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Friday Science Review: April 30, 2010

Maybe these primary research projects will lead to the next great “Dendreon” story… Mirror-rorriM Movement Disorder: Defects in the proper connections between the left and right sides of the brain can lead to involuntary movements where one side of the body follows or mirrors the movement of the other side.  A study of two families [...]

Friday Science Review: April 9, 2010

New fixes for diabetes, HIV, and nerve damage… Nano-Vaccine Cures Diabetes: To prevent the immune system from attacking pancreatic cells in Type 1 diabetes, a nanotechnology based “vaccine” was used successfully to stop the disease in mice.  The strategy involves nanoparticles that are coated with diabetes specific peptides and bound to MHC molecules. When injected [...]

Friday Science Review: December 11, 2009

WOW!  A busy week in the bioscience world… Pull Down Your ‘SOCS’ and Grow Some Nerves: A long standing question is how to get mature neurons, which stop growing at around the age of two, to start growing again after sustaining nerve damage.  The answer may lie in a protein called SOCS3 (suppressor of cytokine [...]

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