ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- January 3, 2007
...ta protected by a computation device the size of a single molecule? With cryptography approaching that sobering new era, scientists in Israel are reporting development of what they term the first molecular system capable of processing password entries. Abraham Shanzer and colleagues describe their "molecu...It's OK for men with high blood pressure to have a drink or two, new study finds
...cted estimates of diet-disease associations in any single study are definitive." ...New details on how the immune system recognizes influenza
...ID awarded LIAI a $25 million contract to create a single repository of immune epitopes from critical diseas...e extensive database, which has become the largest single collection of such information anywhere in the world. It includes data from thousands of separate ar......ize with an unusual intergrown structure. The same single crystal contains domains with both arrangements ly...er packing arrangement in the crystalline state; a single crystal of a specific chemical substance is either one polymorph or the other. Aspirin is the first ...How your brain helps you become a wine expert
...t smells. In the study, researchers presented a single odor to human subjects continuously for 3 minutes. Half of the subjects received a minty odor; the other half, a floral odor. The researchers discovered that this prolonged sensory exposure induced mint (or floral) "expertise," depending on which od...Blood transfusions raise heart patients' infection and death risk -- especially women
...coronary artery bypass operations in Michigan in a single year. The researchers performed statistical anal...at transfusions may be related to infections. No single type of infection stood out as more common among blood recipients, which suggests a body-wide immune...Study explains how NSAIDs halt cancer growth
...e with a whole set of NSAIDs, we can point to this single gene which, when upregulated, kills cancer cells w...tes Libermann. "The fact that upregulation of this single gene MDA-7/IL-24 -- correlated not only with cell death induction of numerous types of cancer but a...Researchers show surprising interaction between genes, gender and hypertension
... Several diseases are caused by a variation on a single gene on the chromosome, called a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP, pronounced "snip"). Examples of so-called SNP diseases are sickle-cel...Interagency relations key to improving outcomes from UK health research
...edical Research Council---are essential if the new single fund for health research in the UK is to reap expe...ed results, says this weeks lead Editorial. The single fund will be called the Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research (OSCHR) and its interim...Two central mysteries in genome inheritance solved at UCSD
...hromatids of a chromosome, by chance, connect to a single end of the football-shaped spindle, the resulting daughter cells will lack the correct complement of genomic information a situation that is dangerous as it can promote cancerous transformation," said Desai. Cells avoid such a fate by detecting er...Decline in breast cancer cases likely linked to reduced use of hormone replacement
...breast cancer were diagnosed. "It is the largest single drop in breast cancer incidence within a single year I am aware of," says Peter Ravdin, M.D., Ph.D., a research professor in the Department of Biost...Natural, soy-based substance might help fight MS, Jefferson neuroscientists find
...roteases. Dr. Rostami sees BBIC as being used as a single therapy or in conjunction with other drugs in treating MS. He notes that because current therapies for MS involve injecting drugs such as interferon and copaxane, one goal is to develop an oral agent. BBIC could be given by pill daily. Over 400,0...Law professor finds home health-care workers have few legal protections
...they are disproportionately women of color who are single mothers. In addition, many workers are illegal immigrants who work off the books and get paid under the table. The annual turnover rate is about 50 percent. Smith said that because home health care workers work in private residences, they are often ...Bank on a Cure researchers identify pathways mediating myeloma treatment side effects
... as well as the specific changes within the genes, single nucleotide polymorphisms or SNPs, that can be used as markers to predict which patients are most likely to experience blood clots. "We identified genes involved with drug metabolism, DNA repair and inflammation as differentiating factors predictive...The UK's third case of vCJD associated with blood transfusion
...n infection were reported. The patients both had a single blood transfusion from donors who later developed vCJD. One of these patients developed clinical signs of vCJD 6.5 years post-transfusion and died 13 months later. The second patient did not develop vCJD and died of an unrelated cause 5 years post-t...Infectious disease researchers develop basis for experimental melanoma treatment
....0 centimeters (cm) in diameter. After receiving a single dose of the radiolabeled antibodies, tumor growth was completely inhibited and near total tumor regression occurred in those animals with smaller tumors (0.6 to 0.7 cm in diameter). Further, the treated mice showed no signs of kidney or other organ d...'GreeneChip' -- New diagnostic tool that rapidly and accurately identifies multiple pathogens
...Because clinical syndromes are rarely specific for single pathogens, methods that simultaneously screen for multiple agents are important, particularly when early accurate diagnosis can alter treatment or assist in containment of an outbreak," stated W. Ian Lipkin, MD, director of the Greene Infectious Dise...Study in the Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
...ics, safety and tolerability of palifermin after a single IV injection.The clinical trial consisted of 31 pa...iring hemodialysis. Each participant received a single dose of the drug, palifermin. Noone discontinued the study due to adverse events, although 26 subjec...November/December 2006 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...by the Food and Drug Administration marketed for a single racial-ethnic group, African-Americans, in the treatment of congestive heart failure. This analysis discusses background issues to help prepare physicians to counsel patients about this controversial drug.BiDil: Assessing a Race-Based Pharmaceutical...Whole-body scans may provide option for diagnosing colorectal cancer
...graphy (CT) provides whole-body tumor staging in a single session. Of conventional imaging procedures, cont...procedures. The referring physician will receive a single report including complete tumor staging in a single step, enabling him/her to define further therapy...