News tagged with human testes

A silver bullet to beat cancer?

The internet is awash with stories of how silver can be used to treat cancer. Now, lab tests have shown that it is as effective as the leading chemotherapy drug - and may have fewer side-effects.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Handheld device for doing blood tests moves closer to medical use

Scientists are reporting a key advance in efforts to develop a handheld device that could revolutionize the complete blood cell count (CBC), one of the most frequently performed blood tests used to diagnose ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Genetic regulation of metabolomic biomarkers -- paths to cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes

In a study to the genetic variance of human metabolism, researchers have identified thirty one regions of the genome that were associated with levels of circulating metabolites, i.e., small molecules that ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Clinical technique sets new standard for speed in battle to prevent pandemic infection

A new diagnosis technique developed by researchers at the RIKEN Omics Science Center (OSC) has succeeded in detecting influenza virus infection in only 40 minutes and with one hundred times the sensitivity of conventional ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Saliva HIV test passes the grade

A saliva test used to diagnose the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), is comparable in accuracy to the traditional blood test, according to a new study led by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

HPV testing: Indications of a benefit in primary screening

Studies currently available provide indications and a "hint" that precursors of cervical cancer can be detected and treated earlier, and consequently tumours occur less often, in women who underwent testing for human papillomavirus ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chemists unlock potential target for drug development

A receptor found on blood platelets whose importance as a potential pharmaceutical target has long been questioned may in fact be fruitful in drug testing, according to new research from Michigan State University ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New system may one day steer microrobots through blood vessels for disease treatment

Researchers use a magnetic field to generate both side-to-side and corkscrew-like motions of tiny robots.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Scientists simulate Moon and Mars exploration in Mojave desert

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and a team of international researchers from Mars Institute and SETI Institute returned to the Mojave Desert this month to complete a series of field tests and simulations aimed at investigating ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Genetic evaluation should be part of retinoblastoma care

Results of a study by Baylor College of Medicine physicians underscore the important role that clinical genetic evaluation can have in the management plan of patients with retinoblastoma, a childhood cancer of the eye.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Preferences shaped by evolution draw voters to candidates with lower-pitched voices

Voters prefer to choose candidates with lower-pitched voices, according to new findings by researchers at McMaster University.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

NASA plans 2014 test-flight of deep-space capsule

NASA said Tuesday it will launch in 2014 an unmanned test flight of its Orion deep space capsule, made by Lockheed Martin to someday carry astronauts to the moon, an asteroid or Mars.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 21

New prenatal screening test is easier but raises ethical issues

(Medical Xpress) -- New technology and innovations in genetic sequencing are dramatically changing the field of prenatal diagnosis and testing. Peter Benn, professor and director of the Diagnostic Human Genetics ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tracing biological pathways

A new chemical process developed by a team of Harvard researchers greatly increases the utility of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) in creating real-time 3-D images of chemical process occurring inside the human body.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Non-targeted HIV testing in emergency departments identifies only few new cases, study finds

Non-targeted HIV rapid test screening among emergency department patients in metropolitan Paris resulted in identifying only a few new HIV diagnoses, often at late stages and mostly among patients who are in a high-risk group, ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0