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Cutting-edge technology optimizes cancer therapy with nanomedicine drug combinations

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UCLA bioengineers develop platform that offers personalized approach to treatment

In greater than 90 percent of cases in which treatment for metastatic cancer fails, the reason is that the cancer is resistant to the drugs being used. To treat drug-resistant tumors, doctors typically use multiple drugs simultaneously, a practice called combination therapy. And one of their greatest challenges is determining which ratio and combination -- from the large number of medications available -- is best for each individual patient.

Dr. Dean Ho, a professor of oral biology and medicine at the UCLA School of Dentistry, and Dr. Chih-Ming Ho, a professor of mechanical engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, have developed a revolutionary approach that brings together traditional drugs and nanotechnology-enhanced medications to create safer and more effective treatments. Their results are published in the peer-reviewed journal ACS Nano.

Chih-Ming Ho, the paper's co-corresponding author, and his team have developed a powerful new tool to address drug resistance and dosing challenges in cancer patients. The tool, Feedback System Control.II, or FSC.II, considers drug efficacy tests and analyzes the physical traits of cells and other biological systems to create personalized "maps" that show the most effective and safest drug-dose combinations.

Currently, doctors use people's genetic information to identify the best possible combination therapies, which can make treatment difficult or impossible when the genes in the cancer cells mutate. The new technique does not rely on genetic information, which makes it possible to quickly modify treatments when mutations arise: the drug that no longer functions can be replaced, and FSC.II can immediately recommend a new combination.

"Drug combinations are conventionally designed using dose escalation," said Dean Ho, a co-corresponding author of the study and the co-director of the Jane and Jerry Weintraub Center for Reconstructive Biotechnology at the School of Dentistry. "Until now, there hasn't been a systematic way to even know where the optimal drug combination could be found, and the possible drug-dose combinations are nearly infinite. FSC.II circumvents all of these issues and identifies the best treatment strategy."

The researchers demonstrated that combinations identified by FSC.II could treat multiple lines of breast cancer that had varying levels of drug resistance. They evaluated the commonly used cancer drugs doxorubicin, mitoxantrone, bleomycin and paclitaxel, all of which can be rendered ineffective when cancer cells eject them before they have had a chance to function.

The researchers also studied the use of nanodiamonds to make combination treatments even more effective. Nanodiamonds -- byproducts of conventional mining and refining operations -- have versatile characteristics that allow drugs to be tightly bound to their surface, making it much harder for cancer cells to eliminate them and allowing toxic drugs to be administered over a longer period of time.

The use of nanodiamonds to treat cancer was pioneered by Dean Ho, a professor of bioengineering and member of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and the California NanoSystems Institute.

"This study has the capacity to turn drug development, nano or non-nano, upside-down," he said. "Even though FSC.II now enables us to rapidly identify optimized drug combinations, it's not just about the speed of discovering new combinations. It's the systematic way that we can control and optimize different therapeutic outcomes to design the most effective medicines possible."

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Study finds short-term psychological therapy reduces suicide attempts in at-risk soldiers

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Research group included University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio investigators

IMAGE:Alan Peterson Ph.D., from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, was co-PI on a study showing that at-risk soldiers receiving short-term cognitive-behavioral therapy were 60... view more

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SAN ANTONIO (Feb. 13, 2015) - Short-term cognitive behavioral therapy dramatically reduces suicide attempts among at-risk military personnel, according to findings from a research study that included investigators from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

The two-year study, funded by the Army's Military Operational Medicine Research Program, was conducted at Fort Carson, Colo. It involved 152 active-duty soldiers who had either attempted suicide or had been determined to be at high risk for suicide, and evaluated the effectiveness of a brief cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) in preventing future suicide attempts.

The study found that soldiers receiving CBT were 60 percent less likely to make a suicide attempt during the 24-month follow-up than those receiving standard treatment. The results were published online Friday, Feb. 13, by The American Journal of Psychiatry. The article is available online at http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/.

The findings are particularly encouraging, given that rates of active-duty service members receiving psychiatric diagnoses increased by more than 60 percent during a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Rates of suicides and suicide attempts rose in comparable numbers.

"The significant increase in military suicides over the past decade is a national tragedy," said Alan Peterson, Ph.D., a co-investigator on the study who is a professor of psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio and director of the military-focused STRONG STAR Consortium. "The Department of Defense has responded by investing significant resources into military suicide research, and the findings from this study may be the most important and most hopeful to date. To see a 60 percent reduction in suicide attempts among at-risk active-duty soldiers after a brief intervention is truly exciting," Dr. Peterson said.

Other UT Health Science Center investigators from the STRONG STAR Consortium included Stacey Young-McCaughan, RN, Ph.D., and Jim Mintz, Ph.D. STRONG STAR, an international research group led by the Health Science Center, supported this study as part of its larger effort to develop and test the best diagnoses, preventions and treatments for combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder and related conditions.

M. David Rudd, Ph.D., president of the University of Memphis, and Craig Bryan, Psy.D., a clinical psychologist at the University of Utah and executive director of the National Center for Veterans Studies, led the study.

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Magnolia ISD students advance to State Science Fair

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Magnolia ISD students competed in the regional Science Engineering Fair of Houston this past weekend with several students advancing to the State Science Fair in San Antonio March 26-29, 2015.

The students who qualified for State are:

Grace Gustin from Magnolia Junior High - 2nd Place in Behavioral Science Category

Katherine Hinchley and Sophia Ebel from Magnolia Junior High - 3rd Place Team Engineering Category

Breland McDaniel from Bear Branch Junior High - 3rd Place in Biochemistry Category

Molly Davis from Bear Branch Junior High - 1st Place in Biochemistry Category

Several students also received notable awards at the regional fair:

Grace Smith from Magnolia Junior High - Special Award from Jacobs Technology

Nicholas Gonzaga from Magnolia Junior High - Special Award from Jacobs Technology

Gloria McConnell from Magnolia High School - 3rd Place in Medicine/Health Category and Special Award from The Society of Women Engineers

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Meeting: Nutrition and the Science of Disease Prevention: A Systems Approach to Support Metabolic Health

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WHAT: Nutrition and the Science of Disease Prevention: A Systems Approach to Support Metabolic Health

WHEN: Thursday, April 16, 2015, 8:30 AM - 7:00 PM

WHERE: The New York Academy of Sciences NYC

PRESENTED BY: The Sackler Institute for Nutrition Science at the New York Academy of Sciences

DESCRIPTION: How can we leverage progress in nutritional science, genetics, computer science and behavioral economics to address the challenge of non-communicable disease? Join us for this one-day conference that will highlight the connection between nutrition and the complex science of preventing disease. This forum will focus on promotion of optimal metabolic health, building on input from several complementary disciplines, with ample time for discussion interaction and networking. Speakers will discuss the basic science of optimal metabolic health with a focus on the microbiome and gene-diet interactions; epidemiological evidence in nutrition to define better targets and better interventions; and how nutrition, from pharma to lifestyle, can build on systems science to address complex issues.

MORE INFORMATION AND THE CONFERENCE AGENDA: http://www.nyas.org/PreventionScience

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New UTHealth therapy targets PTSD, substance use disorders

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HOUSTON - (March 2, 2015) - A new cognitive behavioral therapy designed to treat both post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorders is the focus of research at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) Medical School.

The therapy, called Treatment of Integrated Post-traumatic Stress and Substance Use (TIPSS), was developed by Anka Vujanovic, Ph.D., who leads the Trauma and Addiction Research Program at the UTHealth Center for Neurobehavioral Research on Addiction in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

PTSD results from exposure to a traumatic event, defined as actual or threatened death, serious injury or sexual violence against self or others. It is associated with significant functional impairment and negative health outcomes.

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, symptoms include reliving the trauma over and over, bad dreams and frightening thoughts. People with PTSD may have feelings of strong guilt, depression or worry and they may lose interest in activities that were enjoyable in the past. They also may be easily startled, feel tense, have trouble sleeping and/or have angry outbursts.

Previous research has indicated that PTSD carries a substantially elevated risk for substance use disorders and it has been documented as a significant risk factor for worse substance abuse treatment outcomes.

"Treatment for PTSD has historically been done separately from treatment for substance use disorders," said Vujanovic, UTHealth assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. "We are testing an evidence-based integrated treatment designed to target both in the same therapy with the goal of improving outcomes." To do so, Vujanovic and colleagues are comparing TIPSS to standard cognitive-behavioral treatment for substance use disorders.

Both types of treatment focus on noticing thoughts and feelings and how they affect drug use and other behaviors. TIPSS also involves talking about PTSD symptoms, building distress tolerance skills, reflecting on the impact of the trauma and substance abuse and challenging problematic thinking patterns related to the trauma and the substance abuse.

The study is funded by a $412,000 Career Development Award grant from the National Institutes of Health/UTHealth Clinical and Translational Sciences (KL2TR000370-07).

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Climate deniers and other pimped-out professional skeptics: The paranoid legacy of Nietzsches problem of science

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Looking back years later at his first major work, The Birth of Tragedy, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche gave himself credit for being the first modern thinker to tackle the problem of science itself, for presenting science for the first time as problematic and questionable. Dude! If the perverse German genius could only have known how far the problem of science would extend in our age, or to what ends his critique of Socratic reason would be twisted. He might be delighted or horrified in equal measure one thing you can say for Nietzsche is that his attitudes are never predictable to see how much we now live in a world he made, or at least made possible.

It may seem like a ridiculous leap to connect a scholarly work about ancient Greek culture published in 1872 with the contemporary rise of climate denialism and other forms of pimped-out skepticism, in which every aspect of science is treated by the media and the public as a matter of ideological debate and subjective interpretation. Im not suggesting that the leading climate skeptics, corporate shills and other professional mind-clouders seen in Robert Kenners new documentary Merchants of Doubt have read Nietzsche and based their P.R. playbook on what he would have termed an appeal to the Dionysian impulse, the primitive, violent and ecstatic forces that lie below the surface of civilization. (You can see two prime specimens at the top of the page: James Taylor of the libertarian-oriented Heartland Institute and longtime oil lobbyist William OKeefe, who now heads the George C. Marshall Institute, a climate-obsessed right-wing think tank.) They didnt have to. That impulse is baked into human culture at this point, and it can be exploited without entirely being recognized or understood.

Im not discounting the most obvious elements of the 21st-century assault on science, which are amply addressed in Kenners film and other recent works on the subject. There is certainly a heated cultural and political conflict over the issue of climate change, but there is no scientific debate, no matter how many times Fox News hosts repeat that phrase. Enormous financial interests are at stake, as oil companies and other big stakeholders in the fossil-fuel economy seek to fend off or delay a major social restructuring that could destroy their business. Ideological hangover from the Cold War and the 1960s, especially among a certain paranoid strain of the conservative movement, has turned the climate issue into a symbolic confrontation between American freedom and the sinister global forces of academia and environmentalism, often understood as the new faces of Communism. As former Republican congressman Bob Inglis a staunch conservative and former climate skeptic who was defeated by a Tea Party rebel in 2010 puts it, issues of tribal loyalty are at work here that trump rational questions about the validity of scientific evidence.

Inglis is the most interesting individual interviewee in Merchants of Doubt, partly because he stands apart from the competing ideological choruses on this issue and has taken on the thankless task of proselytizing his fellow Christian conservatives, one terrifying Deep South radio show at a time. His remarks about tribalism also nudge us toward the Nietzschean subtext of the climate fight, by which I mean not just the question of what political or corporate agendas are being served since thats pretty obvious but why the right-wing counterattack against a previously uncontroversial scientific consensus has been so effective with the general public.

In other words, we need to ask new versions of the questions Nietzsche himself asked: What does all science in general mean considered as a symptom of life? What is the point of all that science and, even more serious, where did it come from? Beneath the political, economic and tribal conflict over climate science lies a profound sense that what Nietzsche described as the Apollonian forces of social order, in this case being the book-learning of the professoriate and the rules and regulations of government, cannot contain or comprehend the chaotic and mysterious nature of reality. There is considerable truth in that, which was Nietzsches great insight how much truth and what kind of truth, and how these competing forces can best be managed, being precisely the important questions.

For the sanctimonious forces of liberalism, committed to a one-way human narrative from darkness into enlightenment, it is always tempting to blame such retrograde impulses on a uniquely American combination of ignorance, isolation and religiosity. Those factors have played their part in our nations history, but self-righteous rube-shaming is unlikely to lead to political victory, and does not address what appears to be a deep-seated species preference for passion over reason, sensuality over intellect, Dionysian excess over Apollonian discipline. To say that such a phenomenon exists and must be confronted is not to endorse it uncritically, a confusion that has often led to misreadings of Nietzsche. If those of us who would like to save the planet ignore or deny the dark allure of the Dionysian impulse, we have already conceded the high ground on the battlefield of human imagination, and are likely to lose everything.

Merchants of Doubt is primarily based on the influential 2010 book of the same name by science historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, which traces the strategy and tactics of climate denial back to the tobacco industrys 50-year propaganda war against clear-cut medical evidence and increased government regulation. Our product is doubt, as one infamous internal memo, found amid the reams of tobacco-industry documents pried free from the corporate vaults, put it. Advised by consultants at the P.R. firm Hill & Knowlton never to directly deny the mounting evidence that cigarettes were addictive and deadly, tobacco execs and their hired scientific hands insisted for decades that they simply werent sure. Maybe and maybe not! We need more research and more evidence! We dont personally believe these things are harmful just because smokers are many times more likely to die of lung cancer but who really knows?

In a devastating montage near the end of Kenners film, we see how leading Republican politicians, who appeared to accept the scientific consensus on climate change until a few years ago, have come to echo this rhetoric almost word for word. John McCain, Mitt Romney, John Boehner and even George W. Bush all used to agree that climate change was real and in large part caused by human activity; Newt Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi once did a public-service announcement together urging bipartisan action on the issue. Those were the days, my friends. After the Tea Party uprising of 2010 and climate counterattacks by the Koch brothers Americans for Progress, the oil industry-funded blogger and pundit Marc Morano and numerous others, that all changed. Boehner, Gingrich, Romney and every other Republican candidate or official in the country was forced to flip to the Heck, Im no scientist school of mandatory agnosticism. (We should spare half a kind thought for McCain, who even in his diminished and compromised post-Sarah Palin condition retains a few shreds of integrity.)

Building on the work of numerous other scholars notably the Australian economist and ethicist Clive Hamilton, whose book Requiem for a Species goes somewhat deeper into the same issues Oreskes and Conway identify a tiny group of renegade right-wing scientists who have established themselves as professional contrarians and saboteurs, seeking to muddy the waters on a whole range of issues from tobacco to acid rain to pesticides and carbon emissions. This cabal has been led by the physicists Bill Nierenberg, Fred Seitz and Fred Singer, who were leading figures in Cold War weapons design but possess no academic expertise in any discipline relating to climate science. Their importance to the climate-denial movement lies in their possession of legitimate Ph.D.s, their ability to comb through scientific studies and cherry-pick confusing or contradictory data points, and most of all their eagerness to defend free-market capitalism against all efforts to restrain it or redirect it.

This handful of devoted obfuscators, buttressed by an army of industry-funded experts from recently invented right-wing think tanks Morano, OKeefe, Taylor and pretty much all the other dudes who show up on TV in that role possess no actual background in science has ingeniously capitalized on the mainstream medias fetish for balance and succeeded in sowing widespread confusion. Since Barack Obama took office in 2009 which coincided, not by accident, with the launch of a major climate-skeptic counterattack opinion polling has consistently reported that at least 40 percent of Americans believe that the seriousness of global warming is exaggerated. That level had never been reached in 12 years of previous surveys. Its bizarre and distressing that such transparently bogus tactics worked so well, but it could only have happened if the seeds fell on fertile ground. For a whole range of reasons, reflecting both Americas chronic political divisions and the deeper cultural forces at work beneath them, many people ached to believe that the scientific bad news simply wasnt true.

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Welcome to Casper College Casper College offers more than 50 academic majors and 30 technical and career field options. The academic side of the college is organized into five different Schools: Business and Industry, Fine Arts and Humanities, Health Science, Science, Social and Behavioral Science.

Under each school are several departments. Your major area of interest, or major, is located within one of these departments. Each school of the college has a Dean and an academic assistant, both of whom can be very helpful in navigating you through a course of study.

If you're deciding based on academics, we've got plenty of options. In fact, we have more than 80 programs. Finish your certificate in one year. Finish your associate's in two years. Stay on campus a little longer and get your four-year degree, or even a master's with one of our partner institutions. Whichever option you choose, you'll be learning from the finest faculty who care about you and your future.

And Casper College is an amazing value. For Wyoming residents, tuition is less than $1200 a semester. In fact, students from many other states find that tuition at Casper College for them is less than resident tuition for colleges in their own states! With a generous scholarship program and plenty of federal aid available, tuition is affordable for nearly everyone.

In fact, Casper College's "participation rate," the percentage of citizens in the service area who take classes, is among the highest in the country. Thousands more are served through ABE/GED services, the Center for Training and Development, the Goodstein Foundation Library, continuing education classes, theatre productions, museums, conferences, special events and innovative educational programs/partnerships.

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