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How Gut Bacteria Impact On Your Appetites?
GI bacteria play a role in affecting host’s appetites In organism body, it is well known that beneficial bacteria are an essential part, so as the normal gastrointestinal (GI) bacteria. While these bacteria play other roles too, recently Vic Norris of the University of Rouen, France, and
A New Feature of Cell Division: the Interactions among Chromosome, Telomere and Cell Division
The yellow part refers to telomeres, the protective caps on the ends of chromosomes, moving to the outer edge of a cell's nucleus (the blue part) The constant new replacing old and impaired contributes to our life maintenance and growth. You may feel at sea by reading the first sentence, well,
Orientation of Antibody with Localized Infection and Systemic Infection
According to a study published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine on December 10th, the orientation of antibody binding to bacteria might decide the life or death to the bug. The new study is led by Pontus Nordenfelt of Harvard University and his colleagues at Lund University in Sweden. These
Science: Partial Mechanism of Host Recognizing Bacteria
Our innate immunity system is quite clever: certain structures, characteristic of many microorganisms that are recognized via toll-like receptors (TLR) and TLR trigger the necessary inflammatory response. However, the receptor system is so sensitive that this situation in turn can be dangerous too:
The New Pre-clinical Date of ALN-TMP, an RNAi Therapeutic of Alnylam was Made Public
Recently in the 54th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting that being held from Dec. 8 to 11, 2012 in Atlanta, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals presented its new pre-clinical data from its RNAi therapeutic program for the treatment of hemoglobinopathies. Its scientists presented related data and
Patients with Digestive Diseases Gain Hope for Selective Therapies by Targeting Specific Neurotransmitter
Recently, Penn State College of Medicine researchers did some studies regarding neuroscience. They found separate nerve pathways regulate diverse organ functions along the upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract, which is different from what researchers found in past studies. The lead investigator of
Nature Method: How to Effectively and Safely Produce Stem Cell
Stem cells are biological cells found in all multicellular organisms, that can divide through mitosis and differentiate into diverse specialized cell types or can self renew to produce more stem cells. In mammals, there are two broad types of stem cells: embryonic stem cells (ESCs) that are
Turning the Fiction Biotechnology into Reality: Advances in Bio-industry Field
We would find lot of amazing concepts or ideas in many well composed fictions or movies. Such as being invisible, fly only with a backpack device, transfer to another place in virtue of molecules shifting etc. and each people are standing on different perspectives to think the corresponding gains.
Two proteins, ATG12 and ATG5 Might Help People Developing Innovative Cancer Therapies
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found two key subunits within a cell that helps maintaining cell health. They identified how the two proteins help create organelles. Their discoveries make people think about interfering with the formation of these organelles and lead to new
NK Cells & Brain Tumors: Immune cells attack Therapeutic Viruses
We have natural guard system inside us, such as our immune system, which on one hand protect us, while on other hand hinder us too according to a research of Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center. Their findings were published in the journal of Nature Medicine. They did some researches
A New Nanotechnology Brings Hope for MS and Other Immune-related Diseases
Multiple sclerosis (MS), a nervous system disease, affects brain and spinal cord. It damages the myelin sheath. This damage slows down or blocks messages between brain and body, leading to the symptoms of MS. Patients suffering from MS deal with everything from numb limbs to blindness or
Nature: Fighting Alzheimer's Disease from the Perspective of Immune Transmitter
Nov. is the national Alzheimer’s disease (AD) Awareness Month for America. And it widely affects old people around the world. It is one of the common forms of dementia. According to some statistics, every seven second, there will be one people suffer AD. In Germany and Switzerland alone,
PLoS ONE: UCP2 Protein Is Important for Natural Born Babies Regarding to Their Subsequent Development
On the PLoS ONE, a finding regarding the impact of mitochondrial uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2) on vaginal birth and caesarean section was published. This research was conducted by a team of Yale School of Medicine, mainly led by Tamas Horvath, the Jean and David W. Wallace Professor of Biomedical
The New Found Genetic Factor-KLF4-is Vital for Cardiovascular Health
On Nov. 19 on the Journal of Clinical Investigation, a new finding regarding cardiovascular diseases, such as atherosclerosis, thrombosis and heart disease and one of its genetic roots has been found. These researchers came from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the study was
Diagnose Parkinson's disease in Two Minutes
Every year in the United States, there are 50,000 newly diagnosed Parkinson's disease. It is a neurological disorder. When nerve cells in brain stop generating dopamine, the Parkinson's disease will occur as the dopamine helps control muscle movement. Without dopamine, the nerve cells cannot
Can Diabetes Drug be used to treat Brain Cancer?
Metformin Vs Glioblastoma On Nov. 15, a research finding was published on the STEM CELLS Translational Medicine. It suggests a new treatment path for glioblastoma, a highly aggressive, deadly malignancy with very short median survival period after diagnosis. They found a protein that stops
Rescue Me from the Peanut Allergy by Inhibiting Pim 1 and Runx3?
In the newly 2012 Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Erwin Gelfand, MD, and his colleagues at National Jewish Health reported that levels of the enzyme Pim 1 kinase rise in the small intestines of peanut-allergic mice and inhibiting activity of Pim 1 markedly reduced the allergic
Researchers Found a Genetic Reason of Anemia-Atpifl
Loss of Atpifl gene might cause anemia Anemia can affect people of all ages. It is a condition in which people’s blood has a lower number of red blood cells or hemoglobin levels than normal. Women of childbearing age and older adults are at higher risk. Babies and children are also at risk
New Monoclonal Antibody Shows Robust Efficacy onMany Advanced Solid Tumors
A Research in Its First Phase I Clinical Trial in Humans Have Demonstrated Its Encouraging Effect on Many Advanced Tumor Patients Recently a new research results were reported at the24th EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics in Dublin, Ireland on Nov. 7. It was
Inhibition of Enzyme NOX4 Prevents Liver Fibrosis than TGF-beta
Liver fibrosis is an illness caused by the overproduction of extracellular matrix proteins in the liver tissue. NOX4, a family member of NADPH oxidase enzyme,plays an important role in liver fibrosis by inhibiting it. TGF-beta, a complex cytokine, the transforming growth factor-beta, involves in
CardiovascularDisease & Softening Arteries
Softening Arteries and Protecting the Heart: the correlation between Cholesterol and Atherosclerosis Collagen production (stained red) in aortic smooth muscle cells. The cell nuclei are stained blue. (Credit: Richard K. Assoian, PhD) One of the main risk factors for cardiovascular disease is
Glybera became the first one that gets gene therapy approval
The first gene therapy for rare disease gets approval by European Commission This is an important news about gene therapy. After years of development and repeated rejections, uniQure finally got permission to market its gene therapy—Glybera. Glybera was designed for certain patients with
An Approved Malarial Drug is Promising for Preventing and Stopping Breast Cancer
Explore New Aspects from Old Items—Chloroquine During a clinical trial, researchers of Mason Center unexpectedly found a malarial drug—Chloroquine can stop the precursor cells of breast cancer, which brings hope and new thoughts for patients and doctors. Thus they launch a PINC
In Face of Pancreatic Cancer
Gene Database Associated with Pancreatic Cancer for Your Reference Whenever talk about pancreatic cancer, people would feel scared. In China, pancreatic cancer is called as the king of all cancers due to its poor prognosis and short survival time. In developed countries, it is also a very
Regain Our Youth/Rejuvenate?
Talk about the 2012 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine Many scientific breakthroughs are not predictable. But there are some must factors behind the seemingly arbitrary work. John Bertrand Gurdon, born in Oct. 2, 1933 in England, is an English developmental biologist, won the 2012 Nobel
