Belgian researchers explore revolutionary approach to angiogenesis
Geneva, Switzerland: A revolutionary approach to angiogenesis[1] by a team of Belgian researchers could make cancer treatment more effective at killing tumours. Dr. Olivier Feron and his team from the University of Louvain Medical School in Brussels have turned the whole concept of targ...16th EORTC NCI AACR Symposium 'Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics'
... in patients now under way. * Dr. Olivier Feron: A revolutionary approach to angiogenesis - exploiting tumour blood vessels to boost chemotherapy and radiotherapy instead of (or before) killing them. Successful mouse study leads to patient trial. * Professor Eric Van Cutsem: International trial results shows way t...Laboratory grows world record length carbon nanotube
...e. Single-wall carbon nanotubes have a number of revolutionary uses, including being spun into fibers or yarns that are more than 10 times stronger than any current structural material. In addition to uses in lightweight, high-strength applications, these new long metallic nanotubes also will enable new types of...Final Alert: 16th EORTC NCI AACR Symposium
...Glivec effective in yet another type of cancer A revolutionary approach to anti-angiogenesis researchers find way to exploit tumour blood vessels New cell death-inducing monoclonal antibody results from early study targeting TRAIL R2 protein Lypcopene and vitamin E inhibits prostate tumours new laboratory r...APS showcases 46 historic breakthrough research articles
...by Seymour Kety and Carl Schmidt that introduced a revolutionary new way to measure cerebral blood flow. The manuscript, still a landmark in its field, sparked the development of new cerebral blood flow methodologies and revolutionized research on the human brain. Arthur Guyton, Arthur Lindsey and Berwind Kaufma...MSU group reviews Berkeley venture into brave new science funding world
...h teams. The wholesale funding of a department was revolutionary and, Busch said, done quickly without proper safeguards. "It gives the impression that the whole department has been bought that the university is captive of the funding agency," Busch said. "If you want to find out what's going on in the biotech i...Yale scientists visualize molecular detail of RNA splicing complex
... of Colorado and Sidney Altman at Yale at for this revolutionary discovery. "This is the first RNA splicing complex to be visualized in molecular detail," said Strobel. "Now we can finally see what it looks like and how it reacts."...Innovative 'self healing' bandage to help diabetics
A revolutionary type of 'self healing' bandage that uses the patient's own cells is being developed. The technique has already been tried successfully on patients with diabetic ulcers and in the long-term could offer a more effective, quicker and cost efficient way ...Research points to potential obesity treatment
...st 35 years. "I tell my students we're living in a revolutionary time," he says. "Who knows what we'll discover tomorrow, because it's clear there are lots of unknowns. It gets more exciting all the time, and I feel almost like I'm starting over again." The next step is licensing the discovery and working with a p...ASU advance could provide insight into human's ability to recognize patterns
...Hopfield network was invented, it was considered a revolutionary step in understanding how biological memory works. "A difficulty with the Hopfield network is that it consists of units (or artificial neurons) with two discrete states," he added. "It is therefore desirable to study oscillatory networks but this ha...National Cancer Gene Therapy Foundation gives $4.0 million in research grants
...versity of Pennsylvania. Gene therapy is a revolutionary new form of treatment. It has emerged in recent years with the remarkable potential not only to deliver a cure for many types of cancers, but also to improve the quality of life with reduced side effects for patients undergoing treatments. Every y...Received truth turned on end in cancer research
...ance. What the Lund team has done is to provide a revolutionary new picture of how this very first cancer cell arises....MGH study finds female mammals produce egg cells into adulthood
... and follicles." To investigate such a potentially revolutionary possibility, the researchers ran several additional experiments. Careful examination of ovaries of young and mature mice identified cells on the organs' outer surface that resembled germ cells, which are the source of oocytes that develop in feta...Department of Energy 20-Year science facility plan announced
...ransform our understanding of biology, and provide revolutionary new tools to deal with disease. "They can make major and necessary contributions to national security and give us the ability to understand matter at its most fundamental level." "At each stage along the process of discovery, America's economy grows...From genome comparisons, UCSD researchers learn lessons about evolution and cancer
...cientists barely three months in 2003 to confirm a revolutionary new view of what happens in the human genome to cause dramatic evolutionary changes. Now, bioinformaticians at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) -- who posited that 'fragile' regions exist in the human genome that are more susceptible to...Illinois professor wins Nobel Prize
...g procedure should thank Paul. His work has led to revolutionary insights into the functions of the brain and the w...agnetic resonance imaging scanner, which has had a revolutionary impact on the medical profession. Magnetic resonance imaging works by placing the body in a powerful...Data privacy, emergency response, weather prediction to benefit from information technology advances
...ajor advances, new and unanticipated technologies, revolutionary applications or new ways to perform important activities. Further details on this year's eight large ITR awards are provided in the attached descriptions. Attachment: Large ITR Awards for 2003...Zengen's new technology first to deliver drug active ingredients in an oral strip
... 22, 2003) - Zengen, Inc. announced today that its revolutionary drug delivery technology will be used in the new Chloraseptic(R) Relief Strips(TM), the only medicated oral strip for the treatment of sore throat. Zengen's proprietary technology is the first to use drug active ingredients in an oral strip. "We ...Scientists at TSRI create new strain of yeast with 21-amino acid genetic code
...cal Biology in La Jolla, California is introducing revolutionary changes into the genetic code of organisms like yeast that allow these cellular factories to mass produce proteins with unnatural amino acids. Led by Professor Peter G. Schultz, Ph.D., who holds the Scripps Family Chair in Chemistry at TSRI, the tea......ed for industry have an unexpected and potentially revolutionary side effect: They can triple or quadruple the life of brain cells. The result is people could live longer and with fewer age-related health problems. Beverly Rzigalinski, assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology a...