A new way to kill cancer: SLU research shows viruses can destroy lung, colon tumors
...o. 6,627,190) for this technology was awarded last year to Dr. Wold and his team of researchers. Introgen and VirRx, a biotechnology company founded by Wold and with a primary interest in cancer gene therapy, are collaborating on new therapies for cancer and other diseases. Introgen is a leading developer...Embryonic stem cell - based tissue engineering may help repair damaged heart muscle
...congestive heart failure in the United States each year and the preeminently efficient treatment we have at this time is heart transplantation. Through tissue engineering we could actually restore the function of the heart by replacing large portions of the damaged heart muscle by a bioartificial one." Dr...Researchers find no link between alcohol consumption during pregnancy and asthma during childhood
...ma affects more than 20 million Americans. In the year 2000, nearly 5,000 Americans died due to asthma-related problems. Researchers in the May issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research investigate if those children born to mothers who consume alcohol during pregnancy have a greater risk o...Leading science, higher-education and engineering groups urge six improvements to U.S. visa quagmire
...nd conferences. In addition, surveys earlier this year by the American Council on Education, AAU, NAFSA: Association of International Educators; Council of Graduate Schools; and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges documented a substantial drop in applications by interna...Earth, sky tapped in unique global climate change study
...here, Volder noted. Briske and Tjoelker spent a year designing and building the elaborate, experimental system. Volder joined the team recently as the climate simulations and data collection began. The system includes eight giant shelters built to exclude rainfall but allow a free flow of air so as no...Institute for OneWorld Health CEO advocates focus first on developing world markets
...drugs cost about a dime but are ineffective. Every year in Africa, malaria kills about one million people per year, most of them children. Worldwide, about 300 million acute cases of malaria occur annually. OneWorld Health is developing a program focused on the assessment of the safety and efficacy of an...'Cardiofunk' mutation: Probable source of congenital heart defects
...lood. About 1,600 valve defects are diagnosed each year in the U.S. and few of the genes responsible for these defects have been identified. The research team found that a mutation in a single gene involved in heart contraction interfered with the development of the heart valve. While the mutation would k...Biolubricants smooth way to a cleaner environment
...try to grow at a healthy seven to ten per cent per year in the United States with the most growth occurring in higher margin, specialty products....Vanderbilt students take HHMI fellowships
...rsity School of Medicine students will be taking a year off from school and delving into research with the...d third-year student Olga Weinberg will spend next year at UCLA studying estrogen receptors and growth factor receptors in non-small cell lung cancer cells ...Taxanes may enhance immunity in breast cancer patients
...motherapy regimen have stronger immune systems one year after completing therapy than do women undergoing ...mediately after the women joined the study and one year following completion of treatment. Their analysis of the blood looked at the activity of the patient...World's oldest modern hummingbirds described in Science
... lived in present-day Germany more than 30 million year ago. Although hummingbirds are currently restricted to the Americas, their long-extinct Old World "look-alikes" may have helped determine the shape of some Asian and African flowers alive today. These findings appear in the 07 May, 2004 issue of the ...Nerac to expand patent collection with 17 more resources
...lans to incorporate the patent files over the next year and a half. Clients will receive updates as each new database becomes available to Nerac, currently scheduled as one per month. The databases cover the period 1980 to the present and include the full-text translated into English. Patent images will...Traditional fishing destroys corals - new research
...als began to rapidly disappear and in space of one year the cover of algae increased from one fifth of the reef to over half. Lower population densities of starfish, a greater volume of healthy corals and a lesser covering of algae were reported in the more lightly-fished areas. Although experts say the w...ESA's minature Earth observer put to many uses
... the sites of forest sites charted within the last year by BIRD to map the extent of the burnt area and identify any vegetation regrowth. Areas under target include last year's fire zones in Spain and Portugal as well Australia and Siberia. "Fire is the single most active environmental change agent," Oer...Teachers turn to Tolkein to explain physics
... be issued in an embargoed news release later this year — for more information contact David Reid, Press Officer, Institute of Physics, Tel: 020 7470 4815, E-mail: david.reid@iop.org . Can you turn a tyre's inner tube inside out through a hole in its wall? This question, first posed by physicist E...Breastfeeding decreases infant mortality
...educe the risk of death for infants in their first year of life. Looking at infants between 28 days and one year of age, researchers concluded that promoting breastfeeding can potentially prevent up to 720 postneo...GlaxoSmithKline Drug Discovery and Development Research Grant Program 2004
...mission of the virus. "As we enter the fourth year of the program, it's rewarding to witness the progress that the first grant recipients have made. The grants have enabled researchers to improve testing processes, submit research for publication, experiment with new hypotheses and strive to develop ...Kinase backgrounder: Iressa discovery part of major kinase project at Dana-Farber
...mors, hoping to process about 500 samples within a year in search of overactive tyrosine kinase proteins. They're hunting them by sequencing their blueprints -- the DNA in the genes that produce the proteins. As they discover new mutated kinases, the scientists will disseminate the findings so that pharma...Govindarajan Dhanasekaran wins 2004 Sarber Award from American Society for Microbiology
...iology (ASM). Two Sarber Awards are presented each year to microbiology students at the undergraduate and predoctoral levels to recognize research excellence and potential. Dhanasekaran is honored for important research on infectious diseases that affect poultry. At the University of Maryland, he has n...David Rosmarin wins 2004 Sarber Award from American Society for Microbiology
...iology (ASM). Two Sarber Awards are presented each year to honor microbiology students at the undergraduate and predoctoral levels for research excellence and potential. An award-winning medical student, Rosmarin is honored for his development of an improved means of detecting bacterial infections in ...