ARNHEM, The Netherlands, October 28 /PRNewswire/ --
- The PCA3 Test May Help Distinguish Between Benign and Aggressive Prostate Cancers
The number of prostate cancer cases is increasing rapidly. Fortunately not all these tumours need to be operated - some are slow growing or indolent.
The question remains: how do we reliably establish which tumour is aggressive and which is not?
The answer may well be given by the PCA3 (Prostate Cancer Gene 3) test, a breakthrough in the diagnosis of prostate cancer. The genetic test was developed in the laboratory of the Radboud University in Nijmegen (NL) by a team headed by Professor Jack Schalken.
MANSFIELD, England, October 28 /PRNewswire/ --
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Worries about Carbon Monoxide have become increasingly prevalent as a result of several major incidents, especially the tragedy in Corfu that claimed the lives of two children. Recent announcements by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have urged councils and landlords across the UK to have gas appliances regularly checked in rental properties, as it is thought that thousands may not have a CO alarm fitted.
LONDON, October 28 /PRNewswire/ --
Three-phased software implementation project will build on current Microsoft-technology infrastructure to realise state-of-the-art budgeting, planning and external reporting applications
Clarity Systems, a leader in corporate performance management (CPM) and external reporting solutions, today announced that Young and Co.'s Brewery, P.L.C., will be implementing the Clarity 6(TM) and Clarity FSR(TM) applications, to improve operational efficiencies and reduce reporting risks.
Some people have a fear of plane crashes, others of tiny little spiders. Going to the beach? You may worry about sharks.
But few people worry about diabetes, even though 24 million people have it. According to a new survey by the American Diabetes Association, more people reported fear of being in a plane crash, hit by lightning, attacked by a shark, or bitten by a snake, than a fear of developing diabetes.
LONDON, October 28 /PRNewswire/ -- AboveNet Communications UK Ltd., a leading provider of fibre optic connectivity solutions, today announced that customers will be able to access AboveNet's IP Transit and VPN services from a wider range of Equinix datacentres across Europe. Recently upgrading to the latest Juniper MX960 routing node, AboveNet has expanded operations to Equinix's Paris-Saint Denis (PA2) and Frankfurt-North (FR2) Internet Business Exchange (IBX(R)) datacentres.
Scientists believe that complex diseases such as schizophrenia, major depression and cancer are not caused by one, but a multitude of dysfunctional genes. A novel computational biology method developed by a research team led by Ali Abdi, PhD, associate professor in New Jersey Institute of Technology's department of electrical and computer engineering, has found a way to uncover the critical genes responsible for disease development.
"We see our research developing a novel technology holding high promises for finding key molecules that contribute to human diseases and for identifying critical targets in drug development," said Abdi. "The key to success was our collaboration among researchers with different backgrounds in engineering and medical sciences."
Current models of global climate change predict warmer temperatures will increase the rate that bacteria and other microbes decompose soil organic matter, a scenario that pumps even more heat-trapping carbon into the atmosphere. But a new study led by a University of Georgia researcher shows that while the rate of decomposition increases for a brief period in response to warmer temperatures, elevated levels of decomposition don't persist.
An international team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the University of Basel in Switzerland have issued a report on the mechanism of toxicity of a chemical compound called Dibutyltin (DBT).
DBT is part of a class of high toxic and widely distributed chemical compounds called organotins, DBT is most commonly used as an anti-fouling agent in paint, for example in the fishing and shipbuilding industries. It is also used in the production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic tubes and bottles.
The thickness of sea ice in large parts of the Arctic declined by as much as 19% last winter compared to the previous five winters, according to data from ESA's Envisat satellite.
Using Envisat radar altimeter data, scientists from the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at University College London (UCL) measured sea ice thickness over the Arctic from 2002 to 2008 and found that it had been fairly constant until the record loss of ice in the summer of 2007. Unusually warm weather conditions were present over the Arctic in 2007, which some scientists have said explain that summer ice loss. However, this summer reached the second-lowest extent ever recorded with cooler weather conditions present.
Armadillo Aerospace of Rockwall, Texas, earned $350,000 in NASA prize money during the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge in Las Cruces, N.M.
The challenge is a two-level, $2 million competition designed to accelerate commercial space technology and is sponsored by NASA's Centennial Challenges program. After Armadillo's $350,000 first place win for level one this year, $1.65 million remains as available prize money for future competitions.
