Phase II trials of second-generation antisense cancer drug planned following successful early study
...one therapies, buserelin and flutamide, were given alongside OGX-011. Post surgery analysis of the patients' prostate cancers showed that the higher the dose of OGX-011 given, the lower clusterin levels were within the cancer cells. At the highest dose given of 640mg the clusterin messenger RNA (mRNA) was down...Newcastle scientists get UK's first stem cell license
...chers the ethical and social questions which arise alongside the technical and scientific issues in this promising area of science. Professor John Burn, Executive Director of Life Knowledge Parkadded, "These developments vindicate our decision to make stem cells a focus of our investment. The Newcastle te...Parasitic cowbirds thrive with a less ruthless strategy than cuckoos
...st species that have about two nestmates surviving alongside the cowbird. The study notes that among the cowbird's historical hosts, you typically find two eggs with a single cowbird egg. The phoebe is a new host, with an average clutch size of five eggs. "This was a very experimental study, combining some spe...Misfiring proteins tied to inflammation and sick feeling of type 2 diabetics
...an adult-onset disease -- is an increasing problem alongside obesity, even among teenagers. Some 18 million Americans suffer from diabetes, with more than 90 percent being type 2, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Diabetes costs some $98 billion a year to treat and is the nation's sixth leading c...$1.86 billion boost for UK science and innovation
...s why I am delighted to be launching the framework alongside those, such as the Wellcome Trust, with whom we will be working to ensure a more sustainable future for UK science". The UK Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, Patricia Hewitt, said:"The transfer of knowledge from the science base to UK indust...Brain disease research, particle physics meet in the middle (ware)
...ation for the country's universities and colleges, alongside its current Athens access management system. Established in late 2001, NMI funds the design, development, testing and deployment of middleware, key technologies upon which customized applications are built. Specialized NMI teams are defining open-so...DELTA mission and ESA astronaut dock with ISS
...active role in piloting and docking the spacecraft alongside FKA cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, the Soyuz Commander who will become the ISS Expedition 9 Commander. The third crew member was NASA astronaut Edward Fincke, the ISS Expedition 9 Flight Engineer. Kuipers is the second Dutch citizen in space, following ...DELTA mission heading to ISS with Dutch ESA astronaut
...active role in piloting and docking the spacecraft alongside Padalka, Soyuz Commander and ISS Expedition 9 Commander. Kuipers will also take the role of Flight engineer on his return flight. This is the fourth Soyuz TMA flight, the first having taken place in October 2002 with ESA astronaut Frank De Winne from...Dana-Farber launches Center for Applied Cancer Science
...Farber President Edward J. Benz, Jr., MD. "Working alongside and with the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, we will further improve our academic-corporate collaborations that can, and ultimately will, save lives by translating scientific discoveries into novel highly effective therapies." Under the ...Natural enemies help scientists untangle tropical forest food webs
... L.tortuosa in their experimental fieldwork plots, alongside a 6-km stretch of track, in December 2001. In control plots the same biomass of plant material was removed from randomly chosen plant species that were not attacked by leaf miners. Ten to 12 months, or five to six leaf miner generations, later, the ...Crucial brain development gene identified
...tients are particularly intriguing when considered alongside what little is known about the human version of the Lgl1 gene: Human Lgl1 resides on the short arm of chromosome 17, in a region that is affected in half of all medulloblastoma brain tumors. While further research is needed to delineate the role of ...Top US scientist honored with prestigious award
...ancement of women in science. "L'ORAL's commitment alongside UNESCO in the For Women In Science partnership is a concrete expression of our firm conviction that science is the source of all progress and that the contribution of women is vital to its future," said Lindsay Owen-Jones, Chairman and Chief Executiv...Brain Centre gives Wales a world lead
...osts, of building and staffing the centre located alongside Cardiff's School of Psychology and School of Biosciences will be met by internal funds and from University resources earmarked for merger-related projects, as well as 600,000 from the Science Research Investment Fund (SRIF) allocation made by the DT...UK Government proposes long-term strategy for science
...tment plan for science, engineering and innovation alongside the 2004 Spending Review." "To help inform this plan Patricia Hewitt, Charles Clarke and I will consult widely with the scientific community, with universities and research institutes, with charities, and with business over the next few months." Patr...Studies offer new insight into HIV vaccine development
...virus where it's most vulnerable. The work appears alongside a study of HIV-infected people performed by scientists at Harvard Medical School and Oxford University. The Wisconsin study's lead author, Thomas Friedrich, is a doctoral student working under the direction of David Watkins, professor of pathology at...Passwords to guard entry aren't enough to protect complex data
...ts of documents being delivered to the requestor - alongside traditional access control, the consultant is rest...model is inadequate. While access control working alongside release control will improve the protection of privacy, complex security definitions may conflict wi...UF study: World shark attacks sink again, may signal long-term trend
...h by a great white shark on Aug. 19 while swimming alongside a group of seals off the California coast, Burgess said. Another high-profile incident that didn't end in fatality was a Halloween attack off Kauai's North Shore on 13-year-old surfing champion Bethany Hamilton, whose left arm was severed below the s...A new direction for psoriasis research?
...f people with psoriasis. In a commentary appearing alongside the Young et al paper, Michael Detmar, M.D., of the Cutaneous Biology Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston writes: "Together with the biological evidence for a pathogenetic role of VEGF in psoriasis, the study by Young et al su...Breast cancer susceptibility genes play role in DNA repair
...also identify a number of novel proteins that work alongside BRCA1 and BRCA2 and might also play a part in breast cancer. These proteins offer an important set of new targets for possible anti-cancer drugs. The link between the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes and hereditary breast cancer was first identified in the earl......sortia brings together leading researchers working alongside industry. A key element of the SUPERGEN philosophy... awareness of science and engineering. EPSRC works alongside other Research Councils with responsibility for other areas of research. The Research Councils work ...