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Researchers find new chemotherapy combination shows promise in endometrial cancer
(22 Mar 2010)
50 percent of patients respond to gemcitabine and cisplatin when used together
Researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report that in a small study of women with advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer, gemcitabine and cisplatin, when used in combination, produced a response rate in fifty ......
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‘Flying Vaccinator’: Can Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Provide a New Strategy against Malaria?
(19 Mar 2010)
Successful testing finally realises decade old theory
Mosquitoes transmit infectious diseases to millions of people every year, including malaria for which there is no effective vaccine. New research published in Insect Molecular Biology reveals that mosquito genetic engineering may turn the ......
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First parasitic nematodes reported in biofuel crops
(19 Mar 2010)
Researchers at the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) at the University of Illinois have discovered widespread occurrence of plant-parasitic nematodes in the first reported nematode survey of Miscanthus and switchgrass plants used for biofuels. ......
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DNA nanotechnology breakthrough offers promising applications in medicine
(19 Mar 2010)
McGill researchers create DNA nanotubes able to carry and selectively release materials
A team of McGill Chemistry Department researchers led by Dr. Hanadi Sleiman has achieved a major breakthrough in the development of nanotubes – tiny "magic bullets" that could one day deliver drugs to specific diseased cells. Sleiman explains ......
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Duke technique is turning proteins into glass
(19 Mar 2010)
Duke University researchers have devised a method to dry and preserve proteins in a glassified form that seems to retain the molecules' properties as workhorses of biology. They are exploring whether their glassification technique could bring ......
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Wageningen UR presents gene bank of wheat-ravaging fungus to Global Rust Reference Centre
(19 Mar 2010)
Scientists of the Plant Sciences Group of Wageningen UR have presented their unique gene bank of the ravaging stripe rust fungus Puccinia striiformis f.sp.tritici to the Global Rust Reference Centre of Aarhus University in Denmark. In addition ......
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2 at 1 stroke: How cells protect themselves from cancer
(18 Mar 2010)
Cells have two different protection programs to safeguard them from getting out of control under stress and from dividing without stopping and developing cancer. Until now, researchers assumed that these protective systems were prompted ......
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The proteins that help plants keep time
(18 Mar 2010)
Researchers at the RIKEN Plant Science Center have clarified the function of three proteins that play a central role in the circadian clock in plants. The finding, to appear in the journal The Plant Cell, opens the door to the engineering of ......
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UF researcher maps how age, gender can affect risk to radiation exposure
(17 Mar 2010)
Doctors have a clearer picture than ever before of how much radiation reaches sensitive tissues during routine X-rays and similar imaging, thanks to sophisticated models of the human body being developed at the University of Florida. "We’re ......
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Merck strengthens biorefineries of the future
(17 Mar 2010)
In early March, the EU research project known as EuroBioRef was launched. Over the next four years, 28 partners from 14 countries will jointly develop future-oriented solutions for the energy-efficient conversion of biomass from agricultural ......
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