Targeting Cancer Cells with Nanoparticles
Cancer is the number two cause of death in the United States, killing over 550,000 people annually according to the American Cancer Society’s 2009 Cancer Statistics report.
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HIV vaccine regimen demonstrates modest preventive effect in Thailand clinical study
In an encouraging development, an investigational vaccine regimen has been shown to be well-tolerated and to have a modest effect in preventing HIV infection in a clinical trial involving more than 16,000 adult participants in Thailand.
You Are What You Don’t Eat
Longevity scientists and seekers have been exploring any number of routes towards increasing healthful years and, ultimately, living beyond the normal biological lifespan for humans.
Conspiracy Nation v. The Swine Flu Vaccine
The swine flu pandemic isn’t a simple situation. But it’s straightforward enough — a race to make enough vaccine to treat hundreds of millions of people before they’re sickened by a particularly virulent strain of flu virus, which is being spread worldwide thanks to a highly mobile global population.
Take The Shot
Is the so-called Novel Swine Influenza A (H1N1) a fluke? Is it about to disappear from the landscape as another ‘could have been’ red-herring danger like the bird flu that failed to materialize? The answer to these questions is definitely ‘no!’
Brain imaging and proteins in spinal fluid may improve Alzheimer’s prediction and diagnosis
Changes in the brain measured with MRI and PET scans, combined with memory tests and detection of risk proteins in body fluids, may lead to earlier and more accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, according to new research reported today at the Alzheimer’s Association 2009 International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease (ICAD 2009) in Vienna.