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Penn researchers study the use of ultrasound for treatment of cancer

... the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine completed a study in mice in which they used ultrasound both to see a tumor's blood perfusion and then to treat it with a continuous wave of low-level ultrasound. After three minutes of treatment at an intensity similar to what is used in physiotherapy ultraso...

Eisai announces Phase II data on E7389, a potential new therapy for the treatment of breast cancer

... 65 patients considered evaluable for response had completed at least their 2nd cycle of treatment and had a tumor assessment, which could be compared to their baseline. This study is ongoing, and final results may change from the initial analysis. "My colleagues and I are very excited by the results of this ...

Superconducting magnet attracts molecular research

...ing 800 MHz German-made Bruker magnet was recently completed in a specially built facility on campus. Weighing in at roughly seven and a half tons, the magnetic resonance (MR) spectrometer was funded by a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in a stiff competition among research univer...

Stress substantially slows human body's ability to heal

... fill such blisters. The husbands and wives also completed questionnaires intended to gauge their level of stress at the beginning of the experiment. Lastly, each person was fitted with a catheter through which blood could be drawn for later analysis. During the first visit, Kiecolt-Glaser said, each spous...

Yale scientists decipher 'wiring pattern' of cell signaling networks

A team of scientists at Yale University has completed the first comprehensive map of the proteins and kinase signaling network that controls how cells of higher organisms operate, according to a report this week in the journal Nature. The study is a breakthrough in understanding mechanisms of how prot...

Human trial proves ricin vaccine safe, induces neutralizing antibodies; further tests planned

Scientists have completed the first human clinical trial of a recombinant vaccine for the deadly toxin ricin ?a potential bioterror threat ?and the results indicate the vaccine is safe and effective in eliciting ricin-neutralizing antibodies, the UT Southwestern Medical Cente...

Breakthrough for stem cell research

...ently from Diabetes Australia. "Couples who have completed their families often ask us to donate the excess embryos created during their past treatments to research to help others," said Emeritus Professor Doug Saunders, Chair of Research & Development Committee, IVF Australia. "We are very encouraged to...

Hormonal male contraception reversible after few months for all men

...udy of androgen-progestagen combinations are being completed in China and Europe, respectively. Peter Liu from the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed), who is currently located at the ANZAC Research Institute, University of Sydney, Australia, and colleagues an...

Mining for gems in the fungal genome

...r the genetic sequence of Aspergillus nidulans was completed in 2003, the search for secondary metabolites in that species continued. Although scientists were able to pinpoint the locations of genes believed to be involved in the production of secondary metabolites by pouring over the sequence data, the actua...

For one Stanford doctor, the beat goes on during open-heart surgery

...." Which is exactly what Ihnken plans to do. He's completed more than 130 of the surgeries and does all his bypass work off-pump. "I really want to build Stanford as an off-pump center," he said, before scrubbing up for surgery on that afternoon earlier this year. "I want patients sent here from everywhere." ...

Unique equine cataract surgery offered on routine basis

...e on Georgie's second eye ?the first operation was completed without problems. Completely blind from birth, she will undergo further surgery at the University's Large Animal Hospital. Georgie is owned by the International League for the Protection of Horses (ILPH). Cataracts develop because of hereditary, co...

Genome sequencing is for ecologists, too

...oint Genome Institute scientists announced they've completed a "shotgun" sequence for Daphnia pulex, or the wat...s of crustaceans. "The genome sequences are being completed for several insects because they are important model organisms -- like fruit flies -- or because the...

Illinois pig to make history as source of first complete swine genome

...ovide the first sequence of the swine genome to be completed with the help of a two-year $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today (Jan. 13) by Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns. Lawrence B. Schook, a professor of animal sciences at Illinois and co-chairman of the Internationa...

NHGRI announces new sequencing targets

... use 48 human DNA samples donated for the recently completed International HapMap Project, which produced a comprehensive catalog of human genetic variation, or haplotypes, designed to speed the search for genes involved in common diseases. The HapMap identified neighborhoods of tiny changes in DNA ?known as s...

Two NIH initiatives launch intensive efforts to find roots of common diseases

...e International HapMap Project, led by the NIH and completed in October 2005, demonstrated that the 10 million variants cluster into local neighborhoods, called haplotypes, and that they can be accurately sampled by as few as 300,000 carefully chosen SNPs. New technological systems allow these SNPs to be syste...

High-resolution light microscope reveals the fundamental mechanisms of nerve communication

... when observing cells. As demonstrated by recently completed research (please see the press release from XXth of May, 2005), the resolution of STED microscopy can be further increased, in principle to reach molecular scales. The STED microscope has opened a new chapter in the story of light microscopy, one in ...

A new way of looking at molecular motors

...ms, quickly letting go of the track once they have completed their "power stroke." Most molecular motors have a head, a neck (which powers movement), and a tail. Myosins usually look like two-headed snakes, kinesins like hairpins with a head at each end, and dyneins like three-headed flowers with one stem. S...

UMaine teams with fishermen to study affects of trawling on seafloor ecology

...aine Marine Science professor Les Watling recently completed a long-term study that examines the effects of groundfish trawling on the complex ecology of the sea floor in the Gulf of Maine. Based on the gradual increases in complexity and diversity of seafloor communities that have been protected from bottom ...

Bone and cartilage growth to blame for heart valve disease

...r treat this disease process." This research was completed with the support of an American Heart Association Grant-in-Aid (0350564Z) and a grant from the US National Institutes of Health (1K08HL073927-01). Dr. Rajamannan's research will be featured at the American College of Cardiology's 2006 Heart Valve Su...

Virginia Bioinformatics Institutes launches microbial database

...he purpose of the database is to make the recently completed genome sequences of these pathogens as well as pow...ated resource. The work described in the paper was completed by Brett Tyler, VBI research professor and professor of plant pathology, physiology, and weed scienc...

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