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Cancer drug delivery research cuts time from days to hours

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 22, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed a technique that has the potential to deliver cancer-fighting drugs to diseased areas within hours, as opposed to the two days it currently takes for existing ...





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A simple therapy for brain injury

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 27, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Severe brain injury due to blunt force trauma could be reduced by application of a simple polymer, Polyethylene glycol or PEG, mixed in sterile water and injected into the blood stream – as reported in BioMed Central's Journal of ...


How to predict post-operative enteral nutrition problems

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) has become one of the most useful and established enteral nutrition techniques. However, since PEG is based on a surgical technique and is mainly performed in elderly individuals ...


Researchers use nanoparticles to deliver treatment for brain, spinal cord injuries

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 01, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Purdue University researchers have developed a method of using nanoparticles to deliver treatments to injured brain and spinal cord cells. A team led by Richard Borgens of the School of Veterinary Medicine's Center for Paralysis ...


Researchers use nanoparticles to deliver treatment for brain, spinal cord injuries

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 01, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Purdue University researchers have developed a method of using nanoparticles to deliver treatments to injured brain and spinal cord cells. A team led by Richard Borgens of the School of Veterinary Medicine's Center for Paralysis ...


Researchers prolong the half-life of biopharmaceutical proteins

Researchers prolong the half-life of biopharmaceutical proteins

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Many biopharmaceuticals comprise small proteins that are quickly eliminated from the body. Scientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (Germany) combine such small proteins with a kind of molecular ...


Carbon Nanotubes Target Tumors

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 08, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

In the first experiment of its kind, investigators at the Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence Focused on Therapy Response (CCNE-TR), based at Stanford University, have shown that single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) ...


Micropatterned material surface controls cell orientation

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cells could be orientated in a controlled way on a micro-patterned surface based upon a delicate material technique, and the orientation could be semi-quantitatively described by some statistical parameters, as suggested ...


Researchers evaluate new bowel prep approaches

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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

While there is little doubt concerning the effectiveness of colonoscopy procedures to detect colon cancer, a new study presented at the American College of Gastroenterology's 74th Annual Scientific Meeting in San Diego places ...


EphA4 -- the molecular transformer

EphA4 -- the molecular transformer

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- EphA4 is a protein which is attached to the surfaces of many types of human cells and plays a role in a wide range of biological processes. EphA4 functions by binding to ephrin ligands, cell ...


Discovery could improve hepatitis C treatment

Discovery could improve hepatitis C treatment

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers are part of an international team that has discovered a genetic variation that could identify those people infected with hepatitis C who are most likely to benefit ...



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