Biotechnology

By Amanda Gardner HealthDay Reporters by Amanda Gardner healthday -Wed, Nov 24, 11: 47 h. HITTITES WEDNESDAY, 24 November HealthDay News)--Clinicians did remarkable avances Treaty blood cancers and bone marrow and blood stem cell greffes in recent years, significantly reduced risk of complications related to the treatment and deaths, a new study shows. Between in the early 1990s and 2007, there was a year that 41 percent in global risk died in an analysis of more than 2,500 patients treated in Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, a leader in the field of blood cancers and other malignancies. Find the two Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, who conducted the study, diminue dramatic treatment side effects an organ damage. The study was published in November 24 New England Journal of medicine in '' We had made progress in enormous knowledge of this very complex process and all the results, "said Senior study author Dr. George McDonald, a gastroenterologist and Hutchinson and...

SUNDAY, December 5 HealthDay News)--June therapy use, researchers report that German géré '' correct '' a young for Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome, a rare but disability katastwofik children leads to bleeding extension of hits you have minor scrapes, and let these children susceptible to certain cancers and dangerous infection. However, one in 10 children in the study developed acute T-cell leukemia, apparently as a result of living vecteur used to young healthy: the boy is currently on chemotherapy, study author. '' This is a very interesting isn't the first, but a little afraid and we need to move to plus vecteurs, '' said Dr. Mary Ellen Conley, program director genetic Immunodeficiencies in hospital St. Jude children's research in Memphis, Tenn. "The study shows evidence-two-a set of rules, which is young and stem cells therapy in a genetic disability like that great, '' added Paul Sanberg, a specialist stem cell Director for the Unive...

SUNDAY, December 5, HealthDay News)--using a gene therapy, German researchers are managed in a "fix" a report on the failure of a gene that is responsible for the Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome, a rare but devastating childhood disorder, which leads to even very small amounts of hits or scrapes prolonged bleeding, and also to exclude those children of certain cancers and dangerous infections. However, one study, 10 children developed acute T-cell leukemia viral vector, apparently that was used to Add healthy, on account of a gene. The boy is currently the chemotherapy, research the authors note. "This is very good, first of all, but is a little bit scary and we have moved to safer and healthier the working environment, vectors," said Dr. Mary Ellen Conley, the program's Genetic Immunodeficiencies St. Jude children's Research hospital, Memphis, Tenn. the Director shall "The study shows proof of principle, such as gene therapy, genetic are in that regard with ...

MONDAY, November 29, HealthDay News)--Genetics affect the person's vitamin D levels during the winter, even if other factors have greatest impact on the results of research in the summer, the new show. Vitamin d, which is necessary to maintain the health and a strong bones is, of course, losing the body when exposed to sunlight. Most foodstuffs do not contain vitamin D, unless it is added to the distillation. Emory University researchers examined 310 identical twins and 200 when the average age of 55, the twins, the 25-hydroxyvitamin D vitamin D, the symbol of the levels of exposure to blood. Average level was sufficient, but the level was higher in the summer than in winter. The researchers said, 70% of the variation in the levels of vitamin D could be due to genetic factors in the winter. None of the variation in the summer it was, however, such as genetics, but in order to ensure that exposure to sunlight and latitude, and other lifestyle, such as the amount of vitamin D in the...