Stevens and Connecticut Innovations agree to investment of $500,000 in SPOC Inc.
...00 million people in the United States suffer from chronic pain and approximately 80 percent of Americans suffer from some form of pain in their lifetime, the potential market for such a system is enormous. "SPOCs diagnostic device is disruptive it will revolutionize neck and back pain diagnosis and treatm...Gender linked to development of skin cancer
...omas-Ahner exposed male and female mice to longer, chronic sun exposure, irradiating them three times weekly for 16 weeks. When the mice were 25 weeks old, she examined them for differences in tumor growth, size and number. She found that male mice developed tumors earlier and had more tumors than did fema...Harvard and U. Pittsburgh researchers explain carbon monoxide's anti-inflammatory effects
...dy to ward off infection, but over time, severe or chronic inflammation can damage tissues. In some cases, such as in organ transplantation, the bodys inflammatory response over the short-term also can cause more harm than good. Current approaches to controlling inflammation are not always successful, making...Natural mechanism for immune suppression paves way for cancer trials
...ed. Another goal for IDO suppression is to treat chronic infections that induce this mechanism, Dr. Mellor says. "This mechanism is induced by pathogens to protect themselves from host immunity," says Dr. Mellor. "HIV certainly is a potent inducer of this mechanism." He suspects other diligent viruses a...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...haps not those trying to design compounds to treat chronic pain. 2. Rho, Endocytosis, and Oligodendroglial Membrane Growth Angelika Kippert, Katarina Trajkovic, Lawrence Rajendran, Jonas Ries, and Mikael Simons When forming myelin, oligodendrocytes have a big job in creating all that membrane. Specia...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- March 21, 2007
...s. Gu explained that previous research showed that chronic exposure to low and moderate levels of nitrogen dioxide could damage the lungs. However, there was no clear information on the health risks of brief, high-level exposures lasting only a few minutes. Gu said that the research represents the first r...Battlefield and terrorist explosions pose new health risks
...s. Gu explained that previous research showed that chronic exposure to low and moderate levels of nitrogen dioxide could damage the lungs. However, there was no clear information on the health risks of brief, high-level exposures lasting only a few minutes. Nitrogen dioxide, a reddish-brown gas with a shar...JCI table of contents -- March 22, 2007
...bus, show that a signaling pathway associated with chronic inflammation (the IKK/NF-kappa-B pathway) is upregulated in both muscle cells and immune cells from individuals with DMD and from mice lacking expression of dystrophin. Impaired IKK/NF-kappa-B signaling in mice lacking expression of dystrophin (achie...Researchers uncover protection mechanism of radiation-resistant bacterium
...luence how individuals are treated for exposure to chronic or acute doses of radiation; could lead to ways to protect cancer patients from the toxic effects of radiation therapy; and may prove significant in efforts to contain toxic runoff from radioactive Cold War waste sites. Fifty years ago, scientists ...Swell gel could bring relief to back pain sufferers
...n alternative to major surgery in the treatment of chronic lower back pain. Dr Brian Saunders from The Scho...inal fusion as the standard surgical treatment for chronic lower back pain." He added that future work will investigate biodegradable microgels that release ...Trojan horse strategy defeats drug-resistant bacteria
...ntibiotics, and existing drugs work poorly against chronic infections like those that occur in wounds, on med...slime-encased colonies of microbes that cause many chronic infections. "Because iron is so important in infection, we thought infecting bacteria might be vuln...New reference material for diagnosing kidney disease
...rove the accuracy of clinical diagnostic tests for chronic kidney disease. The new Standard Reference Materia...g/dL) is intended to correspond to levels found in chronic kidney disease....$7.9M awarded to UCI stem cell scientists
...estoring upper limb function impaired by acute and chronic spinal cord injury. Keirstead's laboratory was the first in the world to develop a method to restrict human embryonic stem cells so they generate large amounts of only one cell type in high purity. That type of cell, an oligodendrocyte, insulates con...Gallium: A new antibacterial agent?
...cause antibiotics are not effective at eradicating chronic bacterial infections. One approach to developing n...lti-cellular bacterial communities responsible for chronic bacterial infections, and killed both free-living bacteria and bacteria in biofilms. Furthermore, in...JCI table of contents: March 15, 2007
...cause antibiotics are not effective at eradicating chronic bacterial infections. One approach to developing n...lti-cellular bacterial communities responsible for chronic bacterial infections, and killed both free-living bacteria and bacteria in biofilms. Furthermore, in...Researchers identify molecular basis of inflammatory bowel disease
...ve now deciphered a molecular signal that triggers chronic intestinal inflammation. The study, which is publi...al cells. As a result, these mice developed severe chronic intestinal inflammation very similar to Colitis in humans. "A close look at the mice revealed that t...Offspring whose parents have long lives appear to have lower heart risks in middle age
...study of risk factors for cardiovascular and other chronic diseases that began in 1948 among residents of Framingham, Mass. All of the individuals included in this analysis had parents who also participated in the study and either lived to be age 85 or older or died before Jan. 1, 2005. The participants we...Cholesterol could be key to treating fetal alcohol syndrome
...nt the occurrence of alcoholic liver disease, even chronic alcoholic induced cirrhosis, characterized by replacement of liver tissue by scar tissue, leading to progressive loss of liver function. Also, he said the findings provide further credence to current practice of ensuring that pregnant women should ...JCI table of contents -- March 8, 2006
...e in endowing the lung with the characteristics of chronic lung disease. TITLE: SPDEF regulates goblet cell hyperplasia in the airway epithelium AUTHOR CONTACT: Jeffrey A. Whitsett Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Phone: (513) 636-4830; Fax: (513) 636-7868; E-mail: je...UBC researcher finds new way to treat devastating fungal infections
... systems, such as surgical patients and those with chronic illness. He treated Candida albicans, often seen as esophageal candidiasis, an infection prevalent in HIV/AIDS and cancer patients receiving chemotherapy, and aspergillosis, an infection caused by aspergillus fumigatis, a family of common moulds t...