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...tradition, repeatedly came to its feet. They cheered collectively when Obama spoke again of an "America that does not quit" and when he called on his countrymen to be "something worthy to be remembered." They cheered when he predicted, as others had before him, a "cure for cancer in our time" and when he announced a suite of new initiatives, including the promise of an affordable education for all Americans if they volunteer in their community or serve their country. "By 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world," he said. "Tonight...
...Names don't have to be difficult to seem dangerous, of course; sometimes manufacturers earn their menacing rep rightly. There's nothing inherently scary about names like Morris or Philip, but flip them around and stick them together, and pretty soon you're thinking about lung cancer. The Altria Group, on the other hand - which is the new corporate handle by which Philip Morris prefers to be known - means nothing at all, and that is precisely the idea...
...antibodies, identified at the Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, target a mutation-resistant region on the surface protein Hemagglutenin, which provides a crucial link between the many strains of influenza virus...
...study in mice, published in the current issue of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, they did not mutate at all. "If we use this approach judiciously, we should be able to keep this pocket conserved and not develop drug resistance to it," says Dr. Wayne Marasco of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, a co-author of the paper. "The exciting part is that this is really a therapy that can be used for prophylaxis and treatment...
Marasco believes that if additional testing goes well, a version of the antibody therapy could be in trials as early as 2011. And with the cost of antibody therapies - currently used in cancer care and in many pharmaceutical products - going down, an actual flu treatment wouldn't be far behind. It can't come too soon...