News tagged with tissue chemistry
Strategy discovered to activate genes that suppress tumors and inhibit cancer
(Medical Xpress) -- A team of scientists has developed a promising new strategy for "reactivating" genes that cause cancer tumors to shrink and die. The researchers hope that their discovery will aid in the ...
May 21, 2012 |
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New field of chemistry has potential for making drugs inside patients -- and more
The traditional way of making medicines from ingredients mixed together in a factory may be joined by a new approach in which doctors administer the ingredients for a medicine separately to patients, and the ingredients combine ...
Mar 27, 2012 |
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Keeping track to selenium metabolism
Spanish and Danish researchers have developed a method for the in vivo study of the unknown metabolism of selenium, an essential element for living beings. The technique can help clarify whether or not it ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 21, 2012 |
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Researchers discover what cancer cells need to travel
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cancer cells must prepare for travel before invading new tissues, but new Cornell research has found a possible way to stop these cells from ever hitting the road.
Feb 22, 2012 |
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In lab, Pannexin1 restores tight binding of cells that is lost in cancer
First there is the tumor and then there's the horrible question of whether the cancerous cells will spread. Scientists increasingly believe that the structural properties of the tumor itself, such as how tightly ...
Jan 30, 2012 |
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Human skin yields stem cell-like cells
Researchers from the UCLA School of Dentistry investigating how stem cells can be used to regenerate dental tissue have discovered a way to produce cells with stem cell-like characteristics from the most common type of human ...
Dec 02, 2011 |
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Scientists uncover new role for gene in maintaining steady weight
Against the backdrop of the growing epidemic of obesity in the United States, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have made an important new discovery regarding a specific gene that plays ...
Nov 23, 2011 |
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New tool to help surgeons remove more cancer tissue during brain surgery
Scientists are reporting development and successful initial testing of a new tool that tells whether brain tissue is normal or cancerous while an operation is underway, so that surgeons can remove more of ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Molecular depth profiling modeled using buckyballs and low-energy argon
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists led by a Penn State University chemist has demonstrated the strengths and weaknesses of an alternative method of molecular depth profiling -- a technique used to analyze ...
Oct 11, 2011 |
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Following your steak's history from pasture to plate
The package on a supermarket steak may say "grass-fed" or "grass-finished," but how can a consumer know whether the cow spent its days grazing peacefully on meadow grass or actually gorged on feedlot corn? In ACS's Journal of ...
May 11, 2011 |
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Molecular muscle: Small parts of a big protein play key roles in building tissues
We all know the adage: A little bit of a good thing can go a long way. Now researchers in London are reporting that might also be true for a large protein associated with wound healing.
Mar 23, 2011 |
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Needle-in-a-haystack search identifies potential brain disease drug
Scientists who examined more than 10,000 chemical compounds during the last year in search of potential new drugs for a group of untreatable brain diseases, are reporting that one substance shows unusual promise. The early ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 23, 2011 |
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Scientific evidence supports effectiveness of Chinese drug for cataracts
Scientists are reporting a scientific basis for the long-standing belief that a widely used non-prescription drug in China and certain other countries can prevent and treat cataracts, a clouding of the lens of the eye that ...
Jan 12, 2011 |
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Garlic oil shows protective effect against heart disease in diabetes
Garlic has "significant" potential for preventing cardiomyopathy, a form of heart disease that is a leading cause of death in people with diabetes, scientists have concluded in a new study. Their report, which also explains ...
Sep 29, 2010 |
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Preventing or reversing inflammation after heart attack, stroke may require 2-pronged approach
Researchers at Albany Medical College are releasing results of a study this week that they say will help refocus the search for new drug targets aimed at preventing or reversing the devastating tissue inflammation that results ...
Mar 01, 2010 |
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