White Button Mushrooms Enhance Critical Cells In Immune SystemMushrooms are among the many foods thought to play an important role in keeping the immune system healthy. Now, Agricultural Research Service (ARS)-funded scientists have conducted an animal-model and cell-culture study showing that white button mushrooms enhanced the activity of critical cells in the body's immune system...
Treating Multiple Sclerosis With Antihypertensive DrugResearchers in Heidelberg and Stanford have discovered a new signalling pathway of brain cells that explains how widely used antihypertensive drugs could keep inflammation in multiple sclerosis (MS) in check. The peptide angiotensin not only raises blood pressure but also activates the immunological messenger substance TGF beta on a previously unknown communication pathway in the brain...
Research On Enzyme For Activating Promising Disease-Fighters Co-Authored By Middle School StudentsGrown-ups aren't the only ones making exciting scientific discoveries these days. Two middle school students from Wisconsin joined a team of scientists who are reporting the first glimpse of the innermost structure of a key bacterial enzyme. It helps activate certain antibiotics and anti-cancer agents so that those substances do their job. Their study appears in ACS' weekly journal Biochemistry...
Nutra Pharma Receives Patent For Novel Antiviral Treatment Using Modified Cobra VenomNutra Pharma Corporation (OTCBB: NPHC), a biotechnology company that is developing treatments for Adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN), Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Pain, announced that it has received approval from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for its patent describing a method of treating and preventing infectious diseases, i...
Antigenics Presents Positive, Top Line Data From Phase I Herpes Clinical TrialAntigenics (NASDAQ: AGEN) announced positive results with AG-707, an investigational therapeutic vaccine being developed to treat herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2), the virus that causes genital herpes, in infected patients. Developed by Antigenics, the vaccine triggers a cellular immune response, stimulating both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells...
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publishes Findings By Viral Genetics' Lead ScientistResearch co-authored by Viral Genetics, Inc., (Pink Sheets: VRAL) lead scientist Dr. M. Karen Newell has been published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Leukocyte Biology (JLB). Newell's article identifies a potential mechanism that promotes chronic inflammation, a characteristic of most autoimmune diseases. Viral Genetics has been pursing treatments for Lyme Disease and HIV/AIDS...
Canadian Researchers Testing Unique Vaccines For Prion Diseases And Common CancersSeveral Canadian researchers have come together to help control the relentless spread of a prion disease, chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer and elk, through vaccines. At the same time they aim to generate safe and effective therapies for common cancers. This simultaneous research is possible thanks to a unique connection they have discovered between the two unrelated diseases...
News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation: July 26, 2010CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: Flushing out key limitations to a drug that protects against heart attack The drug niacin is used to modulate fat levels in the blood and thereby reduce the risk of a heart attack. However, noxious effects on the skin that have been termed 'flushing' limit its use in the clinic...
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