Biovest International submits amendment request to FDA for use of molecular remission data
...existing therapies for this disease, but rather to complement them by stimulating the patient's immune system to recognize, seek out, and destroy residual cancer cells -- without collateral damage to normal cells."...Proteomics symposium looks at pediatric applications
...m. Proteomics, the study of an organism's complete complement of proteins, picks up where the Human Genome Project left off, asking what proteins each gene codes for and what they do in the body. It enables researchers to identify and quantify all the proteins in a cell, tissue or even a complete organism and i...New genetic discovery explains 74 percent cases of age-related macular degeneration
...hat identify the genetic basis for the role of the complement system a pathway that my colleagues and I identified a number of years ago in this truly devastating disease," said Dr. Hageman. More than 50 million people worldwide are estimated to have irreversible blindness as a result of macular degeneration,...Sex chromosome genes influence aggression andmaternal behavior, say UVa researchers
...osome were aggressive as well. Females with the XX complement were not aggressive, but in contrast they exhibited high levels of maternal behavior by picking up pups and building nests. "We know that hormones are important for development of sex differences in brain and behavior," Rissman said. "But this is ano...NYU scientists ID key factor in how fruit fly color receptor cells 'decide' their type
... stochastic choice process. These findings nicely complement the findings of our paper in Cell in September, which explored the mechanisms by which a cell's 'decision,' once made, is reinforced."...Study shows that cells have a natural defense against HIV
...or treating HIV infection and AIDS, one that might complement current therapies and would probably be less susceptible to viral drug resistance an increasingly urgent dilemma for patients and doctors. Currently, doctors treat people with AIDS using combinations of drugs that target the virus itself. These dru...Predicting chemotherapy outcome
...ese findings could be used in clinical practice to complement clinical, biochemical and genetic markers for better treatment of patients with colorectal cancer. A research group led by Sandrine Imbeaud from the CNRS and Pierre and Marie Curie University, Villejuif, France, used microarrays to analyse the gene-e...A new focus for the mechanism of nerve growth
...urnover or recycling of the actin networks. As the complement to actin network assembly, recycling is necessary to prevent actin buildup that could actually impede neuronal advance." Forscher likened actin networks in the growth cone to a molecular treadmill that is constantly being assembled at the leading edg...DOE JGI releases experimental metagenomics data management & analysis system
... "IMG/M provides an intuitive interface, and nice complement to IMG for comparing gene content and phylogenetic profiles of microbial genomes, and relating them to the large microbial community datasets now accumulating," DeLong said. "These are great and sorely needed data-exploration tools." IMG/M will be d...Lung surfactant: Host defense/surface tension, and linking innate/adaptive immune systems
...tant protein SP-A was structurally homologous with complement component C1q, an immune protein. Thus an understa...g of protein structure and function in one system complement led to new discoveries in another system -- surfactant," she said. Surfactant as the link between i...Study reveals new genes for excessive alcohol drinking
...ctivity. "Microarrays allow us to look at the full complement of genes that are active in the brains of animals bred to exhibit very different alcohol drinking behaviors," said Dr. Bergeson, an Assistant Professor of Neurobiology in UT's Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research. When a gene is activat...Cancer cells suppress large regions of DNA by a reversible process that can be tackled
...van team developed a new method to scan the entire complement of the 30 000 plus genes the entire genome in the cancer tissue samples, which allowed widespread changes to be identified in specific parts of the genome. They were amazed to find the extent of gene silencing. Assoc. Professor Clark adds: "What we...What controls stickiness of 'smart' chromosomal glue
... process that creates daughter cells with the same complement of chromosome pairs as the parent. Sperm and egg cells, on the other hand, must contain only half the chromosomes of their parent cells, so that the normal chromosome number will be restored when the sperm and egg unite during fertilization. To achie...ESMO International Symposium on Sarcoma and GIST
...In some ways, occasions like this can considerably complement this kind of symposia," says pathologist A. Paolo Dei Tos from Treviso, Italy, co-chair of the event. Hundreds of international specialists are expected to attend the Milan meeting, which is being held jointly with the Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Mila...Tackling the social roots of health inequities
..., and an alternative explanation must be sought to complement it. An alternative approach that has received much recent attention, they say, is the systems perspective, exemplified by systems biology. "Rather than dividing a complex problem into its component parts," say the authors, "the systems perspective a...Research reveals control of potent immune regulator
...ntrol tumor growth and lead to new treatments that complement current cancer therapy," he says. The body carefully regulates IFNg levels. If there is too little of the substance, the risk of infection and cancer rises. If there is too much IFNg, NK cells become too plentiful and autoimmune diseases such as inf...Elsevier launches new online oncology journal
...sed summaries of newer concepts and practices that complement both standard textbook chapters as well as initial reports of new findings," noted Editor Giuseppe Giaccone. Subscribers will have full access to each issue as well as articles in press on the journal's website, www.updateoncancer.com. Update on Can...Attack is the best defence against urinary tract infection
...s very rare, it can be used as an alternative or a complement to conventional antibiotic medication." Urinary tract infection is currently one of the ten most common reasons for outpatient visits. Up to 60 % of all women develop a urinary tract infection at one time in their life, and of these, 20 % have recur...New waste water technology company wins 2006 EUREKA Lynx Award
...o use the optimum mixture for waste water with any complement of pollutants. Dr Soljan explains: "What we have done is to open completely new possibilities for biological waste water treatment. The process is much more efficient than the conventional method; it uses less energy and less oxygen, and produces le......idly analyze a person's whole genome -- the entire complement of DNA in a cell nucleus. "These microarrays provide more rapid and precise results than karyotyping, and offer as much as 50 times higher resolution than other, more commonly used microarrays, such as bacterial artificial chromosome arrays," said Dr...