Blood Weekly

Melanoma - Positive, long-term, follow-up data reported from phase I trial of GVAX

Mergers and Acquisitions - Company discusses GenSci merger and announces plans to streamline

Mutiple Myeloma - Multiple myeloma patients may appear to have hyperphosphatemia due to artifact

Mycotoxins - Ochratoxin A and some metabolites alter kidney cell surface marker expression

Myelodysplastic Syndrome - Myelodysplastic syndrome may occur after acute promyelocytic leukemia

Myelodysplastic Syndrome - Philadelphia chromosome may be involved in bone marrow suppression

Myeloma - Plasmablastic transformation and acute leukemia can result from multiple myeloma

Neuroscience - Cerebral microvessel reactions vary in response to focal ischemia

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma - Combined rituximab and G-CSF treatment yields long remission times

Nosocomial Infection -  Listeria moncytogenes cross-contaminates infants in a newborn nursery

Obstetrics - Several factors combine in late pregnancy to increase hemolytic uremic syndrome

Personnel - Mitchell Seyedin, PhD, named president and CEO of tissue-repair company

Personnel - PolyHeme maker names Eva C. Essig VP regulatory affairs

Proteolysis - Monocytes starved of glutamine during infection can't degrade all proteins

Proteomics - Structure dictates Hsp90 role in heme activator protein Hap1 activation

Renal Failure - Slovenian hemodialysis patients experience low viral hepatitis rates

Rickettsia - LepB gene for signal peptidase is similar in R. rickettsii, R. typhi

SARS - Alliance with NIH, USARMID targets discovery of therapeutics against SARS

Sickle Cell Anemia - Patient enrollment completed for phase II ICA-17043 trial

Sickle Cell Disease - Hemoxin issued orphan drug status by U.S. FDA

Stem-Cell Research - A novel technique enhances embryonic and neuronal stem-cell labeling

Stem-Cell Research - CD184 and alpha4beta1 integrins mediate CD34+ cell pseudoemperipolesis

Stem-Cell Research - Hematopoietic cell Hmgb3 expression prevents myeloid and B-cell differentiation

Stem-Cell Research - Inhibition of p21 expression can aid hematopoietic cell expansion

Stem-Cell Research - Mobilized HSCs later return to marrow

Stem-Cell Research - Novel EGFP reporter mouse line useful for hematopoietic cell study

Stem-Cell Research - Somatic nucleus reprogramming may be feasible

Stem-Cell Transplantation - Antithymocyte globulin improves outcome for unrelated stem-cell transplantation

Stem-Cell Transplantation - Beta-blockers may ameliorate GAVE in SCT recipients

Stem-Cell Transplantation - N-acetyl-L-cysteine does not affect busulfan pharmacokinetics

Stem-Cell Transplantation - Serial cytokine monitoring can help identify GVHD patients

Stem-Cell Transplantation - Serum stem-cell growth factor levels useful for monitoring post-SCT recovery

Stock Listing - Safety syringe company to apply for OTC Bulletin Board

Streptococcal Infections - Toxic shock syndrome may be treatable with IVIG therapy

Stroke - Immunoliposomes can reduce hemorrhage risk after tPA treatment for stroke

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus - Anti-SOD autoantibodies may allow damage by radicals in SLE

Thymocyte Differentiation - TCR signal strength controls GATA-3 levels, regulating T-cell differentiation

Toxic Shock Syndrome - TSS toxin-1 has a novel domain of the SAG molecule that binds MHC-II

Transplant Medicine - M-T7 protein from myxoma virus may attenuate transplanted kidney rejection

Transplant Medicine - Pregnancy outcome is good following functionally stable kidney transplants

West Nile Virus - Deal signed to share development of West Nile virus hyperimmune globulin

West Nile Virus - NIAID opens innovative treatment study

West Nile Virus - New test quickly diagnoses virus infection

Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome - Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein binding inhibits tyrosine protein kinases