Boston hospitals report early results of endostatin clinical trial
... cancer. "It is too early to assess the clinical significance of Endostatin's effectiveness based on this preliminary data," said Kufe. "The study was designed to measure Endostatin's safety, not its efficacy. We were pleased to see no major side effects at all dose levels, but further research is needed to de......ed in putting the new Golgi complex together. The significance of this new finding, Warren said, is at the basic cell biological level. "People have tended to think of organelles such as the Golgi in terms of the membranes, in part because this is the structure you see by electron microscopy," said Warren. "You ...How much of the world do we really see?
...e from a distance, when they were oblivious to its significance and only later came to recall it? "In my view, imagery plays a key role in many sorts of false memories," says Kosslyn. "One is 'filling in' the gaps and later remembering not only what was attended to, but also what was filled in." In retrospec...Penn State researchers unravel key facts about how a virus exits a host cell
...lity of interrupting the budding process marks the significance of this recently published research. Working independently, scientists at Penn State College of Medicine, Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes o...Study provides new details of 'the birth of a virus'
...lity of interrupting the budding process marks the significance of this recently published research. Working independently, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Penn State's College of Medicine and The National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health, pub...Scientists find gene that fuels 'sexual arms race'
...enario," says Kopp. "The pigmentation has lost its significance to the female - it is last year's fashion - and males are probably forced to evolve new ones all the time." Accumulated over time, it is these kinds of wardrobe changes that lead to morphological evolution and the establishment of new species, Carro...Scientists discover new stage in malarial infection
...cted blood samples, but only fleetingly, and their significance had not been grasped. "By better understanding the role of proteases in the parasite's escape from the host cell, we may be able to develop clinically useful inhibitors that will keep it from getting out to infect new cells," Goldberg said....Tobacco settlement $ = biomedical research; business development
...ger, U-M president. "It is a tangible sign of the significance of today's life sciences revolution to our state's economy, the educational mission of its universities, and the profound impact the Corridor will have on medicine and society. Contributing to Michigan's leadership in life science research and new b......ations in both of these genes, that the functional significance of boz and din became apparent. boz din double mutant embryos have no head or trunk, only a tail. This double mutant phenotype suggests that boz and din regulate separate but redundant pathways limiting BMP activity in the anterior portion of the emb...February media highlights: Geology and GSA today
... preservation of both the hard and soft parts. The significance of the fauna is two-fold: (1) it documents that representatives of the major phyla, including the chordates, were present in the Early Cambrian; and (2) it suggests that Cambrian faunas, like faunas throughout the rest of the Phanerozoic, were preser...Drug decreases blood vessel stiffness in older primates
... NIAs Laboratory of Cardiovascular Sciences. The significance of this drug is it alters the properties of the arterial wall and makes it easier for the heart to eject blood into the blood vessels. These results, coupled with prior studies in smaller animals, certainly suggest that ALT-711 may be a safe and effi...Wistar scientists add difficult-to-sequence stretches to human genome data
...ill highly speculative." He intends to explore the significance of this variation near the telomeres in future studies. In addition, the scientists found that many subtelomeric regions contain DNA sequences corresponding to both known and unknown expressed genes. Human subtelomeric sequences have been proposed by......the cell culture conditions. When asked about the significance of the findings, Zaret explained. "It offers an explanation for the puzzling emergence of liver cells in the pancreas during certain pathological states. The work provides a new direction for the pancreatic development field, since it reveals a comm...Freezing human eggs - new findings point way to greater success
...mperature was 27 degrees C. Dr Newton said: "The significance of these findings for the future of in-vitro human follicle culture is unclear. Nevertheless, since the number of patients having ovarian tissue stored is increasing it may be prudent at this early stage to optimise freezing protocols. This would ens...The enemy of my enemy is my friend
...eijden and Klinkhamer, 2000) and their significance in non-agricultural systems (Hawkins et al. 1999). The genetic homogeneity of agricultural systems may enhance the effect of herbivore-induced VOC emissions and therefore not reflect the circumstances of geneticall...New images reveal the workings of cellular protein factories
...esis," Noller said. This achievement has practical significance because many antibiotics work by binding to and disrupting bacterial ribosomes. Understanding the ribosome's structure may lead to the development new and more effective antibiotics. The images were obtained using a technique called x-ray crystallogr...DFG set up 19 new Graduiertenkollegs
..., University of Bonn - Space and ritual: Function, significance and use of rooms and locations defined for sacral purposes, University of Mainz European Graduiertenkollegs: - Modern polymer materials, preparation, characterisation and use, Technical University of Dresden, Karls University of Prague, Silesia...Effective acne treatments remain elusive, Hopkins researchers find
...how patients' acne was assessed and if statistical significance was achieved in each experimental comparison. After rating all the studies, the research team found only 14 of the studies met their criteria for a high "level of evidence", while the other 236 studies were almost equally divided between middle and l...New research confirms that natural selection is acting on the current human population
...ial College, an author on the paper, described the significance of their research: The most important finding is that changes in society, such as freely-available birth control for women and eradication of several important childhood diseases, which have taken place in the last 20 to 30 years will probably lead ...