Word: miceli
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...fungi, on contact, while leaving our multicelled tissues intact. (Blood cells would be fair game for the destructive emulsion, however, so the solution could not be injected into the body.) In animal studies, says Dr. James Baker, the company's chairman of the board, the spray protected 90% of mice from a lethal dose of influenza. The company is also testing a combination of the traditional flu vaccine with the emulsion, which, says Baker, provides a 50-times-greater immune response than the vaccine alone, even if using only one-sixth the usual vaccine dose. This technique is still...
...We’ve been working on this test for two years now, and results from testing on laboratory mice have been very encouraging,” said Pichumani Balagurumoorthy, a research fellow in Kassis’ lab. While testing with human subjects has only just begun, Balagurumoorthy said, the first few of such tests have corroborated earlier findings...
Tests so far have had a 100 percent rate of success; Kassis said that while both human and mice testing had proven unerring in detecting the right kind of cancer, early-detection has yet to be tested in humans...
...brown fat to burn a significant number of calories,” said Kahn, who is also head of obesity and hormone action research at Harvard-affiliated Joslin Diabetes Center. Previously, other researchers had unsuccessfully looked for brown fat between the shoulder blades, where it is located in mice and in human babies, leading to the conclusion that brown fat disappeared as people age. It was widely believed to only remain in “extraordinary circumstances,” such as living in extreme Northern climates or having a tumor in one’s adrenal glands, according...
...researchers used rodent models with three different kinds of glioblastoma and placed a window in the animals’ cranium so they could observe the brain tumor—which they labeled with a fluorescent reporter—while the animals were still alive. They found that the mice treated with the drug survived longer compared to controls given only saline, which mimicked what occurred in the clinical trial, said Rakesh K. Jain, director of the Steele Laboratory in the MGH Department of Radiation Oncology and a professor of oncology at Harvard Medical School. Yet surprisingly, the drug...