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Clinical Trials Update: June 18, 2010

Drugs.com - 600 days ago
Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection. This study will evaluate the antiviral activity, safety and tolerability of a drug to treat hepatitis C.. The research site is in Baltimore, Md.. The research site is in Denver, Colo.. The research ...

Mouse grows human liver

New Scientist - 713 days ago
liver could be used to study malaria, hepatitis and cirrhosis. Inder Verma of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, and colleagues created mice that lacked a range of immune cells and a toxin-clearing enzyme, which meant that their liver cells died ...

A Detox Coffee, Please

Allure - 1056 days ago
Though coffee isn't a reliable hangover cure, it may help heavy drinkers anyway by protecting against long-term liver damage. "The message should not be to drink alcohol as much as you want and protect yourself with coffee," cautions researcher Arthur Klatsky of ...

Switching off gene switches off cancer

New Scientist - 2105 days ago
Cancer cells can revert to harmless cells by switching off a single gene, shows a study of liver cancer in mice.. "We were definitely surprised that we could make liver cancer cells look like normal liver cells," says Dean Felsher at Stanford ...