News tagged with repair

Oct 28, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 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 ...

Regeneration can be achieved after chronic spinal cord injury

Oct 28, 2009 | 5 / 5 (6) | 4

Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that regeneration of central nervous system axons can be achieved in rats even when treatment delayed is more than a year after the original ...

Neuroscientist's discovery of new uses for old drug leads to patents, innovation award

Oct 27, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

University of South Florida neuroscientist R. Douglas Shytle's discovery of successful new clinical uses for mecamylamine, a drug once used to treat hypertension, has led to several issued patents on mecamylamine ...

Gentle touch may aid multiple sclerosis patients

Oct 14, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- While gripping, lifting or manipulating an object such as drinking from a cup or placing a book on a shelf is usually easy for most, it can be challenging for those with neurological diseases such as multiple ...

Researchers discover RNA repair system in bacteria

Oct 12, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (6) | 0

In new papers appearing this month in Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of Illinois biochemistry professor Raven H. Huang and his colleagues describe the first RNA repair system to be ...

Major improvements made in engineering heart repair patches from stem cells (w/ Video)

Oct 07, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (2) | 1

University of Washington (UW) researchers have succeeded in engineering human tissue patches free of some problems that have stymied stem-cell repair for damaged hearts.

One small step for neurons, one giant leap for nerve cell repair

Oct 07, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (8) | 0

The repair of damaged nerve cells is a major problem in medicine today. A new study by researchers at the Montreal NeurologicaI Institute and Hospital (The Neuro) and McGill University, is a significant advance towards a ...

Study details safe, effective, minimally invasive mitral valve repair

Sep 28, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Surgical treatment for mitral valve disease includes either repairing the patient's diseased valve or replacing it with a metal, mechanical valve or an animal tissue valve. The majority of those procedures are open-heart ...

Gene assay to help to predict lung cancer treatment resistance

Medicine & Health / Cancer

Aug 26, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

The genes that may contribute to drug resistance in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) can be predicted. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Cancer found good correlation between genes believed to be involv ...

To contract or not to contract: Decision controlled by 2 microRNAs

Aug 17, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

New research has provided insight into the molecular regulators of the function of muscle cells in the walls of blood vessels, i.e., vascular smooth muscle cells. Specifically, the acquisition and/or maintenance of the ability ...

Raising the alarm when DNA goes bad (w/ Video)

Aug 13, 2009 | 2 / 5 (1) | 1

Scientists have known for a long time that when DNA is damaged, a key enzyme sets off a cellular "alarm bell" to alert the cell to start the repair process, but until recently little was known about how the cell detects and ...

Protein plays unexpected role protecting chromosome tips

Aug 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

A protein specialist that opens the genomic door for DNA repair and gene expression also turns out to be a multi-tasking workhorse that protects the tips of chromosomes and dabbles in a protein-destruction ...

Scientists uncover function of potential cancer-causing gene product

Aug 09, 2009 | not rated yet | 1

The Stowers Institute's Conaway Lab has uncovered a previously unknown function of a gene product called Amplified in Liver Cancer 1 (Alc1), which may play a role in the onset of cancer. The work was published yesterday by ...

Protein complex key in avoiding DNA repair mistakes, cancer