Article Date: 20 Nov 2009 - 1:00 PST Inovio Biomedical Corporation (NYSE Amex: INO), a leader in DNA vaccine design, development and delivery, announced that the company's SynCon™ Chikungunya virus DNA vaccine induced protective...

In this article: Chikungunya, Human papillomavirus, Antibody, Medical advice, Influenza, Amino acid, HIV, and University of Pennsylvania

...needed for blood tests. To do that, they need detailed information on how normal aging affects these proteins. The scientists analyzed saliva proteins in healthy women aged 20-30 and 55-65. They identified 293 proteins differed between...

In this article: Proteins and Sjogrens syndrome

...cell proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis. Mutated KRAS is permanently activated and hinders anti-EGFR therapies based on monoclonal antibodies ( cetuximab and panitumumab ) or tyrosine kinase inhibitors ( erlotinib and gefitinib ). As...

In this article: KRAS, FMR1, University of California, Davis, California, Amplification, Trademark, Gefitinib, Erlotinib, and Mental retardation

...the prize with Ramakrishnan, focuses on protein -making ribosomes, which he said "are the fundamental molecules in the cell." Proteins , he said, help eyes to detect light, put oxygen into blood, develop antibodies to protect against...

In this article: Nobel Prize, Utah, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, E mail, Oxygen, Antibiotic, and Proteins

...for both men and women last year. There were 6,000 women in the study who had raised levels of a substance called C-reactive protein , a sign of inflammation , which some experts believe is an indicator of silent heart disease, but they...

In this article: Cholesterol, Statin, Rosuvastatin, Inflammation, Cardiovascular disease, C-reactive protein, Royal College of General Practitioners, and Orlando, Florida

...fused to more than ten different protein payloads with sizes ranging from small peptides such as exenatide to larger proteins such as growth hormone and Factor VII. Depending on the length of the attached XTEN sequence, data have...

In this article: Peptide, Nature Biotechnology, Growth hormone, Exenatide, Medical advice, Growth hormone deficiency, and Factor VII

...the way insulin is released because if you have a lot of carbohydrates in the diet, you tend to generate a lot of insulin , and insulin is the hormone that lowers blood sugar," Bove explained. "In addition to lowering blood sugar, it also...

In this article: Cholesterol, Metabolic syndrome, Carbohydrate, Insulin, and Saturated fat

...( Hemoglobin A1c ) results." Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body loses its ability to use insulin to convert food to fuel. Hemoglobin A1c , or HbA1c , is a measure of the level of glucose in the blood over a period of time. Naturlose...

In this article: HbA1c, Insulin, Glucose, Asia, Europe, Type 2 diabetes, and Nasdaq

Article Date: 16 Nov 2009 - 0:00 PST Couples who bring thoughtful words to a fight release lower amounts of stress-related proteins , suggesting that rational communication between partners can ease the impact of marital conflict on the...

In this article: Tnf-alpha, Medical advice, Cardiovascular disease, Cancer, Arthritis, Interleukin-6, Eastern Illinois University, University of Texas at Austin, and Penn State

...a good side, making arteries healthier, a new study suggests. The study, performed in mice, also found that when this gene, called BRCA1 , is turned off, it promotes an inflammation that can lead to atherosclerosis or hardening of the...

In this article: Brca1, Breast cancer, Inflammation, Cancer, School of Public Health, Surgery, University of Toronto, and University of Minnesota

...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 partners can ease the impact of marital...

In this article: Tnf-alpha, Penn State, Cardiovascular disease, Cancer, Arthritis, and Interleukin-6

...that can make it possible to treat a form of colon cancer. The results concern a group of signal proteins called EphB receptors. These proteins stimulate the division of stem cells in the intestine and can contribute to the formation...

In this article: Cancer, Imatinib, Adenoma, Protein, Medical advice, and Polyp

Washington , Nov 14 : 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...

In this article: Tnf-alpha, Penn State University, Cardiovascular disease, Cancer, Arthritis, Interleukin-6, and Washington

... proteins at higher yield and purity. The HaloTag Protein Purification System consistently delivers soluble protein and outperforms the most commonly used protein tags like His6Tag, GST, and MBP. Beta testers credited the HaloTag Protein...

In this article: Proteins, E. coli, Madison, WI, Wisconsin, and USA

...10 tissue samples of healthy liver from volunteers, they identified 6,788 non-redundant proteins in the liver samples, the largest group of proteins ever identified by scientists in any human organ. Half of the proteins have never been seen...

In this article: Hepatitis, Proteins, China, Medical advice, Carbohydrate, Cancer, and Hormone

...over time, leading to a destabilization of the mitochondria, which leads to release of certain proteins. "Within the mitochondria these proteins cause life, but when they're out they're deadly," professor Christiaan Leeuwenburgh , Ph.

In this article: University of Florida, University of Wisconsin, Proteins, Medical advice, Oxygen, and Vertigo

...to the lymph nodes. The researchers found that the cancer is more than two times more likely to recur in HER2 -positive women than in women with HER2 -negative breast cancers. The U.S. study, which looked at 965 women diagnosed between 1990...

In this article: HER2, Cancer, Trastuzumab, Breast cancer, United States, Journal of Clinical Oncology, American Society of Clinical Oncology, and Italy

...(substance secreted by immune system cells) that regulates the body's immune system and is involved in inflammation. TNF inhibitors (or TNF blockers) are a class of therapies used to reduce inflammation in chronic inflammation such as RA.

In this article: Cancer, Inflammation, Rheumatoid arthritis, Arthritis, World Health Organization, Medical advice, Methotrexate, Autoimmune disease, and Adalimumab