Alfred G. Knudson Jr., receives American Association for Cancer Research Lifetime Acheivement Award
...nd must have demonstrated a lifetime commitment to progress against cancer. The award joins the Landon Prizes, Pezcoller Foundation Award and numerous other scientific honors conferred annually by the AACR to recognize world-class accomplishments in basic research, clinical care, therapeutics and prevention. ...Viruses may one day help treat brain tumors
...." Malignant gliomas are cancers in the brain that progress quickly after diagnosis. They are nearly always fatal, Chiocca says. The average survival following diagnosis is about a year. They are usually treated using surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. "Unfortunately, the average survival time for these pa...Scientists announce world's most sensitive cancer test
...ous or even impossible. The ability to measure the progress of a cancer by examining only the primary tumour should reduce the number of unnecessary and traumatic mastectomies in women with breast cancer. Professor Josef Ks and Dr Jochen Guck from the University of Leipzig have been developing the new procedu...Mental retardation cause may include cell miscommunication
...nterferes with brain function. "Despite tremendous progress in the understanding of the molecular basis of PKU, the mechanisms of how the brain is negatively affected by high levels of phenylalanine has not been known," said Anatoly Martynyuk, an assistant professor of anesthesiology and neuroscience at UF's ...Putting ecology back into river restoration
...ccess in restoration. Standards are needed because progress in the science and practice of river restoration has been hampered by the lack of agreed upon criteria for judging ecological success." The debate is timely given the many waterfront regeneration projects under way worldwide. But, Palmer argues, man...Mother's prenatal and lactational diet may protect daughters from breast cancer
...ths of age. By six months, that hyperplasia would progress to mammary adenocarcinoma. The mice were bred and the mothers were fed diets high in either omega-6 fatty acids or high in omega-3 fatty acids, both during the gestation period and while breast-feeding the female young. After the daughters were wean...Study reveals new technique for fingerprinting environmental samples
...reveal environments under stress as well as signal progress in remediating contaminated environments. This may well develop environmental ecology into a fully quantitative science." Dubbed Environmental Genomic Tags, or EGTs, these indicators capture a DNA profile of a particular niche and reflect the presenc...Method holds promise in identifying markers of non-metastatic vs. metastatic breast cancer
...y," added Dr. Tarin. "The study outcome shows that progress is occurring in unraveling the issues, but more research dollars and effort need to be focused on this common clinical problem affecting cancer patients."...Important brain finding results from boy's rare, fatal disease
...help in developing a treatment for a disease where progress has been slow. The gene responsible for the disease was pinpointed by a group led by Marjo van der Knapp in 2001, but it is unclear how the defect causes the disease. Teams like Proschel's are working to understand at the cellular level exactly how a...Respiratory syncytial virus poses a significant threat to elderly
...n the treatment and prevention of RSV infection -- progress that is far from satisfactory at the present." Research and, in some cases, trials of vaccines for RSV are underway. Some work is being done at the UR Medical Center. Falsey says the vaccines are "very promising." Now that spring has arrived, RSV wil...Finding the origin of fats in fatty liver disease
...me only a little alcohol. If untreated, NAFLD can progress to cirrhosis. The origin of the lipids that accumulate in the liver of these patients was unknown. In a new study appearing in the May 2 print issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation, Elizabeth Parks and colleagues from the University of Minn...JCI table of contents May 2, 2005
...me only a little alcohol. If untreated, NAFLD can progress to cirrhosis. The origin of the lipids that accumulate in the liver of these patients was unknown. In a new study appearing in the May 2 print issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation, Elizabeth Parks and colleagues from the University of Minn...NIH awards Georgia Tech/Emory $11.5 M for nano cardiology research
...cord with the NIH Roadmap's strategy to accelerate progress in medical research through innovative technology and interdisciplinary research. The program's work will focus primarily on detecting plaque and pinpointing its genetic causes with three types of nanostructured probes molecular beacons, semiconduc...NTP roadmap for the future, celebration of 25 years
... to celebrate more than 25 years of NTP scientific progress When: Tuesday, May 10: 9:00a.m. 5:00 p.m. Wedn... Health and Human Services, has made extraordinary progress in evaluating chemicals and other agents that may be toxic to human health and disseminating this in...Newly discovered genetic disease sheds light on body's water balance
...eas now complement each other and bench-to-bedside progress leads to more rapid advances that benefit our patients." The authors note in the New England Journal article, "The V2 receptor has been an important tool for understanding the physiology of water balance -- (Also) it has served as a prototype for G p...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, May 2005
...mmobilizing uranium. Additional field tests are in progress to determine the feasibility of using this biomass for removing nitrate and immobilizing uranium in soil and individual microbe's roles in the remediation process. The research is being conducted at the NABIR (Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation R...Columbia dedicates new 300,000 sq. ft. Irving Cancer Research Center
...our cancer research. In the last 20 years enormous progress has been made in understanding how cancer develops, but our discoveries have just begun to improve therapies for patients." "This new research facility will help assemble our cancer researchers under the visionary leadership of Dr. Dalla-Favera, fost......e has far-reaching implications for monitoring the progress of gene therapy, such as that used to reactivate the body's production of insulin in the treatment of diabetes, because the genes can be "tagged" prior to injection. Therapeutic genes can then be tracked by MRI to ensure the target is reached and the...WHO centre calls for global action on cleft palate
...zation," said Professor Shaw. Although substantial progress has been made into the causes and treatment of craniofacial anomalies over the last few years, Professor Shaw says there is still a long way to go before they are fully understood. "A child is born with a cleft somewhere in the world every two minute...Vitamin A's paradoxical role in influencing symmetry during embryonic development revealed
...those cells ignore the left-right instructions and progress symmetrically. Belmonte compares the node to a doorway. "Before embryonic stem cells enter the node, they don't have an orientation. Nor are they differentiated into specialized tissues -- such as heart or brain cells," he said. Once through the d...