The very unexpected life and death of a leukemic cell
B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is an incurable disease in which cells in the bone marrow grow and survive to the point where they become abnormal and malignant (leukemic). The progression of the disease is slow and there has been a lack of information regarding the rate of production of CLL cells, and the time-course of their death. For years, doctors and scientists believed th...US life expectancy about to decline, researchers say
A team of researchers led by University of Illinois at Chicago professor S. Jay Olshansky is predicting a decline in life expectancy in the United States later this century. Th...Report that delayed motherhood decreases life expectancy of mouse offspring
The June 2005 issue of Biology of Reproduction includes a special paper by a team of Spanish scientists indicating that delayed motherhood in mice results in shorter life expectancy and reduced body weight in their offspring. Negative effects of late maternal age in women, such as abnormal numbers of chromosomes in their children, are well known. However, other potential negative effects o...Unexpected lock and key mechanism found for the assembly of tumor blood vessels
A critical lock and key mechanism that allows the final step in the completion of new blood vessel formation has been identified by a University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine team in research that promises to lead to a new way to halt tumor growth by cutting off the tumor blood supply. The research team led by Judith Varner, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine at UC...Thomson lends perspective to stem cell expectations
Outlining some of the remaining challenges for stem cell researchers, University o...WARF expects review of stem cell patents
Andy Cohn, government and public relations manager for WARF, said the foundation remains co...Am I spoiled if I expect well-designed mobile devices?
Angus H., whose e-mail domain...Catalyst International profit exceeds expectations
Specific figures were not provided, but Catalyst said it completed the quarter by exceeding expectations in license sales, services business, and overall profitability, continuing a trend in increas...Study explains unexpected conductivity of nanoscale silicon
When graduate student Pengpeng Zhang successfully imaged a piece of silicon just 10 nanometers-or a millionth of a centimeter-in thickness, she and her UW-Madison co-researchers were puzzled. According to established thinking, the feat should be impossible because her microscopy method required samples that conduct electricity. "After she did it, we realized, 'Hey, this silicon layer is...Biotechnology industry expected to grow into a three billion dollar industry by 2002
The biotech products market in India is expected to grow into a three billion dollar industry by 2002 according to a Rabo India finance report. The big leap is expected to triple the industry's size from its 1999 value of one billion dollars. Biogenerics, biopharmaceuticals, agriculture, food and nutrition sectors are all poised for the big leap, both nationally and internationally. Th...Boys reduced mother's life expectancy
According to researchers, scientists, having sons cut mothers' lives short, looking at families 250 years back. They felt that the pattern might still be seen in developing countries today. The team from Toronto looked at church records// for the Sanu people, who lived in Scandinavia between the 18th and 20th centuries. The Sanu depended on reindeer herding, fishing and hunting for th...Life expectancy lessened due to obesity
A recent study by researchers of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine published in the January issue of The Journal of The American Medical Association suggested that obesity has a marked effect on the life span of both men and women, and that the risk of increased years of life lost(YLL) was greatest at younger ages. The study was based on data from various National Health// and Nutrition...How to Improve Life Expectancy
Eat better, exercise more, stop smoking -- they all sound simple, but can they really impact health? A new study shows removing some of these factors can significantly improve life expectancy worldwide. Researchers from several international centers combined efforts to determine the potential health gains of reducing risk factors for disease. They looked at 20 risk factors. Some of those in...Changing Partners may put Expectant Mothers at Risk
New research finds that women who change partners between the births of their first two children are more likely to deliver pre-term babies with a low birth weight than women who have the same partner.// These babies are also more likely to die within the first year of life. The results are the same even when researchers take into account the mother’s age and education, the interval bet...Cobalis Expects to Report Phase III Top-Line Results in May
IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 30, 2007 - Cobalis Corp. (OTCBB: CLSC), a pharmaceutical development company specializing inanti-allergy medications, today announced it has been informed byits independent contract research organization that it would needmore time to combine Cobalis' three locked data bases into a singledatabase before un-blinding and conducting the statistical analysis...