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UCSF brain tumor vaccine trial shows promising results

...were presented today (April 16) at the 75th annual meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons in Washington, DC. “In this trial, we have observed a correlation between immune response as a result of vitespen vaccination and potential clinical benefit,?said Andrew T. Parsa, MD, PhD, assi...

What's in the water? Estrogenic activity documented in fish caught in Pittsburgh's rivers

...bstract number 3458, being presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, April 14-18, at the Los Angeles Convention Center, also demonstrated that the chemicals extracted from the local fish can cause growth of estrogen-sensitive breast cancer cells cultured in the laborato...

Scientists unveil piece of HIV protein that may be key to AIDS vaccine development

...IV's armor and have thereby opened a new avenue to meeting that challenge." The research team was led by Peter Kwong, Ph.D., of NIAID's Vaccine Research Center (VRC). His collaborators included other scientists from NIAID and the National Cancer Institute, NIH, as well as investigators from the Dana-Farb...

Antarctic warming to reduce animals at base of ecosystem, shift some penguin populations southward

...eek on the global climate threat during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco . "Researchers are seeing the movement of penguin populations southward down the peninsula as sea ice lessens along its margins," Lyons said. "Gentoo and chinstrap pengui...

Elderly spinal cord injuries increase five-fold in 30 years, Jefferson neurosurgeons find

... presented by Jefferson neurological surgeons at a meeting in Phoenix, Ariz. of the Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. "Spinal cord injuries in older patients are becoming more prevalent," said James Harrop, M.D, Assistant P...

Custom-made cancer cell attacks

...esearch at 8 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 17, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco. The ideal plant: A perennial grass The body of a plant is composed of polysaccharides, such as cellulose, which can be converted to ethanol by fermentation. Using th...

Cellulosic ethanol: Fuel of the future?

...esearch at 8 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 17, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco. The ideal plant: A perennial grass The body of a plant is composed of polysaccharides, such as cellulose, which can be converted to ethanol by fermentation. Using th...

Intravenous nanoparticle gene therapy shows activity in stage IV lung cancer

...e American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting in Los Angeles. Other attempts at gene therapy have employed an adenovirus to deliver the therapeutic gene. "Here we are using a non-viral, non-infectious delivery system," Lu says. The only clinically significant side effect so has been fev...

Stem cell transplants explored at Stanford as a possible treatment for hearing loss

... discussion Feb. 17 in San Francisco at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The session is titled "Hearing health: The looming crisis and what can be done about it." James Battey, MD, director of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disor...

Birth rate, competition are major players in hominid extinctions

...onski told attendees today (Feb. 16) at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco. Through time, the human lineage evolved to fill a wide variety of ecological niches, but those species that filled narrow environments, were less able to withstand the ...

Flavanols in cocoa may offer benefits to the brain

...of scientists who presented new data at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Several studies suggest that consumption of a special cocoa made to be rich in flavanols, a naturally occurring nutrient abundant in fresh cocoa, may improve blood vessel function. ...

Gene chips forecast ecological impacts of climate change

...ated impacts on marine invertebrates at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco on Sunday, Feb. 18. Her research centers on sea urchins and mussels, important members of marine ecosystems. The main focus will be on finding ways to assess the effects o...

Long-lived deep-sea fishes imperiled by technology, overfishing

...ccess, a panel of experts said today at the annual meeting of the American Association of the Advancement of Science. Some of the fish species living at depths greater than 500 meters take decades to reach breeding maturity, so there are no quick-fix remedies available to replenish the population, said Seli...

RNAi shows promise in gene therapy, Stanford researcher says

...Association for the Advancement of Sciences annual meeting in San Francisco during a session titled "RNAi for emerging pandemics and biosecurity." The session takes place at 1:45 p.m. Feb. 18. RNAi is a biological phenomenon in which a strand of RNA in the cell can cause the destruction of another stra...

Antibody signal may redirect inflammation to fuel cancer

...CSF scientist Lisa M. Coussens, PhD, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in a session titled "healthy aging: inflammation and chronic diseases." "Immunologists have known for decades that B cells of the so-called adaptive or acquired immune system are a...

Pacific Rim researchers to collaborate on distributed bioinformatics analysis of avian flu

..., which runs March 20-22 in Bangkok, Thailand. The meeting is hosted by Thailand’s National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), and the Thai National Grid Center (TGNC). Five non-U.S. partners have pledged to fund collaboration on the avian flu virus project: Japan’s National Institute fo...

Boosting brain power -- with chocolate

...erries. He presented his research at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of...of scientists from all over the world. This year's meeting takes place in San Francisco from February 15?9. Professor Macdonald said: "Acute consumption of ...

Targeting tumors the natural way

... presented today (March 25) at the annual national meeting of the American Chemical Society, cleverly harnesses one of the body's natural antibodies and immune responses. "The killing agent we chose is already in us," says UW-Madison chemistry professor Laura Kiessling, who led the work with postdoctoral res...

National Academies advisory: Invasive aquatic species in the Great Lakes

... a National Research Council committee will hold a meeting in Toronto to gather information on trade in the Great Lakes region and ways to eliminate further introductions of nonindigenous aquatic species into the lakes by vessels traveling the St. Lawrence Seaway. The committee's final report will comment on...

Ultrathin films deliver DNA as possible gene therapy tool

...esented a summary of the work at the annual spring meeting of the American Chemical Society in Chicago on Monday, March 26. When placed in or near a body tissue, the films are designed to degrade and release the DNA. Large strands of DNA cannot normally penetrate cells, so Lynn constructs his films with ...

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