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- Radio Frequency Ablation: Cooking Tumours With Needles
- On Stem Cell Research Advanced Cell Technology’s new stem cell…
- Police confiscate pot club owner’s marijuana: RICHMOND: Owner…
- Study finds how organs monitor themselves during early development
- Online Tool To Aid Research On Certain “Orphan Diseases”…
Radio Frequency Ablation: Cooking Tumours With Needles
Newindpress - Newindpress (subscription) - Aug 30, 2006
Radio frequency ablation(RFA) is a new minimally invasive treatment for many such cancers. What is RFA?Radio Frequency Ablation is relatively nascent treatment method that uses thermal energy that is, heat for destroying tumours. Heat has been used in medicine as long as history. Ancient Hindu medicine used heated metal bars and Greeks used heated stones to stop bleeding. Most mammalian cells do not survive temperature exceeding 42 degrees. Death begins to occur within 4-6 minutes at 50 degrees and occur more rapidly with increasing temperature. It becomes instantaneous above 60 degrees.
On Stem Cell Research Advanced Cell Technology’s new stem cell…
San Francisco Chronicle - Aug 30, 2006
Others on the religious right argue that the blastomere is a person simply because it might have the potential to become one. Imagine a cell kicking and screaming on the way to a petri dish, and you get the idea. What does the result mean for California stem-cell research? The moral hairsplitting and rickety nature of pioneering science are just two of many reasons why the publicly funded California Institute of Regenerative Medicine and private donors must not lose focus on known methods used to derive embryonic cell lines. The ACT technique must stand the test of time and be compared to other technologies and new discoveries. The only way to accomplish this goal is to fund embryonic stem cell research broadly, perfecting proven techniques as well as experiments that have the potential to produce seismic shifts in knowledge. Who knows which methods work the best for therapies? Lanza’s technique may work really, really well up until the point that we need to make a cell line for, say, diabetes, but then peter out. There is no one answer to the problems of embryonic stem-cell research.
Police confiscate pot club owner’s marijuana: RICHMOND: Owner…
Free with registration - Contra Costa Times - AccessMyLibrary.com - Aug 30, 2006
–> COPYRIGHT 2006 Contra Costa Times Byline: Tom Lochner Aug. 30–Performing what they characterized as a routine traffic stop, Richmond police Tuesday arrested a man and impounded his truck, which they said carried some 30 pounds of high-quality marijuana. The owner of Richmond’s lone openly operating medical marijuana dispensary, where the truck was headed, immediately denounced the police’s action as “harassment,” part of a “mean-spirited” effort to interfere with his business and deny patients their medicine. “It just shakes up everybody; that’s why they’re doing it,” said Ken Estes, owner of Holistic Solutions on Hilltop Mall Road, about a half-mile from the.
Study finds how organs monitor themselves during early development
innovations report - Aug 30, 2006
This work has been several years in the making and is being published on 27 August in the Advance Online issue of the journal Nature. "I think our study has indeed important implications that extend beyond understanding of how a gonad such as the ovary develops," explains Dr… This work has been several years in the making and is being published on 27 August in the Advance Online issue of the journal Nature. "I think our study has indeed important implications that extend beyond understanding of how a gonad such as the ovary develops," explains Dr. , Julius Raynes Professor of Developmental Genetics and Howard Hughes Medical Investigator.
Online Tool To Aid Research On Certain “Orphan Diseases”…
Medical News Today - Aug 30, 2006
“It was hard labor but worth it to help accelerate research and drive the development of potential drug targets and cures for these diseases,” says the project’s leader, Nicholas Katsanis, Ph. , an associate professor of molecular biology and genetics and ophthalmology at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine at Hopkins. “But what’s equally exciting is that the database should also advance the understanding of much more common diseases, because abnormal cilia are looking as if they have a role in these as well,” he adds. The new Web-based resource will be described online Aug. 29 at Nature Genetics and will be freely available to all researchers. “In recent years it’s become clear that there is a broad spectrum of human disorders - including polycystic kidney disease and left-right axis defects, for example - that share similar clinical problems and cilia malfunctions,” says Katsanis… “But what’s equally exciting is that the database should also advance the understanding of much more common diseases, because abnormal cilia are looking as if they have a role in these as well,” he adds. The new Web-based resource will be described online Aug. 29 at Nature Genetics and will be freely available to all researchers. “In recent years it’s become clear that there is a broad spectrum of human disorders - including polycystic kidney disease and left-right axis defects, for example - that share similar clinical problems and cilia malfunctions,” says Katsanis. Cilia are organelles whose main function was once thought confined to helping one-celled organisms propel themselves around. Although they had been observed in many tissues in humans and other mammals, some researchers considered them “vestigial,” an evolutionary relic from our progenitors. But a small band of investigators, including Katsanis at Hopkins, have begun to assign function to cilia in numerous cell types in the human body and speculate that “anything so highly conserved by evolution is likely critical for survival.
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