MIT research that stops pain of needle jabs gets FDA approval
Fear of needles could become a thing of the past. A painkilling de...ts who hate the sharp stab of pain that comes with needles and IVs. The medical device, called SonoPrep, uses an ultrasonic method created by MIT researchers t...Marine sponges provide model for nanoscale materials production
...ng the way marine sponges construct skeletal glass needles at the nanoscale. The research group is using natu...s sponge produces copious quantities of fiberglass needles made from silicon and oxygen." Morse directs the new Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, a...Mount Sinai School of Medicine conducting clinical trials with gene therapy for colorectal cancer
...nd exam of the liver at the same time to track the needles in the liver so that we can deliver the virus to the correct location. The entire procedure can be completed within half an hour." ...Old drug works new tricks for iron overload heart disease
...overload right now, the choices are either nightly needles under the skin for hours on end to remove the iron or face certain death from heart failure. The drugs currently used are also extremely expensive, so many patients around the world die at a young age from heart failure" says Liu. According to the re...Army awards up to $50 million to establish Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies
...s colleagues discovered that the fiberglass silica needles of a marine sponge are made via a protein, which acts as both an enzyme-catalyst and a template for growth. That discovery has now been adapted to make non-biological semiconducting and photovoltaic materials. Said Morse, "Our research shows that bi...Single gene controls leaf form
...omato plants made palmate, umbrella-like leaves or needles with no leaflets at all. In plants with normal leaves, PHAN was switched on throughout the upper surface of the leaf. In plants with palmate leaves, PHAN expression was reduced to the tip of the leaf. Plants with needle-shaped leaves showed no PHAN e...Hopkins researchers find potential new treatment for children with chronic hepatitis C
... use of shared, unsterilized, or poorly sterilized needles and syringes have been the main causes of the spread of the virus in the U.S. among adults. Presented today at the Digestive Disease Week conference, the findings could change the way doctors treat children with CHC, according to the study's lead aut...ORNL researchers expect big things from nanostructures
...with fabricating carbon nanofibers, which are tiny needles that provide a new approach to genetic manipulation of cells and biological organisms. By using an array of millions of carbon nanofibers that can be grown on various platforms -- or substrates -- we can streamline a proven technique for altering the...New clues emerge about the fate of smog in Sierra Nevada forests
...est health - it leads to discoloration and loss of needles from pine trees, inhibits growth and potentially increases susceptibility to diseases. "In order to relate the dose of ozone to the damage, we need to do a better job of quantifying uptake by the trees," said Meredith Kurpius, lead author of the stu...Systematic analysis of gene family uncovers new therapeutic targets for colon cancer
...ion base pairs of DNA. "These mutations are truly needles in a haystack," says Velculescu. "Without the sophisticated new technologies and knowledge developed through the Human Genome Project, it would have been impossible for us to systematically sort through the massive amount of normal DNA sequences to ...15-foot hypodermic needles provide evidence for vast oceanic crustal biosphere
... he led last summer. Fifteen-foot-long hypodermic needles strong enough to penetrate the volcanic rocks tha... where Johnson and his team drove their hypodermic needles and found abundant microbial life. "If crustal fluid can flow over large distances in old oceanic c...A bed of microneedles: Johns Hopkins scientists' gadget measures muscle cell force
...e bed. The scientists also plan to make grids with needles of different lengths (shorter posts are harder to bend) to challenge cells' contractile forces....Insect infestation models may shed light on insect and disease outbreaks
...h trees, a common evergreen variety, consuming the needles and defoliating the branches. In the European Alps, the infestation moves as predictable waves from west to east completely defoliating forests beginning in the French and Italian Alps and moving across the continent through Switzerland and into Aus...New screening technique may speed hunt for genes
...rt a 3-millimeter fly under a microscope using two needles attached to toothpicks. The fly's ovary is an artichoke-like structure occupying most of its abdomen. The goal was to count each of the ovary's ovarioles so the researchers could localize where the genes were in the genome. The next step in the resea...Needle-free blood and tissue measurements
... firmly grounded on Earth, medical testing without needles wins everyone's vote. Refinements under way to current near infrared (NIR) spectroscopic techniques will expand the range of non-invasive blood and tissue chemistry measurements. These changes also will provide accurate readings unaffected by skin co...Indonesia launches nationwide program to protect newborns against hepatitis B
...ces are much easier to use and safer than standard needles andsyringes. Each Uniject consists of a small plastic bubble filled with asingle dose of vaccine, with a short needle attached. The vaccine isinjected by squeezing the bubble. Uniject devices cannot be reused,eliminating the spread of disease through...NASA turns to universities for research in space-age materials
...cal properties in sea sponges that make fiberglass needles and use them to construct intricate structures. "In making such composites," said Manny Salas of ICASE, "the researchers may be able to coax the raw materials to assemble themselves into microscopic structures and even repair themselves on command."...UC researchers confirm coast redwood and Douglas fir as hosts for sudden oak death pathogen
...iving cultures of P. ramorum from the branches and needles of coast redwood and Douglas fir saplings that had...noted that symptoms have been detected only on the needles and very small branches of redwoods. "What was somewhat surprising is that, for redwoods, we found t......he compound from a more plentiful precursor in the needles that made the drug available in sufficient supply. Beachy and his colleagues began to explore whether cyclopamine would be effective against medulloblastoma after studies by several groups, including HHMI investigator Matthew Scott and his colleague......y of fire; the only fuel left is a blanket of pine needles and herbaceous plants beneath an open stand of trees. These conditions continue for at least six years enough time for the trees to become merchantable. The problem with the herbicide treatment is that litter increases on the forest floor if the fo...