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Skin cells may provide early warning for cancer risk elsewhere in body
Oct 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While some scientists have argued that cancer is such a complex genetic disease that you'd have to sequence a person's complete genome in order to predict his or her cancer risk, a University of California, ...
Research could treat infant tumours
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Research by Victoria University PhD graduate Anasuya Vishvanath into infantile haemangioma, or strawberry birthmarks, suggests that stem cells play an important role in the growth of these common infant tumours.
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New strategy to combat cancer: Streamlining blood vessel walls
Feb 12, 2009 |
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Our blood vessels provide all growing tissues with oxygen and nutrients. The growth of blood vessels (a process termed angiogenesis) is indispensable for the proper functioning of organs and the repair of tissues when they ...
Women with previous abnormal cervical cells at higher risk for recurrence and invasive cancer
May 12, 2009 |
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New research from the UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research has found that women who have been treated for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (abnormal cervical cell growth), are at higher risk for a recurrence ...
Study suggests new approach to common cause of blindness
Jun 14, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine in collaboration with lead investigators at the University of Kentucky have identified a new target for the diagnosis and treatment of age-related ...
Accelerated head growth can predict autism before behavioral symptoms start
Jan 30, 2008 |
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Children with autism have normal-size heads at birth but develop accelerated head growth between six and nine months of age, a period that precedes the onset of many behaviors that enable physicians to diagnose the developmental ...
New target identified for potential treatment of retinopathy in premature babies
May 04, 2009 |
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Results of a study in mice by researchers at the University of California, San Diego strongly suggest that the protein kinase JNK1 plays a key role in the development of retinopathy in premature infants. Their findings, ...
Researchers identify gene associated with muscular dystrophy-related vision problems
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Skeletal muscle disease and vision deficits might seem unrelated, but a frog model of muscular dystrophy shows it is not such a leap.
Risk of frailty in older women dependent on multisystem abnormalities
Jul 30, 2009 |
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A study published online ahead of press in the Gerontology Society of America's Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences reports that the condition of frailty in older adults is associated with a critical mass of abnormal physio ...
New treatment for age-related macular degeneration within sight
Nov 29, 2007 |
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With 8 million people at high risk for advanced age-related macular degeneration, researchers from Harvard and Japan discovered that the experimental drug, endostatin, may be the cure. A research report published in the December ...
Cell pathway, disease linked to histone action
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Oct 26, 2007 |
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University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers have discovered a key cell-signaling pathway that regulates cell progression and switches on front-to-back body patterning in tadpoles.
New ultrasound-guided biopsy method allows improved diagnosis of endometrial disease
Apr 14, 2009 |
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A procedure used in conjunction with a vaginal ultrasound might make it easier to visualize and diagnose diseases in the lining of the uterus, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.
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