A major part of a phlebotomist's job is to test the various blood samples
taken from patients and provide feedback on diseases and conditions.
A study funded by the US Public Health Service studied the effects of pomegranate juice on prostate cancer cells
taken from patients and determined that pomegranate extract was able to slow down the growth of cancer in these cells.
Now, Hornig and her collaborators have discovered specific differences in blood samples
taken from patients still in the early phases of the disease compared with other patients and healthy people.
A Science piece spotlights Clevers» development of a test in which organoids can be grown from tissue samples
taken from patients.
The researchers, including Cleveland - based David Serre and Peter Zimmerman, Didier Menard (Institut Pasteur - Cambodia) and Arsene Ratsimbasoa (Madagascar National Malaria Control Program) are the first to sequence the genome of the parasite Plasmodium vivax,
taken from patients at coverage needed to verify genome - wide DNA sequence variation.
In this study, samples were
taken from patients» tumors during surgery and transplanted into mice to grow new pancreatic cancer tumors.
The researcher team from the University of Birmingham, New Cross and Heartlands Hospitals compared the cellular chemistry of bone marrow and blood samples
taken from patients with myeloma, patients with MGUS and healthy volunteers.
A DNA study of bacteria samples
taken from patients infected during the 2012 outbreak in Edinburgh shows that it was caused by several subtypes of the bacteria.
As an alternative approach, scientists led by the University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute looked at the entire genetic code of bacteria samples
taken from patients.
The samples
taken from patients before transplant had decreased levels of several modules related to basic metabolism and production of chemicals like amino acids and carbohydrates, but were enriched in pathways associated with stress response, compared to donor samples or post-transplant samples.
Further studies, including analysis of frozen blood and cerebrospinal fluid
taken from patients, are underway to test possible drug mechanisms.
The researchers found that the protein, called VRC07 - αCD3, triggered the activation and killing of latently HIV - infected helper T cells when the cells were
taken from patients on antiretroviral therapy and then incubated in the lab with the patients» own killer T cells.
To this end, Aucott and his group are currently analyzing cognitive testing results and blood samples
taken from patients who participated in this study to search for research biomarkers that were not examined in the initial study.
We found that cells
taken from the patients were unable to properly produce proteins in their mitochondria.
In the future the researchers see using stem cells
taken from patients to grow new bones.
In a three - stage meta - analysis, Harvard University neurologist Clemens Scherzer and his collaborators analyzed gene expression in 410 samples
taken from patients that either had symptomatic or asymptomatic Parkinson's or were healthy, including 185 samples of substantia nigra — a midbrain region where dopamine neurons are particularly susceptible to degeneration.
During this in depth study, an international team of researchers led by British scientists investigated the impact of anti-hormone therapy on samples
taken from patients with prostate cancer.
Many cultures are now
taken from patients and healthcare workers and you don't see any outbreaks,» said Dr Vos.
If they succeed, they can be reasonably confident that epithelial cells can be
taken from a patient and used to regenerate damaged tissue in that same person.
They were able to make that determination by comparing biopsied tissue with tissue
taken from a patient's prostate after it was later surgically removed.
31: The percentage of genetic mutations shared by all the tumor samples
taken from a patient with kidney cancer.
Charles Cohen, the chairman of the company, explains that the compound is being tested against traditional grafts, in which surgeons bridge non-union fractures with fragments of bone
taken from the patient's hip.
How should we regulate treatments that use cells
taken from a patient's own body?
The proof of concept study is aimed at determining how different individuals will respond to a drug treatment and could help assess whether a drug is suitable for a particular patient based on measurements
taken from the patient's blood.
They had also sequenced the virus directly from samples
taken from the patient and the camel — and those two were also 100 % identical.
Blood is
taken from a patient — a lab mouse in the case of this research — and the platelets are collected from that blood.
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)
taken from a patient hold great therapeutic potential for many diseases.
The most common option is an autograft, where a piece of bone is
taken from a patient's own body, usually from a hip or a rib, and implanted where it's needed elsewhere in that same patient's skeleton.
Using this approach, immune cells are
taken from a patient's bloodstream, reprogrammed to recognize and attack a specific protein found in cancer cells, then reintroduced into the patient's system, where they get to work destroying targeted tumor cells.
Guinea authorities have appealed to the robbers to return the sample,
taken from a patient «s mouth shortly after they died.
From a single sample
taken from a patient's tumor, SEngine scientists can discover which drugs or combinations of drugs are most effective in killing or disabling that individual's cancer.
After a sample was
taken from the patient on the left (or top for those on their mobile devices) and sent out to a laboratory for analysis, the mass was indeed diagnosed as a lipoma (benign fat cell tumor).
She also points out that there is a lack of scientific support for different therapies that are requested by owners and a need for more careful assessment of the value of stem cells
taken from the patient.
Not exact matches
When the research team
took fecal samples
from responding
patients and transplanted them into germ - free mice — «essentially reconstituting the mice's gut microbiomes with a responding
patient's microbiome,» she says — they discovered that the mice had better immunity.
Take the example of a new class of cholesterol - busting treatments called PCSK9 inhibitors,
from companies like Sanofi / Regeneron and Amgen, which decimate levels of «bad» cholesterol in
patients.
The research brought him to a town with a mayor and a basketball player who
took its residents off the power grid, the founder of an online network which allows medical
patients to swap treatment stories and share knowledge and the maker of an engine that runs on liquid air made
from a lawn mower and a can of antifreeze.
For example, labs
take DNA samples
from patients being tested for cancer and runs tests to detect if mutations typically associated with cancer are present; a diagnostician then examines those genetic mutations and compares them to known instances; finally, based on that information a physician recommends a course of treatment.
That's why production is often more efficient if it's done offsite as opposed to
taking pharmacist time in the store away
from spending time with their
patients.
With a trillion gigabytes of
patient data collected
from devices, EHRs, labs, and DNA sequencing, alongside surrounding factors such as weather, geo - location, and viral outbursts
taken into account, computers learn quickly, and they learn everything.
The New York City startup
takes the
patient data it collects
from those centers — without identifying details, of course — and shares it with pharmaceutical companies and researchers.
In 2016, the FDA teamed up with Flatiron Health, a $ 1.2 billion New York - based healthcare technology startup that collects clinical data
from cancer
patients — such as what medications a
patient has
taken and how he or she has responded to them.
The CDC did not
take the recommendations of protocols in preparedness and equipment
from Doctors Without Borders (who have been caring for Ebola
patients in Africa).
He
took over his practice
from a dentist who retired, and inherited many
patients who were near or past retirement themselves.
More health plans and employers are signing up with pharmacy benefit managers like CVS Health (cvs) and Express Scripts (esrx), which control the list of drugs those insurance plans will cover, increasingly restricting
patients from taking unreasonably high - priced drugs.
«Among both groups,
patients taking Entresto had a 20 % or greater reduction in cardiovascular death or heart failure hospitalization compared to those
taking enalapril,» Novartis said in a statement, citing conclusions based on analysis of data
from the PARADIGM - HF study.
At the American College of Cardiology's meeting in Chicago on Saturday, Novartis told doctors that clinically stable heart
patients, as well as those considered least stable, both appear to benefit
from taking Entresto compared to enalapril, a generic introduced 35 years ago that remains a standard heart failure treatment.
The study is
patient - funded; participants, who range in age
from late 30s through 80s, must pay $ 8,000 to
take part, and live in or travel to Monterey for treatments and follow - up assessments.
Novartis
took its campaign to invigorate sluggish sales of its new heart - failure medicine Entresto to a U.S. cardiologists meeting on Saturday, telling attendees that even clinically stable
patients can benefit
from the drug.
Early responses
from the survey suggest that 46 percent of employers would
take steps to cut costs with new strategies such as high - deductible health plans - which shift the burden of initial medical costs to
patients, but have lower monthly premiums.
Some
patients who received questionable test results
from Theranos reportedly became alarmed or changed the amount of medication they were
taking.