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Nanodiamonds deliver insulin for wound healing

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bacterial infection is a major health threat to patients with severe burns and other kinds of serious wounds such as traumatic bone fractures. Recent studies have identified an important new weapon for fighting ...


Researchers identify new stem cell

Medicine & Health / Research

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered a new type of stem cell in the skin that acts surprisingly like certain stem cells found in embryos: both can generate fat, bone, cartilage, and even nerve cells. These newly-described ...


Math used as a tool to heal toughest of wounds

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists expect a new mathematical model of chronic wound healing could replace intuition with clear guidance on how to test treatment strategies in tackling a major public-health problem.


Enriched environment improves wound healing in rats

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Improving the environment in which rats are reared can significantly strengthen the physiological process of wound healing, according to a report in the online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE.


Research yields potential target for cancer, wound healing and fibrosis

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research conducted by Allison Berrier, PhD, Assistant Professor of Oral and Craniofacial Biology at the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Dentistry, and colleagues, provides insights that may help scientists ...


Researchers discover a new pathway that regulates inflammation

Researchers discover a new pathway that regulates inflammation

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Inflammation, the body's earliest response to damage or infection, can aid the healing process and trigger an immune response against invading pathogens. But inflammation gone awry can also undermine health, ...


New polymer coatings prevent corrosion, even when scratched

New polymer coatings prevent corrosion, even when scratched

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 09, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (24) | comments 4

Imagine tiny cracks in your patio table healing by themselves, or the first small scratch on your new car disappearing by itself. This and more may be possible with self-healing coatings being developed at ...


Healing process found to backfire in lung patients

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 27, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A mechanism in the body which typically helps a person heal from an injury, may actually be causing patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) to get worse, researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health ...


A second skin

A second skin

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Despite advances in treatment regimens and the best efforts of nurses and doctors, about 70% of all people with severe burns die from related infections. But a revolutionary new wound dressing developed at ...


Experts: Placebo power behind many natural cures

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- People looking for natural cures will be happy to know there is one. Two words explain how it works: "I believe." It's the placebo effect - the ability of a dummy pill or a faked treatment to make people feel better, ...


Study Reveals New Role of Vitamin C in Skin Protection

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have uncovered a new role played by Vitamin C in protecting the skin.


New approach to wound healing may be easy on skin, but hard on bacteria

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

In a presentation today (Aug. 19) to the American Chemical Society meeting, Ankit Agarwal, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, described an experimental approach to wound healing that could take ...


How to make a lung

How to make a lung: Cell-regeneration molecules essential signals for early lung development

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A tissue-repair-and-regeneration pathway in the human body, including wound healing, is essential for the early lung to develop properly. Genetically engineered mice fail to develop lungs when two molecules ...


Uncovering how cells cover gaps

Uncovering how cells cover gaps (w/ Video)

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, came a step closer to understanding how cells close gaps not only during embryonic development but also duringwound healing. ...


Scientists discover way to jumpstart bone's healing process

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Rarely will physicians use the word "miraculous" when discussing patient recoveries. But that's the very phrase orthopaedic physicians and scientists are using in upstate New York to describe their emerging stem cell research ...