Neoadjuvant therapy

Neoadjuvant therapy is the administration of therapeutic agents before the main treatment. One example is neoadjuvant hormone therapy prior to radical radiotherapy for adenocarcinoma of the prostate...

Roche

Roche is the 5th largest pharmaceutical company in the world, based on annual sales, which were recorded at $36,017m in 2009. The pharmaceutical products of Roche are major players in the followin...

Vasculitis

Vasculitis (plural: vasculitides) refers to a heterogeneous group of disorders that are characterized by inflammatory destruction of blood vessels. Vasculitis is primarily due to leukocyte migration...

Vascular endothelial growth factor VEGF VEGF R

The importance of tumor angiogenesis in tumor biology is now widely accepted and has emerged as a valid therapeutic target in oncology. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) represents a key med...

Drug Delivery - news, views, blogs

Drug delivery is the method or process of administering a pharmaceutical compound to achieve a therapeutic effect in humans or animals.  Drug delivery technologies are patent protected formulat...

Size Matters: Hospital Consolidation and Physicians

By Richard Reece, MD As health reform evolves,  I’ve been watching multihospital systems grow in size and power and speculating what their gigantic size means. Here, as of 2008, were the 10 largest...

Size Does Matter: Women Find Large Penises More Attractive

Finally the debate is over: size matters, and women prefer men with larger packages because it predicts a man's sex appeal, according to a new study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy...

Penis Size Matters More to Men's Attractiveness Than Previously Thought

Sorry, fellas: Size does matter, according to science. The size of a human penis is more closely correlated to sexual attractiveness than previous studies indicated, according to findings published o...

Bloomberg's proposed super-size soda ban is latest attack on portion size in war against obesity

New York City mayor seeks to limit the size of sugary beverages but the plan draws scorn from the soft drink industry and heightens the debate about how involved government should be in efforts to "st...

Large Size Condom Sampler Packs Available Now at Condomania.com

New York, NY (PRWEB) May 04, 2013 Large size condom sampler packs are available now at Condomania.com, America’s favorite online condom store recently announced. The store recently added la...

Evolution mostly driven by brawn, not brains

The most common measure of intelligence in animals, brain size relative to body size, may not be as dependent on evolutionary selection on the brain as previously thought, according to a new analysis...

Organisation Trumps Size In Primate Brain Evolution

The evolution of anthropoid primates, including monkeys, apes and humans, over the past 40 million years was largely driven by brain reorganization, and not brain size, according to new research from...

Size Matters, But So Does Stability

Dynamic light scattering is increasingly important for determining nanoparticle size, but researchers also want to know about zeta potential.

TiN nanoparticles: small size-selected fabrication and their quantum size effect.

ABSTRACT: Size-selected TiN nanoclusters in the range of 4 to 20 nm have been produced by an ionized cluster beam, which combines a glow-discharge sputtering with an inert gas condensation technique....

Size correction in biology: how reliable are approaches based on (common) principal component analysis?

Morphological traits typically scale with the overall body size of an organism. A meaningful comparison of trait values among individuals or populations that differ in size therefore requires size cor...

Electroacoustics of particles dispersed in polymer gel.

This study examines the electroacoustics of particles dispersed in polymer hydrogels, with the particle size either less than or greater than the gel mesh size. When the particles are smaller than the...

Centrioles Regulate Centrosome Size by Controlling the Rate of Cnn Incorporation into the PCM.

Centrosomes are major microtubule organizing centers in animal cells, and they comprise a pair of centrioles surrounded by an amorphous pericentriolar material (PCM). Centrosome size is tightly regula...

Size-Dependent Toxicity of Nano-C(60) Aggregates: More Sensitive Indication by Apoptosis-Related Bax Translocation in Cultured Human Cells.

The toxicity of NPs is not well characterized in terms of their size. In particular, the size-based toxicity of fullerene (C(60)) remains an issue because of a lack of C(60) NPs with a well-controlled...