To facilitate the harvesting of body tissue replacements for wounded soldiers, medical researchers with a grant from the U.S. military have built a cutting-edge clean-room with a significantly...
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A team of Berkley scientists have demonstrated a method of engineering yeast that contain a significantly higher percentage of isoprenoids than normal. Isoprenoids are a key compound in anti-cancer...
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In an unprecedented proceedure, two kidney dialysis patients have recieved blood vessels grown from their own skin. Having placed a patch of each patient's epidermal tissue in a laboratory dish,...
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Medical researchers have developed a drug targeting a version of a gene which makes African Americans more than 250 percent likely to suffer a heart attack than people from other races who are...
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Filed in archive Medical Treatments
by on October 18, 2005
Rather then attempting to kill Hepatitis C virus cells, Japanese researchers have created a treatment that occludes its ability to reproduce. Though still unsure how Hepatitis C duplicates once...
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Filed in archive Medical Treatments
by on October 18, 2005
Researchers in Australia have isolated the gene that causes baldness, optimistically declaring that in 10 years they will be able to synthesize medicines that can in effect "cure" baldness,...
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Medical researchers have released details of a proof-of-principle stem-cell extraction experiment that averts the ethical controversies styming research in a promising field. Creating five distinct...
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Filed in archive Medical Treatments
by on October 17, 2005
Capable of detecting cancerous warning signs years before the onset of malignant cells, researchers have developed an early diagnosis kit to alert concerned patients of harbingers that indicate a...
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Filed in archive Medical Treatments
by on October 15, 2005
Researchers studying the effectiveness of carbon nanotubes as a means of delivering cancer medication have made an accidental discovery; the nanotubes posessed properties that allowed them to be...
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In development since 1990, Honda has developed the first marketable version of an airbag for motorcycles. Front-end collisions account for half of all motorcycle accidents, which are seven times more...
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Medical researchers at Yale have identified an abnormality on a single gene that is associated with some forms of Tourettes. Read the article.A new drug being marketed as Remicade has been proven in...
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From Philoneist's recent and humble origins on Blogger.com, click continue for a chronologically ordered record of posts from before October 13th.......
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