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Using new scanning-and-detection technology, scientists looked at more than 1,000 metabolites - naturally occurring products of cell metabolism - and found that about 10 were often present in high levels in samples of blood, tissue and urine taken from patients with aggressive prostate cancer...
...Texas Republican who not only posts Tweets but video-blogs on Twitter, helped organize a petition to allow members broader access to social-networking sites. Culberson cornered Michael Capuano, chairman of the House Franking Commission (officially the Commission on Congressional Mailing Standards) in a corridor with a video-enabled cell phone to ask him about opening up the rules. Such moves led to a protest website, letourcongresstweet.org, and Twitter's first petition. The rules were relaxed in October. "The freshmen especially, who used new communications and social media effectively on the campaign trail, realize the importance of engaging constituents online...
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...
...need for University cutbacks has spurred calls to slow down Harvard’s expensive expansion project, with news emerging this week that plans are being made that may keep the Department of Stem Cell Regenerative Biology—meant to be a centerpiece of the new Allston campus—in Cambridge...
...During the trial, French justice officials produced cell phone records that showed the suicide bomber, Nizar Nawar, had called Ganczarski shortly before the attack to receive a blessing - a benediction prosecutors say was the go-ahead sign for the strike. Nawar made a similar call to Pakistan to speak with al-Qaeda terror maestro Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, currently held in Guantanamo as the self-proclaimed architect of 9/11. (Sheikh Mohammed will be tried in absentia by France as the plotter of the Tunisian attack this spring...