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• Conquering cancer with implants? Bioengineered vaccines and magnetic nanodiscs show promise

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 142
  Rather than surgically removing tumors , what if doctors could simply implant new tools in our bodies to do the work internally? One team of researchers has been able to vanquish tumors in mice by implanting bioengineered disks filled with tumor-specific antigens, and another has developed magnetized nanodiscs to ...
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• How malaria parasites manage to outwit our immune system

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Dec 1 (ANI): A new study has shown that malaria parasites are able to disguise themselves to avoid the host’s immune system.Malaria is caused by a parasite, which is injected into the bloodstream from the salivary glands of infected mosquitoes. There are a number of different species of parasite, but the ...
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• Fingernail-sized implant successfully eliminates tumors in mammals

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 142
  In a world first, scientists have successfully eliminated tumors in mammals using a cancer vaccine carried into the body on a fingernail-sized implant. The new approach uses plastic disks impregnated with tumor-specific antigens and implanted under the skin to reprogram the mammalian immune system to attack tumors. ...
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• Scientists Develop Microscopic Cancer Vaccine That Eliminates Tumors

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 509
  Ayinde O. Chase - AHN Editor Cambridge, MA (AHN) - According to a new report scientists were able to develop a cancer vaccine carried into the body on a carefully engineered, fingernail-sized implant is the first to successfully eliminate tumors in mammals. The new approach, pioneered by bioengineers and immunologists ...
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• Skin implant that can destroy cancerous tumours

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, November 26 (ANI): Scientists have come up with a tiny skin implant that when introduced into the body with careful engineering can destroy cancerous tumours.Bioengineers and immunologists at Harvard University developed the fingernail-sized implant the use of which eliminated melanoma tumors in mice.The ...
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• Customised HIV treatment closer to reality

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Nov 26 (ANI): Scientists from McGill University have come up with an innovative, customised HIV treatment that has proved to be more effective against the virus than the anti-retroviral cocktails currently used.The new therapy developed by Dr. J-P. Routy of McGill University and Dr. R. Sékaly from the ...
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• Tailor-made HIV/AIDS treatment closer to reality

  
  West Africa Doctors Network West Africa Doctors Network — Authority: 124
  An innovative treatment for HIV patients developed by McGill University Health Centre researchers has passed its first clinical trial with flying colours. The new approach is an immunotherapy customized for each individual patient, and was developed by Dr. J-P. Routy from the Research Institute of the MUHC in ...
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• Reducing Marital Stress Through Communication

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 552
  One heavily researched area within psychology is couples’ and marital communication. How a couple chooses to communicate — especially during a conflict — affects all sorts of things in the relationship: stress, relationship health, intimacy, even each person’s health. As Gouin et al. (2009) note in a summary ...
  3 weeks ago

• Use ‘thoughtful words’ while fighting with partner to stay fit (Re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Nov 15 (ANI): Using thoughtful words while fighting with your partner is less stressful for couples, claims a new study.Researchers at Penn State found that couples who bring thoughtful words to a fight release lower amounts of stress-related proteins, which means that rational communication between ...
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• Thoughtfulness helps ease tiffs between couples

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Nov 14 (IANS) Couples who sort out their tiffs by weighing each word release lower amounts of stress-related proteins, says a study.“Previous research has shown that couples who are hostile to each other show health impairments and are at greater risk of disease,” said Jennifer Graham, assistant ...
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• Use ‘thoughtful words’ while fighting with partner to stay fit

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Nov 14 (ANI): Using thoughtful words while fighting with your partner is less stressful for couples, claims a new study.Researchers at Penn State found that couples who bring thoughtful words to a fight release lower amounts of stress-related proteins, which means that rational communication between ...
  3 weeks ago

• Less Education = More Risk for Flu

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 561
  A new study suggests the flu vaccine is not as effective among less educated individuals as their immune system may be compromised by ongoing stress. The University of Michigan study looked at cytomegalovirus, a common virus that infects most people at some time during their lives but rarely causes obvious illness. ...
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• New Synthetic Molecules Trigger Immune Response To HIV And Prostate Cancer

  
  SciNewsBlog — Authority: 138
  New Synthetic Molecules Trigger Immune Response To HIV And Prostate Cancer ScienceDaily (Nov. 8, 2009) — Researchers at Yale University have developed synthetic molecules capable of enhancing the bodys immune response to HIV and HIV-infected cells, as well as to prostate cancer cells. Their findings, published ...
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• Synthetic molecules may boost immunity against HIV

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Nov 9 (IANS) Scientists have developed synthetic molecules that could boost our immunity against HIV and HIV-infected cells as well as prostate cancer cells.Their findings potentially open the way to novel therapeutic approaches for the treatment of these diseases.HIV is a global pandemic that affects 33 ...
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• New Synthetic Molecules Trigger Immune Response To HIV And Prostate Cancer

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 144
  Researchers at Yale University have developed synthetic molecules capable of enhancing the body’s immune response to HIV and HIV-infected cells, as well as to prostate cancer cells. Their findings, published online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, could lead to novel therapeutic approaches for these ...
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• A Resurgence for Gene Therapy

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 131
  scientists say gene therapy may be on the edge of a resurgence.
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• Gene Therapy Restores Sight

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 131
  The boy relied on a cane and adults to guide him, and, unable to see blackboard writing, sat in back with a teachers aide, large-type computer screen and materials in Braille.
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• New strategy for developing ‘next-generation’ malaria vaccines

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Nov 3 (ANI): Experts have suggested a novel strategy for developing ‘next-generation’ malaria vaccines that will help targeting the long-term goal of eliminating and eradicating the deadly mosquito-borne disease.While trials are underway testing the efficacy if GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals’ (GSK Bio) ...
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• Your Life Style – Is it Causing Hypothyroidism

  
  Health and Medic — Authority: 148
  Hashimoto’s disease is the most common condition that leads to hypothyroidism. It is an autoimmune disease where your body own antibodies fight the cells of the thyroid gland. Failure of the pituitary gland resulting in reduction or loss of thyroid stimulating hormone (tsh) secretion can also cause an underactive ...
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• How bacteria resist attack

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Nov 2 (ANI): The bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa can ’switch on’ production of molecules that kill white blood cells - preventing the bacteria being eliminated by the body’s immune system, say researchers the University of Copenhagen and the Technical University of Denmark.P. aeruginosa is ...
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