Blood Weekly

Cardiovascular Disease - Metabolic syndrome positively associated with cardiovascular disease

Skin Cancer - More UVA than UVB fingerprint mutations in basal layer of human squamous tumors

Stem-Cell Research - Dopaminergic neurons generated from embryonic stem cells

Stem-Cell Research - Embryonic stem cells are an alternate marrow donor source

Tissue Engineering - Cartilage tissue regenerated by serum-free cultured chrondrocyte implantation

Allergy & Immunology - PAR-2-mediated activation enhances airway inflammation

Allergy Medicine - PAF responsiveness in subjects with plasma PAF acetylhydrolase deficiency

Allergy Medicine - Test methods evolving for newly emerging allergy epidemics

Anemia - Successful cord blood stem cell transplant reported

Antibacterial Research - NMR evidence found for independent domain structures in zoocin A

Antiphospholipid Syndrome - Endothelial microparticles may play role in thrombotic complications of APS

Apoptosis - Labeled Annexin A5 detects programmed cell death in vitro and in vivo

Assisted Reproduction - Medically assisted reproduction still risky in presence of chronic viral disease

Atherosclerosis - PAD patients should be aggressively treated for atherosclerotic risk factors

Bacteriology - Histopathologic changes in kidney and liver correlate with SPE B production

Biotechnology - Cytokine flow cytometry assesses cellular immune responses to viral antigens

Bleeding - Application submitted to FDA to market autologous thrombin processing device

Blood Banking - Autologous FG by CryoSeal FS System suggestive for hypothetical blood saving

Blood Screening - Consensus determines principles of screening and prevention of vCJD

Breast Cancer Survival and Mortality - CD105 identifies node-negative breast cancer patients with poor prognoses

Cancer Cell Biology - Perpetual cancer from leukemic stem cells described

Cancer Diagnosis - Immunomagnetic separation depicts esophageal cancer micrometastasis

Cancer Research - CEACAM6 crosslinking leads to increased extracellular matrix component adhesion

Cancer Therapy - Amifostine does not protect lungs from carmustine-containing chemotherapy

Cancer Treatment - Utah doctors determine 'good, bad' chemo

Cardiology - Cigarette smoking predicts reduced maximal FEV1 level in males but not females

Cardiology - Potential treatment for aortic aneurysm repair surgery given FDA fast track status

Cholesterol - Cholesterol regulates GCase activity/stability in Niemann-Pick disease type C

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia - Rituximab called most promising emerging drug for chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Chronic Myeloid Leukemia - A few questions remain concerning chronic myeloid leukemia

Collaborations - Option granted for rights to blood platelet modification technology

Complementary & Alternative Medicine - Licorice extract significantly improves learning and memory

Coronavirus - Previously undescribed coronavirus associated with respiratory disease in humans

Crosslinking - RPA binds primer-template junction in absence of its major ssDNA-binding domains

Cytomegalovirus - Inverse correlation between CD27 quantitation and cytotoxic effector function

Detection - RAPD analysis useful for genotyping clinical Candida spp. isolates

Diagnostics - Automated schistocyte counting method evaluated

Diagnostics - Flow cytometry is utilized to study natural killer T cells

Drug Advertising - FDA warning letter issued on promotional materials for Advate

Drug Development - Chitosan microspheres potential carrier for drugs

Drug Resistance - Topoisomerase II alpha foils the effectiveness of etoposide in myeloma cells

Finance - $3M private placement to fund Oxycyte blood substitute clinical trials

Gastroenterology - Promising therapies available for the treatment of Crohn disease

Gene Transfer - 2-Amine is major bystander metabolite when CB 1954 is activated by NTR in tumors

Genetic Engineering - Stem cell factor gene-modified natural killer cells overwhelm tumor cells

Genomics - Gene encoding C. stercorarium beta-xylosidase Xyl43B in E. coli sequenced

Genomics - p16(INK4a) and p53 tumor suppressor genes altered in hTERT-immortalized cells

Gynecology - Polycystic ovary follicular excess may be main culprit for follicular arrest

HIV Diagnosis - HIV-1/2 oral fluid rapid tests under development

HIV/AIDS - AIDS-related NHL is treated traditionally as supportive care improves

HIV/AIDS - Argininamide binding arrests global motions in HIV-1 TAR RNA

HIV/AIDS - Ezrin/CD95 linkage key role regulating susceptibility to CD95-mediated apoptosis

HIV/AIDS - Intracellularly expressed HIV-1 Tat protein inhibits neural cell proliferation

HIV/AIDS Gene Therapy - TAT-pK/DNA complex useful way to package therapeutic genes for cell transduction

HIV/AIDS Progression - Timed ablation of regulatory CD4+ T cells prevents AIDS progression

HIV/AIDS Research - Central domain of HIV-1 matrix protein influences virus infectivity

HIV/AIDS Research - Channels formed by Vpu result from the self-assembly of monomers

HIV/AIDS Research - FIV env-mediated fusion mechanism and kinetics are similar to HIV env

HIV/AIDS Research - Overexpression of Oct-1 or -2 has no effect on HIV-1 transcription in CD4 cells

HIV/AIDS Treatment - Cell surface targets identified for HIV-1 therapeutics using genetic screens

Health Risk - Boy dies of blood infection; friends, relatives treated

Health and Fitness - Multiple myeloma patients commit to exercise based on a number of factors

Heart Failure - Anemia adversely affects outcome of diastolic heart failure patients