Nanosize Rods Light Up Pancreatic Cancer Cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 18, 2008 |
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Quantum dots have shown promise as ultrabright contrast agents for use in a variety of cancer imaging studies. Now, a team of investigators at the Multifunctional Nanoparticles in Diagnosis and Therapy of Pancreatic Cancer ...
Report describes first targeted therapy to produce remission of metastatic melanoma
Apr 18, 2008 |
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In a demonstration that even some of the most hard-to-treat tumors may one day succumb to therapies aimed at molecular "weak points," researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute report the first instance in which metastatic ...
Will screening for aortic aneurysm be effective?
Apr 18, 2008 |
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Pilot screening programmes for abdominal aortic aneurysms in men aged 65 are due to be launched in England this year, but is this move too hasty? Two experts debate the issue in this week's BMJ.
Chicago to test water for drugs
Apr 18, 2008 |
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Chicago water officials said they're testing Lake Michigan drinking water for the presence of pharmaceutical drugs and other unregulated chemicals.
Patients receive heart valve replacements without surgery using high-tech device
Apr 18, 2008 |
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Interventional cardiologists at Rush University Medical Center now offer a minimally-invasive transcatheter valve replacement procedure for patients with congenital heart disease that doesn’t involve open heart surgery.
Scientists study microbe filaments' power
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Apr 18, 2008 |
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Researchers from The University of Arizona and Columbia University have discovered that tiny filaments on bacteria can bundle together and pull with forces far stronger than experts had previously thought ...
Seeing clearly despite the clouds
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 18, 2008 |
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Satellites taking atmospheric measurements might now be able to see blue skies as clearly as optimists do. Researchers have found a way to reduce cloud-induced glare when satellites measure blue skies on cloudy ...
Supermarkets' power desertifies our diets
Apr 18, 2008 |
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Urban food deserts – areas where people have low or no access to food shops – exist in major cities, according to research published in the open access publication International Journal of Health Geographics, with import ...
Major discovery in the treatment of aortic valve stenosis
Apr 18, 2008 |
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A team of scientists from the Université de Montréal and the Montreal Heart Institute Research Centre, led by Dr. Jean-Claude Tardif, has completed an important study that show how a new type of medication can lead to an ...
Cutting through the stigma
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Apr 18, 2008 |
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Training community members such as barbers as peer educators can be an effective way of spreading information on HIV/AIDS throughout low-literacy, rural communities, say findings published this week in the open access journal ...
Breast cancers behave differently before and after the age of 70
Apr 18, 2008 |
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Researchers in Belgium have discovered that increasing age affects the way breast cancer behaves. As women approach the age of 70, they become less likely to be diagnosed with aggressive tumours that have spread to the lymph ...
Researchers discover a method for clamping down on a cancer-promoting enzyme
Apr 18, 2008 |
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There are many pathways that allow an errant gene to turn a cell cancerous, and a number of these pathways go through a single enzyme called the p21-activated kinase 1, or PAK1.
Barbary monkeys going ape on Gibraltar
Biology /
Apr 18, 2008 |
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Veterinarians are trying to track down 25 Barbary monkeys that are allegedly terrorizing tourists on Gibraltar.
Green Gel: Hybrid material made from polymers and proteins fluoresces and respnods to pH value and temperature
Apr 18, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have now developed a new strategy for the formation of hybrid materials from synthetic polymers and proteins. They have thus been able to fuse the specific biological ...
Depression stigma in the eye of the older beholder
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 18, 2008 |
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Less educated, older men are more likely to view depression negatively, while almost one in five Australians say they wouldn’t work with someone suffering depression, according to researchers from The Australian National ...
