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Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cells survive and thrive not just by their own innate wiles, but by also acquiring aid and support from host cells in their surrounding environment. In a paper published online this week in The Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, an international team of researchers led by cancer specialists at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the Moores UCSD Cancer Center identify a particular relationship that can promote notably aggressive leukemias and lymphomas.

When the gap between the haves and have-nots gets larger, one would think the have-nots would want more help, most likely in the form of government programs, to fight rising inequities.

Not so, says Nate Kelly, assistant professor of political science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Los Angeles, CA (October 21, 2010) Law firms are more profitable when they are led by managing partners who have faces that look powerful, according to a study in the current Social Psychological and Personality Science (published by SAGE).

How many Jews are in the U.S.? Since Judaism is a religion and that relies on self-reporting and extrapolation there is disparity by as much as 20%.

Researchers from the University of Miami and the University of Connecticut have published a 2010 report on the American Jewish population, as part of a new North American Jewish Data Bank Report series, which contradicts the estimate that will appear in the World Jewish Population Report to be issued in the near future in the same report series.

In Human Reproduction journal today (doi: 10.1093/humrep/deq265) the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology has published four papers on guidelines for Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis(PGD).

The four guidelines include one outlining the organization of a PGD center and three relating to the methods used: amplification-based testing, fluorescence in situ hybridisation(FISH)-based testing and polar body/embryo biopsy.

As Halloween approaches, tales of monsters and creepy crawlies abound and among the most fearsome is the legendary beast known as the chupacabras.

Madison, WI, October 21, 2010 – Researchers at the University of Florida Research and Education Centers and scientists at the South Florida Water Management District have published a report regarding the trends in water quality feeding into Everglades National Park. The report can be found in the September-October 2010 Journal of Environmental Quality, published by the American Society of Agronomy, the Crop Science Society of America, and the Soil Science Society of America.

Offshore wind power offers a way for Maryland to help meet its renewable energy goals, but first some economic and political hurdles would have to be overcome, concludes a new study by the University of Maryland Center for Integrative Environmental Research (CIER).

Bring back DDT? Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring", a well-meaning but scientifically suspect advocacy book against DDT, effectively eliminated the most effective and safest (to humans) way of curtailing a disease that kills millions of children.

"Now that we have developed a solid intervention that we know helps mothers cope with stress, we want to create computer-based programs that will provide problem-solving training to parents who may not have access to psychologists or other support systems," said Martha Askins, Ph.D., assistant professor at MD Anderson Children's Cancer Hospital in Houston.

Disparities in breast cancer mortality continue to be unacceptably high in Chicago and significantly larger than the national average according to new data released today at a rally sponsored by the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force. The Task Force also announced results of the first year of data collection by the Chicago Breast Cancer Quality Consortium, which found many hospitals in Chicago are not meeting accepted quality standards.

Two new studies have determined that everolimus-eluting stent (EES) implantation reduced the incidence of restenosis and repeat revascularization in patients with calcified culprit lesions, and had fewer clinical events. Results show the rate of major cardiac adverse events in EES-treated patients with calcified lesions were higher than in those for noncalcified lesions, but remained lower than the results of previously reported stent studies.

A study led by Dr Stuart Painter of the National Oceanography Centre helps explain the formation of huge phytoplankton blooms off the southeast coast of South America during the austral summer (December-January). The region supports the highly productive Patagonian Shelf marine ecosystem, which includes a globally important fishery.