Initial clinical study shows safety and bioactivity of cancer vaccine
...o ensure that T cells were functioning and able to kill tumor cells, in addition to tests to determine whether the T cell levels rose. In all 13 participants, the researchers detected activation of PSA-specific T cell responses, suggesting the vaccine was successful in boosting the immune system and turni...Contact lens solutions may not kill off harmful eye bugs
Contact lens solutions may not kill off harmful eye bugs, reports a study in the Briti...sts Disinfectant lens solutions need to be able to kill both types. The solutions were tested against several strains of Acanthamoeba at different dilutions...HIV/AIDS impact on education intensifies economic downfall
...dled. Experts project that in Mozambique AIDS will kill large numbers of teachers and school administrators, with potentially heavy impacts on school enrollments. This will worsen already severe constraints on providing education, Arndt said. Also, large numbers of students are likely to quit school in or...Duke researchers identify the mechanisms by which drug combinations kill fungal infections
... nontoxic in humans, but the problem is they don't kill fungal cells. Instead, these drugs act by inhibiti... previously found by other researchers to potently kill fungal cells in the test tube, and had been proposed as an approach to combat difficult to treat fun...Tackling the threat of nuclear terrorism
...ast and thermal effects of such an explosion would kill 52,000 people instantly, and direct radiation woul...0,000 would be fatal. Radiation from fallout would kill another 200,000 people and cause several hundred thousand additional cases of radiation sickness. In...Childhood stroke deaths drop, but still higher among blacks
...far less common than adult strokes, they, too, can kill or leave survivors disabled. Only a few small studies have examined childhood stroke deaths, according to Fullerton, a child neurology fellow at the University of California San Francisco. Known risk factors for childhood hemorrhagic strokes (cause...NICHD scientists develop vaccine against deadly hospital-acquired infection
...ntibiotic vancomycin, the only antibiotic known to kill methicillin-resistant S. aureus. Dr. Robbins explained that the late Walter Karakawa, of Pennsylvania State University, first made the critical discovery that S. aureus has capsular polysaccharides-complex sugar molecules-in its outer covering, or c...HIV protein stops cell division, leading to more virus and sicker patients
... goes on, creating more virus, which then go on to kill more T cells. The outcome is a sicker patient. Michael P. Sherman, MD, PhD, Gladstone research scientist and UCSF assistant clinical professor of medicine, presented his research on Feb. 26 at the Ninth Annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportuni...Folic acid possibly a key factor in Alzheimers disease prevention
... They develop AD-like plaques in their brains that kill neurons. The NIA team counted neurons in the hippocampus, a brain region critical for learning and memory that is destroyed as plaques accumulate during Alzheimers disease. The investigators found a decreased number of neurons in the mice fed the f...'Star Wars' like technology closer than galaxies far away
...stitute that this breakthrough device will one day kill tumors and stop internal bleeding without knives, scalpels or stitches - basically without surgery as we know it. High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) devices target ultrasound in precise locations for non-invasive surgical treatments. Using dia...Accidental overdose with Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) carries a greater risk of death
... is then processed into toxic chemicals, which can kill liver cells. If enough cells are killed the patient can die from liver failure. Fortunately, a drug called N-acetylcysteine (NAC) can be given as an effective antidote for acetaminophen poisoning if the patient is treated within 12 hours of the overd...Medicine implants drastically reduce stroke complications
...ability because it can reduce blood flow enough to kill brain tissue, says Hidetoshi Kasuya, M.D., lead author of the study and a senior lecturer in the department of neurosurgery at Tokyo Womens Medical University. In this study, vasospasm was completely prevented by inserting the pellets of the medicat...Stanford researcher's uncommon approach to common cold fights cancer
...t a modified cold virus into the liver as a way to kill cancerous cells. The major benefit of treat...r while leaving normal cells unharmed. "We want to kill the tumor but not at the expense of the patient," said Daniel Sze, MD, PhD, assistant professor of r...Agricultural fungicide could cause irreversible immune system damage
...pound is no longer there, they are still unable to kill the leukemia cell, Whalen said. Whalen believes the findings could explain to some extent why compounds like this seem to increase cancer risks. The researchers are currently investigating whether interleukin-2 a protein produced by other immune sy...CRP levels predict risk of sudden death
...ay be able to detect the culprit lesion that might kill a patient, explains Virmani. There are people walking around with high CRP levels who have no idea they are at risk because all the other signs appear normal. CRP is the only abnormality that gives rise to heightened risk of sudden death once facto...'Cell death' mechanism identified, may lead to improved treatment
..., it is actually a program the cell carries out to kill itself, in response to an environmental signal, such as viral infection. Part of the reason we dont yet have better treatments for HSE is that we dont fully understand how the brain cells die, says DeBiasi. Our study shows that apoptosis is at leas...MMP enzymes play key role in stability and breakdown of atherosclerotic plaques
...lerosis, or hardening of the arteries, continue to kill more people than the next seven major causes of death combined, including cancer and HIV," says Dr. Galis. Recently scientists have learned that the sequence of events leading to myocardial infarction (heart attack) and stroke begins with weakening ...Antioxidant gene mutation gives free radicals free reign
...ncounter cells, they make them unstable, which may kill them. When free radicals combine with low-density lipoprotein, they turn it into oxidized LDL, which is more dangerous because it is likely to form plaque in the blood vessel wall. Oxidation, a naturally occurring chemical process, has been thought t...Lasers light way to 3-D imaging in Purdue lab
...at's important because when you rip them apart you kill them, which changes their physiology." The research is funded by the National Institutes of Health. The conference, known as CLEO, is considered one of the most important international gatherings for researchers in fields involving lasers and opto-e......ucing an army of killer T-cells that recognize and kill HIV-1-infected cells, now and in the future. Preliminary analysis presented at the 9th Conference of Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in February suggests that the HIV-1 gag vaccines for the prevention and treatment of HIV-1 elicit specifi...