Leader in cancer treatment and prevention research honored
...ghway with my Awesome Research Colleagues," at the third annual AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research. This premier cancer prevention meeting will be held October 16-20, 2004, at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in Seattle. In 2003, the AACR honored Dr. Albe...Veterinary Memorial Fund transforms grief into promise
... said VMRCVM Dean Gerhardt Schurig, who became the third dean in the college's history in June 2004. "Veterinary research contributes significantly to discoveries that directly improve animal health. It also contributes to human health by controlling or eliminating disease which can spread from animals to ...Schepens Eye Research Institute receives 'Roadmap' grant to develop center for curing eye diseases
...ilot projects will test the hypotheses, and in the third year results will be evaluated. (See detailed abstract on Schepens website at http://www.theschepens.org/nih_roadmap.htm ) In addition to solving some of the major biomedical dilemmas involved in eye research, Schepens and NIH hope that the work of...New study indicates arsenic could be suitable as first-line treatment in type of leukaemia
...o relapsed, eight went back into remission after a third cycle of treatment. Six patients in the trial have died. APL accounts for around 10% of acute myeloid leukaemias and affects an estimated 20,000 people worldwide each year. It is a cancer of the white blood cells, characterized by a rapid accumulati...UCSF scientist Joe Derisi named MaCarthur Fellow
... percent -- were "turned on," or expressed, at the third and critical stage in the parasite' s life cycle ? when it invades red blood cells and wreaks the havoc that causes the disease's symptoms. Their analysis showed that the pattern, or timing, of gene expression was unique, with most genes ...The book opens on the first tree genome
...ience Centre will highlight the poplar work at the third Plant Genomics European Meeting, in Lyon, France. On October 11, the poplar genome resource will be introduced to an international community of plant geneticists and ecologists. Consortium members Steve DiFazio and Pierre Rouz will present at the sy...Popular Science announces Third Annual 'Brilliant 10'
...ember 14, 2004--Popular Science magazine names its third annual "Brilliant 10" today, a list of ten young scientists to watch. All are extraordinary thinkers who are gaining recognition in their fields, yet remain virtually unknown to the general public. The article appears in the October issue of Popular ...New way to protect brain from stroke damage
...ding cause of severe, long-term disability and the third leading cause of death, according to the American Stroke Association. About 700,000 Americans have a stroke each year--one every 45 seconds. A type of cardiovascular disease, stroke affects arteries of the brain. In ischemic stroke, the most common f...PNNL lands $10.3 million NIH biodefense contract to unlock proteomes of salmonella and pox
... five-year award is the Department of Energy lab's third $10 million National Institutes of Health grant or contract in the past year and the second for Richard D. Smith, principal investigator and a Battelle Fellow at PNNL. Besides monkey pox, which serves as a close viral analog to deadly smallpox, two s...New treatment for fibromyalgia
...re Caucasian and the mean age was 49. Just over a third of the patients--38 percent--had been diagnosed with depression. On a random basis, the patients were prescribed one of two treatments for a course of 12 weeks. About half, 104 individuals, received 60 milligrams of duloxetine twice a day. The remain...Joslin Diabetes Center adds first affiliate in California at Irvine Medical Center
... in California have diabetes, and statistically, a third of them don't know they have the disease," said Dr. John W. Hare, director of Joslin's Affiliated Centers Program. "We look forward to working with the professionals at the UCI Medical Center to reach people in California with a proactive approach to...Origin and Development of the Vertebrate Traits
...March of 2004. We are pleased to announce that the third symposium in the series will focus on the theme of the "Origin and Development of the Vertebrate Traits", and will be held from April 11 to 13, 2005, in the CDB auditorium. This symposium will cover subjects relating to vertebrate evolutionary develo...Rising childhood leukaemia incidence prompts conference
...and about 100 die from it. It accounts for about a third of all cancers in children. The number of new cases diagnosed annually has been rising for at least 40 years, particularly in children under the age of five, he said. Importantly, by analysing the reliable mortality trends available between 1911 and ...Diabodies act as guided missiles targeted to mammary tumor growth
...ows that a diabody, an antibody surrogate just one third the size of native antibodies, can be used effectively as a targeting vehicle for radioimmunotherapy, said Gregory Adams, Ph.D., associate member of the Medical Science Division, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pa. Diabodies are genetically...Flame retardants found on supermarket shelves
...mulations and is currently considering a ban on a third type, the deca formulation. Officials in the United States are still debating the fate of flame retardants, although the main U.S. manufacturer recently announced plans to discontinue production of the penta and octa formulations as part of a volunta...Veterinarians discover first known case of canine distemper in a wild tiger
.... Quigley. In 1994 canine distemper virus killed a third of the lions in the Serengeti. The source of that virus was domestic dogs living with local pastoral communities. In the Russian Far East, canine distemper actively circulates in the domestic animal population, and preliminary studies by Dr. Quigley ...Molecular motor myosin VI moves 'hand over hand,' researchers say
...olecular motors, myosin V and kinesin. "Now that a third molecular motor has been found to move in the same hand-over-hand fashion, the argument for a rival 'inchworm' motion is getting pretty weak," said Paul Selvin, a professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a co-author ...Humans march to a faster genetic 'drummer' than primates, UC Riverside research says
... by comparing humans with other primate species. A third possible benefit is to underline the importance of protecting endangered primate species....Tiny collars fitted on youngest-ever tiger cubs
...eturned them to their den. The cubs represent the third generation of radio-collared tigers for the project, which has been monitoring the cats in the Russian Far East for the past decade. The mother of the cubs-an animal named Galia by Goodrich and his colleagues-was captured and radio-collared in the a...Review article makes case for a new source of cells in the body
...cal College of Georgia researchers are exploring a third group of cells that appears critical to development and capable of making all major types of human tissue. "VENT cells are a unique category of multi-potent cells," Dr. Douglas P. Dickinson, molecular biologist, says of this cell type that escapes ...