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(University of California - San Diego) Engineers at the University of California at San Diego have come up with a way to help accelerate bone growth through the use of nanotubes and stem cells.
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(University of California - San Diego) A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego and the Moores UCSD Cancer Center have developed a rapid, automated image screening process to distinguish breast cancer cells from normal cells. The technique may eventually lead to better ways for surgeons to determine if they have removed [...]
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(Queen’s University) Researchers have widely believed that the organic compound, allicin — which gives the pungent vegetable its aroma and flavor — acts as an antioxidant. But until now it hasn’t been clear how allicin works, or how it stacks up compared to more common antioxidants such as Vitamin E and coenzyme Q10, which stop [...]
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(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Screening a chemical library of 200,000 compounds, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified two new classes that can be used to study and possibly manipulate a cellular pathway involved in many types of cancer and degenerative diseases.
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(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) Pharmacology researchers at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans found that a recently identified enzyme in the brain plays a critically important role in the central regulation of blood pressure. The LSUHSC research team showed that Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 helps preserve the function of a key spontaneous reflex involved [...]
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — The Senate passed the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) late Thursday night by a 66 to 32 vote, paving the way for coverage for an additional 4.1 million kids.
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(Wiley-Blackwell) Scientists led by Carlo Unverzagt at the University of Bayreuth have successfully used a new strategy to synthesize ribonuclease C, a glycosylated bovine pancreatic enzyme.
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(International Osteoporosis Foundation) Clinicians in an increasing number of countries can now take advantage of an important new online tool, FRAX, for the clinical management of osteoporosis.
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(University of Michigan Health System) Biology exists in a physical world. That’s a fact cancer researchers are beginning to recognize as they look to include concepts of physics and mathematics in their efforts to understand how cancer develops — and how to stop it.
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