Cancer-fighting virus shows promise in early clinical trial

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 08, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (56) | comments 0

A virus that has been specifically designed by scientists to be safe to normal tissue but deadly to cancer is showing early promise in a preliminary study, researchers said at the ESMO Conference Lugano (ECLU), Switzerland.


Dawn Rescheduled for September Launch

Dawn Rescheduled for September Launch

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 08, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

The launch of NASA's Dawn spacecraft, a mission that will explore the two largest objects in the asteroid belt in an effort to answer questions about the formation of our solar system, has been rescheduled ...


Double identities lie behind chromosome disorders

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 08, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Chromosome disorders in sex cells cause infertility, miscarriage and irregular numbers of chromosomes (aneuploidy) in neonates. A new study from Karolinska Institutet published in the scientific journal Nature Genetics shows ...


Discovery about obesity drug helping scientists develop new cancer treatments

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 08, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Based on their surprising discovery that an obesity drug can kill cancer cells, scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have made a new finding about the drug’s effects and are working to design more potent ...


A gene that protects from kidney disease

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 08, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the University of Michigan have discovered a gene that protects us against a serious kidney disease. In the current online issue of Nature Genetics they r ...


Scientists report major advance in search for genes associated with colon cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 08, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A 10-year study involving thousands of Israeli Jews and Arabs, led by researchers from American and Israeli institutions, has yielded important new information in the search for the genes that make a person more likely to ...


First all-African produced genetically engineered maize is resistant to maize streak virus

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 08, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Maize streak viruses (MSV), geminiviruses that can destroy most of a maize crop, are endemic to sub-Saharan Africa and adjacent Indian Ocean islands where they are transmitted by leafhoppers in the genus Cicadulina. Maize ...


Hormone inhibitor promising for hard-to-treat prostate cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 08, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

For prostate cancer patients whose tumors have continued to grow despite medical or surgical castration, a new drug candidate that inhibits production of male hormones anywhere in the body is showing promise in early trials.



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