Successful Cancer Therapy May Doom Later Treatments To Failure
... havebeen engineered too large for the microscopic doors they have to pass through. Equally perplexing, some chemotherapies lose their efficacy after only a fewrounds. Many have chalked up these failures to the development ofresistance -- when successive rounds of chemotherapeutic agents allow imp......lie's experience with this treatment will open the doors for otherchildren who suffer from JRA and other autoimmune diseases." Mollie suffers from an extreme case of systemic onset juvenilerheumatoid arthritis. Most children with this condition respond to some form of treatmentwithin a year of dia...Engineering pits beneath London Underground tracks are helping to save lives
... deaths under trains would be to introduce sliding doors on the platform that open only when the train has come to a halt. They conclude that the mechanics of the interaction of the human body with a train are poorly studied and present rolling stock and stations are not designed to maximise survival....MRI breakthroughs could lead to new tests for heart disease
...tic tool for heart disease. "A lot of new doors have been opened with this technology," said GregHundley, M.D., assistant professor of cardiology and radiology and leader of theMedical Center's MRI research team. In the current issue of Circulation, a journal of the American HeartAssociati...Issues surrounding genetic medicine and the Jewish population to be explored at conference
...es in genetic testing and medicine have opened the doors toimportant preventive strategies and, at the same time, raised issues related tohow this knowledge may be used by health care consumers and the community atlarge. "Over the last few years, we've seen much progress in the field of geneticresearch and...Nanostructures for drug delivery
...s analogous to the way that tires and refrigerator doors are made, Cornell University materials engineers are hoping to find a new mechanism to deliver drugs to the human brain or bloodstream. The difference is that the Cornell engineers, working under Emmanuel Giannelis, professor of materials science and...Northwestern chemist develops nanoplotter with parallel writing capabilities
...ly. "It's a level of refinement that will open the doors to remarkable scientific discovery and the realization of exciting new technologies. The parallel process nanoplotter takes us closer to our goal." Mirkin's next step is to expand the current nanoplotter's capabilities. He hopes to have a working 5......guish between similar items such as wooden cabinet doors and drawer fronts. Mehdi Ahmadian, director of the Advanced Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory at Virginia Tech; graduate students Brian Reichert and Xubin Song, and Steve Southward of Lord Corporation did research resulting in a novel idea for control...Not working alone at night, outside lights can cut workplace homicides, study shows
...at prevented workers being alone at night. Keeping doors closed during working hours also was associated wi... workers by up to 70 percent, Loomis said. Keeping doors closed and using bright exterior lighting or combinations of administrative interventions also appea...UNC studies add new dimension to 'lock-and-key' theory of drug action
... of the lock and the key, but also about different doors in which the locks are installed. The doors are different organs, or even different parts of the same organs, Mailman said. Scientists have assu...Fibromyalgia pain isn't all in patients' heads, new brain study finds
... doubtful physicians have sought. It may also open doors for further research on the still-unknown causes of the disease, which affects more than 2 percent of Americans, mainly women. Lead authors Richard Gracely, Ph.D., and Daniel Clauw, M.D., did the study at Georgetown University Medical Center and the ...Stanford researchers weigh risks vs. benefits of self-referred body scanning
...ucted last year, while one large center closed its doors due in part to market saturation. The imaging centers are concentrated on the two coasts, particularly California and New York, in areas that are largely white and affluent. The authors explain that educated, health-conscious consumers in such areas...INEEL researchers develop medical imagery breakthrough
...is technology include surveillance (detect whether doors have been opened or cars have been moved), forensics (compare tire prints or fingerprints), national security (reveal tampering with container locks and seals), home security (divulge whether drawers or rooms were disturbed), and field research (moni...Spectators discouraged from watching building demolitions
... Our results suggest that staying indoors with the doors and windows closed will offer some protection."...US DoE awards $4 million in funding to Stevens' Center for MicroChemical Systems
...mical industries, which include thick-walled metal doors and concrete barriers around production facilities to contain explosions that may arise. However, with the high heat transfer characteristics of microchannel reactors, low processing flow rate, better energy management, and superior temperature cont...Elements of green tea prevent HIV from binding to human T cells
...HIV glycoprotein envelope. These findings open new doors for the clinical application of EGCG as a new anti-HIV drug. Further research into the potential preventative effects of the green tea catechin EGCG on HIV infection is being conducted by researchers at the National Center for Macromolecular Imaging...UF 'smart home' demonstrates concept of automated elderly help and care
...the house is secure, and the phone then checks the doors and reports back by voice. Helal described the smart house, which was equipped with the help of $38,000 from the engineering college, as a place where "we can try our ideas so we can see how they actually play out." But he noted the vision is not y...Trouble sleeping in the hospital? Maybe it's that jackhammer
...silent folded-towel dispensers - Routinely closing doors to patients' rooms - Modifying cardiac monitor settings to allow for lower volumes in the patient rooms, but with additional alarms sounding at the nurses' station - Changing nightly chest X-ray times to 10 p.m. instead of 3 a.m. - Using flashlights ...Problems controlling anger lead to weight gain for teens
...k, Mueller said. "Anger out" is yelling, slamming doors and other aggressive behaviors. The "anger control "score measured the level of maturity and healthy expression of feelings. The "anger expression" score is calculated by adding the "anger in" score with the "anger out" score and dividing that numb...Exemestane beats tamoxifen in first phase III head to head trial in advanced breast cancer
... "A door that has been opened shows numerous other doors to be explored," he said. He concluded: "Accrual to our trial was slow because the inclusion criteria were strict and there were other trials running at the same time, so I am really grateful for the patients and for the centres that participated and...