Lycopene slows human prostate tumour growth in mice and combined with vitamin E is even better
...PSA values matched the tumour responses in all the experimental groups. This means that we can use PSA values as a surrogate marker in short phase II/III human trials as it is clear that PSA values are accurately reflecting the inhibiting activity of the lycopene and vitamin E on tumour growth. "What was particul...Scientists to prototype cyberinfrastructure for research and education access to ocean observatories
...rs. Participating institutions will collaborate on experimental wireless, optical networks and grid technology, including development of web services, networking protocols, devices and sensors. The prototype grid will eventually link communities of oceanographers via high-speed wireless and optical networks to ob...Cancer vaccine based on pathogenic listeria bacteria shows promise targeting metastases
Berkeley -- An experimental cancer vaccine using defanged listeria bacteria is showing great promise in animal studies, successfully treating new cancers that have spread into the lungs of mice. The mouse study, reported in the Sept. 21 issue of the journal Proceedings of the ...New Arizona State center brings science to policy on issues of water resources and urban growth
... in Phoenix," Redman said. "That makes us an ideal experimental environment to study how to manage and use our limited resources." Exploring "what ifs" One key capability of DCDC will be to run "what if" scenarios. Researchers and decision makers will use real data and scientific grounding to mod...Researchers identify protein promoting vascular tumor growth
...both antibody-based therapies and, even sooner, an experimental nutritional intervention for vascular malformations. "Previous work in our lab has shown that a certain form of berry extract significantly regulates MCP-1 function," said Sen, who served as a mentor to Gordillo on this research. Th...NSF awards 22 new projects for plant genome research
...iversity of California, Davis, will focus on using experimental approaches to define every gene -- perhaps as many as 60,000 -- in the recently completed rice genome....Certain genes boost fish oils' protection against breast cancer
... of certain chemotherapy drugs and radiotherapy in experimental studies. Since these anti-cancer agents may act, at least in part, through similar oxidative mechanisms as n-3 fatty acids-which is why patients under chemotherapy are advised not to take antioxidant vitamin supplements-understanding the anti-cancer ...$2.7 million grant to support creation of virtual zebrafish atlas
...search community due to the zebrafish's compelling experimental characteristics and its capacity to model human disease," said Cheng, who is working with co-investigator Stephen Moorman, Ph.D., of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Medical School on the atlas. "This grant grew out of experiments in my laboratory ...Experimental drug shown to block mutant protein causing blood disease
...ves of mice with a rare blood disorder by using an experimental drug that blocks signals promoting runaway growth of blood cells. The researchers also tested the drug, PKC412, in a patient with the hard-to-treat disease, called Myeloproliferative Disease (MPD), and saw her symptoms improve. PKC412, like the spotl...Binocular rivalry: Fulfilling visual expectations
...ings of the visual parts of our brain: although an experimental visual stimulus is artificial, the brain is functioning in its usual way. Watson, Pearson, and Clifford used binocular rivalry to demonstrate the importance of feedback in our interpretation of the visual image. For two images to generate binocula...Study reveals why eyes in some paintings seem to follow viewers
...peated these tasks three times for each of the six experimental conditions. "These experiments took hours," Todd said. "We made judgments at numerous probe points on each image, so that when all of the different conditions were completed we ended up making thousands of settings over the course of the experiment. ...Scientists explore genome of methane-breathing microbe
...way. While noting that "there is a clear need for experimental validation" of the metabolic pathways suggested by the genome, the study's authors suggest that their analysis "deepens our understanding of methanotroph biology, its relationship to global carbon cycles, and its potential for biotechnological applic...Information system to help scientists analyze mechanisms of social behavior
... of performing their normal activities." While the experimental model is an insect, the researchers will use broad... technologies to analyze the gene expressions. The experimental users of BeeSpace will be an international community of biologists who study honey bees and related ...Cockroach-like robot leads new research effort
...nd their stability, he is eager to team up with an experimental neurophysiologist who is able to interpret insects' neural code. John Miller, a professor of cell biology and neuroscience and director of the Center for Computational Biology at Montana State University, Bozeman, hopes to be able to rewrite that cod...URI oceanographers to build laboratory to study subseafloor life
...on microbiology, life in extreme environments, and experimental techniques." The laboratory will enhance research on subsurface life that is currently being conducted by URI oceanographers. In 2001 D'Hondt , Spivack, and Smith were given a NASA grant to examine the deep biosphere of the Earth and the "extr...... MET. These findings were made possible by a novel experimental system developed in the Takahashi lab that takes advantage of the ability to introduce cDNA along with a fluorescent protein directly into a living embryo's cells by momentarily and reversibly disrupting their outer membranes by the application of a ...Growth hormone and IBD: Reduction of intestinal inflammation, promotion of growth
... of transcription-3) regulates disease activity in experimental colitis and human IBD. Suppressor of cytokine sign...r. Growth hormone (GH) reduces disease activity in experimental colitis, however, the molecular mechanism was not known. The researchers hypothesized that "GH woul...Novel IBD therapeutic approaches reported from Washington Univ., Barcelona, LSU at APS meeting
...treating intestinal inflammation. They said that experimental models have shown that blockade of VLA-4, VCAM-1 a...ficant amelioration of intestinal inflammation. In experimental models, response to adhesion molecule blockage varies according to the type of inflammatory intestin...New evidence of radiation risk in childhood leukaemia
...at the University of Leicester, obtained the first experimental evidence that germ-line mutation rates in unexposed offspring of irradiated male mice do not return to the mutation rates seen in unexposed individuals but are maintained at levels similar to those of directly exposed males. He then went on to show t...$18 million bioinformatics center to become weapon against deadly diseases
...y in the presence of effective cooperation between experimental research and the bioinformatics efforts." To ensu...ooperation, the center's outreach and training for experimental researchers will be led by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) of the Univers...