Location: California , United States
Roughly the size of a matchstick, a slender titanium tube could become a
pint-sized weapon against chronic hepatitis C and a host of other debilitating
diseases.
Three UCSF/UC Berkeley doctoral students are designing a tiny implantable...
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Location: California, United States
What if we knew exactly where our trash was going and how much energy it took
to make it disappear? Would it make us think twice about buying bottled water or
"disposable" razors?
A team of MIT researchers today announced a major...
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Location: DR Inserm North - West, 1 avenue Oscar Lambret - BP 90005, 59008 Lille Cedex - Tel. : 03 20 29 86 70 : 03 20 29 86 70 , Belgium
The Bilhvax vaccine against schistosomiasis, entered its third phase of
development, phase of development in clinical research in Senegal to confirm its
effectiveness before it is placed on the market. To date, the vaccine was tested
among...
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Location: Stockholm, Sweden
The human heart has a notorious reputation for being unable to heal itself,
but new research suggests it is capable of at least some self-repair. Using
carbon dating to gauge the age of heart cells, scientists have found that low
numbers...
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Location: Syracuse, United States
The new technology may lead to the development of improved medical implants
This is the tale of two biological substances—cells from mammals and bacteria.
It's a story about the havoc these microscopic entities can wreak on...
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Location: Indianapolis, United States
Researchers at Purdue University have developed a technique using spun-sugar
filaments to create a scaffold of tiny synthetic tubes that might serve as
conduits to regenerate nerves severed in accidents or blood vessels damaged by...
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Location: Case Western Reserve University, United States
Traditionally, stimulating nerves or brain tissue involves cumbersome wiring
and a sharp metal electrode. But a team of researchers at Case Western Reserve
University is going "wireless."
And it's a unique collaboration...
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Location: COLUMBUS, United States
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Scientists have determined that a specific gene plays a role
in the weight-gain response to a high-fat diet.
The finding in an animal study suggests that blocking this gene could one day
be a therapeutic...
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Location: Massachusetts, United States
Despite medicine's inestimable progress over the past century, surgery can
still leave scars that look more appropriate to Frankenstein's monster than to
the beneficiary of a precise, modern operation. But in the Wellman Center for...
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Location: Edinburgh, United States
Researchers have moved closer to making silicon chips which could one day be
used to repair damaged tissue in the human body.
Edinburgh University has developed a technique, which allows neurons to grow in
fine, detailed patterns...
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Location: Florida, United States
Researchers at the University of South Florida (USF) have developed a wireless network that evaluates walking patterns in an attempt to detect early signs of dementia.
Currently, doctors ask patients to answer a series of questions...
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Location: New England, Canada
An international research team involving scientists from McGill University Health Center and McGill University, discovered a new protein to the onset of cardiovascular disease. Published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the results show...
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Location: California, United States
Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a versatile mouse model of glioblastoma—the most common and deadly brain cancer in humans—that closely resembles the development and progression of human brain...
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Location: Jerusalem, Israel
By injecting stem cells directly into the brain, scientists have successfully reversed neural birth defects in mice whose mothers were given heroin during pregnancy. Even though most of the transplanted cells did not survive, they induced the...
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Location: Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, ,Kyoto UniversityJapan Tel: +81-75-753-7531, Japan
Many types of catechin in green tea called polyphenols that one group is
included. These types of catechin in green tea is very astringent component of
the antioxidant action of a lot of attention is being used in health foods.
Also,...
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Location: Ottawa, Canada
A team of Canadian researchers has just completed a major step forward in the field of virotherapy oncolytique, to transform certain viruses destructive weapons of tumor cells.
As explained by John Hiscott of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill...
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Location: Georgia, United States
Abstract: Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a prosthetic
vein valve to help improve the lives of those suffering from a condition known
as chronic venous insufficiency. The condition, which affects more...
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Location: Grenoble, France
Researchers from the Institute for Structural Biology Jean-Pierre Ebel (CEA /
CNRS / Université Joseph Fourier) and the Institute for Science and Technology
for the living (ECA), have developed a new generation of biosensors (1). For...
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Location: Los Angeles, United States
Researchers-Aydogan Ozcan,
Abstracts- In many Third World and developing countries, the distance between
people in need of health care and the facilities capable of providing it
constitutes a major obstacle to...
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Location: Virginia, United States
Researcher- Professor Harry Dorn
Abstract-
Virginia Tech chemistry Professor Harry Dorn has developed a
new area of fullerene chemistry that may be the backbone for...
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