More chance of a cure for patients with common and aggressive form of blood cancer
...from pivotal study shows benefit of using MabThera plus CHOP chemotherapy in the treatment of aggressive n...with the new drug combination MabThera (rituximab) plus CHOP (standard chemotherapy), compared to standard chemotherapy alone. This is according to two yea...Institute to counter agricultural terrorism formalized
...mical and biological weapons, and Clarke said that plus the university's border-state location, successful history in agriculture and engineering, and statewide network of extension agents all help make Texas A&M a prime location for such an institute....NHLBI study finds DASH diet and reduced sodium lowers blood pressure for all
The DASH diet plus reduced dietary sodium lowers blood pressure for all persons, according to the first detailed subgroup analysis of the DASH study results. The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension study was supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institut...Effectiveness of MabThera plus standard chemotherapy in treating NHL featured in ...t is estimated that patients treated with MabThera plus CHOP, standard chemotherapy, versus CHOP alone show an overall survival rate of 70 per cent (MabTher......ce between whats in the rain gauge and throughfall plus stemflow is the amount of extra water stripped by the forest. The team are now looking at developing gauges that can be used to estimate cloud stripping at a much wider range of sites and so build a fuller picture of the wet North Queensland rainfor...Experts offer the skinny on search for healthy fat
... also have healthy amounts of omega-3s. Lean meat, plus fruits and vegetables can also contain omega-3s. "Now there are also omega-3 enriched eggs that you can buy in the supermarket," he says. In the future, more foods will be available with omega-3s added. Watkins is conducting an experiment of feeding ...Discovery of bacterial 'touch sensor' could lead to biofilm treatments
... of the bacteria that initiates biofilm formation, plus a two-protein receptor system that receives and transmits the signal within the cell. "In a sense, you can say that for E. coli this is a touch sensor," said Silhavy, a professor in the Department of Molecular Biology. "If we mutate these genes, the ...Scientist: motion sickness drug scopolamine should be tested as new nerve agent treatment
...they were given scopolamone alone or that compound plus methscopolamine than if they received atropine, he...opolamine and 85 percent of mice given scopolamine plus methscopolamine survived. At relatively low but lethal doses of physostigmine, which is a reversibl...Tufts University researchers engineer first 'custom-made' human knee ligaments from adult stem cells
...U.S. last year, costing an estimated $3.5 billion, plus another $200 million for subsequent therapy. Worldwide, another 400,000 people last year injured this ligament. The costs associated with surgery can range from $10,000 to $25,000 per procedure, and up to $1,200 in physical therapy. In addition, the...Other highlights in the Feb. 20 issue of JNCI
...cell lung cancer in the United States, carboplatin plus paclitaxel, is substantially more expensive than a... that was the previous standard regimen, cisplatin plus vinorelbine. An economic analysis of the two therapies found that the total health care costs assoc...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology: February 2002
...cacy of a PA-based vaccine. Immunization with FIS plus PA provides a synergistic protective immunity acting on both toxemia and infection, say the researchers. The results presented here may serve as the basis for the first design, for human use, of a subunit vaccine as protective as the current live ve...Hormone replacement therapy may help prevent chronic wounds in elderly patients
...a School of Medicine has revealed another possible plus for HRT: Older patients taking estrogen may be significantly less likely to suffer from two of the most common and slow-to-heal wounds that afflict the elderly: pressure ulcers (often described as "bed sores") and venous leg ulcers. The finding by ...Optical tweezers show how DNA uncoils
...ized proteins called histones. The complex of DNA plus histones in cells of higher organisms is called chromatin. Michelle D. Wang, assistant professor of physics at Cornell, who led the scientific team, said the researchers are proposing a three-stage model for the way in which nucleosomal units in c...Study to help solve health problems by understanding gene, protein behavior in cells
...University of Pennsylvania, and Boston University, plus private companies, are involved in the program. The teams will collaborate to build software tools and models that will be useful because they are developed in the context of real research problems. SRI of Stanford, Cal., will carry out the projects...NIAID unveils bioterrorism research agenda
... grants with academic researchers and institutions plus new models for government-industry partnerships. According to NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., the proposed increase in research funding will also pay big benefits to other research. "In recent years, we have witnessed several emerging and r...The building blocks of erection: Nitric oxide...and more nitric oxide
...e called endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), plus the discovery that the pressure of flowing blood against a vessel wall could induce it to produce nitric oxide, were critical pieces of the puzzle. These discoveries offer a fuller picture of the complex physiology of erection. In addition to its ap...Unexpected links found between many RNA viruses
...ering a viral RNA intermediate and its polymerase, plus other features of [+]RNA viruses, are shared with double-stranded RNA viruses, Ahlquist said. According to Ahlquist, their findings and complementary findings of other scientists suggest that all three classes of viruses evolved from a common ancesto...New method used to transfer genes into mouse
...h program. "The Sleeping Beauty transposase enzyme plus the transposon is like a truck used to carry the cargo, or specific genes, into the animal. These specific genes could help treat diseases such as cancer." Researchers at the Cancer Center injected a one-cell mouse embryo--a fertilized egg--with a l...Brookhaven Spotlights: News from the National Synchrotron Light Source
...earchers found that bimetallics made of molybdenum plus either cobalt, nickel or iron were the most efficient in removing sulfur from oil. These bimetallics have a wide range of applications for the production of environmentally friendly combustion of fuels for use in power plants, factories, houses, and ......caused by a combination of a large number of genes plus environmental factors such as dust and pollen which can trigger bouts of asthma. A research team from the Schering-Plough Research Institute in New Jersey, are the first to produce a profile of the genes expressed during a simulated asthma attack in...