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Chip simulates metabolism of medicine in human body

Chip simulates metabolism of medicine in human body

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A tiny electrochemical cell, developed by researchers of the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, The Netherlands, is able to mimick the behaviour of medicine inside a human body. This chip ...





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Common mechanism underlies many diseases of excitability

Medicine & Health / Research

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Inherited mutations in voltage-gated sodium channels (Navs) are associated with many different human diseases, including genetic forms of epilepsy and chronic pain. Theodore Cummins and colleagues, at Indiana University School ...


'Notch'ing up a role in the multisystem disease tuberous sclerosis complex

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Two independent teams of researchers have identified a role for enhanced activation of the signaling protein Notch in tumors characterized by inactivation of either the TSC1 or the TSC2 protein. As indicated by Warren Pear, ...


Antibody finds, wipes out prostate cancer: study

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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US researchers have found an antibody that hunts down prostate cancer cells in mice and can destroy the killer disease even in an advanced stage, a study showed Monday.


Simplest bacteria unravelled at the cellular level

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Even the simplest cell appears to be far more complex than researchers had imagined. In a series of three articles in the journal Science, researchers including Vera van Noort at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) ...


Couple stranded 3 days after GPS leads them astray

Technology / Engineering

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(AP) -- A Nevada couple letting their SUV's navigation system guide them through the high desert of Eastern Oregon got stuck in snow for three days when the GPS unit sent them down a remote forest road.


Now hear this: Swim-proof hearing aids to get test

Medicine & Health / Other

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(AP) -- They're not your grandpa's hearing aids. Today's newest models range from the completely invisible - it sits deep in the ear canal for months at a time - to Bluetooth-enabled gadgets that open cell phones and iPods ...


Small molecules found to protect cells in multiple models of Parkinson's disease

Medicine & Health / Research

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Several structurally similar small molecules appear capable of protecting cells from alpha-synuclein toxicity in multiple models of Parkinson's disease, according to Whitehead Institute researchers. Misfolded copies of the ...


New RNA interference technique can silence up to 5 genes

New RNA interference technique can silence up to five genes

Medicine & Health / Research

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Researchers at MIT and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals report this week that they have successfully used RNA interference to turn off multiple genes in the livers of mice, an advance that could lead to new treatments ...


EBay: holiday cell phone shopping up threefold

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(AP) -- More eBay shoppers have used cell phones to make purchases this holiday season than in past years. And it's not just to buy the hot toy du jour, Zhu Zhu Pets.


A 'fountain of youth' for stem cells?

Medicine & Health / Research

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Researchers from the University of Hong Kong and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have published a study in the current issue of Cell Transplantation, that explores ways to successfully keep stem cells "forever young" ...



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