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Harvard researchers have successfully tested a new cancer vaccine in mice that could make previously expensive treatments accessible outside state-of-the-art medical centers. The therapy—which destroyed tumors in 90 percent of mice tested—uses small implants to avoid costly cell reprogramming outside the body. The latter technique requires practitioners to have extensive training and specialized facilities that are only available at elite hospitals. The findings, published in the journal Nature Materials last month, seek to combat those tumors that fool the immune system’s normal process of identifying dangerous substances. Normally...
...Christakis, there are distinct evolutionary advantages and disadvantages of being at a particular location in a social network. He said that if a deadly germ is moving through the population, being in the periphery has a clear advantage. Alternately, being in the center of a social network can provide access to valuable information about prey. The research questions the validity of current network models that treat individuals as interchangeable nodes and neglect the genetic influence on network structures. “Our findings suggested that it’s not okay to treat people as interchangeable nodes. There?...
...Michael Levi, a proliferation expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, says Khan himself is not a threat. As a private Pakistani citizen, he will not have the access to sensitive technology and facilities, and Levi believes the networks Khan once ran to trade nuclear secrets have largely been smashed. "He can't enable proliferation simply with the ideas in his head," says Levi...
...retracted his confession and claimed that he had been forced to read a statement handed to him. Khan also claimed that the army had colluded in at least one nuclear transaction - a charge Musharraf angrily denied. The Islamabad High Court swiftly muzzled him in July 2008, denying any future access to the media. But over recent months, he began writing a regular newspaper column, "Random Thoughts," a platform he has used to rail against Musharraf's campaign against militancy and to fondly recall decades past, when he had the ear of Pakistan's leaders. Despite what she believes are restrictions...
...Following a Feb. 3 Supreme Court ruling, officials from SEBI now have access to jailed Satyam founder and chairman Ramalinga Raju, his brother Rama Raju, and former chief financial officer Srinivas Vadlamani. Although the men are in police custody and face criminal charges, SEBI, the country's stock market regulator, is the only Indian body with the expertise to investigate allegations that Satyam officials used Byzantine accounting chicanery involving illegal transfers of money between hundreds of shell companies, possible insider trading, money laundering, and other acts to inflate the company's profits and defraud shareholders...