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Finding Cures For Tropical Diseases: Is Open Source An Answer?

There's aparadigm in life science and drug development : only "lucrative""markets" get exploited by R&D companies. In many occasions I'veseen very promising drugs candidates or related research get cannedbecause no money was to be made with it, even if millions would havebeen saved worldwide. The usual strategy to avoid this fate is to finda drug candid...

Gene Therapy Cures Inherited Liver Disease In Rats

A single dose of gene-virus combination cured rats of a inherited liver disease in which lack of a gene causes the accumulation of bilirubin –which, untreated, results in jaundice and brain damage, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in a report in the Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences. "This is the first time this disease (Crigler-Najjar syndrome) has been complete...

Promising new West Nile therapy cures disease in mice

West Nile virus alarmed Americans when it made its first U.S. appearance in New York City in 1999. It has since spread from coast to coast, sickened more than 16,000 Americans and killed more than 600. As the virus spread, medical investigators hastened research to develop an effective vaccine or therapy. None currently exist, but a newly published paper by researchers at Washington University in...

Gene therapy cures inherited liver disease in rats

A single dose of gene-virus combination cured rats of a inherited liver disease in which lack of a gene causes the accumulation of bilirubin –which, untreated, results in jaundice and brain damage, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in a report in the Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences. "This is the first time this disease (Crigler-Najjar syndrome) has been complet...

Searching the depths of the straits of Florida for disease cures

On Monday, the Harbor Branch drug discovery group will begin a 2-week expedition to explore the Straits of Florida in search of organisms that produce chemicals with the potential to cure diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's. The work will include the first submersible exploration of the remote Cay Sal Bank, which encompasses a number of small, uninhabited islands 30 miles north of Cuba. Cay S...

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TrafficCast secures $2M from Phenomenelle Angels, NEW Capital Fund

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Perscitus Biosciences secures $250K Commerce loan

Perscitus Biosciences was founded in 2006 to develop and commercialize two technologies based on reactive oxygen biochemistry. James Thomas, CEO and chairman of Perscitus Biosciences, said the...

ProCertus BioPharm secures $2.3M in financing

, an oncology-based pharmaceutical company, will...

Mirus Bio secures $900K grant to develop research tool

Mirus, a Madison-based life-science company engaged in gene therapy and the study of RNA interference, received the two-year grant from the <a href="http:/...

BioSystem Development secures angel funding

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Protein Fragments Blocking Cures Alzheimer's Disease

Professor Yadong Huang and his team from Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease have found that the protein apolipoprotein E (apoE) is responsible for causing Alzheimer's disease //that acts by inactivating the conversion of glucose into energy in Mitochondirial cells due to the protein fragments released from apoE. The apoE protein is found to be responsible for causing Alzheime...

Yoga Cures Chronic Back Pain

The Group Health Cooperative Center for Health Studies of Seattle has revealed that chronic lower back pain can be cured through yoga. //As many as 101 adults who suffer from back pain were assessed by the study. The people who practiced yoga for 75 minutes every week displayed greater progress when compared to those who participated in stretching and strengthening classes. Yoga has...

Miracle Cures Do Exist

Statistical evidence has been provided by researchers that faith healing and special diets also serve to heal people. Radiation oncologist Michael MacManus of Melbourne led the research // which studied as many as 2,337 patients who suffered from incurable lung cancer. Alternative medicine served to extend the life of 25 people for a period of five years, while another 18 were completely...

Nature Cures The Best, Say WIC Clinic Clients

Under nourished Latini Children in WIC Clinics, belonging to the low income group are often administered with herbs by care givers for common // ailments like colds, rash, stomach aches , according to the findings by Penn state researchers.. Approximately 48% of Latinos used herbs for common ailments while 31.4 % of non Latinos in WIC clinics, also used herbs during their childhood i...

Transplant Cures Rats’ Type 2 Diabetes without Need for Immune Suppression Drug

An approach proven to cure a rat model of type 1 or juvenile-onset diabetes also works in a rat model of type 2 or adult-onset diabetes//, according to a new report from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "Finding that we can cure type 2 diabetes in the same way is very significant because in humans type 2 diabetes is almost 20 times more prevalent th...

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MabThera Significantly Extends Survival And Cures More Patients With Aggressive Lymphoma Than Chemotherapy Alone

Seven year follow up of pivotal trial confirms that more patientsare alive today due to MabThera BASEL, Switzerland, June 4, 2007-A follow-up analysis trackingthe outcome of patients with aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma(NHL) who were treated with the innovative cancer therapy MabThera(rituximab) over seven years ago has revealed exciting results(1). This analysis of the original...
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