Curing Death by Curing Aging Archives Page 67

Gene Therapy For Parkinson's Hitches Ride On Virus (7/22/2007)

OHSU is one of nine sites studying whether CERE-120 reduces symptoms of disorder ...> Full Article

New Therapy Is Effective For Patients With Crohn's Disease, According To Studies (7/22/2007)

Mayo Clinic researchers have found that certolizumab pegol is an effective treatment for adults with Crohn's disease, according to two new studies. These findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Certolizumab pegol blocks tumor necrosis factor, an important cause of inflammation in Crohn's disease. ...> Full Article

Obesity Found To Be A Risk Factor For Multiple Myeloma (7/22/2007)

An obese person is more likely than a lean person to develop multiple myeloma, according to researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard School of Public Health. ...> Full Article

Potential New Target for Cancer Found (7/22/2007)

By bypassing a well-known gene implicated in almost one-third of all cancers and instead focusing on the protein activated by the gene, Duke University Medical Center researchers believe they may have found a new target for anti-cancer drugs. ...> Full Article

Protein Suppresses Spread Of Prostate Cancer (7/22/2007)

A protein whose function is lost in a broad array of cancers normally suppresses the spread of prostate cancer, MIT researchers and colleagues have shown. As a result, testing for loss of the protein, called Protein 4.1B, could help clinicians predict which cancers are likely to spread, or metastasize. ...> Full Article

Investigating The Causes Of Parkinson's Disease (7/21/2007)

A University of Nottingham researcher has been awarded more than �440,000 by the Parkinson's Disease Society (PDS) to investigate the causes of the condition. ...> Full Article

Brain Discovery Could Fight Deadly Tumors (7/21/2007)

MIT researchers have identified a critical link between two proteins found in brain tumors, a discovery that could eventually help treat a form of brain cancer that kills 99 percent of patients. ...> Full Article

Enzyme Eliminated By Cancer Cells Holds Promise For Cancer Treatment (7/21/2007)

An enzyme that cancer cells eliminate, apparently so they can keep proliferating, may hold clues to more targeted, effective cancer treatment, scientists say. ...> Full Article

Gene Discovered for Type 1 Diabetes in Children (7/21/2007)

Pediatrics researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and McGill University in Montreal have identified a gene variant that raises a child's risk for type 1 diabetes, formerly called juvenile diabetes. As investigators continue to pinpoint genes contributing to diabetes, they have their eyes on providing a scientific basis for designing better treatments and preventive measures for the disease. ...> Full Article

Connecting Diabetes And Inflammation (7/21/2007)

It has long been known that type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease. The body attacks the islet cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. In recent years, the immune system has also been implicated in type 2 diabetes - in particular imbalances in cytokines, an immune system component that causes inflammation. These imbalances become especially marked as people become obese. Dr. Jerry Nadler and his colleagues are investigating the role of a key gene - 12/15-LO (12/15-lipoxygenase ) - that has been implicated in the immune-system induced inflammatory effects linked to both forms of diabetes and their complications. ...> Full Article

Universal Flu Vaccine Being Tested On Humans (7/21/2007)

A universal influenza vaccine that has been pioneered by researchers from VIB and Ghent University (Belgium) is being tested for the first time on humans by the British-American biotech company Acambis. This vaccine is intended to provide protection against all 'A' strains of the virus that causes human influenza, including pandemic strains. ...> Full Article

Gene Identified For Crohn's Disease In Children (7/21/2007)

Pediatrics researchers have identified a gene variant that raises a child's risk of Crohn's disease, a chronic and painful condition attributed to inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. ...> Full Article

Clues to Future Evolution of HIV Come From African Green Monkeys (7/21/2007)

Monkey viruses related to HIV may have swept across Africa more recently than previously thought, according to new research from The University of Arizona in Tucson. ...> Full Article

Phase I Clinical Trials Offer New Avenue For Pediatric Cancer Patients (7/20/2007)

Patients who suffer from recurrence of childhood cancer now have another option. The New Therapies for Pediatric Cancer Program at Comer Children's Hospital makes Phase I clinical trials available to youths with certain refractory or relapsed cancer. ...> Full Article

Researchers Identify New Combination Therapy that Promotes Cancer Cell Death (7/20/2007)

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine identified a combination therapy as a way to sensitize resistant human cancer cells to a treatment currently being tested in clinical trials. They propose that the therapy may help to selectively eliminate cancer cells while leaving healthy cells intact, providing a cancer treatment with fewer side effects. The Penn team reports their findings in the July issue of Cancer Cell. ...> Full Article

Flavonoids in Orange Juice Make It a Healthy Drink, Despite the Sugar (7/20/2007)

Orange juice, despite its high caloric load of sugars, appears to be a healthy food for diabetics due to its mother lode of flavonoids, a study by endocrinologists at the University at Buffalo has shown. ...> Full Article

Diabetics Experience More Complications Following Trauma (7/20/2007)

Individuals with diabetes appear to spend more days in the intensive care unit, use more ventilator support and have more complications during hospitalization for trauma than non-diabetics, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. ...> Full Article

Researchers Discover Key Mechanism to Emergence of Deadly Strep Bacteria (7/20/2007)

The incidence of serious strep infections has risen dramatically in the last three decades, and this increase is largely attributed to the spread around the globe of a single strain of strep known as the invasive M1T1 clone. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine and the University of Wollongong in Australia have discovered that, 30 years ago, a virus infected the strep bacteria - creating a deadly strain of 'flesh-eating'� bacteria that has evolved to produce serious human infections worldwide. ...> Full Article

Scientists Take Next Step In Understanding Potential Target For Ovarian Cancer Treatment (7/19/2007)

A traffic cop protein in the cell may have an even more important role: transporting a messenger protein that tells components in the nucleus to stop cell growth. The discovery of this additional role may lead to diagnostic tools and earlier treatments for ovarian cancer. ...> Full Article

New Use For A Cell Toxin Found To Inhibit Survival Proteins In Cancer Cells (7/19/2007)

Findings could lead to new drug to lower resistance to cancer therapies ...> Full Article

Metabolic Syndrome Not Caused By Abdominal Fat (7/19/2007)

Abdominal fat, the spare tire that many of us carry, has long been implicated as a primary suspect in causing the metabolic syndrome, a cluster of conditions that includes the most dangerous heart attack risk factors: prediabetes, diabetes, high blood pressure, and changes in cholesterol. ...> Full Article

Repeated Sessions Of Exercise Burn More Fat Than A Single, Long Session (7/19/2007)

Taking a break in the middle of your workout may metabolize more fat than exercising without stopping, according to a recent study in Japan. Researchers conducted the first known study to compare these two exercise methods-exercising continually in one long bout versus breaking up the same workout with a rest period. The findings could change the way we approach exercise. Who wouldn't want to take a breather for that? ...> Full Article

Better Sleep May Put Huntington's Disease Sufferers Back On Track (7/19/2007)

Mice carrying the genetic mutation that causes Huntington's Disease (HD) showed marked improvements in alertness and their ability to learn after they were given drugs that put them to sleep. ...> Full Article

Diet Very High In Fruit, Vegetables And Fiber And Low In Fat Does Not Appear To Reduce Risk Of Breast Cancer Recurrence (7/18/2007)

Women with early stage breast cancer who adopted a diet very high in vegetables, fruit and fiber and low in fat did not have a lower risk of breast cancer recurrence compared to women who followed a diet of five or more servings a day of fruit and vegetables (the "5-A-Day" diet), according to a study in the July 18 issue of JAMA. ...> Full Article

Scientists To Research 'Resurrection' Plants (7/18/2007)

A group of University researchers led by John Cushman, professor and director of the graduate program in biochemistry and molecular biology, recently received a competitive National Research Initiative grant from the United States Department of Agriculture. The group, including lead researchers from the University of Missouri, Columbia, was awarded $450,000 for a three-year project on resurrection plants. ...> Full Article

Tumor Painting Revolutionizes Fight Against Cancer (7/18/2007)

A tumor paint developed by researchers at Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center will help surgeons see where a tumor begins and ends more precisely by illuminating the cancerous cells. ...> Full Article

Immune System 'Escape Hatch' Gives Cancer Cells Traction (7/18/2007)

Scientists at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere say they have mapped out an escape route that cancers use to evade the body's immune system, allowing the disease to spread unchecked. ...> Full Article

Bak Protein Sets Stressed Cells On Suicide Path (7/18/2007)

When a cell is seriously stressed, say by a heart attack, stroke or cancer, a protein called Bak just may set it up for suicide, researchers have found. ...> Full Article

Cancer Center Studies New Chemo Pill for Lymphoma (7/18/2007)

Rochester Is First Site To Offer Therapy For Patients With Few Choices ...> Full Article

Killer Cells May Actually Be Picky Eaters (7/17/2007)

Biology textbooks are blunt--neutrophils are mindless killers. These white blood cells patrol the body and guard against infection by identifying and destroying any bacteria or fungi that cross their path. But new evidence, which may lead to better drugs to fight deadly pathogens, indicates that neutrophils might actually distinguish among their targets. ...> Full Article