Further Proof That An Altered Rb-2/p130 Gene Leads To Lung Cancer
...n help physicians begin treatments earlier, and tailor them to specific patients, depending on how aggressive the cancer is. “Now a tumor grading test is much closer to reality,” said Giordano, who is also president of the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicin...Pitt Researchers Develop Strategy To Use Dendritic Cells To Treat And Prevent Tumors
... instead of relying on a generic vaccine, we could tailor avaccine to attack unique features of each patient's tumor." Previous approaches to tumor vaccination have required that researchersidentify and isolate antigens from cancer cells and then develop ways tointroduce them to a patient tostimulat...ACE Gene Linked To High Blood Pressure In Men But Not Women
...d treatments. "In thefuture, we might be able to tailor therapy differently for someone with agenetic predisposition," or even find ways to prevent the disease, saysO'Donnell. He and other scientists from the Framingham Heart Study of the National Heart,Lung, and Blood Institute examined 1,044 pairs of s...Security Code Helps Immune Cells Attack Foe And Spare Self
...entists scratching their heads: How do immunecells tailor their responses to invading microbes while ignoring the body's owncells? The part of the cell that detects harmful organisms has to punch in acode before the cell will go on the offensive, the researchers have found.Punching in just part of t...National Science Foundation Is Taking Small Business Into A New Phase Of Innovation
... Grant recipients can use the third-party money to tailor theirtechnologies to the specific needs of the investors. However, they can only usethe NSF funds to continue research related to the ongoing Phase II work. "Not all projects in Phase II necessarily need Phase IIB funding," saidNarayanan. ...NASA Using Space Incubator To Understand Breast Cancer
...estrogen. If so, then Bioreactors could be used to tailor hormonal therapies that more closely match what will stop growth of cancer cells with minimal side effects for the patient. To begin this research, Richmond established a cell repository from noncancerous breast tissue donated by a young woman car...Where The Rubber Meets The Air
...es, he says, but "little work has been performedto tailor the properties of tire-derived activated carbons to solve airpollution problems." Activated carbon is typically made from wood, nut shellsand coal. Tests with simulated flue-gas streams (smokestack emissions) show that activatedcarbon made from wast...Evidence Appears Strong To Bolster Concept Of Co-Evolution, Scientists Say
...their host plants, some havedebated whether plants tailor their toxins specifically against insects. With the help of museum specimens of parsnip plants, including some that predatethe webworms' post-1900 entry intothe Midwest, University of Illinois entomologists May R. Berenbaum and Arthur R.Zangerl say t...Chemists Discover New Processes In Fuel-Cleaning Catalysis
... from crude oil. Thediscovery could help chemists tailor the catalytic process, known ashydrodesulfurization, for maximum efficiency and economy, according to Paul S.Weiss, professor of chemistry at Penn State, who conducted the research alongwith Penn State graduate student James G. Kushmerick. A paper ...X-Ray Concentrator Will Expand Window On High-Energy Universe
...in viruses, bacteria, and our own bodies, and then tailor drugs forspecific functions, like hitting a virus's "off" switch. For example,pharmaceutical companies are developing drugs which inhibit the neuraminidaseenzyme (above) which is crucial to the function of the flu virus. Links to480x640-pixel, 191KB ...Researchers Analyze Role Of Shear In Turbine Passage
...pringchinook salmon. Results could help engineers tailor turbine design based on thetype of fish that would migrate through a specific waterway. The AHTS program began in 1993. Two contracts were awarded fordeveloping conceptual designs of turbines. During this phase, it was determinedthat more b...Duke researchers discover protein that can alert immune system to fight cancer
...act the same way in humans, it may help scientists tailor specificcancer therapies, said Nicchitta. So far, the scientists' experiments reveal that calreticulin and arelated protein called GRP94 both can alert the immune system by informing itabout where in the body an insult has occurred. The prote...USGS fire research in the southeast
...ind of detailed, long-term studywill help managers tailor their burn programs to meet specific objectives. Forexample, he says, if they want to reduce wax myrtle in the understory, theirpreliminary observations indicate that spring burning will be more effectivethan winter or summer burning. Snyder not......re they first should be applied. It is possible to tailor the clinical antibodies by modifying certain amino acids in the Fc domain which minimize engagement to the inhibitory Fc receptors on effector cells. "Rather than starting from scratch and having to wait as long as 10 years before therapies are avail...$11-million grant supports study of how genes affect cancer chemotherapy
...cond cancers, so that we may eventually be able to tailor cancer therapy based on a patient's genetic make-up." In addition to Ratain and Relling, the research team includes prominent specialists in genetics, drug metabolism, pharmacology, new drug development, cancer chemotherapy, statistics, medical ethic...Adding acetone to compost remediates chunk TNT contaminated soil
...degraded the TNT without the researchers having to tailor the compost to TNT-containing soil. "We're pretty sure there are at least three distinct communities doing the same thing," said Radtke. "The fact that there are so many gives us flexibility in the field. It makes the composting problem an engineerin...Rum and 'coke' combo far worse on the brain, study shows
...her major benefit of this study lies in helping to tailor addiction treatment," says Bolla. "Long-term use of these drugs actually is damaging to the very parts of the brain that make it possible to quit. So you have to work around that." "If you did these cognitive tests on people as soon as they begin ...Symposium on genetics in public health
...ofessionals better understand the disease process, tailor therapies through pharmacogenomics and screening. --"Genetics and the community." How will the community react to the increasing application of genetics in public health programs? Pilar Ossorio, assistant professor of law and medical ethics at the ...LabNotes -- Research highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
...rchitecture will allow students and professors to tailor it to specific courses or research and teaching needs. The toolkit was designed to enable collaborative scientific research at EMSL, a Department of Energy user facility managed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory....Acid-rain component may be more potent pollutant than previously thought, UB chemists discover
...fundamental finding that will help chemists better tailor chemical reactions in the lab. The research is scheduled for publication in today's issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (Vol. 122, Issue 48, pp. 11887-11892). Two years ago, the UB team was the first to discover that reactions oc...