Lycopene slows human prostate tumour growth in mice and combined with vitamin E is even better
...d the growth of the human prostate tumours by over half (at day 42 of the study), extending the tumour doubling time accordingly, while all other single treatments had no significant effect. However, the combination of low-dose lycopene and vitamin E produced the greatest tumour inhibition 73% (at day 42...Scientists to prototype cyberinfrastructure for research and education access to ocean observatories
...e ITR grant is a collaborative award, with roughly half the work led by Delaney, with co-PIs Ronald Johnso...ories and terrestrial IT infrastructure. The other half of the award will be administered by UCSD, with most of the work to be carried out by Scripps Instit...Chemical derived from vitamin-E shows early promise as cancer drug
...e treated with aerosolized alpha-TEA had less than half the number of lung micrometastases as untreated mice (an average of 31 versus 73 detected cancer cells or small clusters of such cells). In addition, 48 percent of nearby lymph nodes of those mice lacked any microscopic signs of cancer, though these ...St. Petersburg/New Haven Partnership for HIV/AIDS Care, Treatment and Support launched
...20. The Partnership is made possible by a two and half year grant funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to the Yale AIDS Program and the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA). The goal is to develop a partnership between the Yale School of Medicine and th...Phase II trials of second-generation antisense cancer drug planned following successful early study
...er ones in that the molecules have a longer tissue half life and are potentially more potent. Pre-clinical studies had shown that blocking the production of clusterin with OGX-011 impairs a cancer cell's survival mechanism and enhances the effectiveness of standard chemotherapy, radiation and hormone ther...New research shows plants can shuffle and paste gene pieces to generate genetic diversity
...enome. The process can be highly efficient. Almost half of the human genome is derived from TEs and, this value can go to an astounding 95 percent or even higher for some plants, such as the lily. "Normally transposable elements just copy themselves, said Wessler, "But there were a few anecdotal report...Winning combination to build bone density in children
...mping rope, etc. "You don't have to jump rope for half an hour. That would be considered very hard. In ... of energy expenditure over the day to total about half an hour," he added. Abstract The purpose of this study was to assess the interactive effects of h...High resolution satellite imagery assists hunt for infectious 'kissing bugs'
...t it into towns and cities. The majority of the half a million inhabitants of Matagalpa are poor - made poorer still by the devastation of Hurricane Mitch in 1998 and Chagas is a disease of poverty. The parasite-carrying insects thrive in poor housing conditions, such as trodden earth floors, adobe w...Far more men than women favor routine paternity testing at birth
... paternity testing why they are opposed, more than half of them say, 'Ignorance is bliss,'" said co-author Sievert Rohwer, a UW biology professor. "Then the question becomes, 'Whose ignorance, the cuckolder or the person being cuckolded?'" Rohwer said the researchers speculate that few men are like...Veterans with Gulf War syndrome have damage in specific, primitive portion of nervous system
...asympathetic nervous system may account for nearly half of the typical symptoms including gallbladder disease, unrefreshing sleep, depression, joint pain, chronic diarrhea and sexual dysfunction that afflict those with Gulf War syndrome. Their findings will be published in the October issue of the Ameri...New hydrothermal vents discovered as 'South Pacific Odyssey' research begins
... active crack in the seafloor. About a mile and a half down, the basin could hold answers to questions about the origin of life on Earth, say the scientists, whose plans for their "South Pacific Odyssey" include an unprecedented number of research expeditions to this geologically unique "back-arc basin" ...A long-necked sea predator from China described in Science
...iff, 1.7-meter-long neck (approximately five and a half feet) was almost twice as long as its trunk which measured less than one meter in length. These findings appear as a "Brevia" article in the 24 September, 2004 issue of the journal Science published by AAAS the nonprofit science society. The creatu...'Smart antibiotics' may result from UCLA research
... world, and even in the United States in the first half of the 20th century. But now, we think we can engineer bacteriophages to function as 'dynamic' anti-microbial agents. This could provide us with a renewable resource of smart antibiotics for treating bacterial diseases," said Miller, a member of both...Scientists discover potential new way to control drug-resistant bacteria
... world, and even in the United States in the first half of the 20th century," says Dr. Miller. "But now we think we can engineer bacteriophages to function as 'dynamic' anti-microbial agents. This could provide us with a renewable resource of smart antibiotics for treating bacterial diseases." Dr. M...Binocular rivalry: Fulfilling visual expectations
... two walking figures, were scrambled such that one half of each walker was presented to each eye, rivalry was all but abolished. Although our brain does not recognize walking figures until long after the point at which information from the two eyes is combined, these results show that once a walker is ...Genes expose secrets of sex on the side
...ay the Y chromosome is migrating more, but if just half as many males are getting their genes into the next generation on average as are females, then it implies more males are migrating to do that." The pattern the researchers see in our genes doesn't require mass migrations of peopl...Washington University in St. Louis leads group studying aging process
...hloroplasts, the oxygen factory in plant cells. A half billion years ago cyanobacteria predated more complex organisms like multi-cellular plants and functioned in a world where the oxygen level of the biosphere was much less than it is today. Over its very long life span, cyanobacteria has evolved a sy...European common frog found to use novel mating strategy
...ere between four and 10 male frogs in a pond about half the size of an Olympic-size swimming pool. Since male frogs fertilize the female's eggs only after they're laid, there is no opportunity, as with animals that undergo internal fertilization, for more than one male to impregnate a female. And unlike t...First glimpse of DNA binding to viral enzyme
...DNA," Gupta said. "The DNA wraps around more than half the enzyme molecule. It appears like a strap, holding two parts of the protease together." Since the DNA binding site is quite long, there are numerous locations along it that could be used as targets for drugs to block the interaction and ac...Images of 'tail' of protein needed for cell multiplication suggest anticancer drug targets
...rystallography failed to provide detailed views of half of the individual amino acid building blocks making up the protein tail. This problem was overcome using a technique specially developed by Robert Cassell, a macromolecular specialist III in the St. Jude Hartwell Center for Biotechnology and Bioinfor...