Pancreatic cancer linked to developmental cell signaling pathway
... cancer, these other blockers might offer a bright prospect in treating a disease that has eluded effective treatment up to now," Hebrok said. A second paper in the same issue of Nature reports that Hedgehog signaling is active in pancreatic and other cancers along the gastrointestinal tract. These results ...Robo-thespians help mothers of kids with cancer
...e or pocket," said Johnson. "We are excited at the prospect of working to develop it."...Soaking in the genius of Mother Nature
...ns in such infinitesimal quantities as to make the prospect of collecting and commercializing their use impractical. Enter Handy and his research team. After more than two years of work, Handy's group last month successfully synthesized the molecular skeleton of the lamellarins, an accomplishment that will no...New method of delivering chemotherapy using ultrasound works in BYU lab
...frequencies before trials on humans could begin, a prospect that is still several years away. Beverly Roeder, a veterinarian and BYU professor of integrative biology, helped develop the procedure to do this study on tumors in rats. John Carmen, a master's student in microbiology and Friederike Roloff, an unde......ift workers and others affected by drowsiness. The prospect is stirring up a debate about the dangers of popping a pill to counter a sleep-deprived lifestyle. Provigil, as the drug is known in the US and Britain, is approved for treating the daytime sleepiness associated with the rare condition called narcole...The case for a global development organisation
...hout a Global Development Organisation there is no prospect that the UN's development goals will be met. Indeed, human development may actually go into reverse. A decade of governmental paralysis and institutional fragmentation has seen the number of people in poverty in sub-Saharan Africa rise from 242 milli...Boston chemist wins national award for tailor-made molecules
...to study or produce pharmaceutical candidates. The prospect is a tricky one, and not only because pharmaceuticals are intricate assemblies. They also usually come in two forms, structures that are identical except one mirrors the other, like a person's hand. The differences can be critical. For example, one f...Health-care expert proposes overhaul of long-term care financing
...emselves as they see fit, without facing the cruel prospect of destitution when a loved one enters a nursing home," Kaplan concluded....Neuronal differences in certain brain regions observed in chronic users of cocaine
...ing desire to seek and use drugs undeterred by the prospect of future negative consequences may be a result of these gray matter deficiencies. WHAT IT MEANS: Understanding the long-term impact that cocaine can have on the brain and cognition will help scientists to develop strategies to reverse those effects ...Atlanta researchers to launch clinical trial of progesterone for treatment of brain injury
...r. Kellermann. "We are tremendously excited by the prospect that through this clinical trial, we may be able to offer hope to those devastated by brain injury."......of a mouse has made a breakthrough that brings the prospect of an artificial liver much closer. He believes he has solved the problem of growing the complex networks of blood vessels that artificial organs would need to sustain themselves within the body. Until now, researchers trying to build replacement b...Computational innovation predicts how patients will respond to drug treatments
...this work and that of other researchers raises the prospect of individualizing cancer treatment; what will succeed and what will fail, Korenberg posits. Doctors will be able to predict the outcome of treatment simply based on a gene-expression profile taken at the time of diagnosis. And were likely to be able...National experts to debate the law and ethics of public health responses to bioterrorism
...dy introduced in the Minnesota Legislature. "The prospect of a bioterrorist disaster forces us to ask whether law and ethics authorize aggressive triage, isolation and quarantine, and access to private medical records, among other public health measures," said Susan Wolf, Faegre & Benson Professor of Law, ...UF study: Grandparents celebrated instead of reviled in children's lit
...85 and older, he said. As people live longer, the prospect of shared intergenerational relationships over longer periods of time is greater than any other time in history, Mills said. Today you can be a grandparent for 50 or 60 years, particularly if you consider teen pregnancies. The results of the UF stud...Underage smokers respond to threat of legal penalties
...e likely to pass up cigarettes when faced with the prospect of being fined or losing their drivers license, according to a study of a Florida program that has helped reduce underage smoking by 40 percent. Smoking rates for the most recent 30 days were lower in areas where underage smoking laws were more stric...Earlier detection for breast cancer in sight
... this new type of image offers the radiologist the prospect of earlier detection of malignancy and therefore e...ay use in larger hospitals. This is not the only prospect synchrotron x-rays offer us in the diagnosis of breast cancer. X-ray diffraction of the atomic stru...Vitamin A compound may help protect younger women against breast and ovarian cancers
...s due to ovarian cancer. "We are excited about the prospect of a therapy to prevent a disease which is responsible for more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive system," said Dr. Veronesi. Observed side effects of the fenretinide regimen included skin or mucosal dryness, diminished adaptat...Transmitting infertility from father to son
...fhaving a biological child, ICSI provides the real prospect of having a son ordaughter." Physicians speculated, however, that ICSI boys fathered by men with Y chromosomedeletions might inherit the deletion and therefore also be infertile as adults. But until recently, they had no proof to support this concern...The Whole Truth From Five-Year-Olds
...ttorney lied. Invariably, childrenfreeze up at the prospect of having to identifythemselves or an adult - even hypothetically - asa liar. "If you tell a lie," the lawyer asked in the 1989case, "will you get into trouble?" "But I'm not going to lie," the little girlprotested. Lyon and Saywitz have made the tes...Space Research May Accelerate Development Of Flu-Fighting Drug
...on drugs called neuraminidaseinhibitors offers the prospect for decreasing the duration and severity of theillness and may even prevent the development of symptoms in those exposed to thevirus. One of these neuraminidase inhibitors was developed through ground andspace research conducted in partnership by NA...