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Study shows new approach to prevent antibody-mediated damage in kidney transplants
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Early results from a Mayo Clinic research study demonstrate the effectiveness of a new approach to blocking an important part of the immune system that causes severe damage to some kidney transplants. Historically, these ...
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Saving teeth by using periodontal ligament regeneration
Jun 04, 2008 |
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Teeth may fall out as a result of inflammation and subsequent destruction of the tissues supporting the teeth. Dutch researcher Agnes Berendsen has investigated a possible solution to this problem. At the Academic Centre ...
Scientists study flesh-eating bacteria
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Sep 28, 2006 |
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Israeli scientists say they have discovered one reason "flesh-eating" bacteria are hard to stop is because of reactions with the immune system.
New link found between osteoporosis and coeliac disease
Oct 07, 2009 |
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People with coeliac disease may develop osteoporosis because their immune system attacks their bone tissue, a new study has shown.
Paradigm shift: Switch for programmed cell death promotes spread of glioblastoma
Mar 11, 2008 |
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Malignant tumors have usually lost their ability to destroy themselves by programmed cell death, or apoptosis. Therefore, tumors are often resistant to chemotherapy or radiation therapy, whose effect is based on forcing tumor ...
Cryopreservation techniques bring hopes for women cancer victims and endangered species
Sep 10, 2008 |
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Emerging cryopreservation techniques are increasing hope of restoring fertility for women after diseases such as ovarian cancer that lead to destruction of reproductive tissue. The same techniques can also be used to maintain ...
Radio Waves Fire Up Nanotubes Embedded in Tumors, Destroying Liver Cancer
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 03, 2007 |
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Cancer cells treated with carbon nanotubes can be destroyed by noninvasive radio waves that heat up the nanotubes while sparing untreated tissue, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson ...
FDA issues alert about HIV drug Prezista
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Mar 24, 2008 |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an alert concerning reports of liver injury in patients taking Prezista.
New test promises quicker, more accurate evaluation for cystic fibrosis patients
Oct 24, 2008 |
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Researchers at National Jewish Health have identified a simple gene-based blood test that more accurately and quickly measures cystic fibrosis patients' response to therapy than current tests. The test, a measure of inflammatory ...
Antibodies produced within joints in rheumatoid arthritis
Jan 13, 2009 |
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Antibodies produced within the joints themselves may be responsible for joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis, according to new research published in PLoS Medicine.
Pancreatic cancer fights off immune attack
Aug 30, 2007 |
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Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum) and the Heidelberg University Hospitals have discovered that pancreatic cancer attracts regulatory T cells, which suppress the activity of ...
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