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Discovery Of A Possible Cause Of Parkinson’s Disease
“Nucleolus”, or small nucleus, is the term coined by early biologists for the tiny structure within the nucleus which they saw under the microscope. In this structure within the nucleus, RNA molecules…
MicroRNA Cocktail Helps Turn Skin Cells Into Stem Cells
Stem cells are ideal tools to understand disease and develop new treatments; however, they can be difficult to obtain in necessary quantities. In particular, generating induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells can be…
Engineered Cells Could Usher In Programmable Cell Therapies
In work that could jumpstart the promising field of cell therapy, in which cells are transplanted into the body to treat a variety of diseases and tissue defects, researchers at Brigham and…
Ovarian Cancer Risks In African-American Women To Be Determined In New Clinical Trial
University Hospitals Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine are conducting an important new study addressing the lack of knowledge about causes and risk factors for ovarian cancer…
For Patients Lacking Healthy Veins For Coronary Bypass Surgery Or Dialysis, Bioengineered Veins Offer New Hope
The day when a surgeon can pull a new human vein “off the shelf” for use in life-saving vascular surgeries is now one step closer to reality. New research published in the…
Physical exercise helps keep cancer at bay
GENEVA – The World Health Organisation is advising people engage in at least 150 minutes of “moderate” physical exercise a week to reduce the risk of breast and colon cancers, in new…
SR1.6b medical city for Dammam
The construction of a SR1.6 billion specialist medical city on a plot of land donated by Saudi Aramco on Abu Hadriah Road in the Eastern Province has been approved by Dr. Abdullah…
Potential Therapy For Stroke From Transplanted Human Placenta-Derived Stem Cells
Human amniotic epithelial cells, stem cells derived from human placenta left over from live births and generally discarded, proliferated and differentiated when they interacted with one kind of melatonin receptor, MT1. This…
Antares Pharma Announces First Rheumatoid Arthritis Patient Dosed In VIBEX™ MTX Clinical Trial
Antares Pharma, Inc. (NYSE Amex: AIS) announced that the first patient has been dosed in a clinical study evaluating the VIBEX™ MTX product which is being developed for the treatment of rheumatoid…
Nanoshell Therapy Found To Be Effective Against Brain Cancer In Early Tests
Rice University bioengineers and physician-scientists at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital have successfully destroyed tumors of human brain cancer cells in the first animal tests of a minimally invasive…
Harper Government Takes Action On Alzheimer’s Disease
The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, and the Honourable Julian Fantino, Minister of State for Seniors, announced $8.6 million for new research on Alzheimer’s disease. They were joined by Debbie Benczkowski,…
PET Scans May Allow Early Prediction Of Response To Targeted Therapy Of Thyroid Cancer
Positron emission tomography (PET) can image metabolic changes following treatment with the protein kinase inhibitor vandetanib, helping to define the therapy response or the effectiveness of the therapeutic agent, according to research…
Incidence Of Hepatitis C Infection In HIV-Infected Men
Hepatitis C is a leading cause of illness and death for individuals infected with both HIV and hepatitis C. Recent reports from around the world demonstrate that hepatitis C is emerging as…
Approval Of New Drug For Use In Bone Scans
The FDA has approved a New Drug Application (NDA) from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, for a new strength of a previously approved drug, Sodium…