Experimental drug reverses effects of Fabry disease in mice
...hey were before treatment began---a result Shayman described as the most unexpected in the study. Equally important, the mice did not lose weight or develop toxic side effects from therapeutic levels of the inhibiting compound. "Now that we know it works in mice, our next step is pre-clinical drug development...The bone marrow is the source of mature liver cells
...ber issue of Hepatology, Dr. Theise and co-workers described their surprising findings about a structure called the Canal of Hering (named in the 1800s after a German scientist), which acts as a recruitment station for stem cells. In the second study, published in January, Dr. Theise and co-workers showed that...Self-assembled nano-capsules resemble bacterial cell walls
...d in the June 16 issue of the journal Science that described the assembly process. "The resulting actin-membrane capsules are fairly rigid and quite stable," he said. Actin is a protein that provides the structural framework in eukaryotic cells and forms the molecular basis for biological functions as diverse...Atlanta researcher receives national award
...al drugs. Padwa, an organic synthetic chemist who described himself as a "molecular tinker-toy builder," said the goal "is to do it with elegance, high efficiency and all in one pot" -- where traditional chemistry requires dozens of individual, time-consuming steps. He is particularly interested in cycloaddit...Chemist uses DNA to trigger an alternative chemotherapy method
...c information as a trigger than as a target." Ma described the method in a paper delivered at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society, Aug. 20, 2000, in Washington, D.C. The paper will be published later this year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. By combining the catal...Cars and bridges that almost never rust
...r metal structures last up to 10 times longer was described here today at the 220th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. The coating, polyaniline, can be applied to nearly any metal, said Bernhard Wessling, Ph.D., president and managing partner of Orm...Jefferson scientists hope to perfect gene therapy without viruses
...isense DNA and DNA Vectors," he and his co-authors described a variety of preclinical and clinical studies in the United States and other countries.He adds "the ability to turn off or correct individual disease-causing genes, or to replace them at will in a patient's cells provides a powerful therapeutic inter...Drugs made from polymers, the stuff of plastics
...same polymers that are the stuff of plastics - was described here today at the 220th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. Others have used polymers as carrier molecules to deliver drugs and housed drugs within polymer capsules. But this is believed to be t......e mileage and engine power with less pollution was described here today at the 220th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. Now being tested in three U.S. states and other countries, the additive, polyisobutylene, is a polymer that works differently than th...Researchers battle drug-resistant HIV on promising new ground
...affected by its myriad mutations. The findings are described in the September 26 issue of Biochemistry, a peer-...affected by its myriad mutations. The findings are described in the September 26 issue of Biochemistry, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Chemical Society,...Lawrence Livermore Lab pioneers advanced radiation treatment for cancer
...apy (IMRT). NOMOS introduced IMRT, which has been described as the most significant breakthrough in cancer therapy in the past 30 years, to the oncology industry in 1992. The company is also a leading supplier of 3-D planning systems. To find out more about NOMOS and its treatment planning and delivery pro...Gender differences in private substance abuse treatment retention
... treatment retention may differ by gender. Mertens described previous studies of men and women enrolled in public treatment programs. Factors that enhanced the risk of dropout for men were largely structural or sociological, such as homelessness, the absence of pressure from the legal system, lower income lev...Duke eye researchers describe cascade of events that may lead to retinal degeneration
...mately leads to blindness, but the chain of events described is an elegant demonstration of how the body naturally compensates when one of its functions is compromised, said lead researcher Fulton Wong, research director of the Duke University Eye Center. Wong studies retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a broad spect...New medical research shows protein jump signals who suffers arthritis before X-rays show damage
...w about and possibly treat." The study, to be described at an American College of Rheumatology meeting in Philadelphia Monday (Oct. 30), involved 145 of 3,200 randomly selected people participating in the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project, a large, government-sponsored N.C. study that for the first t...Direct-to-consumer prescription drug ads get poor grades for educating consumers
...how long it takes for the drug to work 24 percent described lifestyle changes patients can make to improve the...on 36 percent told how the drug works 60 percent described at least one symptom of the condition 73 percent provided a toll-free information number 95 percen......New Orleans last month. The new technique was also described in a recent issue of the AHA journal Circulation. In recent years, radio frequency (RF) cardiac ablation has become a standard therapy to treat basic types of arrhythmia, or abnormal heart rate. The procedure benefits about one out of every 13 arr...HIV research takes promising new direction
...n in AIDS research. These related developments are described in the current (December 6) issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society and the December 29 issue of the Journal of Organic Chemistry. Both publications are peer-reviewed journals of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scient......re central nervous system, has been identified and described by researchers from the UCSD School of Medicine and the Shirakawa Institute of Animal Genetics in Japan. One of the mysteries of human development is how the vast number of cells that are produced following fertilization of an egg are deployed to......tion her hand in the proper firing position (to be described next), and neither handgun could be fired safely. ...ar in Figure 2 corresponds to handgun measurements described in a subsequent section. Handgun Data The measurement designated trigger reach in Atkins (1992) ......tions address inconsistencies and gaps in policies described in a series of four articles in the November 1 JAMA and the November 30 New England Journal of Medicine that the group reviewed when they met in Washington, D.C. on November 27 and 28. In the weeks since, the group has refined the draft proposals dev...