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First Anti-Cancer Nanoparticle Trial On Humans a Success 260

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 24, 2010 @08:16PM from the smallest-medicine dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Nanoparticles have been able to disable cancerous cells in living human bodies for the first time. The results are perfect so far, killing tumors with no side effects whatsoever. Mark Davis, project leader at CalTech, says that 'it sneaks in, evades the immune system, delivers the siRNA, and the disassembled components exit out.' Truly amazing."

Child Receives Trachea Grown From Own Stem Cells 103

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 24, 2010 @07:29PM from the just-add-oxygen dept.

kkleiner writes "Doctors at the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) along with colleagues at the University College London, the Royal Free Hospital, and Careggi University Hospital in Florence have successfully transplanted a trachea into a 10 year old boy using his own stem cells. A donor trachea was taken, stripped of its cells into a collagen-like scaffold, and then infused with the boy's stem cells. The trachea was surgically placed into the boy and allowed to develop in place. Because his own cells were used, there was little to no risk of rejection. This was the first time a child had received such a stem cell augmented transplant and the first time that a complete trachea had been used."

High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats 542

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 24, 2010 @05:30PM from the subsidies-cause-fatter-corn-farmers dept.

krou writes "In an experiment conducted by a Princeton University team, 'Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.' Long-term consumption also 'led to abnormal increases in body fat, especially in the abdomen, and a rise in circulating blood fats called triglycerides.' Psychology professor Bart Hoebel commented that 'When rats are drinking high-fructose corn syrup at levels well below those in soda pop, they're becoming obese — every single one, across the board. Even when rats are fed a high-fat diet, you don't see this; they don't all gain extra weight.'"

Comment Re:Stuck in the old ways (Score 1) 522

by Yottabyte84 on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @09:20PM (#27512593) Attached to: Why the CAPTCHA Approach Is Doomed

Then don't use the same field every time. Encrypt the field names with salt and a time-based password. That'll deal with the blighters.... until they start doing entity counting or the like. Then you insert chaff... Well, there's the arms race for you.

Comment Re:Unbelievable (Score 2, Insightful) 331

by Yottabyte84 on Thursday January 17, 2008 @02:06PM (#22082808) Attached to: Some DNS Requests Ruled Illegal in North Dakota

This is one way to deal with it:

$ telnet mailin-01.mx.aol.com 25 Trying 205.188.159.57... Connected to da.mx.aol.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220-rly-da05.mx.aol.com ESMTP mail_relay_in-da05.2; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:03:52 -0500 220-America Online (AOL) and its affiliated companies do not 220- authorize the use of its proprietary computers and computer 220- networks to accept, transmit, or distribute unsolicited bulk 220- e-mail sent from the internet. Effective immediately: AOL 220- may no longer accept connections from IP addresses which 220 have no reverse-DNS (PTR record) assigned.

All geeks are required to hate spam. It's in the by-laws, go check.

Submission + - What tax software do you use?

Submitted by r_jensen11 on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @05:50PM

r_jensen11 writes: I know this topic has been asked at least once before, but seeing as how 6 years have passed, I figured the question is due again. It's about that time of the year again when we find out how much we owe Uncle Sam (Or as in my case, how much Uncle Sam owes me.) Software has changed drastically in the past 6 years since the previous query I found on Slashdot, as well as many tax rules. Does anyone here use tax software other than TurboTax and TaxCut? I know that there are also online forms I can fill out, but which ones are accessable to people that use OS's other than Windows and OSX? I'd preferably use a program that I can use off-line and store my information locally instead of using eforms, but if I have to resort to eforms, which ones should I investigate and which ones should I stay far away from?

Comment Re:Great (Score 1) 293

by Oreo_Borealis on Thursday December 08, 2005 @09:39PM (#14215760) Attached to: Scientists Unlock Reasons Cancer Spreads

Actually, yes. If you were to somehow get some travelling cancerous cells from someone else's body into yours, your immune system wouldn't recognize those cells, and would attack it, thinking it's an infection. Which it is.

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