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Yale Scientists Identify Gene That Controls The Spread of Melanoma

By Guest PostDecember 16, 2011Health, Sciencebeta catenin, braf gene, disease, drug treatments, gene, genetically altered mice, human melanoma, intestine, lungs, lymph nodes, malignant melanoma, manjula santhanakrishnan, marcus w bosenberg, melanoma, metastasis, skin, skin cancer, spleen, tumor growth, william damsky, yale cancer center

Yale Cancer Center researchers have identified a gene in melanoma that can dramatically affect the spread of the disease. The study, published in the journal Cancer Cell, provides new insight into how melanoma metastasizes in patients with advanced disease, and which organs are most likely to be affected. These findings could potentially lead to new drug treatments.

Malignant melanoma is the most deadly form of skin cancer, accounting for 80 percent of all skin cancer deaths. Nearly all melanoma deaths are a result of metastasis, which can occur early in the course of tumor growth in the skin. (more…)

Meet the Team Behind Windows Phone’s Breakthrough Design

By Guest PostDecember 15, 2011Technologybing, city of lost children, james drage, john f kennedy, joshua phillips, mango, Microsoft, microsoft news center, mobile operating system, mobile phones, mom factor, office, ricardo espinoza, smart dj, sue loh, user interface, windows phone, windows phone 7.5, windows phone shell team, xbox live, zune

*Four members of the Windows Phone Shell Team talk to the Microsoft News Center about their work designing the Windows Phone user interface as well as life inside and outside Microsoft.*

REDMOND, Wash. – Dec. 15, 2011 – It’s not every day that a person gets to create the user interface for a mobile phone that will be used by millions of people around the world. But that is exactly the work of a small group of engineers at Microsoft.

For the past several years, the Windows Phone Shell Team has been continually improving the user interface for Windows Phones with the goal of making them incredibly intuitive and engaging to use. The team recently completed work on Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango,” the largest and most feature-rich software refresh of Microsoft’s mobile operating system to date. (more…)

Presidential Cuisine a Focus of Archaeology at Montpelier

By Guest PostDecember 15, 2011Culture, Generalambrose madison, american president, animal remains, arizona state museum, barnet pavao zuckerman, blue ridge mountains, bones, dining table, dolley madison, excavations at montpelier, james and dolley madison, james madison jr, james madison sr, kitchen, marybeth harte, mount pleasant, northern virginia, picture of montpelier, pre revolutionary war era, republic, slaves trash, zooarchaeologist

Arizona State Museum zooarchaeologist Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman and her students are analyzing the remains of an early American president’s dining table.

Arizona State Museum archaeologists are looking through historic table scraps in an effort to find out more about the kitchen of America’s fourth president and author of the U.S. Constitution.

For about a decade, Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman and her students from the University of Arizona have been part of ongoing excavations at Montpelier, the home of James and Dolley Madison. The archaeology of Montpelier’s grounds offer some light on what day-to-day life was like from the pre-Revolutionary War era to well into the 18th century. (more…)

NASA: Climate Change May Bring Big Ecosystem Changes

By Guest PostDecember 15, 2011Environmentclimate change, climate model projections, ecosystem changes, melting glaciers, model projections

PASADENA, Calif. – By 2100, global climate change will modify plant communities covering almost half of Earth’s land surface and will drive the conversion of nearly 40 percent of land-based ecosystems from one major ecological community type – such as forest, grassland or tundra – toward another, according to a new NASA and university computer modeling study. (more…)

Computer Science Could Shed New Light on Dark Poem

By Guest PostDecember 15, 2011Technologycomputational stylistics, dark poem, literary stylistic analysis, the digital text, vocal patterns

Literary stylistic analysis gets boost from technology

Unique research that brings technology to bear on T.S. Eliot’s famous poem, The Waste Land, promises to reveal insights that human readers may not find on their own and undergraduates are part of the project. (more…)

Diamonds and Dust for Better Cement

By Guest PostDecember 15, 2011Sciencecement paste, diamond anvil cell, durability of concrete, portland cement

Structural studies at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source could point to reduced carbon emissions and stronger cements

It’s no surprise that humans the world over use more water, by volume, than any other material. But in second place, at over 17 billion tons consumed each year, comes concrete made with Portland cement. Portland cement provides the essential binder for strong, versatile concrete; its basic materials are found in many places around the globe; and, at about $100 a ton, it’s relatively cheap. Making it, however, releases massive amounts of carbon dioxide, accounting for more than five percent of the total CO₂ emissions from human activity. (more…)

Understanding How Cancer Spreads: Nanotech Single-Cell Monitoring Technique Could Give Insights

By Guest PostDecember 14, 2011Healthcancer monitoring technique, how cancer spreads, nanotech monitoring technique, personalized cancer treatment

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— A technique that lets researchers monitor single cancer cells in real time as they float in liquid could help doctors study the breakaway tumor cells that cause metastasis. Metastasis is the process of the disease spreading through the body. (more…)

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