US researchers show cottonseed drug is cancer treatment booster
...tment. So, it is not just prostate cancer that our findings are relevant to, but also other cancers with BcL-2...ur fight against cancer." Dr. Xu wishes to see the findings clinically tested soon and a Phase I trial is planned.......es of Human Evolution Some of the findings conflict with two major theories of human evolutio...g with them," Clayton says. The findings in lice are most consistent with the diffusion wave hypothesis, which allows some interbreeding amon...Endangered frogs coexist with fungus once thought fatal
...little effect on their populations. While these findings do not exonerate the fungus as the agent of mass declines, they can rule out the possibility that the fungus caused the decline, then vanished from the area, allowing frog populations to recover. Although it's possible that B. dendrobatidis did not...A treatment, not a cure: Calcium silicate neutralizes an acidic stream
...seen during limestone additions. While the study's findings are useful to land managers looking for new methods of temporarily neutralizing acid streams, Likens is quick to comment that, "Manually adding buffering agents to acidic streams will never solve the acid rain problem. At most, it is a way to buy tim...Fungus knocks a frog down but not out, raising questions about amphibian declines
...4 issue of The Public Library of Science, includes findings that may give important new clues concerning this pathogenic organism's behavior in the wild, and a step towards understanding how it spreads. The paper, written by Arizona State University biologist Richard Retallick, Hamish Ian McCallum from the ...How roots control plant shoots
...iously carry food and water to the leaves, the new findings help show how roots also send chemical signals that control whether or not leaves grow. How leaves grow is a crucial matter given that leafy plants supply food for humans and other creatures, produce oxygen for all animals to breathe, influence globa...Talented sniffer: A receptor known for guiding sperm to egg plays a role in the nose
...nasal sensory tissue (by electro-olfactogram). The findings show that, interestingly, the basic receptor function of hOR17-4 seems to be identical in both human sperm and olfactory neurons. In light of their findings, the authors propose a model in which a single receptor protein helps perform diverse chemose...Running not swimming or biking is best kind of loading exercise for childrens bone growth
...one mass. Editors note: Turner is reporting his findings at the American Physiological Society's 2004 Intersociety Meeting, "The Integrative Biology of Exercise," Oct. 6-9 in Austin. The schedule for the exercise meeting can be found at ( http://www.the-aps.org/meetings/aps/austin/tentative.pdf ). The com...University of Oregon professor wins 2004 Spiers Medal
...scientist are recognized worldwide." Richmond's findings have implications for how we understand many important processes in our lives including biological processes, semiconductor processing, and cleaning up environmental hazards. The Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation and the Office of...September/October 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...ted into the current CHD treatment guidelines. The findings were drawn from a prospective cohort study of 6,47...leagues also in this issue of Annals. Their study findings point to the effectiveness of electronic decision support systems in lowering prescription expenditu...Does a time delay between prostate cancer diagnosis and start of radiation treatment matter?
...t the median time to treatment of 3.2 months. "Our findings show that a delay, within the limits of this study, from the time of diagnosis to the start of treatment with external-beam radiation does not alter ultimate clinical outcome," Andrews stated. "Another important finding here is that the use of hormo...Irwin Rose wins 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
... the cell to regulate proteins in many ways. These findings are playing a key role in the development of drugs to fight illnesses such as cancer and cystic fibrosis. "The basic science faculty at the College of Medicine and our clinical faculty at UCI Medical Center are delighted and pleased that Dr. Rose...Brain circuit may permit scientists to eavesdrop on memory formation
...California Institute of Technology published their findings in the October 7, 2004, issue of the journal Natu...ed with higher brain functions. "There are two key findings required to understand the present work," said Schuman. "First, lesions of the hippocampus prior to ...Muscle-building hand-grips aid systolic blood pressure, carotid AD, endothelial function
...etabolism Research Group sought to confirm earlier findings related to risk factors for cardiovascular disease...sitivity to the reactive hyperemic stimulus. These findings suggest that the reduction of blood pressure with IHG may be due to improvements of endothelial func...After flu exposure, mild exercise protects mature mice from dying
...Editors note: Woods and Lowder are reporting their findings at the American Physiological Society's 2004 Intersociety Meeting, "The Integrative Biology of Exercise," Oct. 6-9 in Austin. The meeting schedule can be found at ( http://www.the-aps.org/meetings/aps/austin/tentative.pdf ). The complete program, in...Society for Psychophysiology Research
... faster reaction times on a behavioral task. These findings underscore the importance of physical fitness prog...scoring the link between brain and behavior, these findings suggest that behavioral interventions for antisocial children may modify not only the antisocial beh...T cell's memory may offer long-term immunity to leishmaniasis
...ce of the parasite that caused the disease. Their findings encourage a new approach to creating a vaccine against leishmaniasis and other immune cell mediated diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. Attempts to create a vaccine for leishmaniasis have long been stymied by the fact that the helper T cells...Sedentary overweight people get insulin boost from short term exercise; CVD risks trend down
...change in insulin action." Black said the findings "suggest that subtle changes in energy balance that precede measurable fat loss play a key role in mediating the beneficial effects of exercise on whole-body insulin action." Braun added: "The new finding is that the beneficial effect of exercise (in...Study describes basic mechanism in cell growth control involving damaged DNA
...lthough not yet clinically applicable, the study's findings offer new knowledge on how cells rapidly degrade u... and prevent cancer cell growth," said Xiong. "Our findings suggest that DDB1, by targeting CDT1 ubiquitination by the CUL4 ligase, may stop cells from prolifer...Researchers provide road map for generating B cells from stem cells
... yet to come, and blocking off other options. "Our findings reveal considerable complexity, but are promising from the standpoint of directing stem cell differentiation," said Harinder Singh, Ph.D., Louis Block Professor of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology and an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical...