Pooling worldwide data about childhood tumors helps researchers gauge aggressiveness of treatment
...nd complications. With some children, what is left undone may be just as important as what is done to treat their tumors. Yet some cancers behave in ways that defy easy categorization. A case in point is neuroblastoma, a solid tumor of the peripheral nervous system that accounts for 10 percent of all childh...Humanity's din could be blocking whales' courtship songs
..."Twenty to 25 million years of evolution are being undone in a hundred years," Clark says. "There are 100-year-old whales alive today who can probably remember when the ocean was a much quieter place, and they could communicate with colleagues across grand expanses of ocean." The discovery about whales' cou...JCI table of contents, 15 June 2004
... Many potentially effective cancer treatments are undone by the onset of resistance to the treatment. In order to circumvent this problem, D. Gary Gilliland and colleagues, of Brigham and Women's Hospital, have developed a strategy using the latest technologies involving small interfering RNA to enhance c...Many potentially effective cancer treatments are undone by the onset of resistance to the treatment. In order to circumvent this problem, D. Gary Gilliland and colleagues, of Brigham and Women's Hospital, have developed a strategy using the latest technologies involving small interfering RNA to enhance c...