Counting cells in blood samples may predict cancer treatment's effectiveness
...r a treatment will be successful, sparing patients months of an ineffective therapy. Researchers looked at t...archers found patients whose cancer grew after two months of treatment had high levels of circulating endothelial cells before beginning therapy, while patien...Concurrent radiation, chemo, followed by surgery lengthens lung cancer patients survival
...ry group remained cancer-free for a median of 12.8 months compared to 10.5 months among those in the chemotherapy/radiation group. Living cancer-free were 22 percent of patients tre...Wake Forest scientists find new combination vaccine effective against plague
...ws that the mice were protected for at least three months after immunization. The work is part of a $9.125 million, five-year research program funded by the National Institutes of Health under a federal bioterrorism initiative. "The development of a vaccine against the pneumonic or respiratory form of plag...New kidney test better elder mortality predictor
...ipants were conducted over the telephone every six months and in person annually until June 30, 2001, and cause of death was determined for all who died. Creatinine was measured around the time the samples were drawn; the researchers measured cystatin in 2003 from the frozen samples. To ensure the accuracy ...Brain may be less plastic than hoped
...o monitor cortical activity for seven and one-half months after injury to the retina of adult monkeys. They ...tinal injury recover to pre-lesional levels in the months following the lesion?" said Smirnakis. "The answer is, in that time interval the primary visual cort...Photos reveal new primate species
...nd Dr. Daniela De Luca who found the monkey. Some months later, the same species was independently discovered in Ndundulu Forest Reserve in the Udzungwa Mountains as the result of University of Georgia primatologist Dr. Carolyn Ehardt's research project, which is focused on conservation of the critically e...News tips: NASA presentations at Annual 2005 Joint Assembly Meeting
... Oscillation-related changes in ocean mass several months ahead of the El Nino Southern Oscillation surface signal detected by satellite altimetry. Time/Location: Friday, May 27 at 9:30 a.m. EDT (8:30 a.m. local CDT), Room 08 Presenter: Y. Tony Song, NASA JPL ICESat Observations of Topographic Change in th...K-State professor studies how landscape dynamics affect extinction risk for migratory songbirds
..., the birds then migrate south to spend the winter months in Central and South America. With's research obje...pical migrants," ones that spend only four or five months in this country. The majority of their life is spent in Central or South America. Because the birds ...BioMed Central applauds Wellcome's leadership on Open Access
...must be made freely available within, at most, six months of initial publication, but BioMed Central called ...ication, by choosing an Open Access journal." "Six months is a long time in science with the rapid pace of research, quick access to the latest results is vi...University looks to the past in fight against disease
...will head the project, which is expected to last 3 months and will focus primarily on HIV/Aids, TB and foot and mouth disease. She said: "One aspect we will be looking at is the globalisation of the disease environment and what technologies we should be investing in to tackle future disease outbreaks. "We w...Genetic variation alters response to common anti-clotting drug
...nitial warfarin dose. However, it can take several months of clinic visits and needle pricks to determine an individual's ideal dose. Scientists know that variations in a gene encoding the CYP2C9 enzyme that metabolizes warfarin account for about 10 percent of the difference in people's responses to the dru...Vaccine targets tumors where they live
...t remained alive without disease recurrence for 59 months after vaccination without any other therapy. This approach may be useful for altering the tumor environment in order to induce anti-tumor immunity and provides a foundation upon which other vaccine strategies can be contemplated for local delivery....JCI table of contents July 1, 2005
...t remained alive without disease recurrence for 59 months after vaccination without any other therapy. This approach may be useful for altering the tumor environment in order to induce anti-tumor immunity and provides a foundation upon which other vaccine strategies can be contemplated for local delivery. ...Researchers develop gene therapy to reverse pulmonary arterial hypertension
...lds on previous work by the group, published a few months ago in Circulation Research, showing that an orally available drug, Dichloroacetate, selectively enhances apoptosis in PAH and thus reverses PAH, prolonging the survival of rats. Because this oral therapy has already been tried in humans with congeni...Shampoo detergent added to paint makes surfaces self-sterilizing
...robes within seconds of application. Even after 5 months the coating could still self-sterilize within 30 seconds. "We found that the common shampoo ingredient cetavlon was especially effective, as well as having good dopant properties due to its being a detergent that mixes well with both aqueous and oil...After the yeast is gone bacteria continue to develop flavor of sparkling wine
...17 microbial strains from two Cavas, after 9 to 17 months of bottling. No yeasts were isolated after 10 months of bottling. Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria were isolated from both wines. Different phas...Study establishes new class of cancer-causing genes
...he overall survival of this group (n = 12) after 3 months was 75%. In stark contrast, animals in which the mir-17-92 microRNAs were overexpressed experienced accelerated development of B-cell lymphoma (40 days compared to 2 months), and--significantly--none of the animals in this group (n = 14) survived aft......est gene, lacZ, to the lungs of monkeys. After two months the gene was active in 21 per cent of cells, Kobinger told New Scientist. He is preparing the results for publication. "The gap between monkeys and humans is much smaller than from mice to monkeys," says Ray Pickles, a gene therapy researcher at the...New U. of Colorado polymer has applications for dentistry, electronics, automobiles
...ome up with the idea," he said. "But it has taken months to implement it and make it work in the lab." In addition to dentistry and electronics, Scott and Bowman said the new cross-linked polymer may have applications for boats, automobiles and structural materials, including its use in coatings and adhes...Joslin scientists confirm link between PKC enzyme and kidney disease in diabetes
...beta 2 than in normal mice after six weeks. At six months of age, although the two groups of mice did not differ in filtration rate, 24 percent of the glomeruli of the overexpressors showed mesangial expansion (enlargement of specialized kidney cells, another measure of kidney disease) compared with only 8....