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Gene alterations associated with response to anthracycline therapy for breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Alterations in the topoisomerase II alpha (TOP2A) gene were associated with better patient outcomes following anthracycline-based therapy compared with non-anthracycline-based regimens, according to a study in the April ...





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First look at an enzyme target for antibacterial and cancer drugs

First look at an enzyme target for antibacterial and cancer drugs

Biology /

created Dec 20, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

The veil has finally been lifted on an enzyme that is critical to the process of DNA transcription and replication, and is a prime target of antibacterial and anticancer drugs. Researchers with the U.S. Department ...


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AMD Announces Eight New Athlon II Processors

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (16) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- AMD announced today eight new, low cost, Athlon II processors to their Athlon II processor family.


Better Way to Measure Particle Shape Proves Popular

Better Way to Measure Particle Shape Proves Popular

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Tiny particles are pivotal to climate change, public health, and nanotechnology. A significant fraction of these particles are aspherical, yet scientists must routinely assume the particles are spherical to ...


Contracts Awarded for Production of NSLS-II Storage Ring Magnets

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- All seven contracts for the production of the NSLS-II storage ring magnets have now been awarded -- a significant milestone for the project. The magnets -- 750 in total -- will be made by vendors in the United ...


Why one way of learning is better than another

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A new study from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (The Neuro) of McGill University reveals that different patterns of training and learning lead to different types of memory formation. The significance of ...


NSLS-II Project Beamline Conceptual Designs

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The NSLS-II Experimental Facilities Division achieved an important milestone in September when the conceptual design reports for the initial six project beamlines were completed and submitted to NSLS-II management.


Now hear this: Scientists show how tiny cells deliver big sound

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Deep in the ear, 95 percent of the cells that shuttle sound to the brain are big, boisterous neurons that, to date, have explained most of what scientists know about how hearing works. Whether a rare, whisper-small second ...


Dividing cells 'feel' their way out of warp

Dividing cells 'feel' their way out of warp

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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

Every moment, millions of a body's cells flawlessly divvy up their genes and pinch perfectly in half to form two identical progeny for the replenishment of tissues and organs -- even as they collide, get stuck, ...


Holocaust survivors at higher risk for all cancers

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Jewish survivors of World War II who were potentially exposed to the Holocaust are at a higher risk for cancer occurrence, according to a new study published online October 26 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.


Gene transcribing machine takes halting, backsliding trip along the DNA

Gene transcribing machine takes halting, backsliding trip along the DNA

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The body's nanomachines that read our genes don't run as smoothly as previously thought, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, scientists.



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