Articles from December 2009
December 29, 2009 | Posted by admin
Cancer progression is commonly thought of as a process involving the growth of a primary tumor followed by metastasis, in which cancer cells leave the primary tumor and spread to distant organs. A new study by researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center shows that circulating tumor cells – cancer cells that break away from a [...]
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December 28, 2009 | Posted by admin
Half a protein is better than none, and in this case, it’s way better than a whole one. A Rice University lab has discovered that dividing a particular fluorescent protein and using it as a tag is handy for analyzing the workings of live cells, particularly in the way they employ iron-sulfur clusters.
Categories: Health & Medicine | Tags: anemia, assistant professor, atoms, Biochemistry, biochemistry and cell biology, clusters, Discovered, Earth, flu, Fluorescent, fragments, friedreich s ataxia, good health, green fluorescent protein, heart disease, human protein, monomers, myopathy, mysteries, oxygen, proteins, researcher, rice university, scientists, SEM, sideroblastic anemia, sinc, test tubes, vitro | No Comments »
December 28, 2009 | Posted by admin
CORVALLIS, Ore. – The sight of a cockroach scurrying for cover may be nauseating, but the insect is also a biological and engineering marvel, and is providing researchers at Oregon State University with what they call “bioinspiration” in a quest to build the world’s first legged robot that is capable of running effortlessly over rough [...]
Categories: Technology & Engineering | Tags: cockroach, cockroaches, computing power, corvallis, energy storage, guinea hen, john schmitt, legged robot, manufacturing engineering, muscle action, national science foundation, nerve impulse, oregon state university, perturbations, professional journal, reflex control, remarkable abilities, rough ground, rough terrain | No Comments »
December 28, 2009 | Posted by admin
Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC (Dec 28, 2010) Genetics play a pivotal role in shaping how individual’s identify with political parties , according to an article in a recent issue of Political Research Quarterly, the official journal of the Western Political Science Association (published by SAGE).
Categories: Health & Medicine | Tags: approaches to the study of politics, gilden, guest editors, identification, Jim Gilden, john r hibbing, John R. Alford, Kristen Renwick, kristen renwick monroe, Lindon J. Eaves, London, Los Angeles, media inquiries, mini symposium, Monroe, nature and nurture, New Delhi, Nicholas G. Martin, parental socialization, Peter K. Hatemi, political attitudes, political behavior, productive debate, renwick, Rose McDermott, science scholars, Singapore, vote choice, western political science, western political science association | No Comments »
December 28, 2009 | Posted by admin
Researchers from the University of Hong Kong and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have published a study in the current issue of Cell Transplantation (18:9), now freely available on line at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cog/ct, that explores ways to successfully keep stem cells “forever young” during implantation by slowing their growth, differentiation and proliferation.
Categories: Health & Medicine | Tags: acclimate, cell adhesion, cell encapsulation, cell proliferation, cell transplantation, differentiation, dr ellis, Dr. Ellis-Behnke, fountain, harsh environment, immune system, implantation, Lin, massachusetts institute of technology, maturation, Nanotechnology, nervous system, neural regeneration, new era, NPCs, organ regeneration, Pacific, SAPNS, scaffold, stem cells, Taiwan, tissue engineering, tissue growth | No Comments »
December 28, 2009 | Posted by admin
TEMPE, Ariz. – The timing of molar emergence and its relation to growth and reproduction in apes is being reported by two scientists at Arizona State University’s Institute of Human Origins in the Dec. 28 online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Categories: Health & Medicine | Tags: african apes, ape species, arizona state university, birth spacing, first molars, fundamental aspects, gary schwartz, gorilla gorilla gorilla, human evolution, human origins, life histories, monkeys, national academy of sciences, oral biology, pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus, proceedings of the national academy of sciences, research affiliate, researcher, s college, sex, sexual maturity, tempe ariz, University, university of illinois chicago, zoologische staatssammlung | No Comments »
December 28, 2009 | Posted by admin
People who have Alzheimer’s disease may be less likely to develop cancer, and people who have cancer may be less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study published in the December 23, 2009, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Categories: Health & Medicine | Tags: american academy of neurology, cancer diagnosis, cardiovascular health study, dementia, hospitalization, invasive cancer, medical journal, minority groups, national center for research resources, national heart lung, national heart lung and blood institute, national institute of neurological disorders, national institute of neurological disorders and stroke, national institutes of health, school of medicine, st louis mo, study author, study researchers, washington university school of medicine | No Comments »
December 28, 2009 | Posted by admin
People who identify as African-American may be as little as 1 percent West African or as much as 99 percent, just one finding of a large-scale, genome-wide study of African and African-American ancestry released today.
Categories: Health & Medicine | Tags: african american ancestry, african ancestry, african populations, american populations, carlos bustamante, computational biologist, cornell university, disease risk, european ancestry, europeans, gene flow, genetic data, genetic differences, genetic markers, geneticist, geneticists, large scale, rich mosaic, scientists, university of pennsylvania | No Comments »
December 28, 2009 | Posted by admin
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Categories: Health & Medicine | Tags: antibiotics, carbapenems, cdata, document images, drastic increase, e coli, empirical treatment, faculty of 1000, first response, high risk, indian subcontinent, laboratory medicine, medical community, medicine university, public health threat, resistant bacterium, risk areas, university of calgary, urinary tract infections, worldwide increase | No Comments »
December 28, 2009 | Posted by admin
People over 80 years are being treated too aggressively for high blood pressure, warns an expert in an editorial in BMJ Clinical Evidence this week.
Categories: Health & Medicine | Tags: aggressive treatment, blood pressure hypertension, clinical evidence, cochrane review, conservative approach, dr james wright, drug doses, high blood pressure, hypertension, hypertension treatment, james wright, mmhg, move towards, quality and outcomes framework, target blood pressure, three easy steps, treatment regime, treatment strategies | No Comments »