique initiative a railway station – Ongole town in Andhra Pradesh has started using its public address// and announcement system to not only broadcast arrival and departures of trains but also messages about how to prevent AIDS and the need for safe sex. Andhra Pradesh in India has high incidence of prostitution and AIDS. Says Janaiah, a 50-year-old porter "The current generatio...

Deadly Diarrhoea Vaccine – Trail Results Promising

Diarrhoea is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in India. An attempt to formulate// a vaccine against this deadly disease, which has claimed so many young lives, is worth the expense. India is set to begin the phase II clinical trials of a new vaccine for a deadly form of diarrhoea that causes thousands of deaths annually in India. This move has been accelerated after phase I...

Telemedicine Project Implemented for Indian Railways

South Eastern Central Railway at Bilaspur, M. P. in its specialty hospital has a Telemedicine project implemented.// The project was undertaken by a Bangalore based company called Televital. Now the Bilaspur Hospital is connected with two remote Railway Hospital at Raipur and Nagpur. The Telemedicine network is implemented on Optical Fiber Cable of Railway Network. , M. P. The Indian Rail...

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Budde Halo Side Rail Support

Description:The Budde Halo Retractor Side Rail Support is designed for the adaptation and attachment of the Budde Halo Brain Retractor System to the operating room table when a conventional skull clamp is not used....
Company:Integra LifeSciences Corporation

NIR Elite Monorail Stent System

Description:Take Performance to a Higher Level....
Company:Boston Scientific Corporation

TAXUS Express2 Monorail Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent System

Description:The TAXUS Express Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent System is indicated for improving luminal diameter for the treatment of de novo lesions = 28 mm in length in native coronary arteries = 2.5 to = 3.75 mm in diameter....
Company:Boston Scientific Corporation

Cutting Balloon Ultra2 Monorail Platform

Description:The Cutting Balloon Ultra device consists of a non-compliant balloon with 3 or 4 atherotomes (microsurgical blades) mounted longitudinally on its outer surface. When the Cutting Balloon Ultra device is inflated, the atherotomes score the plaque, creating initiation sites for plaque propagation. This process, referred to as Atherotomy, allows dilatation of the target lesion with less pressure....
Company:Boston Scientific Corporation

FX miniRAIL RX PTCA Catheter

Description:Think outside the balloon. The first outside-the-balloon, dual-wire dilatation catheter. The FX miniRAIL RX PTCA Catheter represents an innovative new approach to dilatation. Its unique, dual-wire design concentrates stress along the two wires to create expansion planes at low inflation pressures, facilitating dilatation of challenging lesions. The FX miniRAIL RX PTCA Catheter is indicat...
Company:Guidant Corporation

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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...