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Combination therapy shows promising results in patients with advanced lung cancer

...mp said, about three to four times longer than the average duration of response for a patient with advanced lung cancer. The study was part of the Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in lung cancer at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer, a program funded by the National Cancer Institute at top research ins...

Study challenges myth that sex late in pregnancy hastens birth

...weeks of their pregnancies carried their babies an average of 39.9 weeks, compared to average delivery at 39.3 weeks among women who abstained from sexual activity at term. "Patients may contin...

Embryos exposed in 3-D

...e performed in less than 15 minutes compared to an average processing time of about 2.5 to 4 hours with the Ficoll gradient technique. The Filter Harvest System also exhibited higher yield of MNCs for significantly better recovery (60 to 95 percent) than the Ficoll method. The Pall Filter Harvest system ...

New technology enables faster, more efficient cell harvest: Cell therapy meeting study

...e performed in less than 15 minutes compared to an average processing time of about 2.5 to 4 hours with the Ficoll gradient technique. The Filter Harvest System also exhibited higher yield of MNCs for significantly better recovery (60 to 95 percent) than the Ficoll method. The Pall Filter Harvest system ...

Where have all the butterflies gone?

...f the number of species present at this time in an average year, and far fewer individual butterflies than usual. For example, at Gates Canyon near Vacaville he counted 10 species and 43 individuals on April 18, 2006. At the same site on April 19, 2005, he counted 21 species and 378 butterflies. This winter...

Cutting calories slightly can reduce aging damage

...ly increasing the animals' activity extended their average lifespan and significantly overturned the negative... is the equivalent of a few hundred calories in an average human diet and moderate exercise is equivalent to taking a short walk. To reveal the workings of th...

Green tea and the 'Asian Paradox'

...iting the article. He said one theory is that the average 1.2 liters of green tea consumed daily by many people in Asia offers the anti-oxidant protective effects of the polyphenolic EGCG. EGCG may prevent LDL oxidation, which has been shown to play a key role in the pathophysiology of arteriosclerosis. EGC...

Researchers to develop ultra-miniature implantable sensors to measure blood flow

...l microns. To give that size some perspective, the average human hair ranges from 40 microns to 120 microns in diameter. The advantage of such tiny, implanted sensors is that they can provide separate readings for particular organs in a patient. They also can be unobtrusively implanted in patients who requir...

Diabetes research takes wing thanks to long-lived fruit fly

...nds on a fly that lives 40 percent longer than the average fly? Because of its promise for human health. New findings on aging, diabetes, and stress converge on the fly the team created. Later this month Bohmann will discuss the fly's implications for aging and health at a symposium in Sweden sponsored by th...

Bioengineered tissue implants regenerate damaged knee cartilage

...ge removed during surgery from 23 patients with an average age of 36 years. After growing the cells in culture for 14 days, the researchers seeded them onto scaffolds made of esterified hyaluronic acid, grew them for another 14 days on the scaffolds, and then implanted them into the injured knees of the stu...

Higher levels of obesity associated with greater health risks

...ve-Observational Study who were followed-up for an average of 7.0 years (Oct. 1993 to Aug. 2004). The resear...emely obese women were more likely to die over the average 7.0 years of follow-up than were women in other examined weight categories. Modeling analyses adjust...

Joslin discovers signs of residual islet cell function in people with long-term type 1 diabetes

...ipants with or without c-peptide. For example, the average total cholesterol of the c-peptide positive partic...nnaire, 175 were female and 151 were male, with an average age of 70 years. The average age of diabetes onset was 13 years and average duration of type 1 diabe...

The brain, traffic and nano-circuits -- e-Science takes on major challenges

...able, governed by individual atoms rather than the average behaviour of large collections of atoms. The NanoCMOS project will build a grid infrastructure and e-Science tools to enable circuit designers to share models that simulate nano-component behaviour and explore the implications for circuit design. It...

Hope I die before I get old?

..., and also to rate on that same scale how happy an average person of their age would be. Each participant was...They were also asked to guess the happiness of the average person at each of those ages. To make sure that their online survey methodology didn't skew the re...

Compound in dairy products targets diabetes

...ratio of so-called "good" and "bad" fats, with the average American diet containing too much of the "bad" fats. CLA, whose effect is very similar to fish oil, a source of "good" fat, could prove beneficial against Type-2 diabetes. "And compared to the synthetic drugs used to treated this disease, CLA doe...

Global warming may have damaged coral reefs forever

... large and diverse amount of marine life - in 2005 average coral cover in the area surveyed was just 7.5 per cent. The survey showed that four fish species (a type of butterfly fish, two types of wrasses and a type of damsel fish) are possibly already locally extinct, and six species are at critically low ...

Diabetes hits 275 Australians each day as pandemic spreads

...e last 5 years: People's waistlines increased on average by 2.1 cm and their weight by 1.4 kg People with prediabetes* were 15 times more likely to develop diabetes than those with normal blood sugar levels Obese people were 4 times more likely to develop diabetes than those with normal weight People w...

Dominant meerkats render rivals infertile

...ives her subordinate females from the group for an average of three weeks at a time. Evicted subordinates, typically those with whom reproductive conflict is most likely (females of breeding age, older, and pregnant females), suffer repeated attacks and chases throughout this period, leading to dramatica...

When it comes to gene transcription, random pauses aren’t quite so random, study finds

...times it paused longer, sometimes shorter, but the average was remarkably the same--about a second or so. We also discovered that it just didn't stop at any old sequence but at very specific places where there's a signal in the DNA that basically says, 'Pause here.'" That signal, he added, occurred for spe...

Combined treatment extends life expectancy for lung cancer patients

...ng thermal ablation with radiation therapy extends average life expectancy and decreases recurrences of tumor... with ablation and radiation had recurrences at an average of 44 months. While there was an increased recurrence rate in larger tumors ?33 percent recurred at ...

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