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News From The Annals Of Internal Medicine: 2 July 2013
Jul 03, 2013
1. Salsalate Proves Effective for Type 2 Diabetes Salsalate, a prodrug form of salicylate, may be an effective treatment for patients with type 2 diabetes but its efficacy and safety have not been tested using currently accepted regulatory practices... Read More
When The Body Turns Traitor And Aids And Abets The Spread Of Cancer
Jul 03, 2013
The very system that is meant to protect the body from invasion may be a traitor. These new findings of a study, led by investigators at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), reveal that infection-fighting white blood cells play a role in activating cancer cells and facilitating their spread to secondary tumours... Read More
Physicist Suggest That Cancer May Be A Result Of A Default Cellular 'Safe Mode'
Jul 03, 2013
Death rates from cancer have remained largely unchanged over the past 60 years. A physicist is trying to shed more light on the disease with a very different theory of its origin that traces cancer back to the dawn of multicellularity more than a billion years ago... Read More
Autologous HSC Transplant May Treat Sickle Cell Disease
Jul 03, 2013
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in hemoglobin (HBB) that deform red blood cells. A small number of patients have been successfully treated with allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplantation; however, there are several drawbacks and complications associated with this procedure, including graft vs... Read More
Lessons Learned About Anticoagulants From A Tick's Spit
Jul 03, 2013
There really is such a thing as tick spit - that is, the saliva of a tick. And there's something about it that might help fight heart disease and stroke. The link comes from a protein found in the spit of ixodes (ik-SO-deez) ticks, which are also known as blacklegged ticks, or deer ticks. These kinds of ticks tear their way into skin and feed on their host's blood for several days... Read More
New Automated Test Can Accurately And Swiftly Detect Most Leading Causes Of Bacterial Blood Stream Infections
Jul 02, 2013
A new automated diagnostic test can quickly and accurately identify most leading causes of Gram-positive bacterial blood stream infections and the presence of three antibiotic resistance genes, according to a new study published this week in PLOS Medicine... Read More
Vitamin C Influences Gene Activity In Stem Cells
Jul 02, 2013
A study of mouse stem cells reveals that vitamin C may play a role in their health by influencing the switching on and off of genes... Read More
Two Studies Reveal Important Genetic Insights Into The Development Of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL)
Jul 02, 2013
Scientists at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) recently led in two studies that revealed important genetic insights into the development of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). NHLs are some of the most common blood cancers and include any kind of lymphoma1 except Hodgkin's lymphomas... Read More
Measuring The Thermal Signatures Of Single Cells And Assessing Their Biological Activity
Jul 02, 2013
To the ancients, probing the philosophical question of how to distinguish the living from the dead centered on the "mystery of the vital heat." To modern microbiology, this question was always less mysterious than it was annoying - researchers have known that biological processes should produce thermal signatures, even within single cells, but nobody ever knew how to measure them... Read More
Cardiac Hormone-Related Inflammatory Pathway Linked To Tumor Growth
Jul 02, 2013
A cardiac hormone signaling receptor abundantly expressed both in inflamed tissues and cancers appears to recruit stem cells that form the blood vessels needed to feed tumor growth, reports a new study by scientists at the University of South Florida Nanomedicine Research Center... Read More
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