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Alzheimer Symptoms Reversed With Stem Cells

A new stem cell treatment reverses Alzheimer-like memory impairment in mice, according to researchers at the University of South Florida and James A. Haley Hospital. Based on the promising findings, the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation is funding a pilot clinical trial on humans.

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Alzheimer's Gene is Neutralized in Human Brain Cells for the First Time

Instead of experimenting on mice, researchers went straight to testing on human cells – and their studies have been proven successful in halting Alzheimer's in its tracks.

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Vitamin D May Be Used to Treat Heart Failure

Vitamin D may be useful in slowing the progression of heart failure.

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Hopes Raised for Block on Cancer

Scientists say they have taken a big step towards blocking a chemical vital to the growth of many cancers, an enzyme which, when active, helps keep cells in an "immortal" state. The chemical is at work in more than nine out of ten types of tumour. (Read details of the latest report from journal Nature […]

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Habanero Peppers Wilt Cancer Cells

Capsaicin, the compound that makes you sweat and your tounge burn after eating habanero peppers, is responsible for inducing the death of prostate cancer cells.

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First Hints That Stem Cells Can Help Patients Get Better

Two women losing their sight to progressive forms of blindness may have regained some vision while participating in an experiment testing a treatment made from human embryonic stem cells, the first time researchers directly helped patients with these types of stem cells.

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Scientists Retrain An Immune System to Kill Cancer, Leukemia is Now Gone

A year ago, when chemotherapy stopped working against his leukemia and he had nothing to lose, William Ludwig signed up to be the first patient treated in a bold experiment. Doctors removed a billion of his T-cells and re-engineered them before reinsertion. A few weeks later, his leukemia was gone.

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Blood Cells "Retrained" to Destroy Cancer, Lead Again to Full Remission

Scientists took patients with a virtually incurable disease into complete remission by training their blood cells to fight the stubborn cancer.