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Magic ingredient in breast milk protects babies' intestines

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists at Queen Mary, University of London have discovered that an ingredient in human breast milk protects and repairs the delicate intestines of newborn babies.





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The most important candidate genes for pancreatic stone formation

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 13, 2007 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Stone formation is an important feature of chronic pancreatitis, especially tropical calcific pancreatitis (TCP), where the stones are large in size, highly irregular in shape and cause enormous tissue destruction. The exact ...


Super sticky barnacle glue cures like blood clots

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Barnacles are a big problem for boats. Adhering to the undersides of vessels, carpets of the crustaceans can increase fuel consumption by as much as 25%. Ship owners would love to know how to stop these hitchhikers gluing ...


Pancreatic cancer: Researchers find drug that reverses resistance to chemotherapy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

For the first time researchers have shown that by inhibiting the action of an enzyme called TAK-1, it is possible to make pancreatic cancer cells sensitive to chemotherapy, opening the way for the development of a new drug ...


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 ...


Long-term treatment with proton pump inhibitor can increase weight

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is the most common esophageal disorder, and frequently encountered in the primary care setting. Accumulating evidence has confirmed the excellent efficacy and safety of proton pump inhibitor ...


Vardenafil: A potential drug to protect gastric mucosa

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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

Indomethacin has been proved by epidemiological and experimental studies to be closely associated with peptic ulcer development. Vardenafil is a potent phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitor and its effects on the gastric mucosa havenot ...


HIV integrase inhibitor effective for patients beginning antiretroviral treatment

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A member of a new class of antiretroviral drugs is safe and effective for patients beginning treatment against HIV, according to researchers who have completed a two-year multisite phase III clinical trial comparing it with ...


HIV-1 protease inhibitor induced oxidative stress in pancreatic B-cells: thymoquinone protection

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at the Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana have discovered that the HIV-1 protease inhibitors (PIs), such as nelfinavir included in highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) regimen ...


Building memories with actin

Building memories with actin

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Memories aren't made of actin filaments. But their assembly is crucial for long-term potentiation (LTP), an increase in synapse sensitivity that researchers think helps to lay down memories. In the July 13, ...


Engineered human fusion protein inhibits HIV-1 replication

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In 2004, Jeremy Luban and colleagues from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, reported that New World owl monkeys (Aotus genus) make a fusion protein - AoT5Cyp - that potently blocks HIV-1 infection. The human genome encodes ...



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