Scientists report discovery of cancer-causing gene in childhood kidney tumor
...The pathology report, produced by the study's lead pathologist and co-author Sara Vargas, MD, of Children's Hospital and her colleagues, contained another hint of TFEB's involvement. The tumor cells had tested positive for one of the 'marker' genes controlled by MITF, Fisher explains. Because TFEB and MITF appea...Plant pathologists find growing number of plants affected by sudden oak death
...ll," states Matteo Garbelotto, an extension forest pathologist and adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a leading researcher on SOD. Not long after the isolation of the microbe causing SOD by U. C. Davis Professor Dave Rizzo in 2000, plant pathologists began to suspect that while oaks...Humongous fungus a new kind of individual
...plant," says Dr. Catherine Parks, a research plant pathologist with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service and co-ordinator of the research team. "From a broad scientific view, it challenges what we think of as an individual organism." In the paper, being published in the April 2003 is...Fetal death, miscarriage linked to genetic mutation
...ownstream Rb pathway. Alain de Bruin, a veterinary pathologist working in Leones laboratory, noticed that the tiny mouse placentas with the E2F3 deficiency looked different. Rather than dismiss it, he shared his observation with Leone. It would have been so easy to ignore something that you dont know very much ...Plant pathologists unpeel rumors of banana extinction
...ct within the next decade? Not likely says a plant pathologist with the American Phytopathological Society (APS). The plant pathologist is speaking out in response to an article that recently appeared in New Scientist depicting possible...More people are getting sick from eating fresh fruits
... looked at them directly," says J.W. Buck, a plant pathologist at the University of Georgia. But that is changing, says Buck, as such incidences continue to increase. Buck says there is no single reason why the number of reported produce-related outbreaks in the U.S. per year doubled between 1973-1987 and 1988-...Ovarian cancer detected in blood samples
... available tests," says Ie-Ming Shih, M.D., Ph.D., pathologist and director of this study for the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins. But, Shih cautioned, digital SNP is too costly and labor intensive at present to serve as a general screening test. "Currently there still is no way to usefully screen all wom...New findings reconfirm toxicity of Pfiesteria cultures
...t physical contact. Dr. Mac Law, a veterinary fish pathologist at NC State, found that fish exposed to the toxic filtrate developed skin lesions, showing that Pfiesteria can cause these sores without physical attack. New findings about Pfiesteria toxin will also be presented at the Florida meeting this week. Ram...Clay sprays control HABS; disease may affect more than salmon
... according to California Sea Grant research. Fish pathologist Ron Hedrick found that the P. salmonis bacterium could also infect white sea bass. The study began after farm-raised Chilean salmon consistently got sick and died after being placed in open-ocean net pens. The occurrence puzzled scientists for seve...Chicago researchers find why uncircumcised men have more HIV
...g to the first author, Bruce Patterson, M.D, viral pathologist in the division of Infectious Diseases at Children's Memorial Hospital, there are logical, but as yet unproven theories explaining how HIV infection occurs in the circumcised penis. "Infection may occur through the urethral mucosa or through disrupt...New possibilities for deadly childhood brain cancer
...dgehog in their experiments, a team led by Hopkins pathologist David Berman, M.D., Ph.D., and surgeon Sunil Karhadkar, M.D., used a plant chemical called cyclopamine. Compared to a similar chemical that doesn't block Hedgehog, cyclopamine reduced growth of mouse medulloblastoma cells grown in the laboratory and ...Case Western Reserve University researchers developing new treatment for cardiovascular disease
...o targeting of the device; and Kandice Marchant, a pathologist and CWRU adjunct professor in the department of biomedical engineering who has performed in vitro blood testing. For the liposome to succeed as a cardiovascular drug carrier, it must target and bind with damaged cells that have a unique surface recep...Study identifies protein in human brain development
....D., a research fellow in Walsh's laboratory and a pathologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, set out to investigate how and why the human cortex grows so large. Cortical development is fueled by the division of "neural precursor cells," which are the dividing cells that eventually give rise to the b...Cell phones don't cause cancer, rat study finds
...rs," says Marie C. La Regina, D.V.M., a veterinary pathologist with the University's Division of Comparative Medicine and the lead author on the study. "We examined 20 to 25 sections from each brain microscopically, which is more than is usually done when studying potential cancer-causing agents. We didn't want ...MIT's biorubber ushers in new possibilities in tissue engineering
...University; and Barbara J. Sheppard, a comparative pathologist in the Division of Comparative Medicine now at the Wyeth Genetics Institute. "This work is extremely important and represents the culmination of several years of effort specifically aimed at new materials that could have applications in the field of ...Genetic fingerprint of lung cancer predicts treatment outcome
...lapse," said Dr. Ming Tsao, leader of the study, a pathologist with Princess Margaret Hospital and Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto. "In the future, this may allow us to be much more precise in assessing risk and determining whether to be more aggressive in our treat...Fighting the spread of sudden oak death
...ern California, a University of Rhode Island plant pathologist has been tapped to study the newly-discovered pathogen called sudden oak death -- to better understand how it works. Larry Englander, URI associate professor of plant pathology, is an expert on the closest known relative of the killer fungus. So h...Stanford researchers make lung cancer finging that could vastly improve treatment and outcome
...nt and first author on the paper. "At present, the pathologist cannot determine patient survival for those diagnosed with adenocarcinoma." Garber thought these differences may arise from gene variations within the tumor. If that's the case, doctors would have an additional tool for distinguishing how tumors wil...Plant scientists work to protect U.S. from foreign diseases
... other countries, states Dr. Larry Madden, a plant pathologist at Ohio State University But with increasing world trade and more people traveling, the threat has increased substantially in recent years. Trade regulations have helped, but in order to enact them, the World Trade Organization (established in 1995 t...Plant health scientists issue statement in support of biotechnology
...fected by biotechnology, states Sue Tolin, a plant pathologist with Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and a member of the APS Public Policy Board. Advances in this area have played a critical role in our ability to identify and control plant pathogens that cause billions of dollars of crop loss...