Michael R. Zalutsky receives SNM's 2007 Paul C. Aebersold Award
...beling monoclonal antibodies and peptides that are rapidly internalized into tumor cells; for advancing the field of clinical radioimmunotherapy by performing a series of studies that defined the feasibility of treating malignant brain tumors with labeled monoclonal antibodies; for contributing to the field ...Every moment counts: Predicting treatment responses earlier for brain tumor patients
...rain's vital functions. Malignant brain tumors are rapidly fatal, said Chen. This year, nearly 21,000 people ... imaging modality that could evaluate reliably and rapidly the response to a treatment, she added. "We studied the predictive value of PET with FLT, a marke...Cellular message movement captured on video
... UCSD had previously reported that paxillin can be rapidly assembled and disassembled, and they hypothesize that this process enables cell migration by assembling new focal adhesion sites in the direction of cell movement and disassembling them on the trailing side of the cell. Researchers are applying the f...Soils offer new hope as carbon sink
...means soil carbon emissions can be reduced because rapidly decomposing carbon forms are being replaced by stable ones in the form of agrichar." Unfortunately, agrichar is not widely available. BEST Energies Australia, a company involved with NSW DPI in the trials, has a pilot plant at Gosford which is produ...2 million dwarfism study launched
...her an international group of experts to hopefully rapidly advance our knowledge of the genetic causes of dwarfism. By the end of this research we hope to have identified the major molecular problems that cause these disorders and to be much closer to identifying potential therapeutic targets. The resear...Scientists honored with 'Excellence in Clinical Research Award'
...enerative therapeutic called E1-I.N.T, which moved rapidly into human clinical trials and produced promising results. JDRF funding is now accelerating a second-generation version of this drug into Phase II clinical trials. Dr. Brand received his M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Western Australia. Ton...Gene expression patterns predict rapid decline in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients
...n the clinic that some IPF patients display a more rapidly progressing disease course, researchers at the Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, collaborating with pulmonary scientists in Mexico and California, used DNA microarray analysis to measure ...A living memory chip, black holes on the loose, and a clearer picture of ocean currents
... supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy rapidly acquires gas. As a result, the gas near the black hole heats up and radiates several times as much energy as the Milky Way. A quasar that is displaced from galactic core may well be a kicked black hole. Unfortunately, it would require a real stroke...Avian influenza survivors' antibodies effective at neutralising H5N1 strain
...searchers used a new technique that allows them to rapidly reproduce human monoclonal antibodies starting from a small sample of blood. "We can't say for certain that a pandemic influenza virus will resemble the H5N1 strain that we have been studying or that the monoclonal antibodies generated using our te...New mouse model closely mimics human cancers
...semblance to human T-ALL enabled the scientists to rapidly and efficiently identify two genes, FBXW7 and PTEN, to be commonly deleted or mutated in this type of human cancer. ...Flaws in colonoscopies may increase risk of colon cancer
...paration (Abstract #W1275)The use of endoscopy has rapidly increased in the elderly over the past few years as research has verified its safety and efficacy. Colonoscopies have also proven to be safe for the elderly, but are often more technically challenging than endoscopies due to inadequate preparation a...Long-term ulcerative colitis study shows Remicade responders maintained improvement
...s than those with milder disease, a treatment that rapidly reduces UC symptoms and keeps disease activity at bay over time may reduce the impact of the disease on patients' work status and productivity." About the ACT Long-Term ExtensionPatients with moderate to severe UC, defined as a baseline Mayo score ...When lava flows and glaciers recede, predicting how species take over
...opods on carcassesspecies do indeed turn over most rapidly early in succession, when many new species arrive to take advantage of available resources. However, she also found that certain adverse conditionssuch as isolation of the new community or an unfavorable climatemay hinder the arrival of new species, ...Before selling carbon credits, read this
...gh clay content, or heavy soils, store carbon more rapidly under no-tillage management than soils with little clay content, others have found that clay content has no affect on carbon storage rates under no-tillage practice. Bricklemyer says that because the effects of clay content on the rate of soil car...Repair of DNA by Brca2 gene prevents medulloblastoma
... and complexity before and shortly after birth, it rapidly produces many new nerve cells. "Our study showe...stnatal development. The finding helps explain how rapidly dividing cells in the developing cerebellum identify and repair errors in the DNA that occur during ...Insignia -- A new way to identify viruses and bacteria
...d viruses are known, we can design tests that will rapidly detect the presence of these species based solely ...e comparisons are stored in a database and used to rapidly compute signatures for any particular target species. The program can have a wide range of applicati...Study of unexplained respiratory infections leads researchers to new virus
...ng up all genetic material from the secretions and rapidly and randomly reading the coding of that material. They found signs in one patient of a virus with limited similarity to polyoma viruses. The genetic material of the new virus is arranged in a similar fashion, encoded in circular, double-stranded DNA...DOE JGI sets 'gold standard' for metagenomic data analysis
...c Local Alignment Search Tool) is a method used to rapidly search for similar sequences in existing public databases. Mavrommatis said that a popular approach is to take the sequence, BLAST it against the database, and find the best hit and assume that the sequence queried belongs to the same group of or...DNA sieve -- Nanoscale pores can be tiny analysis labs
Imagine being able to rapidly identify tiny biological molecules such as DNA and toxins using less than a drop of salt water in a system that can fit on a microchip. It's closer than you might believe, say a team of researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technolog......at sink to the abyss to return to the surface more rapidly than previously thought. This affects the Southern Ocean circulation, which links all the other oceans, and is also relevant to uptake and release of carbon dioxide by the sea transport between the deep and surface waters in the Southern Ocean is...