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Roche NimbleGen launches microarrays for analysis of DNA copy number variation
Published November 20, 2008, 2:48 pm, News-Medical-Net
Roche NimbleGen, Inc. has launched NimbleGen Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) microarrays in a 12x135K format for analysis of DNA copy number variation.
New technique eliminates toxic drugs in islet transplant in diabetic mice
Published November 20, 2008, 11:18 am, PhysOrg
The body's immune system hates strangers. When its security patrol spots a foreign cell, it annihilates it.
Vitamin E may not avert rheumatoid arthritis
Published November 20, 2008, 10:24 am, MSNBC
Taking vitamin E supplements does not reduce a woman's risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an analysis of data from the Women's Health Study indicates.
The Reality of Mysterious Medical Maladies
Published November 20, 2008, 9:48 am, LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News
A recent governmental panel composed of scientists and veterans concluded that Gulf War Syndrome is real, the symptoms likely caused by neurotoxins that veterans were exposed to during the war.
Steering Diabetes Patients Through the Sweetest Season
Published November 20, 2008, 9:26 am, Newswise
November not only ushers in American Diabetes Month - it's also the unofficial start of the holiday season. Between now and New Year's, people with diabetes must navigate a tempting course of sugar-centric festivities, maintaining a delicate nutritional balance against all odds. One Rochester endocrinologist is showing them how.
Researcher tricks immune system in diabetic mice
Published November 20, 2008, 9:01 am, EurekAlert!
( Northwestern University ) Islet cell transplantation is a promising therapy for people with type 1 diabetes, but it requires a regime of powerful immunosuppressive drugs so the immune system won't reject the insulin-producing islets. The drugs raise the risk of infections and cancer and are toxic to the islets themselves. Northwestern researchers have developed a new technique that eliminated ...
Overshadowed, kidney disease takes a growing toll
Published November 20, 2008, 8:16 am, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In February 2005, Rita Miller, a party organizer in Chesapeake, Va., felt exhausted from what she thought was the flu. She was stunned to learn that persistent high blood pressure had caused such severe kidney damage that her body could no longer filter waste products from her blood. "The doctor walked over to my bed and said, 'You have kidney failure — your kidneys are like dried-up peas,'" ...
Coping with Lyme disease
Published November 20, 2008, 6:07 am, Foxboro Reporter
Three generations of a Jack Tobichuk's Foxboro family have been stricken with Lyme disease. And Foxboro police office Doug Miller is quietly suffering with late-stage Lyme.
Open-source Analysis Tool enables Rapid Annotation of Metagenomes
Published November 20, 2008, 5:00 am, Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
BRANFORD, Conn.----The study of microbial communities from environmental samples, known as metagenomics, has been propelled forward by technological advancements in high-throughput, low-cost sequencing such as 454’s Genome Sequencer FLX System.
Idera Pharmaceuticals and Merck & Co., Inc. Extend Research Collaboration for Agonists of Toll-like Receptors
Published November 20, 2008, 4:30 am, Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.----Idera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that Merck & Co., Inc. has extended its research collaboration with Idera for an additional year. The Company and Merck entered into an exclusive license and research collaboration agreement to research, develop and commercialize vaccine products containing the Company’s investigational agonist compounds targeting Toll-like ...
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