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A step toward minute factories that produce medicine inside the bodyWashington DC (SPX) Jul 02, 2012 Scientists are reporting an advance toward treating disease with minute capsules containing not drugs - but the DNA and other biological machinery for making the drug. In an article in ACS' journal Nano Letters, they describe engineering micro- and nano-sized capsules that contain the genetically coded instructions, plus the read-out gear and assembly line for protein synthesis that can be switched on with an external signal. Daniel Anderson and colleagues explain that development of nanosca ... read more |
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![]() Sri Lanka troops join battle against dengue fever Thousands of Sri Lankan troops Friday joined a massive clean up operation to eliminate mosquito-breeding grounds as part of a national effort to contain the dengue virus, officials said. ... more | .. |
![]() Four-in-one AIDS drug gets the OK in clinical trial An experimental once-daily pill that combines four drugs to fight HIV is as safe and effective as commonly-prescribed treatments against the AIDS virus, researchers reported in The Lancet Friday. ... more | .. |
![]() Seeing inside tissue Imagine if doctors could perform surgery without ever having to cut through your skin. Or if they could diagnose cancer by seeing tumors inside the body with a procedure that is as simple as an ultr ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Magnet helps target transplanted iron-loaded cells to key areas of heart Optimal stem cell therapy delivery to damaged areas of the heart after myocardial infarction has been hampered by inefficient homing of cells to the damaged site. However, using rat models, research ... more | .. |
![]() Infection biology: The elusive third factor Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat (LMU) in Munich have identified an enzyme that is involved in a modification pathway that is essential for bacterial pathogenicity. Because it shows n ... more | .. |
![]() USRA Life Scientists' Proposals Selected to Support Astronaut Health on Missions The Universities Space Research Association (USRA) is very pleased to congratulate its scientific staff at the Division of Space Life Sciences (DSLS), in Houston, TX, on their recently awarded resea ... more | .. |
![]() Swine flu likely claimed quarter of a million lives: study The A(H1N1) "swine flu" 2009 pandemic probably claimed over a quarter of a million lives - 15 times more than the 18,500 reported, a paper in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal said Tuesday. ... more |
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![]() Eating placenta, an age-old practice in China After Wang Lan delivered, she brought home a baby girl and her placenta, which she plans to eat in a soup - adopting an age-old practice in Chinese traditional medicine. ... more | .. |
![]() New Gravitational Biology Lab Allows for Testing in Artificial Gravity NASA is expanding its existing capabilities for doing plant and animal tissue investigations on the International Space Station with the delivery of a new centrifuge scheduled for this summer. The c ... more | .. |
![]() Selenium controls staph on implant material Selenium is an inexpensive element that naturally belongs in the body. It is also known to combat bacteria. Still, it had not been tried as an antibiotic coating on a medical device material. In a n ... more | .. |
![]() Vatican calls for free AIDS treatment across Africa A top Vatican official called Friday on the international community to provide "free and efficient treatment" for AIDS in Africa, starting with pregnant women, mothers and their babies. ... more |
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![]() Seven scientists named as research team leaders for NSBRI The National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) has enlisted seven of the nation's top scientists to serve as team leaders in its efforts to protect astronaut health during long-duration sp ... more | .. |
![]() US journal prints controversial bird flu research The US journal Science published research Thursday on how a mutant bird flu may spread among mammals and possibly humans, following months of controversy over the risks of bioterrorism. ... more | .. |
![]() Zimbabwe lawmakers get tested for HIV Dozens of Zimbabwean lawmakers on Thursday underwent HIV tests at parliament, with many pledging to undergo circumcision the following day, at the start of a new anti-AIDS campaign. ... more | .. |
![]() Physicists use ultrafast lasers to create first tabletop X-ray device An international research team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has generated the first laser-like beams of X-rays from a tabletop device, paving the way for major advances in many fields i ... more |
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![]() Peaches, plums, nectarines give obesity, diabetes slim chance Peaches, plums and nectarines have bioactive compounds that can potentially fight-off obesity-related diabetes and cardiovascular disease, according to new studies by Texas AgriLife Research. The st ... more | .. |
![]() NIST effort could improve high-tech medical scanners A powerful color-based imaging technique is making the jump from remote sensing to the operating room-and a team of scientists* at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have take ... more | .. |
![]() Berkeley Lab scientists help define the healthy human microbiome You're outnumbered. There are ten times as many microbial cells in you as there are your own cells. The human microbiome-as scientists call the communities of microorganisms that inhabit your skin, ... more | .. |
![]() HIV may have returned in 'cured' patient: scientists An American man whose HIV seemed to disappear after a blood marrow transplant for leukemia may be showing new hints of the disease, sparking debate over whether a cure was really achieved. ... more |
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![]() 1 million billion billion billion billion billion billion: Number of undiscovered drugs A new voyage into "chemical space" - occupied not by stars and planets but substances that could become useful in everyday life - has concluded that scientists have synthesized barely one tenth of 1 ... more | .. |
![]() Revealed: Secret of HIV's natural born killers Scientists on Sunday said they had found a key piece in the puzzle as to why a tiny minority of individuals infected with HIV have a natural ability to fight off the deadly AIDS virus. ... more | .. |
![]() Mama Portia dishes out help for AIDS orphans With woollen hats covering their heads from early morning chills, dozens of children troop into a courtyard for a bowl of hot cereal in South Africa's impoverished Alexandra township. ... more | .. |
![]() New study shows why swine flu virus develops drug resistance Computer chips of a type more commonly found in games consoles have been used by scientists at the University of Bristol to reveal how the flu virus resists anti-flu drugs such as Relenza and Tamifl ... more |
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![]() China faces 'serious' epidemic of drug-resistant TB China faces a "serious epidemic" of drug-resistant tuberculosis according to the first-ever nationwide estimate of the size of the problem there, said a US-published study on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
![]() 50-year cholera mystery solved For 50 years scientists have been unsure how the bacteria that gives humans cholera manages to resist one of our basic innate immune responses. That mystery has now been solved, thanks to research f ... more | .. |
![]() New device sees bacteria behind the eardrum Doctors can now get a peek behind the eardrum to better diagnose and treat chronic ear infections, thanks to a new medical imaging device invented by University of Illinois researchers. The device c ... more | .. |
![]() China faces 'serious' epidemic of drug-resistant TB China faces a "serious epidemic" of drug-resistant tuberculosis according to the first-ever nationwide estimate of the size of the problem there, said a US-published study on Wednesday. ... more |
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![]() Greening operating rooms benefit the bottom line and the environment Efforts to "green" operating rooms can result in cost savings for hospitals and reduce the environmental impact without compromising patient care, argues an analysis published in CMAJ (Canadian Medi ... more | .. |
![]() Anti-inflammatory drugs may improve survival from severe malaria A novel anti-inflammatory drug could help to improve survival in the most severe cases of malaria by preventing the immune system from causing irrevocable brain and tissue damage. Walter and Eliza H ... more | .. |
![]() Hong Kong sees first human bird flu case in 18 months Hong Kong health authorities on Saturday urged the public not to panic after the southern Chinese city reported its first human case of bird flu in 18 months in a two-year-old boy. ... more | .. |
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