News tagged with bone disorder
Rare disease reveals new path for creating stem cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- As debilitating as disease can be, sometimes it acts as a teacher. Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine have found that by mimicking a rare genetic ...
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Nov 21, 2010 |
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Prospect of better bone disease diagnosis with new technology
Scientists and medics are set to test a unique technology which could help in the early diagnosis of conditions such as the painful brittle bone disease. The technology, which uses a novel technique devised ...
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Nov 03, 2010 |
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Ultrasound device improves poor bone healing
Ultrasound can speed the healing of fractures. A randomized controlled trial reported in the open access journal BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders has found that the use of low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) in patients with t ...
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Oct 08, 2010 |
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Doctors need to help patients prepare better for health decisions
Twelve years ago, then 28-year-old graduate student Brian Zikmund-Fisher was forced into the toughest choice of his life: Die from a blood disorder within a few years or endure a bone marrow transplant that could cure him ...
Sep 29, 2010 |
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Engineered version of HIV is used to cure genetic blood disorder
For the second time, researchers have used the HIV virus in gene therapy to cure a severe genetic disease, this time the blood disorder beta-thalassemia, which causes life-threatening anemia.
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Sep 16, 2010 |
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Nobel winner ties mental illness to immune defect
A Nobel Prize-winning University of Utah geneticist discovered that bone marrow transplants cure mutant mice who pull out their hair compulsively. The study provides the first cause-and-effect link between ...
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May 27, 2010 |
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Phase II study of an oral therapy for Gaucher disease yields positive results
Gaucher disease, a rare enzyme deficiency disorder, is one of many conditions with few approved treatment options for patients. In a study published online today in Blood, the journal of the American Society of Hematology, resear ...
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May 03, 2010 |
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Study examines family lineage of King Tut, his possible cause of death
Using several scientific methods, including analyzing DNA from royal mummies, research findings suggest that malaria and bone abnormalities appear to have contributed to the death of Egyptian pharaoh King ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 16, 2010 |
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New gene discovered for recessive form of brittle bone disease
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions have discovered the third in a sequence of genes that accounts for previously unexplained forms of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), a genetic condition ...
Jan 20, 2010 |
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Researchers find evidence of survival gains in bone marrow disease
A recent study, published in the December issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, demonstrates new survival data for the blood disorder myelofibrosis. This retrospective study is the largest ever conducted in young patients with p ...
Dec 14, 2009 |
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Two proteins act as molecular tailors in DNA repair
(PhysOrg.com) -- On average, our cells encounter a very lethal form of DNA damage 10 times a day. Lucky for us, we have the capacity to repair each and every one of them. New research now reveals exactly how two well-known ...
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Nov 13, 2009 |
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Researchers Discover Mutations in Two Genes that Cause Early-Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team including researchers with the National Institutes of Health has discovered that mutations in either of two related genes cause a severe and rare form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) ...
Nov 05, 2009 |
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Study results promise faster recovery from life-threatening blood cell shortages
A key compound resupplies bone marrow with fast-acting stem cells that can more quickly rekindle blood cell production, according to a study published online today in the journal Blood. While the study was in mice, in the ...
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Sep 02, 2009 |
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Metabolic bone disease in cirrhosis patients
Long-standing liver disease has long been recognized to result in fragile bones with increased risk of fractures. In various international studies, the overall incidence has varied from 11% to 48%, with a fracture rate of ...
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Aug 10, 2009 |
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Bone's material flaws lead to disease: Tiny rifts create fragility of brittle bone disease
(PhysOrg.com) -- The weak tendons and fragile bones characteristic of osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease, stem from a genetic mutation that causes the incorrect substitution of a single amino ...
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Aug 04, 2009 |
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