Singer Sarah Brightman to Begin Training for Space Flight

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British singer Sarah Brightman heads to Russia this week to begin training to fly to the International Space Station, Russias ITAR-TASS news service reports.

The 54-year-old soprano announced in 2012 that she intended to fly as a spaceflight participant to the station, a research laboratory that orbits about 260 miles above Earth.

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Her rocket ride aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket and 10-day stay on the orbital outpost is estimated to cost $52 million. Virginia-based Space Adventures is arranging the trip.

Brightman will become the seventh paying tourist to visit the station. The last non-astronaut to make the trip was Cirque du Soleil founder and chief executive Guy Laliberte in September 2009. Microsoft co-founder Charles Simonyi has paid for two visits to the station.

Brightman was scheduled to arrive in Russia on Wednesday and begin training in Star City on Thursday, TASS reports.

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She is expected to launch into orbit on Sept 1 with Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov and Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen.

A Japanese businessman, Satoshi Takamatsu, 51, will train with Brightman and fly if she is unable to do so, TASS said.

Brightman, who starred in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Phantom of the Opera, released her 11th solo album in 2013. She said she intends to sing in space.

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Heads Will Roll: 5 of Nature's Most Brutal Bug Decapitators

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When it comes to the ruthless headhunters of the insect world, looks can be deceptive.

Take the tiny, seemingly unassuming tropical flies that make their living by slicing the heads off ants, as reported this month in Biodiversity Data Journal.

In the new study, scientists recorded three species of phorid flies, from the poorly known Dohrniphora genus, decapitating trap-jaw ants in the forests of Brazil and Costa Rica. (Related: "There's More Than One Way to Decapitate an Ant.")

The previously unknown behavior was caught on camera by a team led by Brian Brown, curator of entomology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

A female fly uses a superlong proboscis tipped with a bladed cutting organ to surgically remove the victim's head. The fly then drags the head away and either feeds on the goo and brain or lays an egg inside.

"The head certainly makes a nice little shell for the larva to develop in, so that may be the reason why they actually go for the heads," Brown said. (Also see "7 Bug and Spider Myths Squashed.")

The flies cleverly avoid being crushed by the much larger trap-jaw ants by targeting ants injured during colony battles, he explained.

Brown said the mini-surgeons sniff out their maimed victims using "the alarm pheromones the ants produce when they are fighting."

Keep reading for more brutal decapitators: To quote England's King Henry XIII, "Heads will roll."

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Nissan and NASA Team Up on Self-Driving Car Tech

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Japanese automaker Nissan and NASA are teaming up to advance the technology behind cars that drive autonomously. Nissan Motor Co. and NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California, announced Thursday a five-year research-and-development partnership for autonomous vehicle systems so they can eventually be applied to commercially sold cars. Nissan is excited about the potential of self-driving cars, which executives say could lead to improved safety, a pillar for future autos along with low-emission technology. NASA researchers will be working with Nissan's research unit in Silicon Valley. The maker of the Leaf electric car and Infiniti luxury models aims to introduce autonomous driving technology to consumers between 2016 and 2020. Ames developed the Mars rover software and robots onboard the International Space Station.

"The partnership brings together the best and brightest of NASA and Nissan and validates our investments in Silicon Valley," said Nissan Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn. The safety technology in the works includes cars that know through sensors they are about to collide and will brake automatically, even if the driver doesn't do a thing. There are also cars that can park themselves. At its most sophisticated, the technology could replace human drivers altogether, though there are many hurdles to that being put into practice on roads.

Automakers besides Nissan are working on the technology, including Japanese rival Toyota and U.S. manufacturers General Motors and Ford. And companies outside the industry are getting involved, such as Google. The driverless car was the topic of a keynote address by Ford Chief Executive Mark Fields at the International CES gadget show in Las Vegas earlier this week.

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NASA awards $30 million grant to Penn State to help answer climate questions

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Penn State will lead a five-year, $30 million mission to improve quantification of present-day carbon-related greenhouse gas sources and sinks. An improved understanding of these gases will advance our ability to predict and manage future climate change.

"Atmospheric Carbon and Transport-America" is one of five airborne studies funded by NASA's Earth System Science Pathfinder Program to improve our understanding of the Earth system and our ability to predict future changes.

In 2015, NASA aircraft will begin five studies around the world to investigate how global air pollution, climate forcing, warming ocean waters and fires in Africa affect our climate. The five studies were competitively selected as part of NASA's Earth Venture-class missions and are the second series of NASA's Earth Venture suborbital investigations.

Ken Davis, professor of meteorology in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, is the principal investigator on the Penn State project, which will measure atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and other gases and atmospheric properties within weather systems across the eastern United States. The study will improve detection and quantification of carbon dioxide and methane sources and sinks using airborne, satellite and ground-based observations.

ACT-America will bring together more than 30 scientists from 10 institutions including federal agencies, national laboratories, other universities and private industry. NASA Langley Research Center, located in Hampton, Virginia, is Penn State's lead partner in the effort. Other Penn State researchers on the project include Thomas Lauvaux, adjunct professor of meteorology and researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California; Natasha Miles, research associate in meteorology; Scott Richardson, senior research associate in meteorology; Charles Pavloski, senior research associate in meteorology; Bernd Haupt, senior research associate, Penn State's Earth and Environmental Systems Institute; Fuqing Zhang, professor of meteorology; and Klaus Keller, associate professor of geosciences.

On regional and continental scales, carbon dioxide and methane sources and sinks are poorly understood. ACT-America will employ a new generation of atmospheric inversion systems to estimate surface-to-atmosphere net carbon fluxes by using atmospheric concentration measurements and atmospheric transport models. These systems can provide accurate and precise diagnoses of carbon dioxide and methane fluxes for biomes, nations or other important ecological or geopolitical regions. These new systems will be the first with the precision, accuracy, and resolution needed to evaluate and improve terrestrial carbon cycle models, and monitor carbon fluxes to support climate-change mitigation efforts.

Understanding the terrestrial carbon cycle is essential for diagnosing current and predicting future climate change. The Earth's terrestrial biosphere has been a strong net sink of atmospheric carbon dioxide, substantially slowing the rate of accumulation of the greenhouse gas produced from the combustion of fossil fuels in the atmosphere. Methane, another form of carbon in the carbon cycle, is accumulating in the atmosphere and is the second largest contributor to anthropogenic climate change.

"This mission is focused primarily on ecosystem fluxes of carbon dioxide." Said Davis. "Ecosystem fluxes of carbon dioxide and methane are large forces in the climate system. Currently, ecosystems are sequestering carbon dioxide and offsetting fossil fuel emissions of carbon dioxide. About 25 percent of carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuel gets absorbed by terrestrial ecosystems and about another 25 percent gets absorbed by oceans so only about half of the CO2 that we emit stays in the atmosphere. This is a huge benefit but we are not able to predict the future course of this sink."

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NASA Conducts 1st Test Fire of Shuttle-Era Engine for New Rocket

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For the first time in more than 3 1/2 years, a space shuttle main engine roared to life on Friday (Jan. 9) in support of NASA's new heavy-lift rocket.

The space shuttle main engine (SSME), now renamed the RS-25D, fired for 500 seconds atop the A-1 test stand at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The first fire of a former SSME since the final shuttle launch in July 2011, Friday's test was the first RS-25D hot fire since the end of shuttle engine testing in 2009.

Four RS-25 engines are planned to power the first stage of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket on future missions, including sending astronauts to an asteroid and ultimately to Mars. The first uncrewed SLS test flight is targeted for 2018. [Video: Watch the RS-25 Engine Test Fire]

"The RS-25 is the most efficient engine of its type in the world," said Steve Wofford, the manager of the SLS liquid engines office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., where the SLS program is managed. "It's got a remarkable history of success and great experience base that make it a great choice for NASA's next era of exploration."

Three RS-25 engines were mounted to the rear of each shuttle orbiter to power the vehicle through its ascent and initial entry into orbit. On the space shuttle, each of the engines routinely operated at 491,000 pounds of thrust. On SLS, they will need to each operate at 512,000 pounds of thrust (on at least the first four flights) and handle colder liquid oxygen propellant and engine compartment temperatures.

"We have made modifications to the RS-25 to meet SLS specifications," Wofford said, "and will analyze and test a variety of conditions during the hot fire series."

In addition to increased thrust and temperatures, the RS-25 engines used on the SLS will encounter greater inlet pressure due to the taller core stage liquid oxygen tank and higher vehicle acceleration, as well as more nozzle heating due to the engine configuration and their position in-plane with the SLS booster exhaust nozzles, Wofford said.

Friday's test fire collected data on the engine's controller unit and inlet pressure conditions.

The engine controller unit, the "brain" of the engine, relays commands to the engine and transmits data back to the launch vehicle. The controller also manages the engine by regulating the thrust and fuel mixture ratio while monitoring the engine's health and status.

The RS-25's new controller will use updated hardware and software configured to operate with the new SLS avionics architecture.

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NASA's Aqua satellite spots Tropical Cyclone Bansi intensifying quickly

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NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone Bansi on January 12 as it was intensifying rapidly and saw a cloud-covered eye in the storm's center. Bansi has triggered warnings for the island of Mauritius and is expected to continue intensifying while passing it.

On Sunday, January 11, Tropical Cyclone Bansi formed north of La Reunion Island in the Southern Indian Ocean and triggered two alerts. A tropical cyclone warning class I was posted at Mauritius, and a Yellow pre-alert went into effect for La Reunion Island. At 0900 UTC (4 a.m. EST) Tropical Cyclone Bansi (formerly System 92S) was located about 254 nautical miles north of St Denis, La Reunion Island. It was slowly moving to the east-southeast and had maximum sustained winds near 35 knots (40 mph/62 kph).

On January 11 at 06:40 UTC (1:40 a.m. EST) the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured an image of Tropical Cyclone Bansi. The MODIS image showed strong thunderstorms tightly wrapped around the center, and a large, wide band of thunderstorms in the storm's eastern quadrant spiraling around the storm and into the center from the west.

By January 12 at 10:10 UTC (5:10 a.m. EST) when the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead, the storm had rapidly consolidated and the bands of thunderstorms circling the center had expanded. Bands of thunderstorms spiraling around the storm wrapped around the storm from the northwest to the southeast and finally wrapping into the center from the west. The eye of the storm appeared covered by high clouds.

In Mauritius, the warnings on January 12 were changed to a tropical cyclone warning class 2. La Reunion, which lies to the southwest of Mauritius and is farther from the storm remained on Yellow pre-alert.

In less than 24 hours after it formed, Bansi strengthened from a minimal tropical storm into a major hurricane (Category 3) with maximum sustained winds. A Category three hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale has sustained winds from 111 to 129 mph (96 to 112 knots/178 to 208 kph).

At 0900 UTC (4 a.m. EST) on January 12, Bansi had maximum sustained winds near 100 knots (115.1. mph/185.2 kph). Bansi was centered near 17.2 south latitude and 56.1 east longitude, about 191 nautical miles (219.8 miles/ 353.7 km) north-northwest of Port Louis, Mauritius, has tracked eastward at 7 knots (8.0 mph/12.9 kph).

The Joint Typhoon Warning Center noted that Bansi continued to rapidly intensify as a result of passage over warm water, low vertical wind shear, and outflow aloft. A tropical cyclone needs good outflow (where winds spread out at the top of the hurricane) to maintain strength. Outflow means that air spreads out over the top of the storm assisting in its development. When outflow is weakened, the storm weakens.

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Story highlights A 1995 image of the "Pillars of Creation" became iconic The new images give an even more spectacular view -- and new insight

The Hubble Space Telescope revisited the so-called "Pillars of Creation," which the space agency describes as "three giant columns of cold gas bathed in the scorching ultraviolet light from a cluster of young, massive stars in a small region of the Eagle Nebula, or M16."

The previous photo of these pillars, taken in 1995, went on to stand out from all the rest of NASA's space images, the agency said. "The Hubble image is so popular that it has appeared in movies and television shows, on T-shirts and pillows, and even on a postage stamp."

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In celebration of the telescope's upcoming 25th anniversary in April, Hubble returned to the pillars -- and this time with the latest high-definition tools.

The new sharper and wider image was taken "in near-infrared light, as well as visible light," NASA said. "The infrared view transforms the pillars into eerie, wispy silhouettes seen against a background of myriad stars. That's because the infrared light penetrates much of the gas and dust, except for the densest regions of the pillars. Newborn stars can be seen hidden away inside the pillars."

In 1995, the captured image gave insight into star formation. "Nebulous star-forming regions like M16 are the interstellar neon signs that say, 'We just made a bunch of massive stars here,'" said Paul Scowen of Arizona State University, who helped lead the original observations, in a post on NASA's website.

The new image "hints" that these columns "are also pillars of destruction," NASA said.

"The ghostly bluish haze around the dense edges of the pillars is material getting heated up and evaporating away into space," said Scowen. "We have caught these pillars at a very unique and short-lived moment in their evolution."

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NASA test fires SLS engine

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The Orion spacecraft may have had its maiden flight, but it's still waiting for the Space Launch System (SLS) booster that will send it beyond the Moon. That wait got a bit shorter on Friday as NASA test fired the RS-25 engine that will power the SLS. The first of eight hot tests, it took place at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

The RS-25 engine is best known for being the main engine for the now retired US Space Shuttle fleet. Derived from an engine originally created for the Saturn V rocket during the Apollo-era, the cryogenic RS-225 engine was notable for its robustness and recycling the design for the SLS fit in with NASA's waste-not-want-not philosophy when it came to Shuttle technology.

In this case, the RS-25 engine in the test firing is a development model of the new expendable versions of the main engines that propelled the Space Shuttle into orbit. Though the design is very similar to the Shuttle engines, the latest RS-25s are made to be cheaper one-use power plants. When completed, the SLS will use four of the new engines.

According to NASA, the January 9 firing lasted 500 seconds and was intended to provide data for inlet pressure conditions and the performance of the new version of the engine's controller unit. The latter is the computer that controls the engine through a system of valves. Its job is to carry out flight commands while returning telemetry about engine performance. In addition, it monitors and regulates the engine. For the latest version of the RS-25, the engine controller unit contains updated software and hardware to match the SLS's new avionics.

"Weve made modifications to the RS-25 to meet SLS specifications and will analyze and test a variety of conditions during the hot fire series," says Steve Wofford, manager of the SLS Liquid Engines Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. "The engines for SLS will encounter colder liquid oxygen temperatures than Shuttle; greater inlet pressure due to the taller core stage liquid oxygen tank and higher vehicle acceleration; and more nozzle heating due to the four-engine configuration and their position in-plane with the SLS booster exhaust nozzles."

NASA says that further engine tests are on hold while the high pressure industrial water system on the test stand is being upgraded. When the firings resume in April, the space agency will complete eight tests with the current development engine for a total run time of 3,500 seconds. A second engine will then undergo another ten test firings for a total of 4,500 seconds.

The SLS is scheduled to fly in 2018.

The video below shows Friday's test.

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Dhruva's big leap opens private sector to space

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Growing up, Sanjay Srikanth Nekkanti had wanted to be a pilot. But while studying for his bachelors degree in engineering in SRM University in Chennai, he was selected to be part of the team that built the first student nano satellite project in India. Thats when I got interested in the space domain, says Nekkanti, the 25-year-old CEO of Indias first private company to manufacture satellites, Dhruva Space. While building the satellite, the company did a comparison between the cost of solutions in India and abroad, and realised that while it could build its satellite for Rs 5 lakh, it would have cost Rs 30 lakh in Europe. That planted the seed for the Bengaluru-headquartered start-up that is currently making two satellites, one a communication satellite for a client and the other an experimental satellite with multiple payloads, which are likely to be launched late this year or early next year.

In line with Prime Minister Narendra Modis Make In India campaign, Dhruva Space is also collaborating with a foreign company to formulate a proposal to set up a satellite manufacturing facility in India and hopes to make a formal proposal to the government by the end of February.

Although Nekkanti and his team had built a satellite successfully in college, he couldnt immediately launch his venture. Back then, I was just an undergraduate and it was unlikely that I would have been taken seriously, he says. He also needed a team to work with and nobody was willing to take the risk of launching a start-up to manufacture satellites at that point, so he decided to go to Europe to do his Masters. It was while doing his Masters in space science and technology as part of the multi-university Erasmus Mundus programme that he met Dhruva Space co-founder Narayan Prasad, a mechanical engineer.

On a shoestring budget Like Indias Mars mission, which won global accolades for keeping costs low, Dhruva Space also follows the model of frugal innovation, starting from keeping the office as lean as possible. To use a colloquial term, we use a lot of jugaad, says Raju. This includes using a lot of 3D printing, replacing space grade components with commercial grade components that cost one-tenth after extensive testing, and reusing and re-engineering components wherever possible.

Their company is also the only small satellite manufacturer that is completely bootstrapped, adds Raju, laughing. We are trying to prove our hypothesis that space need not be expensive, and a lot of frugal innovation is possible. Nekkanti adds that when they had approached investors initially, they were told that it was a completely new domain and were asked a lot of questions to which they did not have answers back then. But they still wanted to go ahead, so they used the savings they had from working abroad. Now, having managed to get a client in the first two years of operations, they can finance operations through revenues, rather than their own pockets.

Apart from satellites, the company has also pioneered a high-altitude ballooning platform, which is currently being used by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics for experiments and observation. The platform can go up to an altitude of 40 kilometres which is close to the edge of the stratosphere. (To put this in perspective, commercial flights usually fly at an altitude of 10-11 kilometres.) Dhruva is also keen on planning to build the countrys first indigenous automatic identification systems to track ships on the high seas.

The company does not view itself as a rival to ISRO, says Raju. ISRO satellites have a much longer life expectancy of around eight years, while ours will be around three years. And their clientele will be different. We share a lot of information with them from time to time, and they are our mentors in a very informal way, he says.

Asked when the company would break even or generate profit, Nekkanti admitted that this was a tough question. Our aim is to have a constellation of satellites in orbit and we have taken a very small step towards this big vision, he says. The companys ultimate goal is to be able to provide real-time data through its network of satellites, whether it is monitoring a natural disaster or crop patterns, which is where the bulk of the revenue would come from.

The biggest challenge to the company is policy, or rather the lack of one, geared towards the private space industry, since it has so far been dominated by ISRO. We need to convince the government to create policies to include smaller companies like us and integrate us into the ecosystem, says Raju. Dhruva also expects more such start-ups to come into being, provided policies are changed accordingly.

In the long term, Dhruva Space also wants to spin off its outreach arm into a separate university, which would design a curriculum for advanced courses, and also create manpower for the industry, which is currently a challenge. We are in this for the long run, Raju adds.

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Revisions to molecular testing guideline continues to give hope to lung cancer patients

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NORTHFIELD, ILL. --The College of American Pathologists (CAP), the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), and the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) are teaming to revise the evidence-based guideline, "Molecular Testing Guideline for Selection of Lung Cancer Patients for EGFR and ALK Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors."

The updated guideline will include new recommendations for ALK testing by IHC, ALK-EGFR resistance, and a number of emerging target molecular targets which will include, but is not limited to, ROS1, MET, ERBB2, RET, NTRK1. Multiplexed "Next Generation Sequencing" multigene panels and the reassessment of immunohistochemistry will be reviewed. The role of rebiopsy and repeat analysis in the setting of post-treatment relapse, along with testing of blood samples for mutations in circulating tumor cells, cell free tumor DNA, or exosomes will be considered.

The revision of the guideline will again be based on evidence from unbiased review of published experimental literature. The revisions will be recommended by an expert panel made up of renowned worldwide leaders in the field. The revision will start in early 2015, taking around 18 months to complete. The three organizations collaborated in 2013 to develop the original version of the guideline which addressed which patients and samples should be tested and when and how testing should be performed.

"Although only one year has passed since the molecular testing guideline was published, rapid accumulation of scientific knowledge and new evidence in this field indicate that the guidelines should be updated. Thus, an update has begun that includes an expanded list of genes and new methods that are clinically relevant," said Yasushi Yatabe, MD, PhD, chief, Department of Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics, Aichi Cancer Center, Nagoya, Japan and IASLC member.

Patients battling lung cancer in the United States and abroad have continued hope with the benefits of these guidelines. Testing for the EGFR mutation and ALK rearrangements and the use of targeted therapies have given lung cancer patients the chance for survival, along with improved quality of life and time with loved ones.

"More than 224,200 new cases of lung cancer were diagnosed in 2014 in the United States," said Philip T. Cagle, MD, FCAP, medical director of Pulmonary Pathology in the Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine editor-in-chief, and CAP member. "Rapid advancements in genetic testing offer new treatment options for patients with advanced lung cancer. The updates to the guideline will help pathologists and oncologists to provide more accurate testing, leading to more optimal patient care."

As an active and asymptomatic recently retired, exceedingly proud new grandmother, Linda Wilkinson was completely taken aback by the diagnosis of Stage 4 lung cancer. She underwent three rounds of genomic testing and was identified as having the EML4-ALK translocation in June and has been on Xalkori since then with visible improvement in the shrinkage of her primary tumor.

No new metastases have been noted "I live in gratitude for all the professionals working in the area of genomic testing and targeted treatment. Since going on a targeted agent which specifically addresses my genetic mutation, I have felt renewed hope, energy and enthusiasm for life. It has lengthened my time horizon immensely and I foresee the day when these technologies (and new drug developments) make living with cancer something that can be successfully managed for years and years."

In an era of precision medicine, the guideline provides recommendations for pathologists, oncologists, and other cancer health professionals on the current state-of-the-art recommendations for the molecular testing of lung cancer.

"Molecular testing of the lung cancer patient's tumor is today crucial for selection the most optimal therapy from the treatment start", says Professor Fred R. Hirsch, MD, PhD, University of Colorado and CEO of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC). "It is also necessary to address eventual molecular testing of tumors from patients, who eventually progress on first-line therapy in order to learn about biological mechanisms for treatment failure and for guiding subsequent therapy today and in the future," continues Dr. Hirsch.

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Tim Cahill kicks perfect goal into crowd at Asian Cup opener

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Tim Cahill has done some amazing things in his career. Score at three different World Cups. Score at three different Asian Cups. Score goals in three different league competitions. But how about scoring his son an official Asian Cup 2015 ball before kick-off last Friday night?

The Hairdryer was standing just a few metres away at Melbourne's AAMI Park when Cahill produced an extraordinary piece of skill after hearing the cry of his son in the stand. The New York Red Bulls forward, having just completed his warm-up, looked up to the second tier and chipped a perfect pass to his progeny.

We were going to mention it before but thought nobody would believe us. However, Cahill himself found a video of the incident, which we understand he will upload to his Twitter account some time this week. It will be worth watching.

Saudi Arabian team refuses to get on bus driven by woman The Asian Cup is one of the most diverse tournaments staged anywhere in the world, meaning plenty of different sensitivities need to be catered for. However, it's not always possible to please everyone.

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The Saudi Arabian contingent have been doing a fair bit of travelling around recently doing their pre-camp on the Surf Coast, playing their first match in Brisbane and their next match in Melbourne so you might have thought the last thing on their mind was the gender of their bus driver.

However, when the team was due to board a bus with a female at the wheel, the team initially refused to get on. Women aren't allowed to drive their own cars in Saudi Arabia, let alone chaperone a delegation of testosterone-charged male athletes. Eventually, they agreed to board, but requested that only male drivers greet them thereafter.

Saudi Arabia is the only nation in the world which maintains this rule, with Muslim clerics claiming "licentiousness" will spread should the law be changed which, apparently, the government is considering.

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