Archive: 01/22/2008
Researchers develop new advanced method for measuring protein synthesis
In a major breakthrough for future research and drug development, a team of Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) investigators developed a new, more reliable method for measuring protein synthesis and turnover, ...
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Jan 22, 2008 |
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Researchers find relief for chronic pain
Researchers in the Department of Medicine and Department of Neurosciences at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have discovered that chronic pain can be successfully treated with novel targeted gene therapy. In an effort to find ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 22, 2008 |
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Regular, long-term aspirin use reduces risk of colorectal cancer
The use of regular, long-term aspirin and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) reduces the risk associated with colorectal cancer, according to a study published in Gastroenterology, the official journal of the ...
Jan 22, 2008 |
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Scientists use nanomaterials to localize and control drug delivery
Using nanotechnology, scientists from UCLA and Northwestern University have developed a localized and controlled drug delivery method that is invisible to the immune system, a discovery that could provide newer and more effective ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 22, 2008 |
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Ovarian cancer risk not affected by alcohol and smoking, but reduced by caffeine
A new study has found that cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption do not have an effect on ovarian cancer risk, while caffeine intake may lower the risk, particularly in women not using hormones. The study is published ...
Jan 22, 2008 |
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Controlling schistosomiasis: buffalo or snails?
A parasitic infection common in China and Southeast Asia could be effectively reduced by controlling snail populations, according to research published in PLoS Medicine.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 22, 2008 |
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Researchers propose consumers buy yearly 'drug licenses' as new way to pay for prescriptions
Changing the way consumers pay for prescription drugs so that the system more closely resembles paying for cell phones or computer software could increase drug use without altering patients’ out-of-pocket spending, health ...
Jan 22, 2008 |
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MSU lab gives early warnings about biological invaders
Montanans don't think a lot about "Homeland Security," but one Montana State University unit that serves both ag producers and home gardeners also serves to keep us safe from other biological invaders.
Biology /
Jan 22, 2008 |
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A step forward in targeted pain therapy
Our bodies sense painful stimuli through certain receptors located in the skin, in joints and many internal organs. Specialized nerve fibers relay these signals coming from the periphery to the brain, where pain becomes conscious. ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 22, 2008 |
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Researcher transplants stem cells to try to save patients' legs
A Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine researcher has launched the first U.S. trial in which a purified form of subjects' own adult stem cells was transplanted into their leg muscles with severely blocked arteries ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 22, 2008 |
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The missing link between belly fat and heart disease?
By now, everyone knows that overweight people have a higher risk of heart attacks, strokes and other problems that arise from clogged, hardened arteries. And people who carry their extra weight around their waist – giving ...
Jan 22, 2008 |
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Johns Hopkins to participate in 1000 Genomes Project
Researchers at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine (IGM) at Johns Hopkins will join other national and international scientists in the 1000 Genomes Project, an ambitious effort that will involve sequencing ...
Jan 22, 2008 |
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Skull survey could improve vehicle safety
Women's skulls are thicker than men's, but they both shrink slowly after we reach adulthood. That's the conclusion of a new imaging study of 3000 people published in the Inderscience International Journal of Vehicle Safety. The de ...
Jan 22, 2008 |
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Rain Power: Harvesting Energy from the Sky
Researchers who study energy harvesting see energy all around us – we just need to find a way to capture that energy. One of the latest energy harvesting techniques is converting the mechanical energy from ...
Jan 22, 2008 |
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