(MEMPHIS, Tenn. – September 10, 2012) Early treatment response is a powerful predictor of long-term outcome for young patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The information can help physicians decide whether a more intensive approach is needed. Research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators has identified the best test for measuring that response and guiding therapy. The method uses a laboratory technique called flow cytometry, which makes it possible to identify a single cancer cell in 1,000 normal cells that remain in patient bone marrow after ...

Bethesda, MD - The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) wrote to all members of the House of Representatives expressing its opposition to the Government Spending Accountability (GSA) Act (HR 4631). While strongly supporting the bill's goal and the desire to ensure that federal agencies are using their resources responsibly and efficiently, FASEB urged Representatives to oppose the bill in its current form. FASEB President Judith S. Bond PhD expressed concern that, "if adopted, HR 4631 would impede the professional development of government ...

PHILADELPHIA — Computers may be getting faster every year, but those advances in computer speed could be dwarfed if their 1's and 0's were represented by bursts of light, instead of electricity. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have made an important advance in this frontier of photonics, fashioning the first all-optical photonic switch out of cadmium sulfide nanowires. Moreover, they combined these photonic switches into a logic gate, a fundamental component of computer chips that process information. The research was conducted by associate professor Ritesh ...

Teachers and schools that value diversity have a big impact on the academic experiences of Latino immigrant children living in predominantly White communities. That's the finding of a new study by researchers at the University of Kentucky. The study appears in a special section of the September/October 2012 issue of Child Development on children from immigrant families. Children who had a teacher who valued diversity felt more positively about their ethnicity than children who had a teacher who felt uncomfortable with diversity, the study found. "This is important ...

Despite often living in poor neighborhoods, immigrant Mexican mothers report few conflicts at home, support from spouses, and strong mental health. At the same time, these moms say they are less likely to read with their young children than native-born White mothers, stemming in part from comparatively low levels of education. Immigrant Chinese mothers, in contrast, report being more likely than native-born White peers to read with their young children, but more likely to report weaker mental health and greater household conflict. These are just some of the findings ...

A new study has found that children of immigrants have an advantage over children of native-born Americans when it comes to the transition to adulthood. Among children of similar socioeconomic backgrounds, school conditions, and other characteristics, those born abroad to immigrant parents who came to the United States before their teen years are more likely to follow the best trajectory in academic achievement and school engagement, followed by those born in the United States to immigrant parents. Those are the conclusions reached by a study conducted at Johns Hopkins ...

Immigrant parents' education before migrating is more strongly tied to their children's achievement in the United States than any other social, economic, or linguistic parental attribute, either before or after migration. That's the conclusion of a new study in a special section of the September/October 2012 issue of Child Development on the children of immigrants. The study was carried out by researchers at the Pennsylvania State University. Immigrants come to the United States with different socioeconomic backgrounds and levels of proficiency in English. Past research ...

Young children whose families immigrate to Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States are as prepared and capable of starting school as their native-born counterparts, with one exception—vocabulary and language development. That's the finding of a new study published in the September/October 2012 issue of the journal Child Development in a special section on the children of immigrants. The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Bristol, Columbia University, the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, the University of New ...

Health is an important part of development, with links to how children do cognitively and academically, and it's a strong predictor of adult health and productivity. A new study of low-income families in the United States has found that children's health and access to health care services differ according to the immigrant status of their parents. The study, by researchers at Cornell University and the University of Chicago, is published in the journal Child Development, whose September/October 2012 issue has a special section on the children of immigrants. Although ...

San Diego, CA, September 11, 2012 – The World Health Organization recently recognized environmental noise as harmful pollution, with adverse psychosocial and physiological effects on public health. A new study of noise pollution in Fulton County, Georgia, suggests that many residents are exposed to high noise levels that put them at risk of annoyance or sleep disturbance, which can have serious health consequences. The research is published in the October issue of American Journal of Preventive Medicine. "Our research estimated that the percentage of the overall populations ...

A new high-throughput screening technique developed by researchers at the RIKEN Plant Science Center (PSC) has been used to uncover five novel immune-priming compounds in Arabidopsis plants. Discovery of the compounds, which enhance disease resistance without impacting plant growth or crop yield, establishes the new technique as a powerful asset in the battle to protect crops from damaging pathogens. Plant activators, compounds that activate a plant's immune system in response to invasion by pathogens, play a crucial role in crop survival by triggering a range of immune ...

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues have published a study describing the greater difficulty in finding matched, unrelated donors for non-Caucasian patients who are candidates for hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). The study appeared in the August issue of Bone Marrow Transplantation. The success of HCT depends on finding cell donors who are closely matched genetically; as the degree of mismatching increases, the success of unrelated donor HCT falls accordingly. A patient's ideal donor is a genetically matched sibling. The search for a perfectly ...

Kloverpoint Technologies Inc. is pleased to announce the release of a feature that will automatically save the content that is being composed through its content publishing web service. Kloverpoint is a tool that gives small businesses, organizations, and personal users the ability to quickly and easily create social sites to publish their content and connect with others through social networking and social collaboration. Since Kloverpoint is a web service and no content is actually stored on the user's computer system, any kind of Internet interruption or navigation ...

Kelsey McBride PR, an up-and-coming Los Angeles based public relations agency, today announced the company is now offering music publicity services to musicians in all genres. Kelsey McBride PR offers various packages and services at a reasonable rate to assist musicians in reaching out to new audiences as well as existing fans. Services include securing press placements, coordinating interviews and reviews, social media management, and press release distribution. Packages range from $300 - $500 per month. Kelsey McBride PR focuses on carrying out effective PR campaigns ...

Polymet Corporation, a leading producer of hardfacing wire, welding wire and thermal spray wire, has approved plans and began work to significantly increase its specialty wire rolling and drawing capacity. Currently Polymet uses very specialized rolling and drawing techniques to produce high quality wire used in applications like aerospace and industrial gas turbines, nuclear power plants and sulfuric acid plants. Polymet's proprietary cleaning techniques and specialty processing have been incorporated into the specifications of many gas turbine and nuclear applications ...

The new online platform offers increased functionality to clients including an online weekly news monitor, trial and milestone trackers, a conference tracker, an interactive heatmap and other customized analytics. Company President, Bruno Larvol will also present at the conference, exploring the role that secondary sources play in advanced monitoring of news, conferences, analyst reports, trials and product milestones for the pharmaceutical industry. Mr. Larvol commented, "Pharma CI has always been an excellent opportunity for The Larvol Group to share recent product ...

According to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), four million animals died last year in the U.S. as part of its dairy and beef production. This represents many billions of dollars in economic losses each year for both U.S. dairy and beef producers in terms of lost revenue, rendering fees, and unrewarded expenses, like feed costs. On an average dairy operation, 8% of all producing will die; and on an average feedlot operation, where animals may only spend approximately 180 days, 3% will die. Many times more frequent, however, are animals that get sick but do not ...

In a bid to tackle enduring recession, New Zealand's Bay of Plenty is heavily promoting new business development and skilled migrants are being encouraged to contribute their skills, optimism and positivity on the path to economic growth. Anglo Pacific, the UK's largest shipper of personal and household effects to New Zealand, is lending its support to the campaign. Jason Diggs, Anglo Pacific's Sales Director, says, "We're working in close collaboration with Priority One, an economic development organisation in the Bay of Plenty. It was established over a decade ...

Brookfield Homes took the top spot as #1 New Home Builder in "San Diego's Best" U-T Readers Poll 2012. Brookfield's Sago community in Carlsbad was named #1 New Home Community in the poll. This is the second year in a row Brookfield Homes was voted #1 New Home Builder and had the #1 New Home Community. "Our team is beyond excited. Being named the top builder in the region is an honor," says Debby Marshall King, director of marketing for Brookfield Homes. "And having Sago voted #1 puts us over the moon. It's our newest community and we're thrilled ...

The New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera (Verismo Opera) continues the season, A Year of Love, Tragedy, and Suicide, with a grand performance of Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly. Verismo Opera will present this touching, tragic love story of a young geisha and an American sailor set in Japan on Sunday, October 7, 3:00 p.m., at the Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC), 30 North Van Brunt Street, in Englewood, New Jersey. Under Artistic Director Lucine Amara, one of the Metropolitan Opera's luminary performers, Verismo Opera will perform this tragic love story ...

Join Kate McGuinness, author of the legal thriller, Terminal Ambition: A Maggie Mahoney Novel, as she tours the blogosphere August 13 - November 16, 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! Terminal Ambition is part of a huge Kindle Fire promotional giveaway. Not only can you win a Kindle Fire for your very own but you can also win $50 by following the authors' tour and leaving comments. See details below. Appleton, WI - August 2012 - Kate McGuinness will be touring with Pump Up Your Book to help promote her legal thriller 'Terminal Ambition'! Maggie ...

A reality game show based on his hypnosis skills is in the works for comedy hypnotist Don Barnhart as the comedy Hypnotist brings his hypnosis skills to television in a new reality game show. Barnhart has just signed a deal with a production company and network to develop and shoot a reality based, comedy game show based on his popular stage hypnosis tour. Due to a non-discloser agreement, Barnhart isn't allowed to reveal the details of the show or which network is backing it but claims, "It's one of the most popular networks right now and they've really expanded ...

Payroll accounting software developer Halfpricesoft.com released the new version of ezCheckPrinting software which can support more date formats. EzCheckPrinting developing team hopes US firms with special date format needs and foreign users can benefit from this new improvement. ¡°Meeting the specific needs of our customers is an important part of our business model,¡± said Halfpricesoft.com founder Dr. Ge. ¡°We believe small business owners should focus their time and energy on running their businesses, not trying to figure out how to run the software. We wanted to ...

British based company Muchoedz (www.MUCHOEDZ.com), headed by games industry veteran Nigel Speight, announces the release of the first in a trilogy of 'Sam Swipe' games - Samurai Zombies for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android devices. With striking graphics, challenging gaming and atmospheric audio, Samurai Zombies can be downloaded from the Apple App Store, Google Play, SamsungApps, SlideMe and various other Android stores. An ingenious platformer that's easy to learn but difficult to master. Test your Skills and Stamina to the edge. Perplexing Puzzles to Solve and ...

Introducing JOLIE the world's luxury handbag on wheels; where style meets function. Designed by Ivy Chen, a young Canadian entrepreneur, JOLIE is a brand new luxury handbag line that places an emphasis on glamour, corporate style and accessibility. The collection draws its inspiration from the fast pace of a modern day woman's life, and whether it is at home, work or play, she is able to have all of her essentials close by in one bag. That is what JOLIE handbags were created for - to give these busy women some elegance and convenience on wheels that simplifies their non-stop ...