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3/17/10
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Understanding the steps to the intricate dance inside a cell is essential to one day choreographing the show. By studying the molecules that give a cell its structure, Univ. of Illinois researchers are moving closer to understanding one of those steps: the conga line.
Mar 16 | News
Magic bullets, also called silver bullets, because of the folkloric belief that only silver bullets can kill supernatural creatures, remain the goal of drug development efforts today. A team of scientists at Washington Univ. in St. Louis is currently working on a magic bullet for cancer. But their bullets are gold rather than silver.
Mar 16 | News
In the effort to study the movements of bacteria, Texas A&M plant experts observed the cell wall crashing behavior of Xylella fastidiosa, which causes a deadly wine grape plant disease. Electron microscopy helped them see this movement for the first time.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs was fined $227,500 after incorrect radiation doses were given to 97 veterans with prostate cancer at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center, a federal agency announced Wednesday.The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said the fine is the second largest it has ever...
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University of Chicago scientists have successfully used geometrically patterned surfaces to influence the development of stem cells. The new approach is a departure from that of many stem-cell biologists, who focus instead on uncovering the role of proteins in controlling the fate of stem cells.
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Research led by Wayne L. Backes, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacology and Associate Dean for Research at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, has found that drug metabolism depends not only upon which enzymes are present in an individual, but also how they interact, and that can...
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Abraxis BioScience Inc. said Wednesday its drug Abraxane met key treatment goals in a late-stage lung cancer study.The company said Abraxane with Taxol, in combination with chemotherapy, improved the overall response rate of patients in the 1,052 patient study. The study focused on patients...
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and AstraZeneca said Wednesday the Food and Drug Administration is reviewing their application for fixed dose of Onglyza in combination with metformin as a treatment for diabetes.Onglyza, made by Bristol-Myers and AstraZeneca, is already approved as a diabetes treatment...
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A study of the human genome led by Cedars-Sinai researchers has now identified genes linked to ulcerative colitis, offering clues as to what causes the condition and potential avenues for new therapies to treat the disease.
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A research team from China investigated differential points of solid-pseudopapillary neoplasm (SPN) of the pancreas and pancreatic endocrine tumor. They found that characteristic morphological features and specific expressive patterns of beta-catenin and E-cadherin make it to be easy to...
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A federal judge on Tuesday said farmers can harvest their genetically engineered sugar beets this year, ruling the economic impact too great and that environmental groups waited too long to request that the crop be yanked from the ground and otherwise barred from the market.Nearly all sugar...
Mar 16 | News
Racehorse drug testing in Kentucky is going local — with a little help from overseas.The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission unanimously agreed Tuesday to hire HFL Sport Science, based in England, to open a new lab in Lexington that would handle testing for all the state's standardbred and...