Unique Bone Marrow Transplant Said to Cure Sickle Cell

... Technique is safe and effective, say Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh reseachers FRIDAY, Nov. 14 (HealthDay News) -- A unique form of bone marrow transplantation is the only safe and effective cure for sickle cell dise...

Australian Study Seeks Genetic Roots of Cerebral Palsy

... reseachers to gather 10,000 samples in study of this pregnancy complication MONDAY, July 21 (HealthDay News) -- Australian researchers are recruitin...

Pharmacyclics Reports Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results

...Factor VIIa and Btk programs were made at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2008 Annual Meeting held in April 2008: - reseachers from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center conducted laboratory studies with the company's HDAC inhibitor, PCI-24781, ...

Sewer-gas-induced suspended animation is rapid and reversible

...tion in mice, producing a suspended-animation-like state. In the April 2008 issue of the journal Anesthesiology, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) reseachers report that effects seen in earlier studies of hydrogen sulfide do not depend on a reduction in body temperature and include a substantial decrease in...

Schizophrenia Gene May Have On/Off Switch

... Mouse study suggests new target for treatment, reseachers say TUESDAY, Sept. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Working with a mouse model of schizophrenia, researchers believe they may have found the disease's genetic...

Programs to Prevent Falls Among Elders Not Doing Their Work

...ore likely to fall than those who did not receive treatment to enhance their vision. They were also 74 percent more likely to sustain fractures. reseachers give one explanation as the study participants needing a long time to adjust to new glasses . Writes Cumming in the Journal of the American Ger...

Virus Combats Brain Tumour

... Malignant glioma is an aggressive kind of brain tumour that does respond to treatment. reseachers have now come out with a partial solution and answer for such a catastrophe. It was found that Reo virus, a common inhabitant of gastrointestinal trac...

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UCSD medical/bioengineering reseachers show titanium debris satobtage artificial joints

Microscopic titanium particles weaken the bonding of hip, knee, and other joint replacements, according to research published online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine and the Jacobs School of Engine...

'TRAP' preserves genetic properties of popular geranium

... COLUMBUS, OH -- reseachers at The Ohio State University have demonstrated that Target Region Amplification Polymorphism, or TRAP, is an effective method for preserving the impor...

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Researchers at the University of Georgia Discover Protein is Crucial to Reproduction of Parasites Involved in Disease

... it is these functions that the parasites require. Since humans do not have chloroplasts, the parasite's dependence on this organelle is viewed by reseachers as an Achilles heel. Scientists are interested in the group to which Toxoplasma belongs, the Apicomplexa, because it includes such parasites as P...