14-year study finds that quitting smoking adds years to life
... Intervention on 14.5-year Morality," is the first experimental study to show that stopping smoking adds years to life. It is published in the Feb. 15, 2005, issue of Annals of Internal Medicine . The findings were based on data from the Lung Health Study. Randomized trials like the Lung Health Study are widely ...Stem cell therapy for spinal injury
...onance Imaging (fMRI), the team, working from KI's experimental MRI centre, has managed for the first time to demonstrate the return of sensory function following spinal injury. An advantage of the fMRI technique is that it can be used to compare results from animal and human studies if and when new therapies for...Leukemia drug breakthrough study in New England Journal of Medicine
...tute, recently conducted a phase I/II trial of the experimental drug Revlimid showing promise as an innovative way to treat patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a form of pre-leukemia. Given in pill form, Revlimid simultaneously blocks the growth of new blood vessels that nourish tumors (anti-angiogenesi...NYU psychology researchers show how attention enhances visual perception
...ncued location) side of the target [see diagram of experimental trial]. The purpose of the pre-cue was to automatically attract observers' attention to its location. Importantly, the cue was completely uninformative regarding both target location and orientation, and observers were told so. Although there was no ...Tiny superconductors withstand stronger magnetic fields
...lso apply to molecular-scale superconductors. "Our experimental results show an excellent agreement with the theory of pair-breaking perturbations, even at high magnetic fields," said Alexey Bezryadin, a professor of physics at Illinois. "The theory takes into account both spin and orbital contributions." To stu...New study finds kelp can reduce level of hormone related to breast cancer risk
...the rats' favorite foods. The researchers said the experimental doses of kelp consumed by the rats were roughly equivalent to the amount of brown seaweed eaten by people in Japan. Skibola and Curry took on the task of taking daily vaginal swabs to monitor the rats' menstrual cycles. The researchers found that th...New way to block pox shows promise in lab study
...y? To find out, Dr. Reinherz and his team added an experimental drug, CI-1033, to monkey kidney cells that had been infected with smallpox virus. CI-1033, which is being developed by Pfizer Corporation as a potential cancer treatment, halts erb-B1's function. The investigators found that production of new virus p...Promise of 'bladder pacemaker' for people with spinal cord injury
...d urethral sphincter activity. NIH animal care and experimental procedures were followed and approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Case Western Reserve University, where the studies took place. Until now, most bladder control research has focused on treating incontinence, a major cause of...Monkey 'pay-per-view' study could aid understanding of autism
...d Platt. "But there have been no real quantitative experimental demonstrations that monkeys actually process this ... haven't been able to bring to bear the methods of experimental psychophysics to understand these phenomena. "So, our approach, in which we ask the monkeys to, in a...National Academies news: Academy honors 17 for major contributions to science
...furthertheir research within the broad spectrum of experimental psychology - goto GREGORY C. DEANGELIS, assistant professor of neurobiology, departmentof anatomy and neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine,St. Louis, and to JACOB FELDMAN, associate professor, department ofpsychology and Center for ...Rice scientist recognized as pioneer in tissue engineering
...nction of seeded cells. They've accumulated strong experimental evidence that show their methods can be used to tailor implanted materials to attract certain cell types and direct their migration and differentiation to aid in the regeneration of specific tissues in desired areas. Recently, the Mikos laboratory ha...New leukemia drug shows promise in overriding all Gleevec resistance
...prevent or overcome this resistance. Recently, two experimental drugs were found to be effective in circumventing some but not all forms of Gleevec resistance. Both, for instance, failed to block the activity of a mutant BCR-ABL, called T315I, which is one of the more predominant mutations seen in Gleevec-resista...NIAID begins enrolling volunteers for novel HIV vaccine study
...tical company Merck & Co. Inc. Merck developed the experimental vaccine to stimulate HIV-specific cellular immunity, which prompts the body to produce T cells that kill HIV-infected cells. In previous smaller trials, this vaccine was found to be safe and to induce cellular immune responses against HIV in more tha...Antibody treatment partially reverses nerve damage in Alzheimer disease
...rogression of Abeta deposition in the brain during experimental models of Alzheimer disease and to also assess the effectiveness of treatments including the anti-Abeta antibody treatment described here....JCI table of contents, January 20 2005
...rogression of Abeta deposition in the brain during experimental models of Alzheimer disease and to also assess the effectiveness of treatments including the anti-Abeta antibody treatment described here. TITLE: Anti-Abeta antibody treatment promotes the rapid recovery of amyloid-associated neuritic dystrophy...Spinal cord injury patients show improvement in early device study
... sensory spinal cord injury were implanted with an experimental device designed to regenerate nerve fibers, promoting some degree of functional recovery. The device, an oscillating field stimulator or OFS, creates an electrical field in the area of injury. All 10 trial participants implanted with the OFS showed ...Gene vaccine protects mice against development of Her2/neu breast cancer
...4, showed that the vaccine protected 86 percent of experimental mice against HER2/neu-associated breast cancer, even though the tumors were implanted directly into mice. "This is an exciting strategy that seems to elicit a complete immunologic response against HER2/neu," says the study's lead author, Lawrence Lac...Faces must be seen to be recognized
...cognition takes place. Through a series of precise experimental manipulations of perception in human subjects, Farshad Moradi and his colleagues have gained new insight into the process. They have found that identifying a face depends on actually seeing it, as opposed to merely having the image of the face fall o...Scents and emotions linked by learning, Brown study shows
...rticipants were randomly assigned into groups. The experimental group entered a room where the new scent was dispersed in the air by a hidden machine. Then they played a card game on a computer. The game was rigged for fun, using humorous sound effects and smiling faces. This same group, in a later session, was s...Pegaptanib provides benefit for neovascular age-related macular degeneration
...abnormal blood vessel growth in eye disease. Their experimental studies showed that levels of VEGF protein were increased in eyes that developed abnormal new blood vessels, and that VEGF-blocking drugs were able to prevent the growth of these abnormal blood vessels. Others, including Harvard's Dr. Lloyd Paul Aiel...