Archive for October, 2008

The solution to diabetes could be through a stem cell transplant

Friday, October 17th, 2008

A bit of controversy arising between politicians and church where researchers study and work in relation to stem cells and genetics, it is obvious that this kind of work gives its results as if the success of transplantation cells from umbilical cord blood of a newborn baby to her brother who had problems.

Another discovery that would allow stem cell research and would be close to the investigators would be the cure for diabetes, as everything starts up because these patients lack the cells that are responsible for synthesizing and secrete insulin, which is responsible control that we all have the blood glucose levels correct.

So researchers at the American University of Harvard have discovered a compound that would be capable of producing so-called beta cells with the gene necessary to produce insulin, and by transplantation of these cells would diabetic patients as their disease might be in oblivion.

DyNeMo: Test for personalized treatment of breast cancer, predicting the success of recovery

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Based on an analysis of proteins through both of the women who have survived a cancer of the breast and eventually died, the Canadian researchers at the University of Toronto have seen them in the organization of the tumor cells is different, a fact that has led them to develop a test called Dynemo associated with this type of cancer.

So Dynemo that this tool has been tested on 350 patients and is due to receive financial support from one laboratory to the market can be a breakthrough for this type of cancer as it would know the options that women have sick , to reach finally recovered with a 80% reliability.

Another of the applications that researchers have found apart from the above and would fight more effectively against breast cancer can save more lives, as this would allow for a test and a personalized treatment for each patient about which drugs are more convenient to use or if they need the use of chemotherapy … ..