Cell marker identifies patients who are more likely to respond to taxol
...fectiveness of Taxol in more patients, making them super responders." The researchers came up with their discovery after examining breast cancer biopsy samples taken from 82 patients, 21 of whom had a complete disappearance of their cancer after Taxol-containing treatment. They looked at the difference be...Researchers shed light on cancer susceptibility using 'supermice'
...ety of tumorigenic stimuli. Cells derived from the super Ink4a/Arf mice were more resistant to acquiring the ability to divide indefinitely and alterations by oncogenes, two important features of a successful cancer. In addition, the animals developed cancers at a much lower rate upon treatment with differ...PITT, OHSU: When early life stress occurs determines its impact later
...troduced experienced mothers, often referred to as super moms, when the infant monkeys were one to three mo...e therapy. The timing of the introduction of these super moms was varied because the scientists wanted to determine the optimal timing for initiation of ther...Health benefits of citrus topic at American Chemical Society meeting in Philadelphia
...se and other related topics including a potential super pill that could cut drug costs will be presented during a two-day symposium at the 228 th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the worlds largest scientific society. The symposium, Potential Health Benefits of Citrus, begins at 9:00 a...New study: Small, frequent doses of caffeine best strategy for staying awake
...in the morning to jumpstart their day-they get the super grande latte from Starbucks," said Charles Czeisler, who was recently appointed the Frank Baldino Jr. PhD professor of sleep medicine at Harvard Medical School. "Their caffeine levels soar only to fall as the day progresses in the face of rising slee...Early life exposure to environmental agents predicts adult tumors in animals
...environment estrogen reprogrammed the tissue to be super sensitive to hormones, which drives development of these tumors." All of the rats shared a common defect in a tumor suppressor gene and had the same genetic susceptibility to developing fibroids, but exposure to the environmental estrogen chan...Researchers find promising new target for anxiety-reducing drugs
...KC-epsilon had been intentionally disabled -- were super sensitive to modulation, or manipulation, of GABA, the number one inhibitory neurotransmitter in both mice and humans," he said. "As a result, they were more sensitive to alcohol and other drugs like Valium that alter GABA function. That led us to sp...With cues from nature, scientists develop new method to purify drugs
...ct of widespread excitement for their potential in super fast computers and other developing technologies. Martin has developed techniques to vary nanotubes' diameter and manufacture large arrays containing millions of tubes arranged in parallel lines. Cells use similar small tubes, he noted. "The nanotub...Scientific society recognizes womens contributions to the Manhattan Project
... known then as the Clinton Engineer Works, was the super secret location where uranium 235 was enriched and the basic research on production and separation of plutonium using the graphite reactor was conducted. Women contributors made significant advances at this site and their successes will be reviewed a...... in the study. This suggeststhat, in order to be a super performer in that area, one needs more white matterthan exists in most female brains." The new data shed light on earlier observations concerning the corpuscallosum, a large body of nerve fibers that connects the right and lefthemispheres of ......ta fusion methods used to create smart weapons and super sensitive surveillancesystems, can be used to combat disease, the two researchers say. Hall predicts that in about five years, a person could go to a physician'soffice and insert an arm or a leg into an acoustic measuring device thatwould identify ...