Items tagged with Disease

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Tiny Gold Particles to Treat Cancer Friday, January 2nd, 2009 - 18:21:01 - Anuradha Menon Using tiny gold particles and infrared light, MIT researchers have developed a drug-delivery system that allows multiple drugs to be released in a... read more

Easier Way to Develop Protein-Based Drug Friday, December 12th, 2008 - 18:39:42 - Anuradha Menon Research by a Michigan State University chemist could eventually lead to a quicker and easier way of developing protein-based drugs which are key to... read more

MIT Sheds Light on Alzheimer's Mystery Thursday, December 11th, 2008 - 18:34:24 - Anuradha Menon In work that could lead to new drugs to target Alzheimer's disease, MIT researchers and colleagues have shed light on one of the molecular mysteries... read more

Disabling Tomato Plant's 'Intruder Alarm' Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 - 09:37:33 - Ehud Rattner How a bacterium overcomes a tomato plant's defenses and causes disease, by sneakily disabling the plant's intruder detection systems, is revealed in... read more

Dysfunctional Human Astrocytes Kill Neurons Friday, December 5th, 2008 - 18:51:10 - Anuradha Menon Long thought of as mere bystanders, astrocytes are crucial for the survival and well-being of motor neurons, which control voluntary muscle... read more

Forced Evolution: Mutating Viruses to Death? Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 - 16:23:24 - Anuradha Menon Sounds like a science fiction movie: A killer contagion threatens the Earth, but scientists save the day with a designer drug that forces the virus... read more

New Risk Factor For Cardiovascular Disease Monday, November 10th, 2008 - 15:42:17 - Ehud Rattner A team of international researchers – including scientists from the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and McGill University – have discovered... read more

Red Meat Target for Disease-Causing Bacteria Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 - 14:17:10 - Anuradha Menon Offering another reason why eating red meat could be bad for you, an international research team, including University of California, San Diego... read more

First Fully Functional Artificial Heart Saturday, November 1st, 2008 - 14:34:03 - Anuradha Menon For all the bad news in medicine today -- studies that cell phones might cause cancer, or that widely used flame retardants could have dire effects... read more

Can Grapes Fight High Blood Pressure? Friday, October 31st, 2008 - 16:18:32 - Anuradha Menon Could eating grapes help fight high blood pressure related to a salty diet? And could grapes calm other factors that are also related to heart... read more

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