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Jan 25 | News
Recent
research in China on amphibians so smelly that scientists term them
“odorous frogs” has revealed a potentially rich source of new
antibiotics. They concluded that these frogs possess the greatest
diversity of germ-killing peptides.
12/13/2011 | News
According
to a new analysis by a New York Botanical Garden scientist, there are
probably at least 500 medically useful chemicals awaiting discovery in
plant species whose chemical constituents have not yet been evaluated
for their potential to cure or treat disease.
12/12/2011 | News
In
what's being called a landmark study, researchers used gene therapy to
successfully treat six patients with severe hemophilia, a blood-clotting
disorder. The six men each received a single, 20-minute infusion of
healthy genetic material delivered by a virus found in monkeys. Four of
the patients were able to stop conventional blood-clotting treatments
altogether.
12/8/2011 | News
In
Denmark, mushrooms have primarily been used in food preparation or as
intoxicants. But until. Dr. Ming Chen, an expert in traditional Chinese
medicine, came along, nobody had discovered than a certain type of toxic
mushroom was actually effective and selective against cancer cells.
6/7/2011 | News
Antibiotics
are among the greatest achievements of medical science. But bacteria
are increasingly developing resistance to once-potent drugs. Researchers
are scrambling for an alternative, and researchers in Germany say they
have found one in a therapeutic equivalent that could replace penicillin
and related pharmaceuticals.
1/26/2011 | News
Massachusetts
General Hospital investigators have developed a novel system for
delivery of growth factors to chronic wounds such as pressure sores and
diabetic foot ulcers. They fabricated nanospheres containing
keratinocyte growth factor. When suspended in a fibrin gel, these
nanoparticles improved the healing of deep skin wounds in diabetic mice.
12/15/2010 | News
A
team of Russian and German researchers showed that a ten-minute
treatment with low-temperature plasma was not only able to kill
drug-resistant bacteria causing wound infections in rats but also
increased the rate of wound healing.
8/23/2010 | News
Researchers
in England report they have successfully reset and restarted the
natural 24-hour body clock of mice in the lab using drugs alone. By
manipulating a complex interaction of molecules and enzymes--in
particular, slowing casein kinase 1 down--researchers controlled how
quickly the circadian rhythm clock “ticks”.
5/24/2010 | News
A technique pioneered at Columbia University
Medical Center
can orchestrate stem cells to migrate to a 3-D scaffold infused with
growth
factor, holding the potential to yield an anatomically correct tooth in
as soon
as nine weeks once implanted. If successful, the in vivo
method—the first of its kind—could lessen the need for
dentures.
4/20/2010 | News
Scientists at the The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
have demonstrated, in animals, the ability to drive iron-bearing
nanoparticles
to metal stents in injured blood vessels, where they deliver a drug
payload
that prevents blockages. The technique improved on conventional
non-magnetic
therapies, and at lower dosages.
