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New 'smart' nanotherapeutics can deliver drugs directly to the pancreas

A research collaboration between the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Children's Hospital Boston has developed "smart" injectable nanotherapeutics that can be programmed to selectively ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fast new method for mapping blood vessels may aid cancer research

Like normal tissue, tumors thrive on nutrients carried to them by the blood stream. The rapid growth of new blood vessels is a hallmark of cancer, and studies have shown that preventing blood vessel growth ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Shark compound proves potential as drug to treat human viruses

A compound initially isolated from sharks shows potential as a unique broad-spectrum human antiviral agent, according to a study led by a Georgetown University Medical Center investigator and reported in the Proceedings of ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Dual-action protein developed better restricts blood vessel formation

(Medical Xpress) -- Cancer needs blood. In fact, some cancer medications work solely to slow or prevent cancer cells from creating new capillaries, choking off their much-needed blood and nutrient supply to halt the growth ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers gain new insights into how tumor cells are fed

Philadelphia, PA, August 8, 2011 – Researchers have gained a new understanding of the way in which growing tumors are fed and how this growth can be slowed via angiogenesis inhibitors that eliminate the blood supply ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Therapeutic melanoma vaccine improves response rate, progression-free survival

A vaccine for one of the most lethal cancers, advanced melanoma, has improved response rate and progression-free survival for patients when combined with the immunotherapy drug Interleukin-2, according to research led by ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hope for stroke victims

Two new studies from Spain provide conclusive evidence that an approach developed at the Weizmann Institute could speed recovery from stroke and head trauma.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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

Using nanotechnology to improve cancer treatment

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research directed by Basar Bilgicer, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and a member of the Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics initiative at the University of Notre Dame, could ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 03, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

New microscopy tracks molecules in live tissue at video rate

A novel type of biomedical imaging, made possible by new advances in microscopy from scientists at Harvard University, is so fast and sensitive it can capture "video" of blood cells squeezing through capillaries.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Medical imaging breakthrough uses light and sound to see microscopic details inside our bodies

See it for yourself: a new breakthrough in imaging technology using a combination of light and sound will allow health care providers to see microscopic details inside the body. Access to this level of detail potentially ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 22, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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