Student science contest participation influences study, career choices, alumni say
...ity of contestants, according to a survey released today to mark National Biotechnology Week in Canada. Al... inception. The economy of tomorrow is being built today on biotechnology and other sciences. Canada needs to foster a strong science culture to remain in t...Climate change plus human pressure caused large mammal extinctions in late Pleistocene
..." Because climate change is occurring more rapidly today than even in the late Pleistocene, when the majori...arnosky said. And the impact could be even greater today because of impoverished large animal populations and surging populations of humans taking over forme...Landmark gene agreement announced by Samoan government and UC Berkeley for anti-AIDS drug Prostratin
...with the people of Samoa. The agreement, announced today (Thursday, Sept. 30) in Apia, the capital of Samoa, supports Samoa's assertion of national sovereignty over the gene sequence of Prostratin, a drug extracted from the bark of the mamala tree (Homalanthus nutans). The drug currently is being studied b...Landmark agreement between Samoa and UC Berkeley could help search for AIDS cure
...with the people of Samoa. The agreement, announced today (Thursday, Sept. 30) in Apia, the capital of Samoa, supports Samoa's assertion of national sovereignty over the gene sequence of Prostratin, a drug extracted from the bark of the mamala tree (Homalanthus nutans). The drug currently is being studied b...International study findings link acne-like rash to effectiveness of new targeted cancer treatment
...ot. Professor Eric Van Cutsem told a news briefing today (Thursday 30 September) at the EORTC-NCI-AACR[1] Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics that a trial, conducted in Belgium and the USA, had demonstrated that the more severe the rash the better the patients' tumours had responded to t...Scientists to prototype cyberinfrastructure for research and education access to ocean observatories
...nvironments. The National Science Foundation (NSF) today awarded $3.9 million over four years to the University of Washington (UW), the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and partner institutions to build the Laboratory for the Ocean Observatory Knowledge Integration Grid (LOOKING). It is the large...Belgian researchers explore revolutionary approach to angiogenesis
...h to angiogenesis," Dr. Feron told a news briefing today (Thursday 30 September) at the EORTC-NCI-AACR[2] Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics. The key to the ability of tumour arterioles to contract lies with endothelin-1 (ET-1) a peptide released in large amounts by many tumour cells, ...Researchers find color sensitive atomic switch in bacteria
...in a bacterial membrane protein. In a paper posted today on Science Express, the rapid advance publication page of Science, scientists from The University of Texas Medical School at Houston and the University of California, Irvine, describe the versatile light-sensing protein at levels of resolution smalle...Schepens Eye Research Institute receives 'Roadmap' grant to develop center for curing eye diseases
... announcing the recipients of these special awards today in Bethesda. "This is an exciting opportunity to bring enormous energy and new brain power to solve some of the most complex puzzles in eye research," says Darlene Dartt, PhD, the Director of Scientific Affairs at Schepens who is heading up the proje...Gladstone investigator Mike McCune wins prestigious NIH Director's Pioneer Award
...niversity of California, San Francisco (UCSF), was today named a recipient of the first-ever NIH Director's Pioneer Award. McCune is among nine researchers across the country chosen to receive the prestigious award, established last year and awarded for the first time this year. The NIH Director's Pioneer ...New study indicates arsenic could be suitable as first-line treatment in type of leukaemia
...zadeh, professor of medicine at Tehran University, today (Wednesday 29 September) reported at the EORTC-NCI-AACR[1] Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics in Geneva that two courses of the drug achieved complete remission in over 90% of the 63 patients in a Phase II study being carried out ...Half-million dollar landmark achieved for the Methuselah Mouse Prize
...entific prize for research on extending longevity, today announced that it has secured a total of $500,000 in funding commitments with the long term support commitment from an anonymous supporter making his donation in the name of the X PRIZE Foundation, the multi-million-dollar bounty which has successful...Phase II trials of second-generation antisense cancer drug planned following successful early study
...olecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics in Geneva today (Wednesday 29 September) that the Phase I trial was unique in that the clinical research team was able to demonstrate that the target clusterin was inhibited by OGX-011 in patients' cancers in a dose dependent way. "This means that the drug is doing...Award winning researchers reveal potential new role for Glivec
...oncologist Dr. Grant McArthur told a news briefing today (Wednesday 29 September) that a Phase II study by ...alising therapeutics. The award is being presented today to Dr. McArthur, the lead researcher, by Professor Esteban Cvitkovic, president of the foundation's ...Trial shows which brain cancer patients benefit from temozolomide
...olecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics in Geneva today (Wednesday 29 September) that the key to predicting which patients will gain from temozolomide was a gene called O-6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) which is involved in DNA repair and its respective methylation status in the patient's t...Pacific Northwest team unveils largest virus proteome to date
...ry and Oregon Health & Science University reported today in the October Journal of Virology. Human cytomegalovirus, or HCMV, is a member of the herpesvirus family. HCMV infects and persists for life in 50 to 85 percent of Americans 40 years and older. Few know they are infected and show no ill effects, but......without the need for chemotherapy. These ideas may today seem science fiction, but to dismiss them too readily would be foolish. The risks and benefits must be carefully addressed to yield useful and safe technologies, but it has been accomplished before, and will be again."...Evidence builds for potential new cancer drug target
In a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Temple University researchers report that one of the functions of the c-myb gene, which leukemia cells depend on for proliferation, is the formation of white blood cells. "This study is anothe...USAID, Conservation International & Starbucks launch Conservation Coffee Alliance in Central America
...tates Agency for International Development (USAID) today joined forces with Conservation International (CI) and Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq: SBUX) to create the Conservation Coffee Alliance. With a focus on Central America and Mexico, the Alliance promotes private sector approaches within the coffee...Preclinical safety study shows adipose-derived stem cells improve heart function after heart attack
...2004 - MacroPore Biosurgery, Inc. (Frankfurt: XMP) today announced that adipose tissue-derived regenerative cells improved heart function following myocardial infarction in a large-animal preclinical safety study. This study, performed in swine, confirms previous preclinical work by MacroPore Biosurgery an...