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Study Offers Innovative Profile Of Enzyme That Aids Tumor Growth
Using an innovative profiling strategy, scientists at the Scripps Research Institute have characterized an enzyme that is "highly elevated"in aggressive human tumor cells. When the enzyme, KIAA1363, was inactivated, it impaired tumor growth and migration in both ovarian and breast cancer cells, suggesting that inhibitors of this enzyme may prove valuable in the treatment of multiple types of cancer. Photoacoustic Images Add Valuable Information To Conventional Mammogra
Photoacoustic techniques can supplement conventional imaging techniques in breast cancer diagnostics. From first tests on patients using the 'photoacoustic mammoscope'researchers conclude that the images obtained add valuable information about the vascularisation of a tumor. In four out of five cases the photoacoustic images of the 'suspect'breast area show areas of high intensity around the tumor. Study Finds Flaws In Cancer Clinical Trials
Cancer research and drug development are yielding more sophisticated candidate therapies, but investigators' methods to test them haven't kept pace, according to researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. That could explain why so many experimental drugs fail in the final large and costly phase of testing, they say. Suffering Under a Great Injustice: Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japane
In 1943, Ansel Adams documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese Americans interned there. This site provides side-by-side digital scans of both Adams' 242 original negatives and his 209 photographic prints, collection highlights, Adams' book "Born Free and Equal,"a selected bibliography, and a chronology of Adams' life. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. TV Viewing And Physical Inactivity Independently Associated With Metab
Watching TV and level of activity in children appear to be associated independently of each other with risk factors that may influence the chance that children have of developing metabolic diseases (e.g., diabetes) and cardiovascular diseases in later life. [Ironic] An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell in
Recalling the end of Romeo and Juliet, the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him. Robotic Chair Falls Apart, Reassembles Itself Autonomously
A seemingly simple, sturdy, wood-veneer chair has become an online video hit. With its "brain"in its seat, the chair collapses into a disheveled, disconnected heap; its legs then slowly find each corner of the base, connect back together and eventually, the chair stands upright. Structure-building Cell Signals Also May Influence Learning, Memory
A Burnham Institutestudy has found that one of the cell's largest families of signaling molecules, called ephrins, which are known to regulate the development of nerve cells, also controls nerve cells' ability to engulf critical chemicals and proteins for learning and memory. These findings, the first to link these molecular semaphores to this important nerve cell function, appear in the May issue of Nature Cell Biology, published in advance at the journal's website on April 10th. Pain Relief Could Be Easy With A Simple Injection
A recent study, published in the journal Pain Practice, identified situations in which injections of local anesthetic would be the best treatment for pain and reduce unnecessary risk and procedural costs. Immune Cells Fighting Chronic Infections Become Progressively 'Exhaust
A new study of immune cells battling a chronic viral infection shows that the cells, called T cells, become exhausted by the fight in specific ways, undergoing profound changes that make them progressively less effective over time. The findings also point to interventions that would reverse the changes, suggesting that novel therapies could be developed to reinvigorate T cells that become depleted in their struggle against a virus.
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