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USING CURRENT TECHNIQUES, DOCTORS MUST WAIT up to 18 weeks for laboratory . results to identify which drugs effectively treat strains of tuberculosis. Now scientists have come up with an ingenious assay that promises to cut that time in half -- literally by shedding a new light on TB. Their bright new idea comes from the same gene that makes fireflies glow...
...basis for the new assay, PSA, is a protein produced by cells on the surface of the prostate and thought to play a role in preventing semen from coagulating. An enlarged prostate (due to cancer or other problems) leads to higher levels of PSA in the blood. Doctors already use PSA tests to monitor the effectiveness of prostate-cancer therapies, such as irradiation or hormonal treatments. Some researchers have argued that the exams should replace much more expensive bone scans as a way of determining how far the cancer has spread...
...general's gift of being the man you automatically follow," says Richard Briers, who plays Bardolph in the film Henry and will assay King Lear in the Renaissance's tour of the U.S. next year. Branagh needed that royal self-assurance to build a major acting company and mount a large film. He will need more of it to sustain his career at its current velocity. "Quite soon," says Terry Hands, the RSC's artistic director, "Ken must decide whether he will be an admin man or a great actor. If a leading actor is also running the whole show...
...results of a genetic assay should be held in strict confidence...
...took just 9.79 sec. to run the 100, but it took Johnson nearly an hour and six cans of low-alcohol beer to fulfill his requirement. At the Doping Control Center of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, it took twelve hours more to assay the day's samples, to run them through the mazy innards of the lab's instruments. When the last sample left the hair-thin glass tubes of the gas chromatograph and the mass spectrometer, where all molecules have their fingerprints taken, just one positive result had turned...