Articles Tagged “Research”
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New Therapies For Bone Marrow Disease with Genes
Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) researchers are one step closer to finding new ways to treat Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), a bone marrow disease that strikes up to 15,000 people each year in the United States,…
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New Antibacterial Chemical Compound Discovered
Antibiotic resistance has been a significant problem for hospitals and health-care facilities for more than a decade. But despite the need for new treatment options, there have been only two new classes of antibiotics developed…
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Plant Hormones Defence Response
Plants are not as defenceless as they may seem. Various plant hormones work together to specifically fend off attacks. Dutch-sponsored researcher Antonio Leon-Reyes has now shown how these hormones cooperate. By ‘consulting’ with each other…
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Sick Children Do Not Always Have Their Pain-relief Needs Met
Despite great effort to reduce anxiety, fear and pain, related to health care, children still considered “being in pain” as the worst aspect of their procedure, according to Karin Enskär, associate professor at the School…
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Study Of Flower Color Shows Evolution In Action
Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have zeroed in on the genes responsible for changing flower color, an area of research that began with Gregor Mendel’s studies of the garden pea in the 1850′s. In an…
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Proteomics: Finding The Key Ingredients Of Disease
The winner of the chilli cook-off, usually has a key secret ingredient, which is hard to identify. Similarly, many diseases have crucial proteins, which change the dynamics of cells from benign to deadly. New findings…
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Gene Behind Rheumatoid Arthritis Identified
University of Manchester researchers have identified a genetic variant in a region on chromosome 6 that is associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the most common inflammatory arthritis affecting 387,000 people in the UK. Professor Jane…
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Older Adults Not More Distractible, Research Shows
Despite previous research suggesting that older adults are more distractible, new research shows they are no more distractible than younger adults when asked to focus their attention on their sense of sight or sound, or…
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Radio Waves Fire Up Nanotubes Embedded In Tumors, Destroying Liver Cancer
Cancer cells treated with carbon nanotubes can be destroyed by non-invasive radio waves that heat up the nanotubes while sparing untreated tissue, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas M. D.…
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Plants Can Be Used To Study How And Why People Respond Differently To Drugs
While prescription medications work successfully to cure an ailment in some people, in others the same dose of the same drug can cause an adverse reaction or no response at all. According to a research…