SV40 not implicated in mesothelioma
...viduals contract the disease while others who have equal exposure to asbestos do not," said James Manfredi, PhD, Associate Professor of Oncological Sciences at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The possibility that SV40 might be this secondary cause came to light when it was discovered that polio vaccines w...Australian kidney researcher applauded
...rack record of ground-breaking discoveries, but of equal importance is the fact that she has established a company to ensure discoveries made here can be commercialized and translated into better outcomes for patients" concluded Mr Lirette."...Talking robots, green buildings, and shockwave healing
...he abundance of spawning populations with accuracy equal to or better than traditional methods and at lower costs (1aAO6). David Welch of Kintama Research Corporation in Canada ( david.welch@kintamaresearch.org ) will present the first-year results from the Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Project (POST), whi...Antioxidant-rich diets reduce brain damage from stroke in rats
...e researchers studied four groups of rats, all fed equal amounts of food for one month. One group was fed rat chow supplemented with blueberries, a second group chow with spinach, and the third chow with spirulina. The control (untreated) group ate chow only. After four weeks, an ischemic stroke with repe...Vitamin A's paradoxical role in influencing symmetry during embryonic development revealed
...distributed on the right and left axis. Normally, equal numbers of somites occur on each side. In addition to improving scientific knowledge about early development, these research findings are relevant to the future development of treatments based on embryonic stem cells. As explained by Salk senior rese...Final results demonstrate Aranesp dosed every two weeks is comparable to Epoetin alfa dosed weekly
... achieved the target hemoglobin of greater than or equal to 11 g/dL. Both groups of patients had similar b...tudy achieved target hemoglobin of greater than or equal to 11 g/dL. Seventy-four percent of patients in the Aranesp group remained in the target range comp...Aranesp dosed every three weeks achieved and maintained target hemoglobin levels
...evels to the recommended target of greater than or equal to 11 g/dL. Further, treatment with Aranesp reduc...ts achieved a target hemoglobin of greater than or equal to 11 g/dL, and 72 percent of patients maintained the target hemoglobin level. The mean hemoglobin ...Scripps scientists find potential for catastrophic shifts in Pacific ecosystems
...t recover its previous condition simply through an equal but opposite change in temperature. That is, much like a financial market that takes much longer to recover than to crash, an ecosystem that is perturbed into an irreversible shift (e.g., by overfishing) may never be the same afterwards. Finding line...AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner urges US to continue collecting job data on women workers
...e. It has a long record of advocating fairness and equal opportunity for women, people of color and people with disabilities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. In February this year, the AAAS Board of Directors approved a statement reaffirming its commitment to increasing the participatio...New data demonstrate that Benicar and Benicar HCT significantly reduces systolic hypertension
...ore aggressive blood pressure goal of less than or equal to 130/85 mm Hg. Of the total Stage 1 patients, 5...tervals if blood pressure remained greater than or equal to 120/80 mm Hg. Treatment of Stage 1 and Stage 2 Hypertension Utilizing An Olmesartan Medoxomil...American Indians and Alaska Native veterans have higher mortality rate after surgery than Caucasians
...As a nation, we want to deliver healthcare that is equal across all ethnic groups and races, but we're find...tween 1991 and 2002 were matched by facility to an equal number of randomly selected Caucasian patients. Alvord and colleagues found a significant differenc...New law for resolution allows unprecedented sharpness in fluorescence microscopy
...e details smaller than a distance where delta d is equal to 200nm using conventional lenses and visible light. For a long time, Abbe's law was regarded as being insurmountable. For higher resolution, the textbook knowledge was that a complicated and costly electron or scanning tunneling microscope would be...Prehistoric decline of freshwater mussels tied to large-scale maize cultivation
...entation and nonpoint-source pollution may have an equal impact." Among freshwater mussels, members of the genus Epioblasma -- commonly called riffleshell -- are the most endangered. Epioblasma consists of 20 species and eight subspecies; at least 13 of these species and four subspecies are presumed extinc...'Plastic oil' could improve fuel economy in cars, chemists say
...yclable plastic can produce lubricants that are of equal quality compared to those derived from Fischer-Tropsch wax, Miller says....Hummingbird flight an evolutionary marvel
... forth in a figure eight pattern, producing nearly equal lift during the downstroke and upstroke. Hummingbi...d that hummingbirds, like insects, were developing equal amounts of lift during both halves of the wing cycle. But Warrick and his colleagues, Brett Tobalske...Ultra-fast camera captures how hummingbirds hover
...e up stroke--in contrast to insects, which produce equal amounts of lift during their down and up strokes. Researchers from Oregon State University, University of Portland and George Fox University published the new findings in the June 23 issue of the journal Nature. Co-author Bret Tobalske said, "We were...Interim data suggest major response with Aranesp(R) in anemic patients with MDS
...th 47 percent classified as major (greater than or equal to 2 g/dL increase from baseline hemoglobin or transfusion independence). In the previously erythropoietin treated group (n=33), 36 percent experienced an erythroid response with 21 percent classified as major. Two-thirds of patients achieved hemoglo...Secret sex life of killer fungus?
...ion of 290 specimens of the fungus revealed nearly equal proportions of two different sexes, or "mating types," which in theory could have sex with each other. Additional work on specific populations of the fungus in America and Europe showed that genes had been, or were being, exchanged between individual...Naturally occurring asbestos linked to lung cancer
...vided occupational history. As a control group, an equal number of age- and gender-matched pancreatic cancer cases was selected (since pancreatic cancer has no known association to asbestos exposure). For both the mesothelioma and pancreatic cancer cases, the researchers employed sophisticated geographic i......roperty that the probability ratio P(100)/P(10) is equal to the ratio P(1000)/P(100) which is equal to the ratio P(10000)/P(1000) etc. The logarithm of this constant ratio defines the decay exponent '...