Half-million dollar landmark achieved for the Methuselah Mouse Prize
...ravel. "We've seen how prizes such as the X PRIZE and the Methuselah Mouse Prize can dramatically increase competition and innovation, and create interest for the public," said Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, Founder and Executive ...Phase II trials of second-generation antisense cancer drug planned following successful early study
...f clusterin, a protein that protects cell survival and is widely distributed in body tissue. Clusterin is...ancers, clusterin can stop cancer cells from dying and counters the effectiveness of chemotherapy, hormone treatment and radiotherapy. Dr. Kim Chi, assista...Cancer vaccine based on pathogenic listeria bacteria shows promise targeting metastases
...ria bacteria based on a strain created by coauthor and University of California, Berkeley, microbiologist...teria vaccine to target cancers such as pancreatic and ovarian cancer, and possibly leukemia and various solid tumors. The listeria bacteria are uniquely e...Award winning researchers reveal potential new role for Glivec
...e EORTC-NCI-AACR[2] Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics in Geneva, was selected as a p...aper by the scientific board of the EORTC-NCI-AACR and also won an award from the Fondation Nelia et Amadeo Barletta (FNAB)[3], a foundation devoted to sup...Trial shows which brain cancer patients benefit from temozolomide
..., Switzerland: An international team of scientists and cancer specialists has identified which patients w...live longer if they are treated with temozolomide, and which patients are likely to get only marginal, if any, benefit. The genetic predictive test on tumo...New research shows plants can shuffle and paste gene pieces to generate genetic diversity
...e TE content of the entire rice genome, Ning Jiang and Xiaoyu Zhang, two postdoctoral fellows in the Wess...nly a few mechanisms known for evolving new genes, and one is genetic recombination, which can bring fragments of different genes next to each other," said...'Most recent common ancestor' of all living humans surprisingly recent
...he Department of Statistics at Yale University and senior author on the paper. Chang established... model that ignored such complexities as geography and migration. Those precise mathematical results showed that in a world obeying the simplified assumpti...Genetic differences might help distinguish thyroid cancers
...o types of thyroid cancer that are closely related and sometimes difficult to distinguish can be readily ...ive Cancer Center Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, used microarray analysis to show that papillary thyroid carcin...New Arizona State center brings science to policy on issues of water resources and urban growth
...ity will study the decision processes used to plan and manage water resources and desert city growth. The center, called the Decision Center for a Desert City, could have a profound ...Pacific Northwest team unveils largest virus proteome to date
PORTLAND, Ore., and RICHLAND, Wash. Scientists have discovered a record number of proteins for one of the largest and most complex viruses, the highly infectious and stealthy human cytomegalovirus, a team from Pacific ...Cardiac arrest may hinder ability to learn certain tasks
... the area of the brain that plays a role in memory and navigation. A lack of oxygen during a severe attac...tructural changes that can affect learning, memory and other behaviors, said Courtney DeVries, the study's lead author and an assistant professor of psycho...4 October press briefing to focus on minority recruitment to science and engineering programs
...nsible options for protecting diversity in science and engineering programs. The report, Standing Our Gro...AAAS, the world's largest general science society, and NACME, the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering. Details will remain under embargo ...Researchers identify protein promoting vascular tumor growth
...umors that can cause facial deformities in infants and young children, paving the way for an antibody-bas...ould be a key to healing or preventing the tumors and possibly others in which MCP-1 is expressed. The results are published in the October issue of t...Winning combination to build bone density in children
... bones are important for obvious reasons in growth and development. It is widely accepted that calcium intake and physical activity are two ways one can positively impact bone density. But consuming the FDA recomm...High resolution satellite imagery assists hunt for infectious 'kissing bugs'
... human skin where it is thinnest around the mouth and eyes. Growing up to five centimetres long, the ki...oscopic protozoan parasite that causes the wasting and eventually lethal Chagas disease. Secondary sources of infection can include ingesting contaminated ...... the development of nano-sized hybrid therapeutics and nano-sized drug delivery systems over the last dec... treat multiple sclerosis, AIDS, cancer, hepatitis and arthritis." Furthermore, the improved understanding of the molecular basis of disease has led to "re...Study: Emission of smog ingredients from trees is increasing rapidly
...emitted as unburned fuel from automobile tailpipes and as vapors from industrial chemicals, but also come...her pollutants to form ozone, a bluish, irritating and pungent gas that is a major form of smog in the lower atmosphere. While clean-air laws have reduced...Gene clusters predict atherosclerosis severity, susceptibility
...ng highly individualized approaches to identifying and treating atherosclerosis that are tailored to and informed by a patient's unique genetic make-up. Atherosclerosis is a disorder marked by the thick...Far more men than women favor routine paternity testing at birth
...thing is that the guys are always split 50-50. Age and income groups don't seem to matter," said Lisa Hayward, a UW doctoral student in biology and lead author of a paper reporting the findings in the current issue of the journal Evolution and Huma...Bush nominates NJIT space explorer Louis Lanzerotti to NSF governing board
...he basis of their distinguished service in science and engineering research. They will fill six-year-term...Bell Laboratories-Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the International Academy of Astronautics, is th...