Blood Weekly articles from September 2000

Blood Weekly archives from September 2000

Premature Depletion of Factor XIII May be Cardioprotective.
September 7, 2000... 2000 SEP 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- The premature depletion of the factor XIII activation peptide segment has cardioprotective effects, a new study has found. "In the blood coagulation cascade, thrombin cleaves fibrinopeptides A and B from...

Emerging Tick-Transmitted Disease Reviewed.
September 7, 2000... 2000 SEP 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- A report in a recent issue of Clinical Microbiology Reviews discussed babesiosis, a parasitic infection of the blood. "Babesiosis is an emerging, tick-transmitted zoonotic disease caused by hematotropic...

Study Provides Insight into MARstem Mechanism.
September 7, 2000... 2000 SEP 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- Southern California researchers have published the first direct evidence that Angiotensin II (AII), a natural peptide hormone, acts upon early progenitor cells to stimulate blood cell growth, or hematopoiesis....

Aerosol Hits Target in Lung Transplant Patients.
September 7, 2000... 2000 SEP 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- An aerosol spray that delivers the anti-rejection drug cyclosporine directly to transplanted lungs appears to target an important biological process that other immunosuppressant drugs, including oral...

Extracorporeal Photochemotherapy Successfully Treats GVHD.
September 7, 2000... 2000 SEP 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in Italy used extracorporeal photochemotherapy (ECP) to successfully treat graft-vs-host disease (GVHD) in two bone marrow transplant patients. "We report our experience concerning two cases of...

Irradiating Donor Organ Reduces Rejection.
September 7, 2000... 2000 SEP 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- Challenged by higher rates of rejection than seen with other types of transplants, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have devised a strategy that has resulted in not one episode of rejection among its...

Experts Share Data to Improve Future of Transplantation.
September 7, 2000... 2000 SEP 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- Experts met at the First Congress of the International Pediatric Transplant Association (IPTA), held in Venice, Italy, during August 2000, to discuss the unique and complex issues surrounding pediatric...

Pseudothrombocytopenia in Abciximab Therapy Examined.
September 7, 2000... 2000 SEP 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in the United States suggest that the onset of pseudothrombocytopenia as a result of Abciximab therapy should not discourage clinicians from continuing therapy. "This study determined the...

Polymers Developed with Nitric-Oxide-Releasing Particles for Use in Biomedical Devices.
September 7, 2000... 2000 SEP 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- University of Michigan analytical chemists have developed polymers containing tiny silica particles that release low levels of nitric oxide gas. The U-M polymers are designed to mimic human endothelial...

New Device Measures Blood Viscosity.
September 7, 2000... 2000 SEP 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- Pharmaceutical and medical researchers will soon be able to measure for the first time the viscosity or thickness of unadulterated human blood with accuracy and ease, using a new device - a viscometer -...

Development of New Reagents to Test for HCV Could be Beneficial to Blood Banks.
September 7, 2000... 2000 SEP 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- Blood donors in Egypt are reportedly infected with hepatitis C virus at a rate of 24%. Scientists in Egypt report that this relatively high rate may be due to cross-reactivity occurring in the assays used to...

Ganciclovir-Resistant CMV a Risk for Transplant Patients.
September 7, 2000... 2000 SEP 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- Ganciclovir-resistant cytomegalovirus (CMV) is an important cause of illness among certain types of transplant recipients who have had prolonged exposure to ganciclovir, the main drug used for preventing and...

Virus DNA Detected in Transplanted Patients is Clinically Prognostic.
September 7, 2000... 2000 SEP 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- Detection of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA in the sera of transplanted patients is useful for clinical follow-up of patients who may be at risk of post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD), researchers...

Permission for Cell Transplant Research Sought in U.K.
September 7, 2000... 2000 SEP 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- A panel of experts urged the British government to allow human cloning for scientific study of transplants, a recommendation that, if approved, would make Britain the first country in the world to authorize...

Post-Transplant Obesity Can Affect Graft Function.
September 7, 2000... 2000 SEP 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- Lung transplant patients who have large gains in weight after surgery run the risk of impaired lung graft function, researchers report. "In the non-transplanted person, obesity is associated with...

Immune System Stimulant Enters Clinical Trials.
September 7, 2000... 2000 SEP 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- LifeTime Pharmaceuticals (LifeTime), College Park, Maryland, announced the first U.S. clinical trials for Beta LT, a drug designed to stimulate the immune system. Future indications may include hepatitis C...

Adoptive Immunotherapy Successful Against PTLD.
September 7, 2000... 2000 SEP 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in the United Kingdom have successfully used allogeneic Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) to treat post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD). "Autologous...

NIH Opens Door to Federally-Funded Research on Human Embryos.
September 7, 2000... 2000 SEP 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- New guidelines being released by the U.S. government will allow scientists to conduct federally-funded research on fertilized human eggs. The guidelines set out the criteria that the U.S. National...

European Research Program Marks Step in Cartilage Repair.
September 7, 2000... 2000 SEP 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- IsoTis BV, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, has been awarded a EUR 2.91 million grant by the BriteEuram program from the European Commission to develop tissue engineered cartilage. Of that grant, almost EUR 1...

Boston Hospital Performs Quadruple Transplant.
September 7, 2000... 2000 SEP 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- An accident that claimed the life of one person in August gave new hope to four others when a hospital performed four transplant operations using organs from a single donor. The 12-hour procedure at...

Canadian Health Minister to Establish Public Advisory Group.
September 7, 2000... 2000 SEP 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- Canada's health minister Allan Rock announced that Health Canada will fund the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) to take on the responsibilities of forming a Public Advisory Group and conducting...

Pig-to-Human Transplants Questioned.
September 7, 2000... 2000 SEP 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- Mice that got experimental transplants of pig cells became infected with a pig virus, providing new evidence about the possible risks of transplanting animal tissue into people, researchers report. The...

Phosphorylcholine-Based Polymers Useful for Coating Devices.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in England report that phosphorylcholine-based polymers are useful for coating blood filtration devices. "Copolymers of 2-methacryloyloxyethylphosphorylcholine (MPC) and lauryl methacrylate...

South African Government Denies Exporting Contaminated Blood Products.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- In response to published accusations that for years it exported virus-contaminated human plasma, South Africa's department of health says a World Health Organization (WHO) investigation has found the blood...

Only Sickest Patients Benefit.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Heart transplantation improves survival only in patients with the worst heart failure and therefore at the highest risk of death while on the waiting list, according to a study in the August 31, 2000, issue of...

Bone Marrow Transplants Show Promise Against Autoimmune Diseases.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- New research bolsters the hope that doctors might one day be able to use bone marrow transplants to cure autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and lupus. A few people with...

Concurrent Daniplestim and G-CSF is Safe and Efficacious in Cancer Patients.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in the United States have determined that the concurrent administration of daniplestim with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) is safe and efficacious for the mobilization of peripheral...

Antisense Technology Repairs RNA Splicing in Lab Studies.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- In experiments that hold strong promise for victims of thalassemia, a genetic illness of the blood afflicting people of the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Southeast Asia, scientists have succeeded in...

Abciximab Improves Clinical Course.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- According to a study from the United States, abciximab prophylaxis improved the clinical course of thrombocytopenia occurring after percutaneous coronary interventions. "Thrombocytopenia is infrequently...

Prior Treatments and Metastasis Affect Blood Stem Cell Harvests.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Prior treatments and bone marrow (BM) metastasis in breast cancer patients affect the progenitor cell content of blood stem cell (BSC) harvests, researchers in Turkey and the United States reported. Ahmet...

Novel Program Increases Consent Rates.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- A unique program known as the MOD Squad, in which the mothers of organ donors assist families in upstate New York who are facing the death of a loved one, has shown to increase organ donation consent rates to...

Cytokine Cocktails Used for ex vivo Expansion.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in India have optimized procedures for the collection and expansion of umbilical cord blood. "In this study, conducted over a two-year period, we have collected a total of 85 cord blood...

Heart Drug Proves Disappointing.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- A clot-blocking drug that doctors thought would help stabilize people immediately after a near-heart attack and reduce their chances of dying or having a heart attack is a disappointment, new research shows....

Regions of U.S. Experiencing Severe Shortages.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- According to an August 29, 2000, USA Today report, the blood shortage ongoing in several regions of the U.S. is severe and has halted non-emergency surgeries for the time being. Of the 36 regional...

Cloned Dairy Cow Born.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, researchers have announced the birth of a cloned dairy cow using a quicker and less complicated method than that used to clone Dolly the sheep. The researchers said on...

Tuberculosis Seen in Some Pediatric Patients with Liver Transplants.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Tuberculosis has been found in some pediatric patients after they have received liver transplants. A new study proposes that prospective pediatric liver transplant patients should be carefully screened...

Scientists Develop New Approach to Synthesizing Fragments of Heparin.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Chemists at the University of Georgia, Athens, have developed a new method of synthesizing the principal constituent units of Heparin, a widely used anti-coagulant that is thought to be involved in numerous...

Blood Cells Used to Restore Blood Flow to Damage Tissue in Mice.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- University of Iowa researchers have found a way to improve circulation in the limbs of mice with diabetes. The findings have implications for the treatment of diabetes in humans. Poor circulation is the...

Pope Establishes Guidelines for Organ Transplants, Rules Out Cloning.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Calling organ donation "an act of love," Pope John Paul II sought August 29, 2000, to establish guidelines for rapid 21st-century advances in organ transplants - including condemning human cloning as morally...

Approval Received for Rapamune Tablet.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, Madison, New Jersey, announced that its first solid formulation of its transplant immunosuppressant Rapamune (sirolimus) has received marketing approval from the U.S. Food and Drug...

Studies Compare Immunosuppressants Tacrolimus and Cyclosporin.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Data from comparative studies of immunosuppressants following kidney transplantation were presented during a symposium entitled "Optimizing Transplant Patient Management in the Third Millennium," which was...

Human Hemoglobin Improves Mycobacterium tuberculosis Growth in Medium.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Additional evidence that human hemoglobin can enhance the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in culture was reported at the American Society for Microbiology Conference on Tuberculosis in New York, New...

Monoclonal Antibody + Immunosuppressant Safety Data Presented.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- BioTransplant Inc. (BTRN), Charlestown, Massachusetts, and its collaborators from the Liver Transplant Program at St. Luc University Hospital in Brussels, Belgium, announced the results of a Phase I/II study...

NIH Researchers Discover Parasite 'Feeding Channel'.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers have found pore-like holes in the membranes of red blood cells infected by the deadliest form of the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. P....

Boy's Gift at Death Educates Italians About Transplantation.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Organ donations from a seven-year-old American slain by bandits in southern Italy in 1994 have helped keep at least five people alive to this day, the boy's father told an international organ transplant...

Experts Say Studies Could Benefit Millions, Pope Disapproves.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Despite a papal condemnation of embryonic stem cell research, scientists say it cannot be abandoned because it could lead to such great medical benefits for millions of patients. Pope John Paul II said August...

"Organoid" Mimics Thymus.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital, affiliated with Harvard University, have engineered a "thymic organoid," which produces human T cells. The achievement was published in a recent issue of...

Grant Awarded to Study Preventive Monoclonal Antibody Use.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Tanox Pharma B.V. announced that it has been awarded a grant of NLG 1,000,000 (approximately US$410,000) by SENTER, an agency of the Dutch Ministry of Economical Affairs, to study the use of 5D12, its...

Preclinical Results on Treatment Announced.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Viron Therapeutics Inc. announced that its lead viral protein products, SERP-1 and CBPI, demonstrated in animal studies the potential to reduce kidney transplant rejection. Viron's approach is based on...

Researchers Transplant Pig Cells to Restore Nerve Function in Mice.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Scientists have successfully spliced pig cells into the injured spines of paralyzed mice and restored some nerve impulses. In an additional twist, the pig cells were bioengineered with a human protein...

Miniature Swine Bred that Do Not Produce Porcine Endogenous Retrovirus.
September 14, 2000... 2000 SEP 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- BioTransplant Inc. (BTRN), Charlestown, Massachusetts, presented data at a recent transplantation conference indicating that the company may be able to develop a breed of pig that does not produce porcine...

Magnetic Bead Immunoselection Process Removes Ewing's Sarcoma Cells.
September 21, 2000... 2000 SEP 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in the United States have developed a magnetic bead immunoselection process that purges Ewing's sarcoma cells from autologous blood. "Ewing's sarcoma is a childhood tumor characterized by a...

Treatment May Cause Thrombin-Independent Factor XIII Activity.
September 21, 2000... 2000 SEP 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Ancrod treatment results in fibrin formation and proteolysis and may also stimulate thrombin-independent factor XIII activity, researchers in Germany report. "Ancrod is a purified fraction of venom from...

Treatment Activates Coagulation Factors.
September 21, 2000... 2000 SEP 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Supplemental anticoagulant factors may be necessary to prevent blood clotting in patients undergoing hemodialysis, suggest researchers in The Netherlands. "Generation of factor XII, thrombin antithrombin...

Erythropoietin Reduces Anemia During Radiochemotherapy.
September 21, 2000... 2000 SEP 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- According to researchers in Greece, erythropoietin can decrease the need for blood transfusions by abrogating anemia in cancer patients undergoing radiochemotherapy. "Anemia during radiation therapy is a...

Cell, Tissue, and Organ Transplantation Progress Presented.
September 21, 2000... 2000 SEP 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- BioTransplant Inc. (BTRN), Charlestown, Massachusetts, and its collaborators at the Massachusetts General Hospital's (MGH) Transplantation Biology Research Center (TBRC), reported on a strategy for the...

Events Prevented with Pentasaccharide.
September 21, 2000... 2000 SEP 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Top-line results of four major Phase III clinical studies into the prevention of venous thromboembolism following hip and knee surgery show that the selective, synthetic antithrombotic pentasaccharide...

Patient Enrollment in Phase III Hemopure Trial Completed.
September 21, 2000... 2000 SEP 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Biopure Corp. (BPUR), Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced it has completed enrolling patients in the pivotal Phase III clinical trial evaluating its investigational oxygen therapeutic drug, Hemopure...

Immunoglobulin G Test Efficiently Diagnoses Syphilis in Serum.
September 21, 2000... 2000 SEP 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in the United States evaluated the Bio-Rad Syphilis immunoglobulin G (IgG) test for its efficacy in serologically diagnosing syphilis. "The performance of the Bio-Rad Syphilis IgG EIA [enzyme...

HAART Reduces Anemia in HIV Infected Women.
September 21, 2000... 2000 SEP 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) appears to reduce the incidence of anemia in HIV infected women. "Anemia is common in HIV infected women, and correlates with higher HIV RNA levels in blood,...

Health Canada Issues Precautionary Directive for Deferral of Blood and Plasma Donors.
September 21, 2000... 2000 SEP 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- The following was released by Health Canada: [helv] Health Canada on August 31, 2000, issued a directive requiring that anyone who has spent a cumulative total of six months or more in France between the...

Research Paves the Way for Faster, Better, Cheaper Probing Method.
September 21, 2000... 2000 SEP 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers at Northwestern University, Illinois, have combined gold nanoparticles and DNA in a novel way to form tiny probes capable of DNA detection that is more accurate and less expensive than conventional...

Blood of Horseshoe Crabs a Medical Miracle.
September 21, 2000... 2000 SEP 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- In a small unmarked building on a back island road four miles off the coast of Virginia, the bleeding begins. Hundreds of strange, spiked creatures are pinned to plastic racks as lab technicians in white...

Delivery into Blood Cells Compared Using Two Different Marker Gene Constructs.
September 21, 2000... 2000 SEP 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in Italy compared retroviral-mediated gene transfer into blood cells using the enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) and low affinity nerve growth receptor factor (Delta LNGFR) as reporter...

New Method Developed to Inactivate Virus Product for in vitro Diagnostics.
September 21, 2000... 2000 SEP 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- International Reagents Corporation, a company located in Kobe, Japan, recently described a new technique for inactivating infectious donor plasma for use as a control in in vitro diagnostics. The...

Endogenous Gamma Interferon is Protective Against Blood-Stage Plasmodium chabaudi.
September 21, 2000... 2000 SEP 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Endogenous gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) is necessary for the development of host protective immunity against blood-stage Plasmodium chabaudi malaria, researchers in Canada report. "The role of endogenous...

Immunotherapy with Epratuzumab Demonstrates Clinical Efficacy.
September 21, 2000... 2000 SEP 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Immunotherapy of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) with epratuzumab, an anti-CD22 monoclonal antibody (MAb), has demonstrated excellent tolerability and clear clinical efficacy, according to recent study findings....

Biotechnology Research to Grow From Embryonic Start.
September 21, 2000... 2000 SEP 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- The Adelaide, Australia-based biotechnology company, BresaGen, expects to receive human embryonic stem (ES) cells in the near future from the University of Wisconsin, USA. The cells are intended for use...

Bone Marrow Recipients Acquire Hepatitis B from Surface-Antigen-Positive Donors.
September 21, 2000... 2000 SEP 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Patients who receive bone marrow transplants from patients who are hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg) positive may suffer a variety of complications, especially if they are not HBsAg positive prior to...

Transplant Patient Acquired Babesiosis through Blood Transfusion.
September 28, 2000... 2000 SEP 28 - (NewsRx.com) -- A renal transplant patient acquired babesiosis through a blood transfusion, researchers in the United States reported. "The success of organ-replacement therapies has resulted in a population of...

Copper Deficiency Leads to Fragile Red Blood Cells.
September 28, 2000... 2000 SEP 28 - (NewsRx.com) -- A deficiency in dietary copper intake can lead to conditions ripe for the development of fragile red blood cells and subsequent anemia, researchers report. "Red blood cells...are one of the most...

BSE Transmitted Through Blood Transfusions in Sheep.
September 28, 2000... 2000 SEP 28 - (NewsRx.com) -- In the September 16, 2000, issue of The Lancet, scientists in the U.K. report preliminary data from an ongoing experiment that suggest that bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), which is caused by the same...

Contaminated Donor Organs Are Safe for Transplantation.
September 28, 2000... 2000 SEP 28 - (NewsRx.com) -- Donor organs contaminated with infectious disease can be safely transplanted, say researchers in the United States. "Organ transplantation has become an accepted means of treating end-stage organ disease...

HIV-1 Based Vectors Result in Therapeutic Levels of Factor VIII and IX.
September 28, 2000... 2000 SEP 28 - (NewsRx.com) -- According to a study conducted in the United States, HIV-1 based vectors successfully produced therapeutic levels of human factor VIII and IX in a murine model. "Lentiviral vectors have the potential to...

Researchers Say Cell Alloreactivity Should be Criterion for Mismatched Stem Cell Donation.
September 28, 2000... 2000 SEP 28 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in Italy suggest that donor-vs.-recipient natural killer (NK) cell alloreactivity should be a major criterion for selecting donors for hematopoietic stem cell transplants for leukemia patients....

Drug May Help Reduce Severe Consequences of Infection.
September 28, 2000... 2000 SEP 28 - (NewsRx.com) -- A modified version of a protein found within white blood cells could help to decrease the severe complications of meningococcal sepsis, according to the results of a trial published in the September 16, 2000,...

Mechanism Found Behind Drug-Free Acceptance of New Organs.
September 28, 2000... 2000 SEP 28 - (NewsRx.com) -- Scientists at Ohio State University may have discovered how a few rare organ transplant recipients manage to prevent their bodies from rejecting their new organs without the help of drugs. In this unusual...

Rapid Autopsy a Potential Option for Acquiring Cells for Research.
September 28, 2000... 2000 SEP 28 - (NewsRx.com) -- Scientists at the University of Nebraska Medical Center announced that they have been able to use a rapid brain autopsy procedure to obtain two of the three cell types required for their research into...

FDA Panel Declines to Ease Blood Donor Ban.
September 28, 2000... 2000 SEP 28 - (NewsRx.com) -- U.S. government scientists on September 15, 2000, narrowly rejected a proposal to ease the ban on gay male blood donors, citing insufficient evidence about how the move might affect the AIDS risk to the U.S....

Study Supports Safety and Tolerability of Anti-Rejection Therapy.
September 28, 2000... 2000 SEP 28 - (NewsRx.com) -- Simulect (basiliximab), when combined with standard immunosuppressant drugs, has been shown to be a well-tolerated anti-rejection therapy for children who have received a kidney transplant. This is...

Study Aims to Optimize Stroke Prevention in Children with Blood Disease.
September 28, 2000... 2000 SEP 28 - (NewsRx.com) -- How long blood transfusions are needed to optimize stroke reduction and minimize transfusion-related problems in children with sickle cell disease is the focus of a new, U.S. federally funded study of 100...

Researcher Applies Textile Science Techniques to Artificial Arteries.
September 28, 2000... 2000 SEP 28 - (NewsRx.com) -- A University of Rhode Island researcher is using techniques from textile science that in the near future could reduce many of the problems associated with artificial arteries. Martin Bide, URI professor...

Phase III Study Results on Anticoagulation Announced.
September 28, 2000... 2000 SEP 28 - (NewsRx.com) -- Genzyme Transgenics Corp. (GTC) (GZTC), Framingham, Massachusetts, and Genzyme General (GENZ) announced the primary endpoint results of a second Phase III trial evaluating the ability of their recombinant...

Selenium Stimulates in vitro Production in Adult Blood Cells, Inhibits in Cord Blood Cells.
September 28, 2000... 2000 SEP 28 - (NewsRx.com) -- Selenium induces cytokine production in cord blood and adult blood cells in vitro, but inhibits the immune system proteins' production in cord blood cells. "We compared the production of some cytokines in...