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Bile plays a critical role in development of Barrett’s esophagus

April 25, 2012
For many people with gastroesophageal reflux disease or GERD, acid reflux drugs are the answer to their woes, curbing the chronic heartburn and regurgitation of food or sour liquid characteristic of the disorder. But when it comes to Barrett's esophagus, a condition commonly found in people with GERD, acid control ...

Fluorescent Biosensor Reveals Mechanism Critical To Immune System Amplification

April 25, 2012
Using a new fluorescent biosensor they developed, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered how a key set of immune cells exchange information during their coordinated assault on invading pathogens. The immune cells, called dendritic cells, are harnessed by cancer vaccines and other therapeutics used to amplify the immune system. ...

Carnegie Mellon fluorescent biosensor reveals mechanism critical to immune system amplification

April 23, 2012
PITTSBURGHUsing a new fluorescent biosensor they developed, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered how a key set of immune cells exchange information during their coordinated assault on invading pathogens. The immune cells, called dendritic cells, are harnessed by cancer vaccines and other therapeutics used to amplify the immune system. ...

Carnegie Mellon fluorescent biosensor reveals mechanism critical to immune system amplification

April 23, 2012
(Carnegie Mellon University) Using a new fluorescent biosensor they developed, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered how a key set of immune cells exchange information during their coordinated assault on invading pathogens. The immune cells, called dendritic cells, are harnessed by cancer vaccines and other therapeutics used to amplify ...

Safe, separate sleep environments for infants are critical to preventing SUIDs

April 20, 2012
Since 1992, the government's Back-to-Sleep Campaign has encouraged parents to place infants on their backs to sleep. Still, more than 4,500 infants die unexpectedly during sleep each year in the United States. Now, a University of Missouri injury prevention researcher says that safe, separate sleep environments for infants are critical ...

Critical Regulator Found To Tightly Control Deadly Pulmonary Fibrosis

April 12, 2012
An international team of researchers led by Georgia State University scientists have found a key component in the pathological process of pulmonary fibrosis, a fatal disease for which there is currently no cure. The scientists found that a key human gene, CLYD, serves as a crucial negative regulator in the ...

Participation of big pharma companies critical to success of drug patent pools

April 12, 2012
In this post in the Huffington Post's "Impact" blog, David de Ferranti, president of the Results for Development Institute, and Robert Hecht, managing director at the Institute, examine whether patent pools could help increase access to AIDS drugs among the world's poor, writing, AIDS program managers and advocates must pursue ...

Critical Genes Mutated In Stomach Cancer Identified

April 11, 2012
An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School (Duke-NUS) in Singapore and National Cancer Centre of Singapore, has identified hundreds of novel genes that are mutated in stomach cancer, the second-most lethal cancer worldwide. The study, which appears online in Nature Genetics, paves the ...

Mothers tend to be more critical of children with obsessive-compulsive disorder

April 11, 2012
A new study from Case Western Reserve University finds mothers tend to be more critical of children with obsessive-compulsive disorder than they are of other children in the family. And, that parental criticism is linked to poorer outcomes for the child after treatment.

Researchers find critical regulator to tightly control deadly pulmonary fibrosis

April 10, 2012
ATLANTA An international team of researchers led by Georgia State University scientists have found a key component in the pathological process of pulmonary fibrosis, a fatal disease for which there is currently no cure. The scientists found that a key human gene, CLYD, serves as a ...

Researchers find critical regulator to tightly control deadly pulmonary fibrosis

April 10, 2012
(Georgia State University) An international team of researchers led by Georgia State University scientists have found a key component in the pathological process of pulmonary fibrosis, a fatal disease for which there is currently no cure.

Experts identify critical genes mutated in stomach cancer

April 8, 2012
(Duke University Medical Center) An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School (Duke-NUS) in Singapore and National Cancer Center of Singapore, has identified hundreds of novel genes that are mutated in stomach cancer, the second-most lethal cancer worldwide.