News tagged with lung complications

Geneticists hunt for scleroderma triggers

At its most benign, the autoimmune disease scleroderma can discolor parts of the skin of its sufferers. At its most pernicious, it can thicken and harden their skin, their blood vessels, and their internal organs before, ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research elucidates way lungs fight bacteria and prevent infection

Actor and pancreatic cancer patient Patrick Swayze's recent hospitalization with pneumonia as a result of his compromised immune system underscores the sensitivity of the lungs: many patients die from lung complications of ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Computing the best high-resolution 3-D tissue images

Real-time, 3-D microscopic tissue imaging could be a revolution for medical fields such as cancer diagnosis, minimally invasive surgery and ophthalmology. University of Illinois researchers have developed ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bacteria use chat to play the 'Prisoner's Dilemma' game in deciding their fate

When faced with life-or-death situations, bacteria — and maybe even human cells — use an extremely sophisticated version of "game theory" to consider their options and decide upon the best course ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study offers new information for flu fight

Influenza virus can rapidly evolve from one form to another, complicating the effectiveness of vaccines and anti-viral drugs used to treat it. By first understanding the complex host cell pathways that the flu uses for replication, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Flatworms' minimalist approach to cell division reveals molecular architecture of human centrosome

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have discovered that planarians, tiny flatworms fabled for their regenerative powers, completely lack ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Plasma-based treatment goes viral

Life-threatening viruses such as HIV, SARS, hepatitis and influenza, could soon be combatted in an unusual manner as researchers have demonstrated the effectiveness of plasma for inactivating and preventing ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Seeing cancer in three dimensions

One of the hallmarks of cancer cells is that certain regions of their DNA tend to get duplicated many times, while others are deleted. Often those genetic alterations help the cells become more malignant — ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research team achieves critical step to opening elusive class of compounds to drug discovery

Taxanes are a family of compounds that includes one of the most important cancer drugs ever discovered, Taxol®, among other cancer treatments. But the difficulty producing these complex molecules in the ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Two seemingly unrelated phenomena share surprising link: Physicists gain new insight into solitons

(PhysOrg.com) -- A coupled line of swinging pendulums apparently has nothing in common with an elastic film that buckles and folds under compression while floating on a liquid, but scientists at the University ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

'Plastic bottle' solution for arsenic-contaminated water threatening 100 million people

With almost 100 million people in developing countries exposed to dangerously high levels of arsenic in their drinking water, and unable to afford complex purification technology, scientists today described a simple, inexpensive ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Diabetics get blood vessels made from donor cells

Three dialysis patients have received the world's first blood vessels grown in a lab from donated skin cells. It's a key step toward creating a supply of ready-to-use arteries and veins that could be used ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1


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