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Gene therapy repairs injured human donor lungs for the first time

Gene therapy repairs injured human donor lungs for the first time

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

For the first time, scientists in the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University Health Network have successfully used gene therapy to repair injured human donor lungs, making them potentially suitable ...


URI research couple's method targets cancerous tumors

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Two University of Rhode Island associate professors, biophysicists Yana Reshetnyak and Oleg Andreev, have discovered a technology that can detect cancerous tumors and deliver treatment to them without the harming the healthy ...


Optimized inhaler mouthpiece design allows for more effective drug delivery

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers have developed an optimized mouthpiece design to aid efficient drug delivery to the lungs by reducing the amount of medication wasted as it passes through the mouthpiece of an aerosol inhaler. With current inhaler ...


Scientists Use Self-Assembly to Make Molecule-Sized Particles With Patches of Charge

Scientists Use Self-Assembly to Make Molecule-Sized Particles With Patches of Charge

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists, chemists and engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated a novel method for the controlled formation of patchy particles, using charged, self-assembling molecules ...


Blood vessel builders

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Futuristic plans to grow replacement organs, bones or muscles for soldiers maimed on the battlefield or patients suffering from debilitating disease or injury won't be anything but science fiction unless new blood vessels ...


Bioengineer uses nanoparticles to target drugs

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Clemson bioengineer Frank Alexis is designing new ways to target drugs and reduce the chances for side effects.


YouTube is increasing its copyright vigilance

YouTube pacts heighten copyright vigilance

Technology / Internet

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

YouTube on Wednesday said it will be able to quickly track snippets from live television shows thanks to new partnerships with three broadcast video delivery specialty firms.


Nanotech researchers develop artificial pore

Nanotech researchers develop artificial pore

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using an RNA-powered nanomotor, University of Cincinnati (UC) biomedical engineering researchers have successfully developed an artificial pore able to transmit nanoscale material through ...


Nanodiamonds Advance Anticancer Gene Therapy

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gene therapy holds promise in the treatment of cancer as well as a large number of other diseases. However, developing a scalable system for delivering genes to cells both efficiently and safely has been ...


Magnetic Nanoworms and Nanocrystals Deliver siRNA to Tumors

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Small pieces of nucleic acid known as short interfering RNAs, or siRNAs, can turn off the production of specific proteins, a property that makes them one of the more promising new classes of anticancer drugs ...


Is inhaled insulin delivery still a possibility? Why has it been a commercial failure?

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The commercial failure of Exubera (Pfizer, New York, NY), the first inhaled insulin product to come to market, led other companies such as Eli Lilly-Alkermes to halt studies of similar drug delivery in development intended ...


Graphene bolsters battery work, biosensors

A flash of light turns graphene into a biosensor

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biomedical researchers suspect graphene, a novel nanomaterial made of sheets of single carbon atoms, would be useful in a variety of applications. But no one had studied the interaction between ...


Where physician completed obstetrical residency may provide quality-of-care indicator

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A ranking of obstetrics and gynecology training programs based on the maternal complication rates of their graduates' patients found these rankings consistent across individual types of complications, suggesting that these ...


More babies born prematurely but survival rates up, study shows

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Premature births have increased significantly although survival rates of babies born early have improved dramatically, a study shows.


Topical erectile dysfunction therapy shows promise

Topical erectile dysfunction therapy shows promise (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 19, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

An innovative drug-delivery system - nanoparticles encapsulating nitric oxide or prescription drugs - shows promise for topical treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED), according to a new study by scientists ...