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Vitamin D Supplements Could Fight Crohn's Disease

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Created: 27 January 2010

A new study has found that Vitamin D, readily available in supplements or cod liver oil, can counter the effects of Crohn’s disease. John White, an endocrinologist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, led a team of scientists from McGill University and the Université de Montréal who present their findings about the inflammatory bowel disease in the latest Journal of Biological Chemistry.

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New sensor could help treat, combat diabetes, other diseases

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Created: 21 January 2010

A tiny new sensor could provide fresh, inexpensive diagnosis and treatment methods for people suffering from a variety of diseases.

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New insight in nerve cell communication

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Created: 03 January 2010

 

New nano research gives important insights in nerve cell communication that will help the fight against nerve pain following amputation and diabetes. Researchers from the Nano-Science Center and the Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology have with nanotechnology techniques studied the way proteins recognize the small membrane vesicles that transmit signalling molecules from one nerve cell to another. The research has been published in the journal EMBO Journal.

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One Step Closer to Closure: Neuroscientists Discover Key to Spinal Cord Defects

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Created: 29 December 2009

Spinal cord disorders like spina bifida arise during early development when future spinal cord cells growing in a flat layer fail to roll up into a tube. In the Dec. 6 issue of Nature Cell Biology, researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine team with colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley to report a never-before known link between protein transport and mouse spinal cord development, a discovery that opens new doors for research on all spinal defects.

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Pomegranates: the latest weapon in the fight against MRSA

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Created: 24 December 2009

 

Pomegranates have already been hailed as a super-food but a team of scientists from Kingston University in South West London has found a new use for the deep red fruit. The team, led by Professor Declan Naughton, has discovered that the rind can be turned into an ointment for treating MRSA and other common hospital infections.

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  1. New, virulent strain of MRSA poses renewed antibiotic resistance concerns
  2. Tiny molecule slows progression of Lou Gehrig's disease in mice, researchers find
  3. Drug kills cells through novel mechanism
  4. Effort to Regenerate Damaged Spinal Cords Turns to New Model: Mexican Axolotl Salamander

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