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Monsanto's Minions Attack CA's Right to Know About GMOs. On February 19th, the Sacramento Bee ran an opinion piece by Dan Morain full of lies about the California ballot initiative campaign to label GMOs.
We asked our members to set the record straight by reading our rebuttal and posting comments to the article on the Sacramento Bee website (see below). A flood of comments ensued, prompting the Bee to shut down the comment function. Then, on Saturday, Stuart Leavenworth, the Bee's editorial page editor, published a piece attacking the OCA that, like Morain's editorial, parrots Monsanto's talking points with no regard for the truth.
Body Electric. Microbial Metabolism. Vol 60, Iss 5, Pgs 457-722, (November, 2011) Was Lou Gehrig's ALS Caused by Tap Water? Collin's Lab: Brainwave Beats. EBCC 8. Discovery predicts patient sensitivity to important drug target in deadly brain cancer. 07 Feb 2012 A recent discovery by Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) scientists enables the prediction of patient sensitivity to proposed drug therapies for glioblastoma – the most common and most aggressive malignant brain tumour in humans.
The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, investigated glioblastoma models characterised by cell signaling activation and gene amplification for their susceptibility to inhibitors of both the human MET oncogene and the epidermal growth factor receptor (EFGR). An oncogene is a gene with the potential to cause cancer. Researchers find ovarian cancer risk related to inherited inflammation genes. 08 Feb 2012 In a study conducted by researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues from 11 other institutions in the Unites States and the United Kingdom, genes that are known to be involved in inflammation were found to be related to risk of ovarian cancer.
Their study appeared in a recent issue of Cancer Research, published by the American Association for Cancer Research. Chronic inflammation is known to influence risk of several cancers, including ovarian cancer. The researchers identified 27 genes that are involved in inflammation and sought to determine whether inter-individual differences in these genes were related to risk of ovarian cancer. Researchers indentify a cell-permeable peptide that inhibits hepatitis C. 06 Feb 2012 Researchers from UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a cell-permeable peptide that inhibits a hepatitis C virus protein and blocks viral replication, which can lead to liver cancer and cirrhosis.
This finding by Dr. New technology to tackle treatment-resistant cancers. 06 Feb 2012 Free-flowing cancer cells have been mapped with unprecedented accuracy in the bloodstream of patients with prostate, breast and pancreatic cancer, using a brand new approach, in an attempt to assess and control the disease as it spreads in real time through the body, and solve the problem of predicting response and resistance to therapies.
In comparison to a previous generation of systems, the researchers state their test showed a significantly greater number of high-definition circulating tumour cells (HD-CTCs), in a higher proportion of patients, by using a computing-intensive method that enables them to look at millions of normal cells and find the rare cancer cells among them.
Their results, published in IOP Publishing's journal Physical Biology, could help reveal the mechanisms behind the spread of solid tumours from one organ or tissue to another – mechanisms that have, until now, remained a mystery. ASH 2011: BTK inhibitor PCI-32765 induces durable responses in relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukaemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma - Prof Susan O’Brien - University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston. Prof Susan O’Brien - University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston ASH 2011 Press conference: The Bruton’s Tyrosine Kinase (BTK) Inhibitor PCI-32765 Induces Durable Responses in Relapsed or Refractory (R/R) Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia/Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma (CLL/SLL): Follow-up of a Phase Ib/II Study A recent update of a multicenter Phase Ib/II clinical trial concludes that the novel Bruton’s Tyrosine Kinase (BTK) inhibitor PCI-32765 may be an important new targeted treatment approach for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
Tyrosine kinase enzymes are important targets for cancer research because they function as “on/off switches” in many cell functions and can signal cells to either maintain normal functioning or to grow uncontrollably, leading to cancer. The Real Reason You Hate the Smell of Sulfur. In diving beetles, sperm forms massive "super-organisms" to reproduce. How Black Light Works. Conjugate vaccine. A conjugate vaccine is created by covalently attaching a poor (polysaccharide organism) antigen to a carrier protein (preferably from the same microorganism), thereby conferring the immunological attributes of the carrier on the attached antigen.
This technique for the creation of an effective immunogen is most often applied to bacterial polysaccharides for the prevention of invasive bacterial disease. See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex. Abstract How the human auditory system extracts perceptually relevant acoustic features of speech is unknown.
To address this question, we used intracranial recordings from nonprimary auditory cortex in the human superior temporal gyrus to determine what acoustic information in speech sounds can be reconstructed from population neural activity. We found that slow and intermediate temporal fluctuations, such as those corresponding to syllable rate, were accurately reconstructed using a linear model based on the auditory spectrogram. However, reconstruction of fast temporal fluctuations, such as syllable onsets and offsets, required a nonlinear sound representation based on temporal modulation energy. Reconstruction accuracy was highest within the range of spectro-temporal fluctuations that have been found to be critical for speech intelligibility. Vitamin B12, cognition, and brain MRI measures.
Vitamin D 'key to healthy brain' Scientists have produced more evidence that vitamin D has an important role in keeping the brain in good working order in later life.
A study of over 3,000 European men aged 40-79 found those with high vitamin D levels performed better on memory and information processing tests. The University of Manchester team believe vitamin D may protect cells or key signalling pathways in the brain. The study features in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. Diet 'can reverse kidney failure' in mice with diabetes. 23 April 2011Last updated at 11:36 The ketogenic diet is 87% fat A controlled diet high in fat and low in carbohydrate can repair kidney damage in diabetic mice, according to US scientists. The study, published in journal PLoS ONE, showed a "ketogenic diet" could reverse damage caused to tubes in the kidneys by too much sugar in the blood. Researchers switch on genes with blue pulse. 24 June 2011Last updated at 15:42 By Jennifer Carpenter Science reporter, BBC News LEDs deliver a long pulse of blue-light to mammalian cells to turn on these little protein factories.
Scientists have developed a technique that could be used to deliver precise doses of hormones to people who don't make them naturally. To do this, they rewired kidney cells with light-sensitive molecules from the eye, they reported in the journal Science. When pulsed with blue light, these cells churned out proteins on demand. Ultimately, this technique could avoid the need for people with diabetes to inject themselves regularly. 'Cyborg' yeast genes run by computer. 6 November 2011Last updated at 19:02 By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News. Mad science News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - io9. Mad science News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - io9. I've printed out the paper but have only glanced over it. So here is my off the cuff reading of it. First- if you were to leave the primary tumor in that would kill the patient and even though the rate of shedding is increased, primary tumors still shed cells that form metastasis.
Second- you might think, well fine just remove via surgery the primary tumor and forgo the chemotherapy. Mad science News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - io9. Mad science News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - io9. Mad science News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - io9. Molecular Biology & Microbiology. Mad science News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - io9.