Novel stem cell trial in heart failure patients to begin
... an opportunity that should help solve some of the mystery as well as resolve scientific debate about just how it is that stem cells work to improve heart function. Despite advances that have given rise to more effective medical and surgical therapies, including the use of heart assist devices, heart disease...Media violence linked to concentration, self-control
...who we are and why we do what we do. Unlocking the mystery of how exposure to violent media affects our brains is the focus of Indiana University School of Medicine research published in the May/June issue of the Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography. Investigators, led by Vincent P. Mathews, M.D., profes...Mayo collaboration: Discovery blocks breast cancer growth, stimulates immunity
...grow unchecked. This new finding helps unlock that mystery and may lead to safer, gentler therapies. "Evidence is emerging that 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 stra...Genomics researchers discover protein deficit that causes drug toxicity
... the effect of drugs. Prior efforts to explain the mystery of thiopurine metabolism had focused on biochemical mechanisms -- not changes in protein levels. Background Researchers have known for decades that 1 in 300 patients of Caucasian European genetic background has two copies of the variant gene -- spe...Arts program provides services, guidance to HIV/AIDS patients
...arts class. "Both stories, his and mine, probe the mystery of disease, expression and the search for coherence," Kellman writes. "My research and Joe's story weave together to not only explore the role of art in healing but also the role of the researcher in such enquiries." Kellman said she felt compelled t...Johns Hopkins researchers discover key protein linked to transverse myelitis and multiple sclerosis
... CNS autoimmune diseases - it was a classic murder mystery and we set out together to find out 'who done it'," said Kaplin. "We've answered who could have done it, and how, and where."...Promote use of drugs to prevent AIDS infection, researchers urge
... caused an odd illness that was a complete medical mystery only about 25 years ago. Now, HIV infects more than 40 million people around the globe, and each day, some 14,000 more people pick up that infection, studies have shown. While scientists continue to try to develop more effective drug treatments and p...WA team uses baby tooth to solve death mystery
...e baby tooth to help a Queensland couple solve the mystery of their 7-year-old daughter's death - 14 years after she died. Staff from the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research (WAIMR), the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research (TICHR) and the Neurogenetics and Forensic laboratories within ...Pain research using electronic diaries helps identify who responds to 'placebo effect'
...ople who tend to respond positively to placebos, a mystery that places a hurdle before researchers who want to learn the best way to treat people's pain. A new study by researchers at the University of Michigan Health System sheds some light on one group of people that seems to experience the "placebo effect...Hair follicle stem cells contribute to wound healing
...cells come from the hair follicle. What remained a mystery was the exact nature of the origins of the new cells-specifically, what percentage stems from the deep follicle and what percentage from the epidermis near the wound. Cotsarelis' team found that adult stem cells from the lowest portion of the hair f...Cedars-Sinai medical tipsheet for December 2005
...he endometrium and others do not continues to be a mystery as little is known about the molecular mechanisms involved in the implantation process. Now, researchers at Cedars-Sinai have investigated one gene's critical role in this process, thereby bringing them a step closer to finding methods to help the mo...Magnet lab researcher exploring science behind commercial applications of liquid helium
...on is a mere 0.00004 of an inch. Yet unlocking the mystery of how to manipulate, measure and separate very tiny particles has tremendous applications for the pharmaceutical industry and could change how some medications are delivered and how effective they are. That's the backdrop for the research of Steven ...TRAF3 protein is a key part of the early immune response to viruses
...earch using this simple system will help solve the mystery of how macrophages can pick and choose among different strategies for combating specific infections." Haecker was at the Technical University of Munich and the University of California, San Diego, when he worked on this project. Researchers already k...Researchers identify key protein involved in neuropathic pain
...crease inside the nerve cells and that BDNF is the mystery mediator," said Dr. Yves De Koninck, co-principal investigator, professor, Department of Psychiatry, Universit Laval and director of the Division of Cellular Neurobiology at the Centre de recherche Universit Laval Robert-Giffard. "Thus, not only did ...No pacemakers in the brain may explain cot death
The mystery of cot death may be explained by new research published online in Nature Neuroscience today [Sunday 12 February 2006]. A failure to 'gasp' has long been proposed as the basis for sudden infant death syndrome, or cot death. A team at the University of...UCLA researches heart disease-glucose connection
... mortality in the presence of atherosclerosis is a mystery that needs to be further pursued," Goodarzi said. "To date, we and colleagues we have consulted can offer no explanation." "These large gender differences may have previously remained undetected because earlier studies looked either at men and women ...Great (taste) expectations: Study shows brain anticipates taste, shifts gears
...input and prompts the body to respond is largely a mystery of neuroscience. Now, however, scientists have begun to peel back some of the neurological secrets of this remarkable phenomenon and show how the brain can be rewired in anticipation of sensory input to respond in prescribed ways. Writing in the curr...Women's high heart-surgery death rate may be due to infection
... of Michigan study suggests that the answer to the mystery may lie with infections, regardless of their location in the body. In a paper in the Archives of Internal Medicine, U-M Health System researchers report that 96 percent of the gender difference in death risk within 100 days of coronary artery bypass...A new metal detector to study human disease
...lions of health-conscious people, but it remains a mystery metal to scientists who study zincs role in Alzheimers disease, stroke and other health problems. They are just beginning to fathom how the body keeps levels of zinc under the precise control that spells the difference between health and disease. R...M-rated video games contain unlabeled violence, sexual themes, substances, and profanity
... children aged 13 to 16 years participating in its mystery shopper survey successfully purchased M-rated video games. Although they urge parents to check and use the ESRB ratings, the authors believe the current rating process needs improvement. Currently, the ESRB does not require manufacturers to submit an...