Polish Dumpling-Like Particle Has Potential In Drug Delivery
...nthetic nano-sized particle that its creators hope someday will be the carrier of drugs or genes for biomedical applications and therapies. Karen Wooley, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry at Washington University, recently announced a new breakthrough in the particle that K. Bruce Thurmond, II, a gra...Brain Regions Identified That Influence What We Remember Or Forget
...the time of theexperience. The research might lead someday to better treatment of Alzheimer disease, Brewersaid. "Alzheimer disease ravages the medial temporal lobe. We hope that thesefindings might give us a tool to examine the very earliest effects of Alzheimerdisease so that any treatment that is employed...Insulin Resistance And Obesity Avoided In Genetically Modified Mice, As Reported In Science
... The finding raises hopes that researchers might someday design a drug forhumans that mimics these effects by targeting the same enzyme. "It willcertainly take some time to find a compound useful for humans based on our mousemodel, but it has the possibility of being a really significant drug if itworks," ...Washington DC - Diabetics may someday pop a pill to control their disease, nowthat scientists have discovered a compound that might make such a pilleffective. This new substance, whose discovery is reported in the 7 May issue of Science , appears to mimic the effects of insulin, at least...Nerve Cells Live Long And Talkative Lives In Sculpted Colonies On Silicon Chips
...ing's department of biomedical engineering hope to someday be able toimplant similar chips into living brains as both experimental instruments andeventually as prostheses. The cells come from a part of the brain called the hippocampus, which isassociated with short term memory. Brinton dissociates the cells ...Researchers discover the driving force behind cancer cells in Hodgkin's disease
...ng. Thisdiscovery gives us great hope that we will someday find a rational way to targetand kill Reed-Sternberg cells without subjecting patients to serious sideeffects. That is the role of future cancer researchers - to develop rationalapproaches to treating cancer with minimal side effects and maximum qua...Cedars-Sinai is first site in California offering LDL apheresis to treat severehypercholesterolemia
...rshope, however, that advances in drug therapy may someday allow the frequency oftreatments to be reduced. The technique is similar to plasmapheresis. Blood is separated into plasma andred cells, with the red cells being passed immediately back to the patient.Before the remaining plasma is returned to the ...Jefferson scientist sees drug profiles and tailor-made therapies as ways to beat HIV resistance
... which drugs a patient is resistant to,doctors may someday custom design therapies against HIV, the AIDS virus, and,it's hoped, improve treatment. Yet, such profiles and individual therapies are still some time awayfrom reality, says Roger J. Pomerantz, M.D., professor of medicine, biochemistryand mo...UI researchers find more natural method to possibly induce vascular growth
...a--By lowering an individual's heart rate, doctors someday may beable to trigger the sprouting of new blood vessels without having to resort toinvasive methods, according to results from a University of Iowa Health Carestudy. In recent years, a substance known as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)has ...UF researchers show magnetic stimulation may be a safe alternative to shock therapy
...have foundways to minimize. Triggs said rTMS could someday be used as a treatment for other types ofneurologic or psychiatric problems. It also could benefit severely depressedpatients earlier in the course of their illness. "Traditionally, shock therapy is reserved for patients who are suicidal or whohave f...Strain makes for stronger engineered tissues
...scientists work to develop engineered tissues that someday may beused to replace diseased or damaged body parts, they face some dauntingchallenges. Even when tissues are successfully grown in the lab, the engineeredtissues are not as strong as the ones that nature makes. But new research by aUniversity of ...To build a better artificial hip, UD prof says, mimic Mother Nature
...uman thigh bones, a new artificialhip design might someday help prevent post-surgical atrophy, a common problemamong younger, more active patients, University of Delaware scientists reportedtoday. "Conventional prosthetic designs remove so much stress from the patient's leg,they can allow thigh bones to weak...Jefferson researchers show melatonin's potential benefits in preventing Parkinson's damage
Melatonin could be a key to someday understanding how to treatParkinson's disease. Scientists at Jefferson Medical College have shown in thelaboratory and in test animals that melatonin is effective in preventing aparticular type of brain cell damage similar to that found in Parkinson'...Brain imaging technology can reveal what a person is thinking about
...r disorder that makes speech impossible. "We may someday be able to get a glimpse of what a patient is able to comprehend, even when that person can't answer questions directly. We could show them pictures of faces and places and, using fMRI technology, see whether their visual system is processing them. I...Cell transplants offer hope of brain repair following stroke
...h neighboring cells, indicating the possibility of someday manipulating brains and spinal cords into repairing trauma from stroke or other diseases, says senior author Daniel M. Rosenbaum, M.D., professor of neurology, neuroscience and ophthalmology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and director of the ...Beyond Viagra: other phosphodiesterase inhibitors are candidates for potential therapies
...cess used by the popular pharmaceutical Viagra may someday help people suffering from a variety of conditions...ne hand, this means that drugs regulating PDEs may someday provide a treatment for people with vision or memory problems. But at the same time, any researcher ...Researchers build on discovery of potent potential antibiotic
...odard and colleagues hopeful that the compound may someday be useful against a wide range of disease-causing bacteria. Because PD 404182 weakens, but does not kill, living bacteria, Woodard's group hopes to modify the compound in ways that will enhance its antibacterial activity....Brain's efforts to save itself during Alzheimer's may backfire
...cause Alzheimers is so complicated, it may be that someday people have to take a whole cocktail of drugs, such as anti-amyloids, galanin antagonists and anti-cholinesterases, Mufson said. SIDEBAR: Whats so important about galanin? Galanin is a neuropeptide, composed of amino acids. It is found throughout th...Reversing DNA damage caused by the sun before it becomes skin cancer may be possible
...prevention potential, Jonas is hopeful that it may someday lead to a protective after-the-fact sunscreen or other product. The artificial enzyme the researchers created is patterned after an enzyme produced by the E. coli bacterium discovered more than 50 years ago by other researchers. The Notre Dame ...Jefferson researchers have early evidence of bone marrow stem cells able to become brain cells
... suggest such stem cells may have potential use in someday treating neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease. "The goal [of the work] is to find stem cells that we can differentiate into dopamine neurons to replace those lost in Parkinson's disease," says developmental biologist Lorraine Iacovi...