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Celiac success: New enzyme efficiently degrades gluten in 'human stomach' environment
12.7.2006 | Press monitoring
End of the gluten-free diet in sight? A new enzyme originally developed for commercial food processing turns out to also quickly and nearly-completely break down whole gluten molecules as well as the T cell stimulatory peptides that cause celiac disease, a digestive disease with no current effective treatment other than avoiding wheat, barley...
Stem-cell therapies for blood diseases
12.7.2006 | Press monitoring
For decades, transplantation of haematopoietic stem cells — either unmodified, or genetically modified to correct genetic disorders — has been used to treat disorders of the blood and immune systems. The present challenge is to reduce the risk of such transplants and increase the number of patients who can safely access this treatment. In...
Europe faces delays in seasonal flu vaccine supplies
12.7.2006 | Press monitoring
LONDON (Reuters) - European countries are facing delays and possible shortages in supplies of seasonal influenza vaccine because of problems growing a strain of virus, a British health official said on Thursday.
Presymptomatic Detection of Prions in Blood
11.7.2006 | Press monitoring
In the July 7, 2006, issue of the journal Science, researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) describe experiments that may soon lead to a test that will enable medical science to estimate how many people are infected with the human form of mad cow disease, which can take as long as 40 years before manifesting...
New Medicine for AIDS Is One Pill, Once a Day
11.7.2006 | Press monitoring
The first complete treatment for AIDS that is taken once a day as a single pill is expected to be available soon.
Infrared spectroscopy gets down to nanoscale
11.7.2006 | Press monitoring
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry have used scattering near-field microscopy (s-SNOM) to determine infrared spectra of nanoparticles and viruses. The technique has a resolution of around 30 nm and could become a powerful tool for chemical and protein secondary structure identification.
Senate sees progress toward July stem cell vote
11.7.2006 | Press monitoring
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly a year after Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist made his surprise endorsement of a bill to allow federally backed stem cell research, he has whittled down many obstacles to Senate passage, senators and aides said on Thursday.
DNA repair in mammal embryos is a matter of timing
11.7.2006 | Press monitoring
Hints to origin of many cancers is revealed as St. Jude finds that the two pathways used to repair chromosome breaks are active at different times in cell development
Bird flu vaccine breakthrough
10.7.2006 | Press monitoring
The most effective vaccine developed so far to combat the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been unveiled.
Coat arms alloy
10.7.2006 | Press monitoring
Coating an alloy with a biocompatible material is a key step in making implants, such as replacement hip joints, that sit comfortably with the patient's skeleton and undergo osseointegration. A relatively new technique known as surface sol-gel processing (SSP), which is related to the well-known bulk sol-gel technique, can be used to prepare...
