Friday, September 25, 2009

Sugar-Coating Medicine With Therapeutic Nanoparticles

Sugar-Coating Medicine With Therapeutic Nanoparticles
(NIST) studying sugar-coated nanoparticles for use as a possible cancer therapy has uncovered a delicate balancing act that makes the particles more effective than conventional thinking says they should be. Just like individuals in a crowd respecting other people's personal space, the particles work because they get close together, but not too close.

Historic Gene Therapy Trial To Treat Alzheimer's Disease Underway At Georgetown

Researchers in the Memory Disorders Program at Georgetown University Medical Center are now recruiting volunteers for a national gene therapy trial - the first study of its kind for the treatment of patients with dementia due to Alzheimer's disease. The phase II study examines the safety and possible benefits of CERE-110. CERE-110 contains a gene and is injected during surgery into a part of the brain affected by Alzheimer's disease. Continue reading ...