Abstract  The baculovirus Autographa californica multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus (AcMNPV) is used as a safer viral vector in mammalian cells with potential applications in gene therapy. However, the mechanism
for the insusceptibility of mammalian cells to proliferative infection by entomopathogenic viruses is not well understood.
Here, we studied the significance of epigenetic modifications such as histone acetylation, histone [...]

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Sap’s rising: Sweet money for maple syrup hobby
IRA, Vt. — Eric May wasn’t too keen on the taste of real maple syrup when he first moved to Vermont but he tapped some trees anyway, borrowing buckets from neighboring farmers. After boiling the sap for 18 hours in a pot over an outside fire, he produced [...]

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Iran: US behind IAEA charge that Iran making bomb
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s supreme leader charged Sunday that U.S. and its allies are behind the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency’s claim that Iran may be making nuclear bombs, despite its repeated denials.
The comments by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, broadcast on state television Sunday, came 10 days after the [...]

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 A few days back, Salesforce.com, the famous cloud computing company , announced  the Beta program of Social Neworking tool for Enterprises, Social Chatter. The software will be available during the calendar year of 2010. Customers will be able to access Chatter’s real time feed anytime  and anyplace through iPhone or Blackberry. Companies are having a hard [...]

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LONDON – US troops are to be allowed to use social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook following a review of internet use and security.
The BBC quotes defence department officials as saying that the benefits of using social media now [...]

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  Using TigerText, user can set a time limit about the text message to stay after it is read. When the limit exceeded, the message will disappear from the recipient’s phone, the sender’s phone and any servers. After this, you can not forward the message to anywhere, store the message or sold it to a flashy [...]

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Tumor initiation via loss of cell contact inhibition versus Ras mutation: Do all roads lead to EMT? [FriendFeed entry][Connotea bookmark][PubMed citation] http://bit.ly/bIYZjW

CD133+ cells are more resistant to anticancer drugs than CD133- cells in neuroblastoma cell lines [FriendFeed entry][Connotea bookmark][PubMed citation] http://bit.ly/bCJKkI

Breast cancer chemoresistance: Emerging importance of CSC [FriendFeed entry][ResearchGATE entry][PubMed citation] http://bit.ly/cmgfj4

Neoplastic [...]

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The following document was written after countless hours of research and experimentation, in the hope that you will not have to waste as much time in setting up DKIM on Postfix as we had to. The documents in internet on this subject are mostly old and deals with an old version of DKIM Milter.
What is [...]

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‘Lockergate’?: Producer apologizes for e-mails
LOS ANGELES — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is considering action against a producer of “The Hurt Locker” who sent out multiple e-mails urging academy members to vote for his movie in the Oscar best-picture category and “not a $500 million film,” an obvious reference to close-competitor “Avatar.”
The [...]

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iPhone is fast gaining the status of all-purpose gadget with bags of apps for almost everything. One of its most enticing functions include the ability to double up as a remote control for limited features on your iTunes’.  However, the developers have decided to break it out of the conventional usage. It might be [...]

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NEW YORK – A woman took to her Twitter page to tell all about the abortion she was going through – step by step.
Angie Jackson, 27, wanted to “demystify” abortion, and so shared it on Twitter, YouTube and her personal blog.
“I’m doing this so other women know, ‘Hey, it’s not nearly [...]

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LONDON – British Labour politician Ed Miliband has become the latest victim to have his Twitter account hacked by wrongdoers who are bent on embarrassing politicians.
The ‘Twitterjacking’ scam has caught out a series of politicians including the Leader of the House of Commons, Harriet Harman.
It was supposed to be [...]

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Jammu, Feb 27 (ANI): The ruling National Conference has demanded an apology from the state’s main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for depicting three generations of the Abdullah family as ‘3 Idiots’ on social networking site Facebook.
Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather slammed the PDP for ’stooping low [...]

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Skp2 siRNA inhibited cell proliferation and decreased cell viability of rTF in vivo and in vitro. SiRNA-mediated gene silencing of Skp2 can be a novel gene therapy to treat scarring after glaucoma surgery by the suppression of p27kip1 downregulation. (Source: Investigative Ophthalmology)

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Enhanced anti-tumor effects of combined MDR1 RNA interference and human sodium/iodide symporter (NIS) radioiodine gene therapy using an adenoviral system in a colon cancer model
Cancer Gene Therapy advance online publication, February 26, 2010. doi:10.1038/cgt.2010.3
Authors: S J Ahn, Y H Jeon, Y J Lee, Y L Lee, S-W Lee, B-C Ahn, J-H Ha
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Authors: M C Whelan, G Casey, M MacConmara, J A Lederer, D Soden, J K Collins, M Tangney
& G C O’Sullivan (Source: Cancer Gene Therapy)

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Drugs targeting obsessive behavior might hold promise for people
Source: HealthDay
Related MedlinePlus Pages: Autism, Genes and Gene Therapy (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)

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Inhibiting the expression of the HIV-1 coreceptor CCR5 holds great promise for controlling HIV-1 infection in patients. Here we report stable knockdown of human CCR5 by a short hairpin RNA (shRNA) in a humanized bone marrow/liver/thymus (BLT) mouse model. We delivered a potent shRNA against CCR5 into human fetal liver-derived CD34+ hematopoietic progenitor/stem cells (HPSCs) [...]

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For sale: a newspaper in paradise
HONOLULU — Honolulu barely escaped becoming a one-newspaper town about a decade ago. Many believe the death of one its two dailies is inevitable this time around.
The parent company of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin announced Thursday it was purchasing longtime rival The Honolulu Advertiser, the largest newspaper in Hawaii, and would [...]

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 Although, 2010-11 Union Budget has brought some good news for the construction, hospitality, banking, education and pharma sectors, but, it does not generate any good news for IT industry. The Finance minister didn’t mention anything about the extension of Tax Rebate in this budget for IT industries.
Since, the tax break ends in Mar 2011, outsourcing [...]

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