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...doctors may have to become molecular chefs, cooking up new anti-cancer recipes with a growing number of promising drug ingredients. If the number of presentations at ASCO is any indication, their lab cupboards are plenty full of just such compounds. So far, the best cocktails, still in early testing in the most advanced cancer patients, try to include some agents aimed at cutting off a tumor's blood supply (so-called angiogenesis inhibitors), others designed to trigger a cancer cell's pre-programmed suicide pathway, or still other compounds that muck up the intricate signaling system that a cancer...
According to the new research, the risk of osteoporosis depends heavily on which versions of the vitamin D receptor gene an individual inherits. Since each parent contributes a copy, a person's genetic endowment can be bb, Bb or BB. The most severe threat occurs, says molecular biologist Nigel Morrison, of the Australian team, "when you inherit a double whammy of the low-bone- density form of the gene. Then you're at risk of having osteoporosis...
...academic year came to a close, the Faculty Council voted to revamp the life science concentrations, adding five new concentrations and removing two of the older ones. This move splits the existing Biochemical Sciences and Biology concentrations into four new concentrations—Chemical and Physical Biology, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Neurobiology, and Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. The Biological Anthropology track in the Anthropology department will remain as it is, but a new concentration in Human Evolutionary Biology has also been created. Additionally, a Social and Cognitive Neuroscience track has been created in the Psychology department. While some premed students...
...hysteria. "I can't fathom anyone in their right mind saying they wanted to drink sewage," he says. "But drinking highly treated water is a completely different kettle of fish." Given that desalination also uses reverse osmosis-a process so precise it can remove chemicals and contaminants at the molecular level-to convert sea water to potable water, Leslie can't understand why the same technology, when combined with another disinfecting process using ultraviolet light and peroxide, is distrusted for purifying sewage water: "If we can't get something as straightforward as this sorted out, how will we work...
...Harvard Medical School (HMS) biochemist’s research on a common cause of blindness in the elderly has generated a lucrative deal with Merck & Co., the US’s second-largest drug provider. Pfeiffer Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Robert R. Rando’s research has paved the way for the manufacturing of drugs that might combat the progression of dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common version of AMD which causes vision loss in up to eight million American elderly a year. Merck will pay an initial $3 million, along with later...