Common bacteria pirate natural mechanism to get inside cells
...vesicles because fusion with a second vesicle that enables the degredation doesn't happen, says Dr. Daaka, a Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar....Urine test helps detect 99 percent of recurring bladder cancers
...asive procedure performed in a physician's office, enables physicians to view the wall of the bladder through a scope. However, it may not detect very small tumors or tumors in the muscle or upper tract. So in conjunction with the scope, physicians rely on cytology, a clinical analysis of a urine sample. The...New insight into machinery of immune cells' 'tentacles'
...tigen presenting cells" (APCs). Such communication enables the T cell to program itself to target invading mi.... The ensuing "conversation" between T and B cells enables the T cell to effectively identify and target such invaders for destruction. The site of contact bet...Building interoperability into medical information
...es, ARTEMIS already represents a major advance; it enables clinicians to capture the complete clinical history of a patient that may be spread out over a number of different institutes that do not interoperate....NIAID researchers show how promising TB drug works
...ave taken many months of work; this new technology enables scientists to zero in on the specific genetic difference between mutant and normal bacterial strains in just days, says Dr. Barry. The scientists found a total of four PA-824-resistant mutant strains: two lacked the newly described M. tb protein alto...Physicians: Simple 'instrument' allows medical staff to check patients' literacy
...sure if patients can understand health information enables doctors and nurses, for example, to boost how well... on an ice cream nutrition label, Pignone said. It enables health workers to gauge individuals' ability to read, comprehend plain English and act on health inf...Advance in cholera bacteria points to new treatment and vaccine
...One mutant strain of V. cholerae lacks a gene that enables it to properly bind with a sugar called GlcNAc. When they compared it with normal, wild-type V. cholerae bacteria, the researchers found that the protein encoded by this gene provided normal bacteria the ability to attach to the GlcNAc on cells. The...Percentage of North Carolinians lacking health insurance rises, UNC study shows
...entage of local residents without health insurance enables institutions such as public health departments, hospitals and physicians to plan for meeting the needs of the uninsured population," Holmes said. "It also allows policymakers to determine where to best target their efforts. Counties with lower averag...Sydney researchers explain how stress can make you sick
...g immune cells produce small amounts of NPY, which enables the immune cells on sentry duty and the TH1 immune cells to operate it's a yin and yang kind of situation. But too much NPY means that the TH1 attack is prevented despite the foreign invaders being identified and this is what happens during stress...World first trial to test human implant of HeartPOD
...spitalisation. For the first time ever, the system enables heart failure patients to personally monitor their condition and adjust their medication themselves without having to visit a doctor each time. It is comprised of a permanently implanted sensor system that is designed to measure the pressure in the l...Psychologists glimpse biological imprint of childhood neglect
...te Research Center, who developed a technique that enables researchers to track vasopressin and oxytocin levels through the analysis of urine. The procedure is far less invasive than the existing method of analyzing blood or cerebrospinal fluid, and may one day find applications in several areas of child res...Twelve-point plan tackles moral and ethical issues of using email for health research
...e are working with have chronic illnesses, it also enables us to include people who may not otherwise feel ab...pert part of the research team is invaluable as it enables us to maximise the technical knowledge required to ensure that our end of the process is as secure a...Older brains 'rise to the challenge'
...art of a larger research effort to understand what enables people to successfully perform in situations that demand control, and how the brain's reaction to control demands may change throughout their lifetime....University's HIV diagnostic test expands into European market
...h the amount of HIV drug in patients' blood. This enables doctors to identify the correct dosage for patients. The service - the only one of its kind in the UK - examines 12 different drugs used by HIV patients. Assessing the amount of drug in the blood of an HIV patient is crucial as too much or too lit...Sensors, a smart dose of medicine for cancer treatment
...iotherapy, compatibility with microprocessors that enables real-time read-out and low cost, make these semiconductor sensors eminently suitable for the intended application," says Jaksic. The diode sensor system is arranged in a series of modules containing 1069 individual diodes that can pick up incoming ra...New therapeutic target identified in inherited brain tumor disorder
...udies to determine how increased MetAP2 expression enables astrocyte growth and brain tumor development. "The availability of a mouse model of NF1-associated brain tumors allows us to conduct experiments that we could never perform in humans that have already broadened our understanding of the function of t...Reagent under study as cancer vaccine may also help protect tumors
...e in the first place: expression of an enzyme that enables it to hide from the immune system. "What we have found is the ability to ring the alarm bell is a double-edged sword," says Dr. Mellor of new findings reported as a Cutting Edge article in the Nov. 1 issue of The Journal of Immunology. "The immunolog...Molecular Profiling Institute secures $7.5 million in Series B funding
...oratories, an enhanced role in Molecular Profiling enables us to better provide the latest and best testing f...e patient care." Affymetrix' GeneChip technology enables researchers to identify and measure genes that are similarly expressed among a group of people who s...Epidemic of chronic diseases focus of Oxford Health Alliance Conference
... Health Alliance, through its action research arm, enables chronic-disease researchers from both the developed and developing worlds to pilot research projects. Their progress will be reported along with new global actions in an annual review to be released at the meeting. The overall goal of the conference......roteins, sophisticated RNA interference technology enables researchers to do so by stopping the usual process in which information encoded by a singular gene is transformed into a cellular protein. Tiny C. elegans, free-living soil nematodes that share 50 percent to 60 percent of their genes with humans and...