News tagged with side
Novel nanoparticles communicate to target tumors more efficiently
(PhysOrg.com) -- For decades, researchers have been working to develop nanoparticles that deliver cancer drugs directly to tumors, minimizing the toxic side effects of chemotherapy. However, even with the ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 19, 2011 |
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Cancer's side effects can be lessened with nanoparticles
Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have shown that they can deliver the cancer drug cisplatin much more effectively and safely in a form that has been encapsulated in a nanoparticle targeted ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 11, 2011 |
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Light therapy promising for treating major depression
(PhysOrg.com) -- A small clinical trial in The Netherlands suggests bright light therapy may be a useful treatment for the symptoms of major depression in older adults.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 07, 2011 |
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Scientists discover bilayer structure in efficient solar material
Detailed studies of one of the best-performing organic photovoltaic materials reveal an unusual bilayer lamellar structure that may help explain the material's superior performance at converting sunlight to electricity and ...
Apr 24, 2012 |
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Gold used as safe driver of cancer drug
(PhysOrg.com) -- Gold nanoparticles can be used as delivery vehicles for platinum anticancer drugs, improving targeting and uptake into cells, according to research published in this month's edition of the ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 21, 2012 |
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Let's do the twist: Spiral proteins are efficient gene delivery agents
Clinical gene therapy may be one step closer, thanks to a new twist on an old class of molecules.
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Terminator-style info-vision takes step towards reality
The streaming of real-time information across your field of vision is a step closer to reality with the development of a prototype contact lens that could potentially provide the wearer with hands-free information ...
Nov 21, 2011 |
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First-of-its-kind study creates new tool for targeted cancer drug development
In a technical tour de force, scientists at Fox Chase Cancer Center have cataloged and cross-indexed the actions of 178 candidate drugs capable of blocking the activity of one or more of 300 enzymes, including enzymes critical ...
Oct 30, 2011 |
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Biologically targeted nanoparticles may boost radiation therapy effects
(PhysOrg.com) -- Making a tumor more sensitive to radiotherapy is a primary goal of combining chemo and radiation therapy to treat many types of cancer, but with the chemotherapy drugs come unwanted side effects.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 27, 2011 |
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Researchers block morphine's itchy side effect
Itching is one of the most prevalent side effects of powerful, pain-killing drugs like morphine, oxycodone and other opioids. The opiate-associated itch is so common that even women who get epidurals for labor ...
Oct 13, 2011 |
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Nanoparticles working in harmony
For decades, researchers have been working to develop nanoparticles that deliver cancer drugs directly to tumors, minimizing the toxic side effects of chemotherapy. However, even with the best of these nanoparticles, only ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 15, 2011 |
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Led by advances in chemical synthesis, scientists find natural product shows pain-killing properties
Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have for the first time accomplished a laboratory synthesis of a rare natural product isolated from the bark of a plant widely employed in traditional medicine. ...
May 23, 2011 |
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Nanotechnology may lead to new treatment of liver cancer
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanotechnology may open a new door on the treatment of liver cancer, according to a team of Penn State College of Medicine researchers. They used molecular-sized bubbles filled with chemotherapy drugs to ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 21, 2011 |
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Scientists discover clue to ending chronic itching side effect of certain drugs
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scratching deep beneath the surface, a team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and three South Korean institutions have identified two distinct neuronal signaling ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 08, 2011 |
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Medical practice on blood pressure challenged in study
New research shows that starting treatment of blood pressure with two medicines rather than the one produces better and faster results and fewer side effects. The findings could change clinical practice world-wide.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 12, 2011 |
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