Enzyme delivered in smaller package protects cells from radiation damage
A University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine research team, collaborating with scientists from Stanford University, have developed a new, smaller gene therapy vector that may be effective in delivering a radioprotective enzyme systemically throughout the body which may spare healthy tissue the long-term consequences of therapeutic irradiation. These results are being presented at the 10th ann...An Anti-cancer Smart Bomb delivered using a Nanocell
A nanocell that can work like a smart bomb for cancer treatment is to be reported in Nature by MIT. The nanocell will work by penetrating into the tumor, seal the opening and then deliver the lethal dose of anti-cancer toxins like a ‘stealth bimb’.// This will leave the healthy cells unharmed. The experiments currently done on mice cancer like melanoma and lung cancer have the po...Drugs Delivered Into CNS More Effective In Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis
In a new approach to treating rheumatoid arthritis (RA), researchers found that drugs delivered into the central nervous system worked better in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, at least in arthritic rats.// In the research carried out on arthritic rats, the researchers delivered the drug directly into the spinal cord to block the p38 protein, a protein critical to the development...Conjoined Twins Will be delivered by C-Section on Thursday
Felicia Simms, a pregnant woman aged 21 years, expecting twins joined at the head , will undergo by caesarean section at the BC Women's Hospital and Health Centre// on Thursday. Attending a pre-operation press conference, Ms Simms, speechless with emotion, said in-between tears,...