MEXICO CITY (Reuters) ? A judge has granted tycoon Carlos Slim's Telmex an appeal against a government decision that denied the phone company entry into the television market in Mexico, daily El Universal reported on Thursday.
Mexico's Communications and Transport ministry in May rejected Slim's efforts to tap the domestic television market by refusing to change Telmex's concession to allow the new service.
According to El Universal, the judge found that the ministry did not make a thorough review of the case, and is now requesting that the government look at Telmex's request again and make a new decision.
The ministry said one of the reasons stopping Telmex from winning the TV permit was that the company, Mexico's leading fixed-line phone service provider, was giving rivals poor service when connecting them to its nationwide network.
Telmex challenged the ministry's stance, saying it had fully complied with key conditions for its TV debut.
Telmex and the ministry had no immediate comment on El Universal's report.
(Reporting by Cyntia Barrera Diaz, editing by Bernard Orr)
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Seeing things all at once has less of an impact
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Rationality is the crowning achievement of our species. The ability to use evidence is true the cornerstone of science, medicine, and our legal system. We use rational methods, too, in daily life ? we assess an applicant?s resume, a child?s IQ, or the mileage of a used car to predict the likelihood of good performance later on. Given that we often use information to make decisions both large and small, how good are we at assessing evidence?
There is a line of psychological research that studies precisely this, by measuring how accurate we are at making probability judgments. One way to study this is to control the nature of information itself and see whether people are accurate judges of its strength. Interestingly, people?s responses tend to be conservative: they are less sure of their conclusion than the evidence justifies. Yet we are not just affected by the strength of the evidence, but by how it is presented. A recent study by Jennifer Whitman and Todd Woodward found that when pieces of evidence are doled out one at a time, instead of being shown all at once, people conclude that the evidence is stronger.
Imagine, for example, that you are in a library (assuming people still do such things), and you?ve become lost. Are you in the Science Fiction or the Fantasy section? Of course, you could wander the shelves until you find a helpful sign, but it?s faster to simply look at the books on the shelf next to you. You see:
Book 1: Piers Anthony?s Blue Adept: The Apprentice Adept
Book 2: J. K. Rowling?s Harry Potter
Book 3: J. R. R. Tolkien?s The Hobbit
You?re not sure how to categorize Book 1, so it?s not good evidence for either Science Fiction or Fantasy. Books 2 and 3, however, have wizards or elves on their covers, and you might firmly classify them as Fantasy. By now, you?ve weighed the evidence and concluded you?re in the Fantasy section.
Here?s where things get interesting. If someone had simply handed all three books to you at the same time, you might feel that it?s somewhat likely you are in the Fantasy section. But if someone handed the books to you one at a time, you might conclude very strongly that you?re in the Fantasy section. Even though the books are the same, you would weigh the strength of the evidence more heavily when you processed them in turn, rather than all at once.
Researchers Whitman and Woodward recently demonstrated this effect in a controlled laboratory setting. In their study, people looked at a display on a computer screen. At the bottom of the screen was a little pond connected to two big lakes. The pond contained three fish ? say, two white ones and one black one. Then the two lakes big lakes were filled with different proportions of white, black, and yellow fish. People looked at the lakes and the pond, and used a sliding scale to judge the probability that the fish in the pond came from Lake 1 or Lake 2. Sometimes there was strong evidence, or a high probability, that the fish were from Lake 1 (Lake 1 had mostly white fish, and some black fish, like the pond). Sometimes it was weak evidence, or a low probability, that fish were from Lake 1. Also, sometimes the fish in the lakes were added in sequence: all the white fish appeared, then the black ones, then the yellow ones. Other times, all the fish were added all at once. When the fish were added one at a time, people perceived the evidence to be stronger.
This is an intriguing finding about how our minds work: even in dry, laboratory studies, we are imperfect rationalists who judge evidence not just by its actual strength, but also by how it was fed to us.
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WASHINGTON ? The supercommittee's failure reflects the nation's divide: Americans crave both the Republicans' demand for low taxes and the Democrats' insistence on protecting social programs. So far, no group or leader has persuaded them they can't have both and there's no quick solution in sight.
It's possible the stalemate won't be broken by the time of the 2012 elections, nearly a year away. Some GOP strategists think Republicans can oust President Barack Obama and win control of both chambers of Congress. That would enable them to enact much of their agenda, and Americans could render a judgment on its results.
Or, perhaps, Democrats will score big victories that will force Republicans to yield some ground.
The bipartisan supercommittee's collapse stems from an all-too-familiar reality of modern politics. Republican lawmakers respond to activists who overwhelmingly oppose higher taxes. And Democrats answer to activists who will tolerate no nicks in Medicare, Social Security and other programs without steeper taxes on the wealthy.
The same differences pushed the nation to the brink of default last summer, prompting the first-ever downgrade of the government's creditworthiness.
Yet no leader or group has convinced enough Americans that everyone must accept some pain to bring taxes and government services more closely in line. So the federal debt hit $15 trillion last week. And the government suffered another embarrassment Monday, immediately spooking U.S. markets and possibly unsettling foreign markets in the days ahead.
Nineteenth Century Americans venerated Henry Clay as "the Great Compromiser" for helping resolve knotty national problems. Today, that title would almost surely be hurled as an insult, especially at a rally or caucus to nominate someone for Congress.
The supercommittee's six Democrats and six Republicans knew they would be criticized for failing to reach an accord. But they saw a worse fate in straying too far from their respective parties' uncompromising stands on taxes and social programs.
Many veteran politicians expect more versions of recent elections, which were heavily influenced by partisan activists who put a scare into lawmakers threatening to veer from party orthodoxy.
"Compromise is not where the incentives are in the political process right now," said former Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia, who once headed the GOP's House campaign committee. Because so many House districts are solidly Republican or solidly Democratic, he said, "members are judged by what their primary electorate thinks of them."
Eventually, Davis said, repeated failures to tame the deficit might inflict so much pain on Americans -- possibly through a severe recession or even depression -- that today's primary-dominated voting patterns will change.
Some lawmakers doubtlessly see this coming, Davis said. "But the incentives in the system do not reward you for being ahead of the curve."
Congress reflects the public divide over tax and spending priorities. A new Quinnipiac poll found that 73 percent of Republicans want to address the deficit with spending cuts only, while only a third of Democrats hold that view.
More than half of Democrats favor a mix of tax hikes and spending cuts. Only one Republican in five agrees.
Independent voters, as usual, occupy a middle ground. Slightly more independents favor a spending-cuts-only approach to a strategy that includes some new taxes. But neither option hit 50 percent in the poll.
In 2006, independent voters broke heavily for Democrats, helping that party regain the House majority. In 2008, independents again favored Democrats for Congress, and they helped elect Obama.
But last year, independent voters swung strongly to Republicans, who regained control of the House. Strategists in both parties are angling for independents' support next year.
One possible way to break Washington's cycle of logjams is for independent voters to increase in number and to insist on systemic changes in practices such as congressional redistricting and Senate filibuster powers.
Nathan Daschle, who heads a political networking firm called Ruck.Us, and whose father was a Democratic Senate leader, said the only way he can envision "really changing the incentives of our political system" is to have huge numbers of Republican and Democratic voters switch their affiliation to independent.
William Galston, a Brookings Institution scholar who worked in Bill Clinton's White House, sees two possible turning points before the 2012 elections. Pro-military lawmakers from both parties might succeed where the supercommittee failed, he said, by crafting a tax-and-spending compromise that would avert the cuts scheduled at the Defense Department.
Or, Galston said, Europe's financial problems and the United States' political gridlock might lead to so much economic damage that even devout liberals and solid conservatives will have to rethink their intransigence.
"If people decide there's no difference between the United States and the Eurozone," Galston said, "we may discover the hit we took in global esteem in the summer was just the beginning of the decline."
Peter G. Peterson, a former Commerce secretary and leading critic of deficit spending, said in a statement Monday: "Meaningful deficit reduction requires both parties to vote for a plan that does not reflect their partisan litmus tests."
For now, many lawmakers see that idea as a one-way ticket out of Congress in their next primary elections. Such thinking points to more gridlock ahead.
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EDITOR'S NOTE ? Charles Babington covers politics for The Associated Press.
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The Kodak HERO 5.1 All-in-One Printer ($129.99 direct) is a step up from the Kodak HERO 3.1 ($99.99 direct), the base model in Kodak?s new multifunction printer (MFP) line. For the extra $30 you pay for it, the HERO 5:1 adds several features that the HERO 3.1 lacks, chiefly a port for a USB thumb drive and an automatic duplexer for printing on both sides of a sheet of paper. Otherwise they were nearly identical in speed and output quality; the HERO 5.1 is a worthy choice for an MFP geared mostly to home use.
The HERO 5.1 prints, scans, and copies. It measures 7.2 by 16.6 by 15.7 inches and weighs 13.8 pounds. It?s boxier than the HERO 3.1 but very similar in layout. To the right of the lid that conceals the scanner platen, a tilt-up 2.4-inch color LCD lies behind a 4-way controller and some basic control buttons: On, Cancel, Home, Back, Zoom in/Zoom Out, and Start. Along with its port for a USB thumb drive, the HERO 5.1 has a media-card reader that can read cards in the SD, Memory Stick, and MultiMedia Card families.
The HERO 5.1 has a 100-sheet paper tray, enough capacity that you could use it for light-duty home-office use, though it?s mostly geared towards home use. It includes support for Google Cloud Print and Kodak Email Print, which is essentially an extension to Google Cloud Print. You assign the printer an email address through Kodak Email Print, and then you can print to it from any computer, smartphone, or other device that can send email. You simply create a message, attach the document you want printed, and send it.? Because the printer has its own email address, you don't even need to turn on your computer, although the printer has to be connected to your network and your network connected to the Internet.
The HERO 5.1 can connect to a LAN via WiFi or to a computer via USB cable, though it lacks Ethernet connectivity. I tested it over a USB connection with the drivers installed on a PC running Windows Vista.
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Print Speed
I timed the Kodak HERO 5.1 on the latest version of our business applications suite (using QualityLogic's hardware and software, www.qualitylogic.com) at 3.1 effective pages per minute (ppm), which matched the score of the HERO 3:1 and beat out the Editors? Choice Kodak ESP C310 All In One Printer ($99 direct, 4 stars) 2.7 ppm. The Brother MFC-J430W ($100 street, 4 stars) was faster, testing at 4.3 effective ppm.
Output Quality
Overall, the HERO 5.1?s output was similar to the HERO 3.1, with average text output, sub-par graphics, and average photos. The HERO 5.1?s text quality was typical of an inkjet MFP, suitable for schoolwork and general business use but not for desktop publishing, marketing materials, or other output that you seek to impress an important client with.
Graphics quality for the HERO 5.1 was slightly sub-par for an inkjet. Banding (a regular pattern of faint lines of discoloration) was visible in many illustrations, particularly ones with solid backgrounds. Posterization, abrupt shifts in color where they should be gradual, was evident in a couple of graphics. Also, thin colored lines did not print well, barely showing up against a black background.
Photo quality was about average for an inkjet, with most prints being about what you?d expect from drugstore prints. Overall, colors were rich and well saturated. A monochrome image showed an obvious tint (which may not be an issue if you don?t shoot in black-and-white). Detail was lost in the bright areas of several prints.
Other Issues
The HERO 5.1 includes a utility that will create an anaglyphic 3D color image, the kind that needs glasses with one red lens and one blue lens to see the 3D effect. To print a 3D image, you need two photos of the same scene, and you?ll need to move the camera about three inches horizontally between snapping the two pictures. The utility overlays the images and prints them. To let you see the 3D effect, Kodak provides two pairs of glasses with the printer.
Kodak claims running costs for the HERO 5.1 of 3.9 cents per monochrome page and 10.7 cents per color page, the same as the HERO 3.1. The cost of color printing is low, particularly for a budget MFP.
The Kodak HERO 5.1 builds on the HERO 3.1, adding a port for a USB thumb drive and an automatic duplexer for a little more money. If those features are important to you, the 5.1?s the better choice. Otherwise, their print speeds were identical and output very similar. The Editors? Choice Kodak ESP C310 provides slightly better photo quality, and the Editors? Choice Brother MFC-J430w has a more business-oriented feature set.
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CAIRO ? Egypt's benchmark index plunged on Tuesday, with a temporary suspension of trading failing to cool a frenzy of selling by investors panicked by escalating violence and protests in the capital that have thrust the nation into its worst political crisis since former President Hosni Mubarak's ouster.
The EGX30 index closed 4.78 percent lower, or at 3,676 points, continuing its slide after trading was suspended for nearly an hour on the Egyptian Exchange after the broader EGX100 index fell by over 5.4 percent.
Underscoring market unease with the political situation, the country's five-year credit default swaps ? the cost of insuring Egypt's sovereign debt against default ? widened by 25 basis points to 563 basis points, according to Markit. Also, the Egyptian pound weakened against the U.S. dollar, briefly breaching the six pound to the dollar mark, according to currency Web site XE.com.
The slide in the market Tuesday was the third consecutive day of declines, and reflected the worries about the country's political future as thousands gathered in central Cairo protesting against the country's military rulers. The escalating tension came just days before the scheduled Nov. 28 parliamentary elections ? the first since Mubarak left office in mid-February.
Traders put the support point for the benchmark index at 3,800 points, but the market blew past that level with little difficulty early in the day, building on Monday's 4 percent slide and dragging its year-to-date decline down to more than 48 percent.
"We passed the support point, so the only thing that will stop further declines in the market is fixing the political situation in the country," said Khaled Naga, a senior broker with Mega Investments. "We have to wait and see what happens."
State television reported that the day's losses on the exchange amounted to 12 billion pounds ($2 billion).
The suspension of trade was a safety measure set up by market authorities in the weeks after the uprising against Mubarak. The measures were intended to guard against what many, at the time, feared would be the market's collapse after its reopening more than two months after the start of the Jan. 25 uprising.
The violence and continuing demonstrations prompted the civilian Cabinet to offer its resignation late Monday. But the move failed to appease the activists who see the civilian government as little more than subservient to the military rulers.
While far from presenting a united front, the activists massed in Cairo's Tahrir Square ? the epicenter of the uprising that toppled Mubarak ? are demanding that the military rulers either immediately hand over power to a civilian administration or set a fixed date for a transition to civilian rule.
Firmly entrenched in Tahrir Square, the activists issued a call for a million-man rally on Tuesday ? a move that had thousands streaming into downtown Cairo and raising the specter of further clashes and violence, even as officials called for restraint from all sides.
The threat of continued trouble only builds on already growing political uncertainty that has battered the country's economy and placed tremendous pressure on the country's currency.
The government has struggled to keep the pound from breaking the six pounds to the dollar level for months, with economists attributing at least a portion of the net international reserves that have been spent going to support the currency. Egypt's net international reserves fell from $36 billion in December to about $22 billion by the end of October, according to Central Bank of Egypt figures.
Naga said the stock market has lost about 180 billion pounds ($30.25 billion) since the start of the year ? with most of that linked to the unrest in the country versus the overall global financial concerns linked to the Eurozone debt crisis and broader fears of recession. He said Monday's losses were about 7 billion pounds.
The Tuesday losses marked the 10th consecutive trading session in which the market ? one of the worst performing emerging market indices in the world ? suffered a slide as a result of Egypt's tenuous political situation.
Rami Sidani, the Dubai-based head of Middle East and North Africa investments for British asset management firm Schroders, said there is a "very negative sentiment" over Egyptian stocks at the moment. The uncertainties surrounding the country's political future have triggered a panicked sell-off on the Egyptian exchange, he said.
"There is no discrimination between one company or another," said Sidani. "Investors are just selling across the board without taking into consideration the value of the underlying assets."
The declines came as several markets elsewhere in the region extended slumps of their own following Monday's rout on Wall Street.
The Dubai Financial Market dropped 0.3 percent to close at 1,351 points Tuesday, its lowest level in more than seven years. Saudi Arabia's main index was trading down 0.8 percent at 6,103 points by mid-afternoon.
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AP Business Writer Adam Schreck in Dubai contributed to this report.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn (Reuters) ? When baby boomers listen to Bob Seger's new release, "Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never Forgets," they may find themselves hearing the soundtrack of their lives.
Classic Seger tunes like "Night Moves," "Old Time Rock and Roll," "We've Got Tonight" and "Tryin' to Live My Life Without You," may trigger flashbacks because the hits received so much radio airplay in the 1970s and '80s.
Seger, 66, said he is flattered by his imprint on the collective pop rock memory, and he never tires of performing the old hits.
"I realized that my music was having an impact when I saw how much airplay we've been getting down through the years," Seger told Reuters.
"I've been very fortunate in that regard. You get airplay when people request the songs," he said. "When I first started out in the bars, back in 1962-1963, people wanted to hear 'My Funny Valentine,' they wanted to hear 'Stardust,' wanted to hear the classics. In a funny way, now 'Against the Wind' is a classic, and it's very flattering to me."
Seger's new release, due out November 21, marks the first time all of his major hits have been packaged together. The two-CD collection features 26 tracks, including his most recent hit singles, "Downtown Train" and "Hey Hey Hey Hey (Going Back to Birmingham)."
The singer-songwriter is playing those hits in sold-out shows on his current cross-country tour.
After 50 years on the road, "I think I enjoy being with the people I play with," he said. "I enjoy their company and I like the crew and band. We move through the country like an army."
And the Detroit native said he does not get bored performing his 20- to 30-year-old hits over and over again.
"I still connect with those original emotions of 'Beautiful Loser,' which was inspired because I was a Leonard Cohen fan. Or 'Night Moves,' which was written in 1961 when I was in high school and is about what my friends and I were doing in that period of my life."
The sentiments expressed in "Turn The Page" has made it a fan favorite and an anthem for other performers, he said.
"I had no idea that would happen," Seger said with a laugh. "I thought it was a little folk song, kind of personal, and I loved the way (saxophonist) Alto (Reed) played horn on it. I loved that it was between major and minor (chords), kind of a grey tuning. I just enjoyed the song, but I had no idea it would turn out to be as big as it was."
UP NEXT
Seger's thoughts have already turned to his next effort, for which he has written a few songs.
"I think I'm gonna write more after the first of the year until end of March. I am looking forward to that three-month period of pure writing," he said.
"One (song) is called 'Ride Out,' and it might be the title song. It covers so many subjects I don't know how to pick one; you'll just have to hear it.
"Another one, 'Wonderland,' is very esoteric. I don't know how to describe it, either. I'm trying to write stuff that's different.
"I'm a big science fan and 'Wonderland' has some science in it," he said, reciting the first few lines: "'I'm living in a wonderland, floating on a sea bubble on a beach, waiting there for me.' It's talking about the multiverse, where we could live in a series of many universes.
"We're living in a wonderland age of science right now, with recent discoveries indicating there might be water flowing on Mars and life underneath that ice. They recently watched through the Hubble (orbiting telescope) while a black hole ate a star. It's pretty incredible."
Seger has not changed his methods over the years, and appreciates when people tell him he writes for the average person on the street.
"I've been told that many times, absolutely, and I believe that you strive as a lyricist to say something that is universally true. If you can say that a couple times, or even once, in a song, then someone in the audience is going to identify with it, and that is my goal."
(Editing by Andrew Stern and Bob Tourtellotte)
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HONOLULUA new study from the University of Hawaii Cancer Center reveals that PEA-15, a protein previously shown to slow ovarian tumor growth and metastasis, can alternatively enhance tumor formation in kidney cells carrying a mutation in a cancer-promoting gene called H-Ras.
The H-Ras oncogene is mutated in many human malignancies, and previous reports have shown the ability of H-Ras to contribute to the development, proliferation and metastasis of these tumors. Conversely, PEA-15 had been reported to inhibit tumor cell proliferation and metastasis by opposing H-Ras signals. In ovarian and breast cancer, PEA-15 is proposed to have promising therapeutic potential and in ovarian cancer PEA-15 has shown promise as a marker of prolonged patient survival.
This new study is the first finding of a pro-cancer effect of PEA-15 on proliferation and as such suggests caution in pursuing the use of PEA-15 as an anti-cancer therapeutic. The study results were published online today in the journal Oncogene.
"Our findings reveal a surprising mechanism by which PEA-15 can enhance H-Ras driven transformation of cells, rather than stop it," said Joe W. Ramos, Ph.D., associate professor at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center and co-director of its Cancer Biology Program. "We showed that in a common scenario in which a cell contains a Ras mutation, PEA-15 can accelerate the rate of tumor formation both in vitro and in vivo," he added.
In contrast to reports suggesting a tumor-suppressor function of PEA-15, Ramos said the discovery confirms that PEA 15 expression can also trigger tumor growth. "What we now know is that PEA-15 can either enhance or impair the formation of tumors depending on the signaling pathways active in a specific tumor cell."
"As with most cancers, an interplay of factors determines the fate of a patient," noted Florian Sulzmaier, a researcher at the UH Cancer Center and first author of the newly published study. "PEA-15 might still be worth considering for treatment of certain cancers. However, care should be taken in tumor types that carry Ras mutations that could change the outcome of a therapy."
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The article, PEA-15 potentiates H-Ras-mediated epithelial cell transformation through phospholipase , appeared in today's online edition of Oncogene. Ramos' colleagues included researchers from the University of Hawaii, the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and the Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
This study was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute and National Institute of General Medicine, and the Victoria S. and Bradley Geist Foundation.
The University of Hawaii Cancer Center is one of 66 research institutions designated by the National Cancer Institute. Affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the Center is dedicated to eliminating cancer through research, education and improved patient care. The building of a new state-of-the-art research center is currently underway, and is projected to open in early 2013. Learn more about our work at www.uhcancercenter.org.
The University of Hawaii at Manoa serves approximately 20,000 students pursuing more than 225 different degrees. Coming from every Hawaiian island, every state in the nation, and more than 100 countries, UH Manoa students thrive in an enriching environment for the global exchange of ideas. For more information, visit http://manoa.hawaii.edu and http://manoa.hawaii.edu/media/ .
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Contact: Kellie Tormey
ktormey@cc.hawaii.edu
808-564-5814
University of Hawaii Cancer Center
HONOLULUA new study from the University of Hawaii Cancer Center reveals that PEA-15, a protein previously shown to slow ovarian tumor growth and metastasis, can alternatively enhance tumor formation in kidney cells carrying a mutation in a cancer-promoting gene called H-Ras.
The H-Ras oncogene is mutated in many human malignancies, and previous reports have shown the ability of H-Ras to contribute to the development, proliferation and metastasis of these tumors. Conversely, PEA-15 had been reported to inhibit tumor cell proliferation and metastasis by opposing H-Ras signals. In ovarian and breast cancer, PEA-15 is proposed to have promising therapeutic potential and in ovarian cancer PEA-15 has shown promise as a marker of prolonged patient survival.
This new study is the first finding of a pro-cancer effect of PEA-15 on proliferation and as such suggests caution in pursuing the use of PEA-15 as an anti-cancer therapeutic. The study results were published online today in the journal Oncogene.
"Our findings reveal a surprising mechanism by which PEA-15 can enhance H-Ras driven transformation of cells, rather than stop it," said Joe W. Ramos, Ph.D., associate professor at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center and co-director of its Cancer Biology Program. "We showed that in a common scenario in which a cell contains a Ras mutation, PEA-15 can accelerate the rate of tumor formation both in vitro and in vivo," he added.
In contrast to reports suggesting a tumor-suppressor function of PEA-15, Ramos said the discovery confirms that PEA 15 expression can also trigger tumor growth. "What we now know is that PEA-15 can either enhance or impair the formation of tumors depending on the signaling pathways active in a specific tumor cell."
"As with most cancers, an interplay of factors determines the fate of a patient," noted Florian Sulzmaier, a researcher at the UH Cancer Center and first author of the newly published study. "PEA-15 might still be worth considering for treatment of certain cancers. However, care should be taken in tumor types that carry Ras mutations that could change the outcome of a therapy."
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The article, PEA-15 potentiates H-Ras-mediated epithelial cell transformation through phospholipase , appeared in today's online edition of Oncogene. Ramos' colleagues included researchers from the University of Hawaii, the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and the Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
This study was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute and National Institute of General Medicine, and the Victoria S. and Bradley Geist Foundation.
The University of Hawaii Cancer Center is one of 66 research institutions designated by the National Cancer Institute. Affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the Center is dedicated to eliminating cancer through research, education and improved patient care. The building of a new state-of-the-art research center is currently underway, and is projected to open in early 2013. Learn more about our work at www.uhcancercenter.org.
The University of Hawaii at Manoa serves approximately 20,000 students pursuing more than 225 different degrees. Coming from every Hawaiian island, every state in the nation, and more than 100 countries, UH Manoa students thrive in an enriching environment for the global exchange of ideas. For more information, visit http://manoa.hawaii.edu and http://manoa.hawaii.edu/media/ .
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AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:
ABC's "This Week" ? Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Chris Coons, D-Del.; Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
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NBC's "Meet the Press" ? Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and John Kerry, D-Mass.
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CBS' "Face the Nation" ? Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.; Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.
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CNN's "State of the Union" ? Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.; former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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"Fox News Sunday" ? Reps. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, and Xavier Becerra, D-Calif.
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