Trial shows which brain cancer patients benefit from temozolomide
... benefit from the drug could be carried out fairly easily in any genetics laboratory and takes only two to three days, although the availability and quality of the tissue is an important issue. If implemented widely it would mean that temozolomide would become a targeted treatment. Dr. Monika Hegi told the ...DNA barcode finds four new bird species
...such as the eggs and larvae of insects. And it can easily distinguish between species that look alike. ...Indiana University, EPA to study airborne PCBs
...PCBs are semi-volatile, which means the toxins can easily alternate between liquid and gaseous states. Hites...m Manager Melissa Hulting. "PCBs do not break down easily and can remain in the environment long after they were initially used or released. Their persistence...Scientists find nanowires capable of detecting individual viruses
...ique could be scaled up to create miniature arrays easily capable of sensing thousands of different viruses. The work was reported in the most recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . "Viruses are among the most important causes of human disease and are of increasing concern a...Secretary of Energy announces seven E.O. Lawrence Award Winners
...arch for which they are given, show that DOE could easily be called the Department of Science and Energy." The winners are: Nathaniel Fisch, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL); Bette Korber, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, N.M.; ...AAAS expert panel calls for voter-system research and reform
...ial tally in Florida."The 2000 election showed how easily people'sfaith in the electoral system and process can belost," said Henry Brady, professor of politicalscience and public policy at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley. "If we are going to have astrong country, a strong democracy, it's probablywort...DuPont introduces in-home personal protection from dangers of hurricanes
...ont TM StormRoom TM with Kevlar helps provide an easily accessible safe haven from hurricanes and tornadoes." The DuPont TM StormRoom TM with Kevlar looks like a small room inside a house or garage. Both the inside and outside of the storm shelter can be finished to match the walls of a home. The room...Information system to help scientists analyze mechanisms of social behavior
...e Internet, where all the world's knowledge can be easily analyzed across many sources."...Blue marlin in gulf have high mercury levels, A&M study shows
...ffice. Mercury is a highly toxic substance that is easily absorbed into tissues of aquatic creatures, especially fish. Human consumption of fish that contain mercury can pose severe health problems. The harmful effects of mercury on living organisms range from kidney damage to reproductive failure and birt...PNNL lands $10.3 million NIH biodefense contract to unlock proteomes of salmonella and pox
... These pathogens, which spread quickly and are not easily combated with conventional drugs, could lead to major epidemics if enlisted by terrorists. NIAID is banking that determining which microbial proteins interact with which human host cells will point drug designers toward quick and effective treatments...Serotonin metabolites in mollusks suggest pathways for human therapies
...ous systems than mammals. "They have larger, more easily identified neurons," Stuart said. Mollusks are also good model systems because they show some mammal-like qualities that influence behavior, such as learning and memory, a discovery for which the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded in ...Complex cells likely arose from combination of bacterial and extreme-microbe genomes
...living creatures, a process that was once based on easily observable traits. Microbes, plants or animals were said to be related if they shared certain, mostly physical, characteristics. DNA technology now allows much closer scrutiny of hereditary molecules, which provides a more accurate and detailed pict...... also helps activate the apoptosis machinery -- it easily killed the cells. In contrast, they found, the same treatment had no effect on normal human fibroblast cells. "One particularly important finding is that the compound is effective at extremely low concentrations, already below those necessary for ot...Genetic map of important tree genes outlined
...any genes in a tree, and being able to modify them easily in poplars with asexual biotechnology methods such as gene transfer, provides a tremendous advance for basic research in trees. Even if regulations continue to present strong obstacles to use of gene transfer methods for commercial purposes, it can s...DHA-rich diet protects brain from Alzheimer's damage, UCLA study shows
...uming more DHA is something the average person can easily control," added Cole, associate director of the UCLA Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. "Anyone can buy DHA in its purified form, fish-oil capsules, high-fat fish or DHA-supplemented eggs." Cole and his colleagues focused on Alzheimer's damage to ...New imaging technology at Joslin shown to detect early signs of type 1 diabetes
...agnetic nanocrystals of iron oxide, which are very easily detected by MRI. After being injected intravenously, CMFN travels throughout the body, including through the tiny blood vessels of the pancreas. If these vessels have started to become permeable as a result of islet inflammation, more CMFN tends to ...Analysis of biological clock may lead to greater understanding of human disease
...ow that the internal clock is robust, that is, not easily perturbed. These studies may eventually lead to greater understanding of human jet lag as well as human disease states. Engineers at the University of California, Santa Barbara's new Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies and the Max Planck Inst...Professor calls for a new branch of learning
...ut lymphatic system and so reach other organs more easily than larger particles do. Inhaled nanoparticles have been reported to travel from nasal nerves to the brain, a phenomenon seen with some viruses similar in size to nanoparticles." Nanoparticles, materials the size of millionths of a millimetre, are ...Study of flu patients reveals virus outsmarting key drug
...se it provides evidence that influenza viruses can easily and quickly thwart one of the few lines of defense for a disease that claims many lives each year and that, in a pandemic, is among the world's most feared and deadly diseases. "The importance of this work is that when a pandemic occurs with a new v......ife on Earth. Their research shows that meteorites easily could have provided more phosphorus than naturally occurs on Earth -- enough phosphorus to give rise to biomolecules which eventually assembled into living, replicating organisms.Phosphorus is central to life. It forms the backbone of DNA and RNA bec...