Scientists at Queen’s University in Belfast have developed a novel, more effective way to deliver drugs for the treatment of skin cancer. The scientists demonstrated that a needle-free jet injection of a drug used in the treatment of skin cancer ...
Bird Flu Vaccination Ready?
A European consortium has developed a vaccination against the avian H7N1 Influenza. The new vaccination achieved good results in clinical trials and has a high chance of being approved for clinical use. This new vaccine can save human and animal ...
2007 Nobel Prize in Medicine
The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine will be shared by Oliver Smithies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA,, Mario R. Capecchi from the University of Utah and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Salt Lake ...
Are Two Strains of HIV Needed to Cause AIDS?
Using a computer model, American scientists hypothesize that two strains of HIV are needed in order to cause AIDS. One strain is the fit strain, which is able to spread many copies of itself, and the other is the unfit ...
Insulin Nanodrug Under Development
Insulin, a hormone secreted by the pancreas, controls the level of sugar in the blood. Diabetic people suffer from low levels of insulin production and/or from abnormal resistance to the insulin hormone with inadequate levels of insulin secretion to compensate ...
The Genome’s Switches
Scientists in California have discovered a DNA sequence that turns on and off gene expression in the cell. The human genome is a very long molecule composed of repetitions of the four nucleic acids (coded by the letters A, T, ...
Stem Cells to Rebuild Heart Tissue
Embryonic stem cells are pluripotent cells, cells that can transform and become any other cell in the body, and for this reason they can be used to heal or strengthen any human tissue. However, so far scientists have had difficulties ...
MS Patients Can Walk Faster Using Virtual Reality
Among other symptoms, Multiple Sclerosis, affects the gait of the patient. This is the result of weak muscles, sensory disorders and general fatigue, and is also caused by incoordination induced by neuronal abnormality. A new device developed by a group ...
Viruses may Defeat Bacteria
Bacterium is known to be a single cell creature. However, a mass of bacteria can create ‘biofilm’, a layer of bacteria acting together. Some bacteria must be present in biofilm in order to execute some of its features, especially pathogenesis ...
Rewarding Relief
Scientists have drawn a connection between the responsiveness to placebo treatment and reward anticipation. In an article published in Nature magazine, scientists from the University of Michigan showed that volunteers who were strongly affected by a placebo treatment showed high ...
