Scientists at the University of East Anglia have made a major advancement in understanding tissue development that has important implications for cancer. Findings published today in the journal Cell Science show how the protein EB2 is a key regulator of tube-like structures inside cells and...
Seeking to improve the lives of sickle cell anemia sufferers around the world, researchers from the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, the Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Center in Boston and the BloodCenter of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and others are preparing to launch Phase II...
Score and situation: Move over Japan, it's time for a new World Baseball Classic champion. Yes, the winners of the first two tournaments are headed home after being stifled by Puerto Rican pitching and some timely offense in a 3-1 loss in Sunday's semifinal at AT&T Park in San Francisco. The win...
Working with a group from Nagasaki University, a research group at the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA) at Japan's Kyoto University has announced in the online publication of Cell Stem Cell that it has successfully modeled Alzheimer's disease (AD) using both familial and...
Everyone's been writing about the new state-by-state*health rankings*released yesterday by the United Health Foundation. The best 5-word summary of the*2012*American Health Rankings*might be "Americans are living longer, sicker." It seems Gen X, Gen Y and the next few generations will be the...
Armed with a new ability to find retinal anomalies at the cellular level, neurobiologists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have made a discovery they hope will ultimately lead to a treatment for cancer of the retina. While much work remains, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's specialized...
The human body can produce powerful antibodies that shield cells in the laboratory against infection by an array of HIV strains. In people, however, recent research shows that these broadly neutralizing antibodies are not produced in an efficient or timely enough fashion in HIV-infected...
The UH Cancer Center has received a $3.58 million gift from an anonymous donor to support the mesothelioma research of Dr. Michele Carbone, director of the UH Cancer Center. Carbone and colleagues, who include Drs. Haining Yang and Giovanni Gaudino, have made a series of recent scientific...
I am trying to find a serious magazine, something like Scientific American and Physics Today that talks only about gadget news and technology advances. I know that Scientific American has a technology section but I want something bigger and with more information. I am looking for a serious...
I am trying to find a serious magazine, something like Scientific American and Physics Today that talks only about gadget news and technology advances. I know that Scientific American has a technology section but I want something bigger and with more information. I am looking for a serious...
enable scientist to bring back previously extinct animals assuming they can sequence the animals dna an put it into the embryo of a different animal or will this only ever be the stuff of science fiction
Talks on major advances in radiosurgery and radiotherapy for treating cancer of the brain, breast, and spine, captured the attention of more than 800 clinicians at Varian Medical Systems' 2010 Annual Users Meeting, held recently in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Society for...
Cylene Pharmaceuticals, Inc. will present advances in the development of their first-in-class, CK2 inhibitor CX-4945, at the 22nd EORTC-NCI-AACR symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, to be held on November 16-19 in Berlin, Germany. CX-4945 is the first and only CK2 inhibitor to...
Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALP), a leading provider of tools and services for drug discovery, life sciences research and molecular diagnostics introduced software and accessory items to enable the direct co-registration of images from multiple preclinical imaging modalities. This...
Katharine Spink, Ph.D., Vice President of Operations for Geron's Regenerative Medicine Programs; Malcolm Moos Jr., M.D., Ph.D., Medical Officer, at FDA/CBER/OCTGT; and David Schaffer, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Neuroscience at University of California, and Co-Director...
Ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have stretched the resources available for preventing and treating many of the visible and invisible wounds facing today's service members. Expanded research and options in the fields of regenerative medicine and behavioral health care services have...
Democrats on the House Appropriations Labor, HHS and Education Subcommittee on Thursday advanced a funding blueprint for fiscal year 2011 after rejecting an amendment that would have banned abortion coverage in programs under the federal health reform law (PL 111-148), The Hill's "Healthwatch"...
SAGE has extended its suite of Therapeutic Advances journals with the launch of a further two titles: Therapeutic Advances in Chronic Disease and Therapeutic Advances in Endocrinology and Metabolism. Therapeutic Advances in Chronic Disease covers the drug treatment of all major chronic diseases...
The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM) - the top-rated medical imaging journal worldwide - has published Multimodality Molecular Imaging of the Cardiovascular System, presenting the state of the art of cardiovascular molecular imaging and discussing opportunities and challenges in advancing...