Hurricane damage creates pecan shortage
...ultivars, said Tim Brenneman, APS member and plant pathologist with the University of Georgia. "But then the hurricanes came late in the growing season and caused tremendous damage to pecan crops in these two states," he said. Georgia, which normally produces 120 million pounds of pecans annually, lost an estim...The Molecular Profiling Institute named US provider of genetic breast cancer test
...riPath have formed a partnership where AmeriPath's pathologist network will have access to the molecular profiling provided by MPI. AmeriPath will use MPI as their advanced esoteric reference lab. "AmeriPath's partnership with MPI will allow our pathologists to continue to be national leaders in the delivery of...Scientist discover the cellular roots of graying hair
...ber. The second author, Scott R. Granter, MD, is a pathologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital. The American Cancer Society expects about 55,100 people to be diagnosed with melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer, in 2004, with an estimated 7.910 deaths. Melanoma can be cured when it is detected and treat......l meeting in Washington, D.C., Handelsman, a plant pathologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Graham Hatfull, a University of Pittsburgh microbiologist, and 14 other HHMI professors describe the educational revolution they're leading at research universities across the country. The revolution is taking ...A new 'strategic partner' in cancer development
...rking in collaboration with Dr. Thomas Brabletz, a pathologist from the University of Erlangen in Germany and Dr. Peter Altevogt's group at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Institute researchers analyzed a large number of colorectal cancer samples from human patients. They found that L1 is presen...Scientists identify new model Of NK cell development
...und in lymph nodes. Interestingly, Gerard Nuovo, a pathologist and co-author of the study, discovered that these novel NK precursor cells are not randomly strewn throughout the lymph nodes, but rather localized near special sites called parafollicular regions, rich in T cells and NK bright cells. "We thought th...Cancerous or harmless? Three genes might tell the tale
...cedure known as a fine-needle aspiration biopsy. A pathologist then examines the cells to determine if they are noncancerous (benign) or cancerous. But if the nodules consist of the thyroid's follicular cells, Eng says, "it is often impossible to tell if they are benign or cancerous." So the person is sent to s...Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers look for 'silenced' genes to monitor kidney cancer patients
...il now, renal cancer could only be identified by a pathologist reviewing tumor tissue.In the study presented today at AACR, the researchers tested samples from 25 patients aged 33 to 73 who had undergone surgery to remove cancerous tumors confined to the kidney. At follow-up after surgery, none of the 25 patien...Genetic changes in breast tissue caused by pregnancy hormone helps prevent breast cancer
...etime risk of breast cancer, according to research pathologist Irma H. Russo, M.D., of Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. A number of studies around the world have established that a full-term pregnancy by age 20 reduces breast cancer risk by half. Previous studies by Russo and colleagues suggest that bre...Readers of genome decipher signatures of cancer patient outcomes
...ents with melanoma tumors, said Alain Spatz, M.D., pathologist and cancer researcher from the Gustave-Roussy Institute, Villejuif, France. From a battery of 108 primary melanoma tumors, Spatz and colleagues isolated 361 genes that differed in expression between patients who remained tumor-free for four or more ...National Academies news: 72 new members chosen by academy
...ity DAVIS, ROBERT E. ; supervisory research plant pathologist and research leader, Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory, Plant Sciences Institute, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Md. DEVREOTES, PETER N. ; professor and directo...Genome study of beneficial microbe may help boost plant health
...or biological control," says Loper. She is a plant pathologist with USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) an...ered two decades ago by Charles R. Howell, a plant pathologist with the ARS in Texas, who showed that the microbe suppressed two major cotton diseases. Since then,...The relationship between lawns and allergies and asthma
...spores in lawns. Dr. Phil Colbaugh, research plant pathologist at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station in Dallas, cites a common image seen in Texas throughout the warm weather months. Colbaugh is studying the relationship between landscaping choices and practices, seasonal weather and potential exposure t...Corn grain mould used as pesticide
...rs which cannot produce any toxin," the Bonn plant pathologist Dr. Sebastian Kiewnick explains. "Cotty propagated this non-toxic strain of aspergillus on grains of corn and spread the mould-infected grains in fields of cotton. As a result, the non-toxic strain was present in substantially larger amounts and was ...Wanted: Companies to license life-saving breath test developed at NJIT
...new heart, and remove them through the catheter. A pathologist then examines these samples under a microscope for signs of rejection. But using the Heartsbreath test, the patient simply breathes for two minutes in a plastic tube. The volatile organic compounds in the breath are captured in a trap, a stainless st...Infectious disease expert warns of spread of Rocky Mountain spotted fever
...n The New England Journal of Medicine, the Hopkins pathologist and microbiologist J. Stephen Dumler, M.D., a professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, highlights the importance of the recent outbreak in Arizona as the first confirmed cases that could be traced back to ticks carried into to th...Zebrafish may hold key to improved cancer research
...dy of human cancers," said Jan Spitsbergen, a fish pathologist in OSU's Center for Fish Disease Research. "We've now proven that most of the carcinogens that affect humans are also active in zebrafish and can lead to the same types of cancer, whether it's in the brain, blood, reproductive organs or elsewhere." ...Quick identification needed to save Florida's citrus industry from devastating disease
... hosts," said Ronald Brlansky, professor and plant pathologist with the University of Florida, CREC, Lake Alfred, FL. "Finding the extent of the disease and the removal of infected trees will reduce the damage done by this disease," he said. Plant pathologists have been surveying and testing for citrus greening ...Give thanks for the cranberry, say dental researchers
...working closely with Nicholi Vorsa, Ph.D., a plant pathologist and director of the Blueberry and Cranberry Research and Extension Center at Rutgers, to isolate the compounds in juice that are most protective. A food scientist turned dentist, Koo became fascinated with research and is an expert on natural substan...Patient outcomes linked to biomarker levels by quantitative technology
...n antibody concentration arbitrarily chosen by the pathologist may not be adequate for the expression range of the biomarker being tested. The apparent reversal of the relationship between marker level and survival rate occurs when there is a non-linear relationship between the antibody concentration and its tar...