10-09-19 The lab of Kevin Foskett, PhD, the Isaac Ott Professor of Physiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, has found a possible new target for fighting cystic fibrosis ( CF囊胞性纤维症 ) that could compensate for the lack of a functi...
10-09-09 In what could be a step toward higher efficiency solar cells, an international team including University of Michigan professors has invalidated(使无效) the most commonly used model to explain the behavior of a unique class of materials called high...
10-09-06 Selfish bacterial cells that act in their own interests and do not cooperate with their infection-causing colleagues can actually reduce the severity of infection. The selfish behaviour of these uncooperative bacteria could be exploited to treat ant...
10-09-03 Scientists say they are closer to knowing why older women are more likely to produce abnormal eggs. 科学家称他们已进一步了解为何高龄妇女更有可能排出不正常的卵细胞。 The protein is a key factor in the ovulation process The Newcastle University team s...
10-09-01 For the first time, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have identified and isolated adult mammary(乳腺的) stem cells in mice. Long-term implications of this research may include the use of such cells to regenerate breast tissue,...
10-08-24 Researchers at Johns Hopkins have shown that using specific drugs can protect nerve cells in mice from the lethal(致命的) effects of Parkinson's disease. The researchers' findings are published in the August 22 issue of Nature Medicine. The newly...
10-08-24 Chemotherapy(化学疗法) , while an effective cancer treatment, also brings debilitating(使衰弱的) side effects such as nausea(恶心,晕船) , liver toxicity and a battered(破旧的) immune system. Now, a new way to deliver this life-saving therap...
10-08-20 The first successful report of using cell-depleted lung as a natural growth matrix(矩阵,模型) for generating new rat lung from embryonic stem cells is presented in a breakthrough article in Tissue Engineering, Part A, a peer-reviewed journal publ...
10-08-19 A combination of Chinese herbs(药草) in use for more than 1,800 years reduced the gastrointestinal(胃肠的) side effects of chemotherapy(化学疗法) in mice, while actually enhancing the effects of the cancer treatment, Yale University researcher...
10-08-19 Following up a pioneering 2007 proof-of-concept study, a University of Utah biochemist(生物化学家) and colleagues have developed a promising new anti-HIV drug candidate, PIE12-trimer, that prevents HIV from attacking human cells. Michael S. Kay, M...