Washington, Apr 7 : Scientists have successfully created a human-in-mouse cancer model mimicking human tumour behaviours and response - a finding that would pave way for improved cancer drugs.
Researchers at AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company have engineered normal human breast tissue to express oncogenes, which when introduced in mice, formed human breast tissue in mouse mammary microenvironment.
The tumours, which then develop spontaneously, acquire common and distinct mutations during tumour progression.
Miranshah (Pakistan), Apr. 7: The Taliban has threatened the United States that it will be made to “pay heavily for destabilizing” Pakistan by launching drone attacks in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
“The US will pay 10 times for the drone attacks in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas,” Taliban leadership in North Waziristan said in a statement on Monday.
It, however, said the drone attacks would not affect the peace agreement with the Pakistan Government.
Washington, April 7 : Archaeologists have found five structures, each in the shape of an enormous "foot", in the Jordan Valley in the Middle East, which testify to the biblical concept of ownership of the land with the foot.
According to archaeologist Professor Adam Zertal of the University of Haifa, who headed the excavating team that exposed five compounds in the shape of an enormous "foot", that it were likely to have been used at that time to mark ownership of territory.
Washington, April 7 : People's own self-control can be worn out simply when they think about others exerting self-control, according to a study.
Led by Yale University psychologists Joshua M. Ackerman and John A. Bargh, who worked in collaboration with Noah J. Goldstein and Jenessa R. Shapiro from the University of California, Los Angeles, the study explored what affect thinking about other people's self-control has on a person's own thoughts and behaviour.
Islamabad, Apr. 7: The US Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, has claimed that the Taliban’s top leadership is hiding in Pakistan’s Balochistan province.
During a dinner at US Ambassador Anne Patterson’s residence in Islamabad, Admiral Mullen told reporters that the US was targeting Baitullah Mehsud now because he had established strategic links with Al Qaeda.
In affiliation with Al Qaeda, Mehsud facilitated many attacks on NATO forces in Afghanistan during the past year or so, the Daily Times quoted him, as saying.
Washingon, Apr. 7 : The United States has once again raised concerns over the Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) links with outlawed extremists groups.
In an interview to a private Afghan television channel, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said: "The ISI''s contacts with some of the extremist groups like Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the Haqqani network, Commander Nazir and others are a real concern to us."
Washington, Apr 7 : Scientists have successfully created a human-in-mouse cancer model mimicking human tumour behaviours and response - a finding that would pave way for improved cancer drugs.
Miranshah (Pakistan), Apr. 7: The Taliban has threatened the United States that it will be made to “pay heavily for destabilizing” Pakistan by launching drone attacks in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
Washington, April 7 : Archaeologists have found five structures, each in the shape of an enormous "foot", in the Jordan Valley in the Middle East, which testify to the biblical concept of ownership of the land with the foot.
Washington, April 7 : People's own self-control can be worn out simply when they think about others exerting self-control, according to a study.
Islamabad, Apr. 7: The US Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, has claimed that the Taliban’s top leadership is hiding in Pakistan’s Balochistan province.
Washingon, Apr. 7 : The United States has once again raised concerns over the Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) links with outlawed extremists groups.
