Tiny Sponge Soaks Up Venom in Blood: Scientific American - 0 views
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A tiny sponge camouflaged as a red blood cell could soak up toxins ranging from anthrax to snake venom, new research suggests
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The new "nanosponge,"
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The nanoparticles, also called nanosponges, act as decoys that lure and inactivate the deadly compounds
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An apple a day lowers level of blood chemical linked to hardening of the arteries - 0 views
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In a study
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consumption of one apple a day for four weeks lowered by 40 percent blood levels of a substance linked to hardening of the arteries.
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Taking capsules containing polyphenols, a type of antioxidant found in apples, had a similar, but not as large, effect.
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A Viagra follow-up? Drug used to treat glaucoma actually grows human hair - 0 views
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FDA-approved glaucoma drug, bimatoprost, causes human hair to regrow
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been commercially available as a way to lengthen eyelashes, but these data are the first to show that it can actually grow human hair from the scalp
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Further research should increase our understanding of how hair follicles work and thereby allow new therapeutic approaches for many hair growth disorders
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Soybeans soaked in warm water naturally release key cancer-fighting substance - 0 views
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Soybeans soaked in warm water naturally release key cancer-fighting substance
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Protease Inhibitor (BBI), has shown promise for preventing certain forms of cancer in clinical trials.
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BBI derived from the large amounts of soybeans in traditional Japanese diets might underpin low cancer mortality rates in Japan
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Nanotechnology breakthrough could dramatically improve medical tests - 0 views
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The material consists of a series of glass pillars in a layer of gold. Each pillar is speckled on its sides with gold dots and capped with a gold disk. Each pillar is just 60 nanometers in diameter, 1/1,000th the width of a human hair
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laboratory test used to detect disease and perform biological research could be made more than 3 million times more sensitive
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increased performance could greatly improve the early detection of cancer, Alzheimer's disease and other disorders by allowing doctors to detect far lower concentrations of telltale markers than was previously practical.
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Robotic Rehab Helps Paralyzed Rats Walk Again - ScienceNOW - 0 views
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employing a combination of drugs, electrical stimulation, and robot-assisted rehabilitation, researchers have restored a remarkable degree of voluntary movement in rats paralyzed by a spinal cord injury
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After several weeks of treatment, the rodents were able to walk—with some assistance—to retrieve a piece of food, even going up stairs or climbing over a small barrier to get it
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Spinal injuries cause paralysis because they sever or crush nerve fibers that connect the brain to neurons in the spinal cord that move muscles throughout the body
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Common Lab Dye Found to Interrupt Formation of Huntington's Disease Proteins: Scientifi... - 0 views
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methylene blue, gets a mention in medical literature as early as 1897 and was used to treat, at one time or another, ailments ranging from malaria to cyanide poisoning
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never formally approved it as a therapy for any illnesses.
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Because of existing knowledge of methylene blue and the fact that it’s not harmful to humans, I would hope that progress toward clinical trials could go relatively quickly," says
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Pioneering heart disease treatment - 0 views
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Researchers at King's College London have developed the first artificial functioning blood vessel outside of the body, made from reprogrammed stem cells from human skin
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could have real potential to treat patients with heart disease
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by either injecting the reprogrammed cells into the leg or heart to restore blood flow or grafting an artificially developed vessel into the body to replace blocked or damaged vessels
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This 'mousetrap' may save lives - 0 views
This 'mousetrap' may save lives: Students create mechanism to regulate IV fluids for ch... - 0 views
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team of Rice University freshmen took a mousetrap and built a better way to treat dehydration among children in the developing world.
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goal was to regulate the amount of fluid delivered to children so we could prevent over-hydration and under-hydration
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designed to be used in severely underdeveloped parts of the world, where conditions can be pretty primitive and they may not even have electricity."
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Doctor uses printed 3D heart to assist in infant heart surgery - 0 views
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14 month old infant
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had been born with four congenital heart defects—doctors had known since before he was born that his heart had problems
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Fixing them all would prove to be a challenge. When it came time to plan the surgery
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Cell therapy shows remarkable ability to eradicate cancer in clinical study - 0 views
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The largest clinical study ever conducted to date of patients with advanced leukemia found that 88 percent achieved complete remissions after being treated with genetically modified versions of their own immune cells.
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Adult B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL), a type of blood cancer that develops in B cells, is difficult to treat because the majority of patients relapse.
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Patients with relapsed B-ALL have few treatment options; only 30 percent respond to salvage chemotherapy.
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Research team successfully grows human lung in lab - 0 views
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A team of researchers
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has, for the first time, successfully grown a human lung in a lab
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Windpipes, for example, have been successfully grown and implanted into human patients, and just last spring
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Cartilage, made to order: Living human cartilage grown on lab chip -- ScienceDaily - 0 views
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The first example of living human cartilage grown on a laboratory chip has been created by scientists
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The researchers ultimately aim to use their innovative 3-D printing approach to create replacement cartilage
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Osteoarthritis is marked by a gradual disintegration of cartilage, a flexible tissue that provides padding where bones come together in a joint
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