Studies at UNC plumb tumor resistance to treatment
...may also help doctors more effectively predict the outcome of cancer therapies. "For many years it's been known that cancerous tumors that have low amounts of oxygen are relatively resistant to the effects of radiation treatment," said Mahesh Varia, MD, professor of radiation oncology at UNC-CH. "More rec...African Americans fare less well than whites after stroke prevention surgery
...have not investigated the influence of race on the outcome of surgery. This study suggests that it is not necessarily genetic, but socioeconomic factors that are influential in determining surgical outcome." "There is no question that surgeons and hospitals that do the most procedures get the best results,...Save that tiger - Texas A&M vets set first-ever surgery
...is type of surgery. "Our chances for a successful outcome are greatly increased with Dr. Fraser and his medical team contributing to this effort," Fossum says. "Dr. Fraser is a skilled surgeon in this procedure and we believe that learning these techniques can benefit our animal patients as well." With the...Team identifies first drug therapy for rare, precancerous stomach illness
...Mntrier's disease and noted that so far, long-term outcome has not been evaluated. This patient died suddenly of a heart attack during evaluation for a heart-lung transplant shortly after his treatment with C225. The information gathered in this case sets the stage for further laboratory research into the c......munication system," says Davies, "but changing the outcome by having genes that you wanted activated rather than genes that the plant wanted." Sending these instructions would have to be done remotely if bionic plants were part of an advance party for a human colony. The unit would have to obey radio signal...UCSF-led study points to pivotal, early event in cancer development
...SF professor of pathology. The discovery was an outcome of studies supported by the UCSF Breast SPORE (Specialized Program in Organ Research Excellence), a funding mechanism established by the National Cancer Institute aimed at supporting basic scientists in work on translational research. In their stu...New AAAS project links judges to experts in science and engineering
... tremendous prestige and no vested interest in the outcome of a given case. The CASE project could be particularly helpful to judges who are anxious to comply with a 1993 Supreme Court ruling that federal judges must take steps to exclude unreliable testimony from the courtroom. The need for experts is a...Humans at work and play in high altitude environments
...h-altitude physiology have been interpreted as the outcome of different micro-evolutionary processes, she said. Figuring out how that happened and why and how long it took will have implications for understanding the tempo and mode of evolutionary adaptation to change in humans and for understanding the vari...Study uncovers new contributor to brain damage, suggesting novel drug target
...amaged, causing hypoxic-ischemic (H-I) injury. The outcome may be long-term cognitive difficulties, seizures and motor problems, as in cerebral palsy. Scientists know of two main types of cell death, each triggered by a different cascade of biological events. In apoptosis, cells shrink and die. In necrosis,...Scientists discover how nerve cells move from target to target as they wire up the developing embryo
...physical engagement -- a duel with a predetermined outcome -- between two different kinds of receptors on the...shes that the mechanism actually predetermines the outcome any time an axon encounters conflicting guidance signals. Perhaps the simplest way an axon could be ...New view of evolving genes, proteins to aid bioinformatics
...t both mutation biases and selection influence the outcome of evolution under simple conditions. Without disputing that natural selection is a prominent 'external' cause of non-randomness in evolution, we maintain that there is also an 'internal' cause arising from biases in variation. It is this kind of 'in......s going on around it - calculating the most likely outcome from the fundamental equations of quantum mechanics would keep a computer busy for the lifetime of the universe. Instead, they came up with the idea of dealing with what Chandler calls trajectories, that is, the entire dynamic process from one state ...The first schizophrenia gene is discovered
...echanisms underlying the development and long-term outcome of schizophrenia. Future studies need to clarify whether mutations in the WKL1 gene or similar genes may also cause schizophrenia or related disorders in other families and sporadic cases. The development of causal treatments of these devasting and c......alth of the children, all the studies on pregnancy outcome to date have been reassuring, suggesting that thes..., it would seem advisable to monitor the pregnancy outcome of all cancer patients who undergo IVF and embryo cryopreservation after chemotherapy, and possibly ......ies of whether it is a prognosticator of favorable outcome of disease. And two, we can start thinking about using the antigens to develop a specific vaccine." Allison, postdoctoral fellow Marcella Fass, graduate student Rebecca Waitz and their colleagues in the College of Letters & Science at UC Berkeley wil...Saline solution a serious threat to wetlands
... "To eliminate dryland salinity with a sustainable outcome instead of something that will continue to destroy natural assets." Dr Paton's research will feature in a 30-part radio series on the Murray, to be broadcast on Radio 5UV in September....Do the effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol differ by culture?
...tential influence of cultural context on offspring outcome cannot be excluded based on a single study."...... the field or the length of the puck, to enable an outcome which would have not been possible with the non-squeezed state." The "squeezing" is a metaphor that describes a way of working around the limits of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which places alimit on how accurately the value of two compleme...How did we get so smart? Study sheds light on evolution of the brain
...other complex cognitive tasks, suggesting that the outcome of social interactions has been a powerful evolutionary force. Interestingly, even when Wang and colleagues eliminated the neocortex from their analysis, humans still had a unique brain structure, appearing on the extreme end of the chart. In genera......l interest in the creation of a national park. The outcome of accelerated negotiations shepherded by APECO, The Field Museum and others came this week, when President Valentn Paniagua and Perus council of ministers signed the park into law. Conservation International is investing in long-term management of...