Herceptin plus chemotherapy significantly increases disease-free survival in breast cancer
...r Symposium. The three-armed study compared the standard therapy of Adriamycin and Carboplatin followed by Taxotere (ACT), an experimental regimen of Adriamycin and Carboplatin followed by Taxotere and one year of Herceptin (ACTH), and an experimental regimen of Taxotere and Carboplatin with one year of He...Leibniz Prize winners 2007 announced
...s. In doing so, he often elucidated new aspects of standard theories. The scope of his knowledge, which spans ...the thermodynamic model that had been the textbook standard with important insights into the breaking of atomic bonds. He is instrumental in the development of ...Flu shot effective against drifted influenza, nasal spray vaccine less so
...drifted type A virus and two types of B virus. The standard formulation of both the flu shot and the nasal spray vaccine includes two types of A influenza and one B, but in the 2004-05 season, there were two B strains circulating and one type A. "On the other hand, FluMist was 48 percent effective. These re...Embryonic stem cells do better on bumpy nanoscale mattress
...ing phenotype, far better than HES cells plated on standard flat culture surfaces, according to Daniel McFarlin, K.J. Finn, and Chris Murphy of the University of Wisconsins School of Veterinary Medicine, who teamed with P.F. Nealey of the Universitys Department of Chemical Engineering. Unlike stem cells de...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...D). This week, Wu et al. examined the effects of a standard preparation of plant extract, EGb 761, in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nematodes do not express endogenous amyloid (A), the peptide that oligomerizes and form deposits in AD brains. Nonetheless, transgenic expression of A causes striking pathology in C. ...Combination of technologies works best against E. coli
...of time it takes to reach the FDAs 5-log reduction standard to 30 seconds, which may still be too long for industry. "The thing is were making steady progress," he said. And the work goes on. Fengs use of ultrasound, irradiation, and acidic electrolyzed water to eliminate E. coli on alfalfa and broccoli see...EMBO Installation Grants help scientists get set up in Europe
...picked by a committee of EMBO Members for the high standard of their research. By bringing this level of scientific talent into the participating countries, EMBO hopes to help them become more competitive in European science. Three of the ten grantees will set up their groups in Poland, two in Portugal, two i...New biomarker predicts effectiveness of breast cancer drugs
...-estrogen drugs such as tamoxifen (Novaldex) are a standard treatment for hormone-dependent breast cancer. They work by blocking the estrogen action, which is required for the proliferation of most breast cancers. Although these drugs are effective in the beginning, says Knudsen, many patients who initially ...All itches not created equal -- Different parts of brain activated depending on cause
...he laser Doppler were summated and mean values and standard deviations were calculated for each cohort. fMR...(functional magnetic resonance imaging) scanner. A standard whole-brain gradient echno-planar imaging sequence was used to obtain the functional scans. Sixty se...Brown scientists map structure of DNA-doctoring protein complex
...lex is too big and too flexible to analyze through standard methods such as X-ray crystallography. Sun used fluorescence resonance energy transfer or FRET, a technique typically used to study small protein complexes in a solution. This time, Sun used FRET to study large protein complexes in a gel. He tagged...Factors affecting kernel yield in maize
...ost C4 plants originated in tropical climates). In standard C3 photosynthesis (present in rice, wheat, and mos... released into bundle sheath cells then enters the standard C3 pathway. This CO2-concentrating mechanism allows plants in a hot and dry climate to take up CO2 a...Sandia research to focus on early detection of harmful algal blooms
...t Sandia would eliminate these problems. "Today's standard detection methods, frankly, are too slow and labor-intensive," said Lane. "By the time the process is complete, it's too late: the shellfish beds are already toxic." The ability to quickly sample organisms low on the food chain, Lane said, can provid...Save the whales? Sure, but how many?
...graphics, not ecology, Sanderson says. The highest standard for animal populations is achieving 'historical ba...cting like animals in the fullest sense, seems the standard conservationists should seek, whether it's bison on the Great Plains or Asia's forests with tigers a......n cells is about 1,000 to 10,000 time more than in standard biochemistry lab conditions, said Eric Ackerman, P...ct. For example, GI turns glucose to fructose, and standard tests for enzyme activity confirmed that FMS-GI was as potent or better at making fructose as enzyme......se of fluoroquinolones, which is a cost-effective, standard treatment for typhoid fever, has been accompanied ...cs, those antibiotics are much more expensive than standard fluoroquinolones, which raises the cost of medical treatment. Furthermore, it is likely that Typhi w...Long-term cancer risk follows stem cell transplant recipients
... Myeloablative, allogeneic HSCT is an effective standard therapy for specific life-threatening diseases, such as leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome, for which blood cell lineages (which originate principally in the bone marrow and circulate in the blood) are abnormal. Destroying the patient's own unhealt...Science study explains polio's tenacious grip in India
... in India because the conditions there prevent the standard trivalent vaccine from working optimally, but this...sitive message. It identifies the problem with the standard trivalent vaccine in these particular states but suggests that new monovalent vaccine will be very e...New genetic test predicts risk of metastasis in patients with deadly eye cancer
...ocular melanoma. Each patient was scheduled for a standard eye surgery to temporarily implant a small disc de...ting cancer cells from the living eye has been the standard of care at the Jules Stein Eye Institute since 2004, but adopted by only a handful of other ophthalm...Newly identified strains of Chlamydia trachomatis could produce new diseases
...ponsible for human disease today, were compared to standard reference strains that have been laboratory adapted over the last few decades. By studying multiple strains, the researchers discovered that the strains that were identified as the same strain were actually different. The next step will be to stu...454 Life Sciences and Max Planck publish sequence of one million base pairs
...ogy and demonstrates that we are the emerging gold standard for broad, fast and accurate sequencing of any genome, even one from highly degraded samples," said Christopher McLeod, President and CEO of 454 Life Sciences. "We believe that the Neandertal genome promises to yield more insight into human biology ...