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...Reiner, co-founder of Castle Rock Entertainment, was appalled when he saw his studio's film Proof of Life. It wasn't that he could predict the movie's demise at the box office. "I thought, 'Wow, why is Meg Ryan smoking up a storm?'" Reiner says. "It didn't add to the plot." Fourteen months later, Castle Rock now has a policy of discouraging tobacco use. Any actor, director or screenwriter who wants to depict it must first meet with Reiner. "They have to make a really good case," he says. "Movies are basically advertising cigarettes to kids...
...they live long enough, will eventually develop prostate cancer. But most don't die from it. "Perhaps 10% to 15% of prostate cancers are very benign," says Dr. E. Darracott Vaughan, president of the American Urological Association. "Another 10% to 15% are very aggressive." It's hardest to predict what will happen to the middle...
...research—which focused on the autonomic nervous system’s response to stimulus—shows that the human body might be hard-wired with a sixth sense to predict threatening events about three seconds in advance, according to the researchers, Edwin C. May and Joseph W. McMoneagle...
That may change as scientists learn more about the genetic alterations that transform a normal cell into a malignant one. Last month a group of scientists from the U.S. and the Netherlands published a paper in the research journal Nature describing a molecular test they have developed that may predict, at the time of surgery, which cancers will be likely to metastasize--and therefore might benefit from chemotherapy. Using so-called DNA microarrays, the researchers analyzed some 25,000 genes from the breast cancers of 100 women. By winnowing the number of relevant markers to about 70 genes, they produced...
...DONE With microarrays, scientists can study patterns of gene activity using strands of cancer DNA and predict which tumors are likely to spread. The technique may someday be used to design customized treatments...