New study indicates arsenic could be suitable as first-line treatment in type of leukaemia
...rmal white cells in the bone marrow and the blood, resulting in anaemia, bleeding and susceptibility to infections. It occurs in people of all ages, although it is more common in older people. The five-year survival rate for patients receiving the current optimum treatment of chemotherapy plus ATRA (All Trans-...DNA lends scientists a hand, revealing new chemical reactions
...emical reaction to generate a product. Because the resulting synthetic compounds are linked to DNA, techniques long used to screen and amplify the genetic mainstay can be applied. In the current work, the scientists coupled DNA-templated synthesis with in vitro selection and DNA microarray analysis to scan for...Researchers identify protein promoting vascular tumor growth
... affect up to 3 percent of all children, typically resulting in a prominent red mass on the head and neck. Up to one in four patients with hemangioendotheliomas, or HEs, the type of tumor used in these studies, die of anemia associated with the tumors. The findings present the first evidence that MCP-1 and...Knock knock knocking on rhythm's neural doors
...hythm dictated to the subjects by a metronome. The resulting fMRI records displayed far-reaching differences. Rhythmic activity created activity only in the motor areas of the opposite brain hemisphere and in the cerebellum. Discrete activity was much more extensive, including numerous areas on both sides of t...Researchers create nanotubes that change colors, form 'nanocarpet' and kill bacteria
...n change colors when appropriately formulated, the resulting molecule would have the desired properties of both...ably, in addition to being able to kill cells, the resulting reaction mixture had the ability to self assemble into beautiful nanotubes of uniform structure. Aft...Green, leafy spinach may soon power cellphones and laptops
...uge to isolate a protein deep within the cell. The resulting dark green pellets that smell like cut grass were ...ce to create optical excitation, then measured the resulting current. "An important caveat is that we got very little current out, mostly because we had just a t...ORNL's Delmau joins Technology Review's list of top young innovators
... Delmau, the first author on two patents in France resulting from her work with the French Atomic Energy Commission, came to the United States first as a student in 1992 at ORNL, where she continued her work with nuclear waste treatment technologies during one fall and two summer terms. Delmau joined ORNL'...Protein is key to fatal disorder and normal cell function
...ures and massive cell loss in the brain eventually resulting in death in the twenties. Duke graduate student Di...appropriately initiated and proceeds uncontrolled, resulting in death of brain cells and the clinical deterioration of juvenile Batten disease. "We may be able t...Byproduct of water-disinfection process found to be highly toxic
...t to compounds present in a drinking water source, resulting in a variety of chemical disinfectant byproducts. Some 600 DBPs have been identified since 1974, Plewa said. Scientists believe they've identified maybe 50 percent of all DBPs that occur in chlorine-treated water, but only 17 percent of those o...Tufts University establishes $4 million dollar tissue engineering resource center
... lead to the development of new processing methods resulting in new high-strength and high-performance materials used for biomedical applications. In 2002, Kaplan and his colleagues from Tufts' schools of engineering and medicine developed a tissue engineering strategy to repair one of the world's mos...Berkeley Lab soil scientist Margaret Torn receives Presidential Early Career Award
...ite for regional carbon studies in the world." The resulting data, bridging scales from individual crops to the middle of the continent and from the ground surface to the stratosphere, have led to improvements in regional and global computer climate models. In studies sponsored by the Office of Science, Torn...Two Virginia Tech energy-related inventions win R&D 100 awards
...tment shared facilities costs," says Wang. The resulting sensor system, developed by Wang, Center for Photonics Technology associate director Gary Pickrell, Post Doctoral Research Associate Bing Qi, Research Associate Hai Xiao, and Research Assistant Professor Russell May, was ready to test by 2002. The fi...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
..., can be activated by BH3-only proteins, like Bim, resulting in Bax integration into the outer mitochondrial membrane, formation of channels, release of cytochrome c, and apoptotic cell death. A selective inhibitor of JNK reduced apoptosis in the ischemic core, blocked interactions between JNK, BimL and Bax, a...Common cold virus can cause polio in mice when injected into muscles
...cells polio normally attacks," said Gromeier. "The resulting polio symptoms were milder than those caused by the poliovirus, but it was polio nonetheless." Such a subtle change in entry mode significantly changed the virus' behavior, and therein lies one of the greatest dangers associated with viruses, said Gr...Molecular staples shape a cancer killer
...ction that created a "staple" within the molecule, resulting in its stabilization. Korsmeyer and the paper's lead author, Loren D. Walensky, who are at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School, reported their studies in the September 3, 2004, issue of the journal Science. The chemical appr...Men from early middle ages were nearly as tall as modern people
...clude climate change; the growth of cities and the resulting spread of communicable diseases; changes in political structures; and changes in agricultural production. "Average height is a good way to measure the availability and consumption of basic necessities such as food, clothing, shelter, medical care and...Chernobyl study: Risk of thyroid cancer rises with radiation dose
... an estimated 5 million people were exposed to the resulting radiation. "Prior to Chernobyl, thyroid cancer in children was practically nonexistent. Today we see dozens and dozens of cases a year in the regions contaminated by the disaster, and the incidence continues to rise," Davis said. "This provides some...Convulsions in worms mimic epileptic seizures
...tor neurons, PTZ causes neuronal overexcitability, resulting in convulsions. Although the doses of PTZ used in these experiments did not cause convulsions in normal worms, when the researchers administered the chemical to the mutant worms, the lower half of their bodies remained motionless, while muscles in t...NHGRI launches Centers for Excellence in Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research
... be dedicated to addressing two overarching themes resulting from the clinical integration of genomics: the need to define criteria for clinical integration that lead to clinically and socially appropriate applications of genomic health care, and the need for a translational pathway that incorporates the goal ...Humans march to a faster genetic 'drummer' than primates, UC Riverside research says
...The explosive expansion of the DNA repeats and the resulting restructuring of our genetic code may be the clue to what makes us human," Dugaiczyk said. "During the same amount of time, humans accumulated more genetic novelties than chimpanzees, making the human/chimpanzee genetic distance larger than that betw...