Discovery Promises Simpler Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease
Durham, N.C. ?A new understanding of the causes for symptoms of sickle cell disease, a condition affecting one in every 600 African-Americans, has resulted from a study by researchers at Duke University Medical Center and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Their findings may lead to a new, more direct method for treating the disease, they said. Their research suggests that an inabili...Jefferson biologist coaxing human embryonic stem cells to make dopamine with simpler, faster method
For clinicians, the ability to look routinely inside the body and see -- at the level of the cell -- how it confronts disease is a distant dream. But in a series of experiments with genetically engineered mice, a team of researchers from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) at the University of California Los Angeles has taken a key step toward realizing that vision by demonstrating the abi...Cheaper and simpler keyhole surgery
Endoscopic surgery brings many advantages for patients but is very difficult for the surgeon. Working at the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam, Joris Jaspers has developed two instruments which make this approach easier and also cheaper than with existing surgical robotics. Jaspers is awarded his doctorate on Wednesday 22 March at Delft University of Technology. Endoscopic operations (o...The power of one: A simpler, cheaper method for cell fusion
It's not easy to make one plus one equal one. But biological engineer Chang Lu has done just that with a new and cheaper method to electrically fuse cells - a vital technology for studying stem cells, creating clones and finding disease antibodies. "The only current method for electrofusion requires a very expensive and specialized electrical pulse generator," said Lu, a professor of agr...Surgeons develop simpler way to cure atrial fibrillation
Physicians have an effective new option for treating atrial fibrillation, a common irregular heart rhythm that can cause stroke. Heart surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed and tested a device that radically shortens and simplifies a complex surgical procedure that has had the best long-term cure rate for persistent atrial fibrillation. The simpli...New gravity-flow column gives faster and simpler purification of histidine-tagged proteins
A. Bergh, M. Carlsson, A. Karlsson, and H. Lindgren GE Healthcare, Uppsala, Sweden Histidine-tagged proteins* can be quickly and simply purified on His GraviTrap columns prepacked with Ni Sepharose 6 Fast Flow without the need for a pump or purification system. The protein binding capacity (approx. 40 mg/column) is among the hi...Surgeons Develop Simpler Way to Cure Atrial Fibrillation
Physicians have an effective new option for treating atrial fibrillation, a common irregular heart rhythm that can cause stroke//. Heart surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed and tested a device that radically shortens and simplifies a complex surgical procedure that has had the best long-term cure rate for persistent atrial fibrillation. The...Detection of Malignant Breast Tumors Made Simpler and More Effective
Scientists linked with Harvard Medical School claim the discovery of a simpler method to distinguish benign breast tumors from malignant ones.// Harvard’s Kumar R. Bhushan, Ph.D., who led the chemistry group that participated in the research, described details of the new technique today at the 233rd national meeting of the American Chemical society, the world’s largest scientific societ...Liver Regeneration may Be Simpler Than Previously Thought
The way the liver renews itself may be simpler than what scientists// had been assuming. A new study provide information on the inner workings of cells from regenerating livers. It could significantly affect the way physicians make livers regrow in patients with liver diseases such as cirrhosis, hepatitis, or cancer. "The human liver is one of the few organs in the body that can reg...