Transport interrupted -- Texas A&M biologists trace cause of early blindness to tissue defect
...the cells involved and paving the way for possible therapies to treat or even prevent what is currently an incu... as a secondary consequence. Their results suggest therapies that correct the RPE may successfully rescue photoreceptor loss in choroideremia and even reverse th...Blood tests may be possible for mental health conditions
...t and possibly lead the way to new, even non-drug, therapies to prevent illness," he added....Ovarian cancer may mimic fallopian tube formation
...erizing tumors that may lead to designing specific therapies based on the molecular profile," said Bowen. "Biology is basically an information processing system to generate end products, and there are a lot of decisions that have to be made by the regulatory genes, like pax8, before the end products can be mad...Penn researchers discover new molecular path to fight autoimmune diseases
...ymatic drug targets as opposed to the non-specific therapies we now use," says Greene. Non-specific therapies include the use of steroids and certain chemotherapy-like drugs that act on many cell types and have...Other highlights in the March 7 JNCI
...he toxicity of PRX302. "The development of novel therapies to treat prostate cancer could be of substantial b...large numbers of men," the authors write. "Current therapies for these local recurrences include techniques that are associated with substantial morbidity, inclu...Insights into osteosarcoma in cats and dogs may improve palliative care
...er complications associated with bone cancer. Such therapies have proven effective at reducing pathologic bone loss in human bone cancer patients. The researchers are the first to verify that the expression of this protein, which worsens the effects of bone cancer in humans, also occurs in cats and dogs with...Nanotech promises big things for poor -- but will promises be kept?
...ed the impact of nanotechnology on diagnostics and therapies for cancer. He said, "It is my belief that nanomaterials and nanomedical devices will play increasingly critical and beneficial roles in improving the way we diagnose, treat, and ultimately prevent cancer and other diseases. But we face challenges; t...MIT bioengineer advances survival, promise of adult stem cells
...ng, careful, methodical work will lead to improved therapies based on adult stem cells. We are aiming to expand the range of therapies that work in the clinic." Griffith is one of several MIT biological engineering faculty members who ...Experimental Biology 2007: Today's Research, Tomorrow's Health, April 28-May 2
... therapies; stem cells for therapeutics; and novel therapies based on molecules of the innate immune system. The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics offers symposia on cannabinoids (a chemical compound in cannabis or marijuana), endocannabinoids (a marijuana-like substance) and p...2,000 influenza virus genomes now completed and publicly accessible
...t will aid in the development of new flu vaccines, therapies and diagnostics." "Scientists around the world can use the sequence data to compare different strains of the virus, identify the genetic factors that determine their virulence, and look for new therapeutic, vaccine and diagnostic targets," says NIA...'Bridge' protein spurs deadliest stages of breast cancer
...akes Gab-2 a possible new target for the design of therapies for metastatic breast cancer." Feng and his team are now looking at the other molecules that assist the scaffold protein Gab-2s effects on breast cancer metastasis....A chemotherapy drug packs a one-two punch
...radiation or the corticosteroid dexamethasone, the therapies failed to increase levels of hsp90 on the surface of dying cells, and so couldn't activate dendritic cells to the degree that bortezomib did. And their findings aren't limited to a single cancer: After treatment with bortezomib, dying lymphoma and br...Epigenetics to shape stem cell future
...s will be boosting the odds that one day stem cell therapies will reach the clinic. EuroSTELLS is the European Collaborative Research (EUROCORES) programme on Development of a Stem Cell Tool Box developed by the European Science Foundation. The European Science Foundation (ESF) provides a platform for its...Problem forgetting may be a natural mechanism gone awry
...g and Memory, expand the possibility that drugs or therapies could be developed to tune up the brains memory mechanisms. Aging is associated with an increased rate of forgetting, said Thomas Foster, Ph.D., the Evelyn F. McKnight chair for brain research in memory loss at the College of Medicine. My work ind...UCI awarded $3.5 million for stem cell research
...on of the condition as well as to possibly develop therapies for patients suffering from the disorder. Grant ...iferation in the central nervous system. Stem cell therapies hold great promise for the treatment of a wide range of diseases, but transplanting them into a pati...European approval of HIV drug darunavir will provide a potent new option with Fuzeon
... Hospital, London. "The availability of new active therapies such a darunavir/r, in combination with FUZEON, gives patients a better chance of achieving this goal." The growing body of evidence from studies such as TORO 1 and 2, RESIST 1 and 2, POWER 1 and 22 has prompted influential international guideline...Getting on your nerves ... and repairing them
...n and spinal column. This research may lead to new therapies that manipulate RNAi to treat people with damaged nerves resulting from degenerative disorders and injury. Andrew Z. Fire of Stanford University and Craig C. Mello of the University of Massachusetts won the 2006 Nobel Prize for the discovery of RN...Studies identify DNA regions linked to nicotine dependence
...eam has identified will help scientists to develop therapies for smokers who just can't seem to quit with existing treatments....New study may show how to forestall a fatal, virus-caused immune-system meltdown
...infection an important step toward developing new therapies that may head off or stop an otherwise fatal immune system meltdown. In a paper published in the February 14 issue of the Journal of Virology, highlighted in the journals Spotlight section and available now online, the scientists describe using a ...Breakthrough in understanding type 2 diabetes as key genes identified
... more fully the disease processes involved, devise therapies for those affected and to try to prevent future cases," he added. ...