Religion guides views of fertility treatment in Middle East
...ply held religious beliefs about the importance of biologically based kinship, family life and parenthood. U-M researcher Marcia Inhorn has used medical anthropology methods for the last 20 years to study infertility and in vitro fertilization in the Middle East---where Israel and Lebanon are home to some of the...Cancer markers news backgrounder: Future of cancer diagnosis, treatment lies in tumor 'barcode'
...t," he says. "The studies may show they are highly biologically significant, but not clinically significant." Scie...rm disease; there are many subtypes that behave in biologically different ways, and some are more prone to spread than others. Figuring out which colon cancer is m......f the drug or the activation of the prodrug to its biologically active form. Cytochrome P450 enzymes are an important superfamily of proteins that are involved in phase I drug metabolism. Consequently, mutations in cytochrome P450 (CYP) genes, such as CYP2D6, can cause alterations in the way a drug is metabolized...UIC researchers pinpoint genes involved in cancer growth
...tic information. Some of the fragments prove to be biologically active by interfering with the function of the genes from which they are derived. In the new study, certain fragments inhibited the multiplication of breast cancer cells by shutting down the genes necessary for cell growth. The experiment enabled re...Brain imaging study reveals interplay of thought and emotion in economic decisions
...anfey, a postdoctoral researcher. "Now we can show biologically that emotions are not just important in a tangential way, in that making a decision makes you feel a certain way; they are important in a primary way because a sufficiently negative emotion can induce you to make certain decisions that would seem to ...Positive mental attitude does not affect cancer survival
...ant influence on outcome. Although the relation is biologically plausible, there is at present little scientific basis for the popular belief that psychological coping styles have an important influence on overall or event-free survival in patients with cancer, say the authors. People with cancer should not feel ...Womens stroke symptoms differ from mens, often arent 'traditional' signs, study finds
...blic Health. He adds, "These differences are both biologically interesting and socially consequential. They are important to medical education, too, because often medical students and others are trained that stroke is a man's disease. It's not." Lead author Lise Labiche, M.D., a Stroke Fellow at the UT Health S...Wayne State and Virginia chemist wins national award for work with drugs
...ailor-make starting materials and methods to build biologically active compounds. That was more than 200 research papers, seven books and some 200 doctorate and post-doctorate students ago. In the last decade, said Johnson, researchers have learned that sugar molecules -- in addition to providing energy for human...Boston chemist wins national award for tailor-made molecules
...ciety for developing chemical tools to tailor-make biologically active molecules, such as pharmaceuticals. He will receive the 2002 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society at its national meeting in Boston. "I started off with the idea to explore new strategies in chemical synthesis," bega...Discovery may lead to new HIV drugs, says Jefferson virologist
... as a brake on HIV's development. They showed that biologically tying up a protein called Vif, or Virion infectivity factor, allows CEM15 to stop the virus from replicating. Vif, then, could become "a new target against which we can develop HIV drugs," says Dr. Pomerantz, professor of medicine, biochemistry and m......e, and it's a great example of a new area known as biologically responsible materials. Stem cells for spinal cord repair She also is one of very few researchers looking into matrixes for spinal cord damage, such as the kind that actor Christopher Reeves suffered years ago and from which he is not recovered. ...Emory brain imaging studies reveal biological basis for human cooperation
...suggests that the altruistic drive to cooperate is biologically embedded-- either genetically programmed or acquired through socialization during childhood and adolescence." "Reciprocal altruism activates a reward circuit, and this activation may often be sufficiently reinforcing to override subsequent temp...New test identifies aggressive and less aggressive prostate cancers
...res. "This means that within any score, there are biologically aggressive and less aggressive forms of cancer," said Sinha. "This makes it more difficult to predict outcomes for individual patients." In order to invade surrounding tissue and escape to blood vessels, cancer cells produce high levels of an enzyme ...Exploring the brain chemistry of people at risk for alcohol disorders
...reased risk. Genetic or inherited factors include biologically rooted behavioral tendencies and self-regulation. For example, individuals with a family history of alcoholism tend to exhibit poor impulse control, antisocial tendencies and sensation seeking. A study in the April issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & ...Rensselaer researchers seeing farther and faster with terahertz (Thz) imaging
... images at different angles. This method creates a biologically accurate 3-D picture that gives a researcher or diagnostician a better understanding of the disease and how far it has spread. Important industrial applications are foreseen in the package inspection and manufacturing quality control. Zhang has recei...Rutgers researchers developing technology to help New Jersey farmers "grow" pharmaceuticals
...g plants to reliably and inexpensively manufacture biologically active compounds ranging from human insulin to can... fact by "stressing" plants to induce them to make biologically active compounds in their leaves and root systems. These newly synthesized compounds, which normall...Duke chemists synthesize fungus compound that could lead to oral diabetes drugs
...ctures that keep showing up over and over again in biologically active molecules, steroids being an obvious example. What we're hoping is that this initial hit has gotten us into chemicals that have privileged structures for growth factor receptors. "So having a big selection of molecules to look at, with a l...New technique uses imaging technology to speed drug discovery
...they are made, helping to easily identify the most biologically active compounds among millions of candidates. The...RED, that dramatically simplifies the discovery of biologically active members from very large combinatorial libraries. The method was developed by combining the fe...Virco first to introduce drug-specific biological cut-offs for its HIV resistance tests
...tible range found in untreated patients or whether biologically relevant resistance has developed. The new cut-of...the situation in the clinic. "These are the first biologically relevant cut-offs to be used in HIV resistance monitoring and represent an important advance in term...... the catalyst can be used to make other classes of biologically active molecules. He hopes to one day incorporate elements of combinatorial chemistry, which produces a huge variety of compounds at once, and then selectively screens the compounds for desirable properties....