MIT graduate student wins $30,000 Lemelson-MIT student prize for life-saving inventions
...people complete tasks more efficiently and without depleting energy they would otherwise use climbing ladders and carrying heavy gear, he said. Hit Me With Your Best Shot Another of Balls stand-out inventions is an improvement in the needle-free injection technology developed at MITs BioInstrumentation...Natural protein stops deadly human brain cancer in mice
...f of the idea that BMPs could stop glioblastoma by depleting the stem-cell-like population that feeds it," says Henry Brem, M.D., chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Hopkins and a collaborator in the study. "This opens exciting doors to future research into treatments and therapies for such a devasta...Key gene controlling kidney development found
... cells underwent apoptosis (cell suicide), further depleting the population of stem cells that could give rise to differentiated cells needed to form the kidney. The researchers also found that Six2 works by suppressing a cascade of genetic interactions normally triggered by a gene called Wnt4, which usually d...Smoking out the links between nutrition and oral cancer
... question, "does cigarette smoke promote cancer by depleting cells of folate?" Folate is a B vitamin found in leafy green vegetables and fortified foods that not only helps create and preserve cells, but is also critical for synthesis of DNA; the latter serves as a universal set of blueprints for cells and whi...AIDS depleting health workforce more than brain drain in some African countries
AIDS deaths are depleting the ranks of health professionals more rapidly than recruitment abroad in some countries in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the author of a Comment in this week's issue of The Lancet. From the annual death rate, Frank Feeley (Boston University Sch...Reduced insulin in the brain triggers Alzheimer's degeneration
Providence, RI By depleting insulin and its related proteins in the brain, researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and Brown Medical School have replicated the progression of Alzheimer's disease including plaque deposits, neurofibrillary tangles, impaired cognitive functioning, c...Diuretics reduce risk of death from congestive heart failure
...s. Diuretics can have serious side effects such as depleting electrolytes (potassium and magnesium), which can contribute to irregular heartbeat and kidney disorders. "Diuretics are effective, easy to administer and inexpensive," said Clyde W. Yancy, M.D., with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cen...Mayo collaboration: Discovery blocks breast cancer growth, stimulates immunity
...hat some of the effects of chemotherapy are due to depleting T-regulatory (T-reg) cells," says Keith Knutson, Ph.D., the Mayo Clinic immunology researcher who led the study. "The strategy we use in our investigation may actually be a way to target the T-regs directly, without using the indirect route of chemot...