Dartmouth Medical School biochemists, working with colleagues at Weill Cornell Medical College, have identified a protein called Rab10 as an important player in the insulin-mediated uptake of glucose by cells, opening the way to potential new drug targets to treat type 2 diabetes.
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In a first of its kind study, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have developed a new technique that transports therapeutic stem cells in a multilayer microcapsule that not only protects the cells from being attacked by the body's immune system but also enables them to be seen on X-ray.
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RTI International and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech will use the world's largest cyber-infrastructure, the TeraGrid, to develop models projecting the spread of infectious disease.
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Emergency room visits related to the nonmedical use of prescription and over-the-counter drugs increased 21 percent from 2004 to 2005, according to a new survey compiled by researchers at RTI International.
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Reinforcing the need to be better prepared against global epidemics, a Dartmouth Medical School virologist calls for adding a distant relative of polioviruses that is responsible for widespread disease outbreaks in Asia and elsewhere to the list of threatening emerging infections.
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A Johns Hopkins study has proven false established medical practice that an antiretroviral drug widely used to treat hepatitis B liver infections was safe to use on its own in patients co-infected with HIV. Their findings demonstrate that treatment with entecavir leads to cross-resistance to other
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In the first genome-wide search for the genetic roots of the most common form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Johns Hopkins scientists have newly identified 34 unique variations in the human genetic code among 276 unrelated subjects with ALS.
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To improve the diagnosis and treatment of disease and speed up the development of effective drugs, RTI scientists are exploring the potential in a growing area of research known as metabolomics.
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Johns Hopkins cardiologists are calling for an expansion of the criteria widely used by physicians to detect and assess a postmenopausal woman?s chances of developing cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death among women in the United States.
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