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DC-SCRIPT found to have prognostic value in breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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DC-SCRIPT, or dendritic cell-specific transcript, is a key regulator of nuclear receptor activity that may have prognostic value in breast cancer, according to a new study published online December 14 in the Journal of th ...


Researchers tackle protein mechanisms behind limb regeneration

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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The most comprehensive study to date of the proteins in a species of salamander that can regrow appendages may provide important clues to how similar regeneration could be induced in humans.


Value of volunteering more than economic

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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With rising unemployment and fewer job vacancies, the current financial crisis has seen renewed policy emphasis in both Europe and the UK on volunteering as a route to employment, according to a new report from the Economic ...


US and Russian officials have different interpretations of the talks

US, Russia begin talks on cyberspace security: report

Technology / Internet

created Dec 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The United States has begun talks with Russia and a UN arms control committee about strengthening Internet security and limiting military use of cyberspace, The New York Times reported.


Clinical trial advances new approach to re-sensitizing breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new drug cocktail might be the right mix to fight breast cancer after it becomes resistant to standard therapy. Details of a new study supporting this approach suggest it's possible to re-sensitize tumors thus allowing ...


Government overseas aid is no bar to individual giving

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 13, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Overseas development charities are highly dependent on donations from individuals. In this new study, researchers from the Universities of Southampton, Oxford and Cass Business School examined how the level of donations to ...


Antibody-guided drug shows encouraging activity in metastatic breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new antibody-drug compound shrank or halted the growth of metastatic breast tumors in almost half of a group of patients whose HER2-positive cancer had become resistant to standard therapies, according to early data from ...


Study questions true favorability of rare breast cancer type

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In a large review of breast cancer patients with mucinous carcinoma, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have identified an association between this rare type of breast cancer long-associated ...


Targeted therapy prolongs life in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Lapatinib plus trastuzumab are significantly better than lapatinib alone in extending the lives of breast cancer patients whose tumors are HER2-positive, according to Kimberly Blackwell, M.D., associate professor of medicine ...


Disease-free, overall survival inferior for black women with HR-positive breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Black women with hormone receptor (HR)-positive breast cancer had worse disease-free and overall survival, according to data presented at the CTRC-AACR Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec. 9-13, 2009.


FDA confirms benefits of Crestor in more patients

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Federal scientists say AstraZeneca's cholesterol pill Crestor lowers the risk of heart attack, death and stroke in patients without a history of heart disease, though some safety concerns remain.


Landmark study confirms chemotherapy benefit in breast cancer patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chemotherapy generally improves survival in postmenopausal breast cancer patients, according to a landmark study led by Dr. Kathy Albain of Loyola University Health System.


Glasgow's joking computer

Glasgow's joking computer

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Glasgow Science Centre in Scotland is exhibiting a computer that makes up jokes using its database of simple language rules and a large vocabulary.


'One keypad per child' lets schoolchildren share screen to learn math

'One keypad per child' lets schoolchildren share screen to learn math (w/ Video)

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 3

The slogan is "one laptop per child." But it will be a long time before that is true everywhere in the world. Meanwhile, a new device aims to make a situation that is common in poor areas - one computer shared ...


Article Traces History of Darwinian Medicine

Biology / Evolution

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite being a founding principle of modern biology for 150 years, evolutionary theory has played a limited role in the field of medicine. Only in the last 20 years has Darwinian medicine emerged as a discipline ...