Scientist-astronaut sends T-cells into space
A former astronaut and researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center will be traveling to the Cosmodrome space-launch site at Baikonur, Kazakhstan, this Saturday, Sept. 2, 2006, to prepare a crucial experiment designed to demonstrate how human immune response is suppressed in the weightless environment of space. Millie Hughes-Fulford, PhD, director of the Laboratory of Cell Growth at...Nanotubes used for first time to send signals to nerve cells
Texas scientists have added one more trick to the amazing repertoire of carbon nanotubes -- the ability to carry electrical signals to nerve cells. Nanotubes, tiny hollow carbon filaments about one ten-thousandth the diameter of a human hair, are already famed as one of the most versatile materials ever discovered. A hundred times as strong as steel and one-sixth as dense, able to conduct...Critical hearing gene helps send auditory messages to brain
By studying a gene earlier linked to deafness in humans, researchers now have new insight into the molecular process by which components of the inner ear send messages to the brain. The team reports its findings in the October 20, 2006, issue of the journal Cell, published by Cell Press. The researchers found that mice lacking the gene otoferlin are profoundly deaf. The animals' deafness r...Cancer cells forming blood vessels send their copper to the edge
New information about a link between the growth of blood vessels critical to the spread of cancer and the copper in our bodies has been discovered by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, using a beamline at the Advanced Photon Source. Growing new blood vessels from existing ones ?a process called angiogenesis ?is import...Hay fever can send work productivity down the drain
Employers can blame hay fever for the loss of millions of hours of work productivity this spring. While missing an hour of work a week may seem small, consider that 20 to 50 million Am...High court sends message on patent obviousness
is the requirement that the claimed invention is not obvious under 35 U.S.C. 103. Similarly, obviousness is a typical defense raised in patent infringement cases. Yet, overcoming obviousness objections, both in the PTO and in...CIO Leadership Series: Tanya Townsend, Saint Clare's Hospital
How many other information technology directors have an opportunity to start fresh with a new building, new network architecture, new people, and new processes? Not many, and when the still-to...Abbott Labs campus in Kenosha could send ripples through local biotech
While Abbott has set t...When the 'send' button brings trouble
On an average day in an average office, an employee composes in e-mail using a standard mail client and hits the "send" button. That's where the trouble starts. From that point forward, the message goes through a series of unsecured servers across the Internet before reaching its final destination in the recipient's mailbox. Even if no trouble is encountered along that route, the company...$1.45 billion judgment against Morgan Stanley sends message revisit e-mail retention policies
The recent $1.45 billion judgment against Morgan Stanley in the Ronald Perelman case is a clarion call for revisiting your organizations e-mail message retention policies. First, a quick recap of the main points in the case: The financial services firm Morgan Stanley was sued by billionaire financier Ronald Perelman Morgan Stanley could not reliably produce e-mails for the court<b...Man Arrested For Sending Hundreds Of Anthrax Hoax Letters
Derek Brodie, a 42-year-old man was arrested for mailing thousands of anthrax hoax letters. One of these letters was even mailed to US President George W Bush. He was arrested two days after he allegedly threatened to use a weapon of mass destruction.// The FBI said that the letters were mailed to government agencies, media offices, actors and actresses and businesses....UN Sending Aid To Angola To Counter Cholera
The United Nations is rushing aid to Angola to counter cholera epidemic which has killed about 2,000 people and sickened 50,000 in the African nation. // The UN health agency said it is sending drugs, oral re-hydration salts, disinfectants and chlorine to counter the poor sanitation and a shortage of safe drinking water, major vector of the disease. "Although current trend...Medicare Sends out Reimbursement Checks Erroneously
Around 230,000 Medicare recipients have got checks which erroneously reimburse them for monthly premiums that they paid for prescription drug coverage this year.// The checks which amount to about $215 are almost sure to leave several beneficiaries confused. In addition these checks are accompanied by a letter that mistakenly informs them that the Social Security Administration would n...Orissa to Send Coke, Pepsi Samples for Testing
The Orissa government has ordered administrations of all 30 districts to collect Pepsi and Coca-Cola soft drink samples within the next three days.// The officials were Thursday asked to send the samples to the state capital Bhubaneswar, said a senior health department official. These would then be sent to a laboratory in Pune, Maharashtra, as the state government does not...Deadly Lung Disease Sends Patients on ‘Quest for Breath
Chris Galvin has found a decidedly poetic way to describe a disease that is the furthest thing from beautiful. The condition took his father’s life and, Galvin always knew, threatened him as well.// “It’s kind of like the storm that’s sitting out on the horizon that you know one day will come to shore on your beach,” says Galvin, 37. “It’s something I’ve thought about my whole life and...