Washington, Apr 22 : Scientists say that it may be possible to assess chemotherapy''s success in inducing cancer cell death – by examining the patterns in which light bounces off cell surfaces.

According to a study led by researchers in the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center and Duke''s Pratt School of Engineering, the technique might be used as a tool for measuring patients'' response to chemotherapy more quickly and non-invasively.

Washington, Apr 22 : Hugh Jackman has joined the likes of John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra after leaving his prints outside Tinseltown landmark Grauman''s Chinese Theatre.

The Aussie actor left his hand and footprints in the cement outside the Hollywood Boulevard cinema.

"This particular block of real estate has brought me two moments in my life I thought would never ever happen - hosting the Oscars and now here today. It means the world to me to be here,” Contactmusic quoted him as saying.

Washington, Apr 22 : The traditional risk factors for melanoma may not be as helpful in predicting risk in all people as previously thought, claims a new study.

The research has been presented at the American Association for Cancer Research 100th Annual Meeting 2009.

Washington, April 22 : A new study has shown widespread and substantial declines in wildlife in Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve in only 15 years.

The study was analyzed by researchers at the Nairobi-based International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and led and funded by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

It is based on rigorous, monthly monitoring between 1989 and 2003 of seven “ungulate,” or hoofed, species in the Maasai Mara National Reserve, which covers some 1500 square kilometers in southwestern Kenya.

Washington, Apr 22 : American filmmaker Ron Howard has slammed a member of the Catholic League for trying to show him as an anti-Catholic because of the movie ‘Angels and Demons’ that he directed.

William Donohue, the author of a small pamphlet called “Angels and Demons: More Demonic Than Angelic”, had condemned the film for failing to hide an “animus against all things Catholic.”

Howard, 55, retaliated by writing in a blog for the Huffington Post that he has great respect “for the Catholics and their church.”

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