Stem Cells in Treatment of Burns and Skin Ulcers
Burns are injuries to tissues caused by heat, radiation, friction, electricity and chemicals. Burns injure the skin layers and they may also injure muscles and nerves. Skin ulcers are open sores with...
View ArticleThe BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative...
The Human Genome project, begun in 1990 and completed in 2003, was a large collaboration between government scientists to sequence every DNA nucleotide in the human genome. It was launched amid a great...
View ArticleGene Therapy for Leukemia
Gene therapy is a new technique being developed with the potential to treat a variety of diseases, from genetic disorders, to infections, to cancer. Gene therapy involves inserting a new gene into a...
View ArticleFolates as possible cancer treatment - Endocyte a rising star in cancer...
Endocyte, a biopharmaceutical company specializing in predicative medicine and targeted drugs is designing small molecule drug conjugates intended for cancer treatment. In addition to its small...
View ArticleTelomerase 3-D structure identified
Telomerase, a key enzyme in cells, and subsequent telomeres, have been discovered by researchers in Berkeley several years ago, leading to the 2006 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology. Ever since...
View ArticleThe Use of Synthetic Biology to Help Conservation Efforts
Since the first synthetic organism was announced, controversy over the man-made creation of organisms from chemicals has been met with great debate. From a simple beginning of a cell containing...
View ArticleMale Infertility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Infertility, or sterility, represents significant problem of human reproduction. Per definition, if after one year of regular sexual intercourse, without contraceptives, there is no pregnancy, then it...
View ArticleRecovery of Adult Stem Cells from Intestinal Tissue
Research involving stem cells is a very exciting field, with promises of treatments for a variety of diseases and conditions that have few or no available treatments. Genetic disorders, cancer, injury,...
View ArticleScientists Make Glue from Flesh-Eating Bacteria
Growing up, one of the scariest germs I remember hearing about was flesh-eating bacteria. Everything about its name is frightening. A young child, imagining a small germ eating his or her flesh, would...
View ArticleYeast derived Anti-malaria drug to be marketed low-cost by large...
Sanofi, a pharmaceutical giant and OneWorld Health, a nonprofit drug developer said on April 12th that they launched a new project, consisting of a collaboration of several multinational organizations,...
View ArticleUse of Bispecific T Cells in Cancer Therapy
Immunotherapeutics is a fast growing area of research for cancer therapy. Unlike traditional chemotherapy given to cancer patients, which indiscriminately kills and rapidly multiplying cell, the use of...
View ArticleEmbryonic Stem Cell Study Approved
Stem cell therapy is a promising line of treatment for many diseases, conditions, and injuries. Neurological injuries, including injuries to the spinal cord, are difficult to treat, as neurons are not...
View ArticlePerformed Rescue Dopaminergic Neurons in Monkeys
Despite the presence of endogenous neural stem cells, it is recognized that intrinsic “self-repair” activity for the most devastating injuries is inadequate or ineffective. This poor regenerative...
View ArticlePositive Results from Multiple Myeloma Vaccine Trial
Multiple myeloma is a cancer of the blood, which involves rapid proliferation of plasma cells. Plasma cells are a type of antibody producing immune cell found in the bone marrow. Normally, plasma cells...
View ArticleNew therapy for leukemia shows results and captures interest of Novartis
A new therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a swift-growing cancer that kills more than 60 percent of those afflicted, is based on extracting T cells and modifying them to home in on and destroy B...
View ArticleFive Mental Disorders Share Several Genetic Links?
Five major mental disorders (autism, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, major depressive disorder and attention deficit- hyperactivity are not very similar, but they share several genetic glitches that...
View ArticleFuture of diagnostics - Implanted diagnostic chip
Diagnostics for chronic patients as well as patients undergoing treatment are very important. Blood diagnostics however, are expensive, require time, and cause inconvenience to the patients. For a...
View ArticleRensselaer Polytechnic Institute develops a new method to kill pathogenic...
Biomimicing nano-particles may provide with a new effective food preservation technique Engineers and researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have been working to develop a new method to kill...
View ArticleLawrence Berkeley Laboratory Field Trip
REPORT FIELD TRIP on March 28th 2013: LAWRENCE BERKELEY LABORATORY FIELD TRIP Student reporter: Katherine Miller, Biotech Club, CCSF Tuesday, April 2, 2013 Dear fellow club members, I would like to...
View ArticleHappy 10th Anniversary, Human Genome Project
Twenty three years ago, in 1990, scientists began working together on one of the largest biological research projects ever proposed. The project proposed to sequence the 3 billion nucleotides in the...
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