a duke university team revealed how the smart bomb works.earchers combined reaccept tants with a chemotherapy so toxic it can't be given on its own. the two are linked up. >> drug delivers a toxin that can get into the cell and kill the cell and minimize the collateral damage to the other cells we sometimes see. >> very little side effects compared to the conventional chemo therapies. >> the scientists tests it in women with widely spreading breast cancer, comparing it to those getting a combo of the only other treatment approved for these advanced cases. two years later, 65% of the women getting tdm1 were alive compared to 40% of the control group. doctors don't know yet how great the survival benefits may be. exciting news to be sure for women like mary of bethesda. she had her two positive breast cancer and know she may need a new and powerful ally in the future. >> if anything happened in the future, the possibility of me actually using something like this would be great. i had breast cancer in my right breast. so if i ever got it again,

annual meeting of the american society of clinical oncologists going on in chicago right now, a duke university teamd how the smart bomb works. researchers combined a chemotherapy so toxic it can't be given on its own. until they reach a cancer cell. >> delivers a toxin that can kill the cell and minimize some of the collateral damage to other cells that we sometimes see. >> very little side effects compared to the conventional chemotherapies. >> the scientist tested with widely spreading breast cancer. comparing them to those getting a combo. the only other treatment approved for these advanced cases. 65% of the women getting them were lived compared to 42% of the control group. doctors don't know how great the survival benefits will be. a great thing. she had cancer and may need a new and powerful ally in the future. >> because if anything happened in the future, the possibility of me actually using something like this would be great. i had breast cancer in my right breast. so if i ever got it again, if i got it in the left side, maybe this would be a possibility and it wouldn't take me down. >> e

he heads up a research team at duke university studying the brain and mental illness. >> dzirasa: i seekrstand the range of human suffering that comes in the context of psychiatric illness. and this is what the brain cell activity looks like... >> pitts: dzirasa says the problems are too complex for one scientist to solve alone. that means the first critical step to success in his lab, and most other labs, he says, is building the right team. and you learned all that at umbc, that... that framework of the kinds of skills you need? >> dzirasa: yeah, yeah. i think... and i think that that was the most beneficial thing that i got out of umbc. believing in myself as a scientist, and learning how to work with others, how to think deeply, how to seek people who were great in other areas without being intimidated in that, and build teams to solve problems together. >> pitts: so far, 873 students have come out of the meyerhoff scholars program, and nearly 90% of them have gone on to graduate school. >> hrabowski: good morning. >> pitts: hrabowski worries, though, that the u.s. is not doing enoug

duke university. which has a global brand. and a good one. then coach of the u.s. national team that has a really good brand. so i've been on teams that have made me look a lot better. >> you've won 903 college games. outrageous. >> means i'm old and i've had good teams. >> also means you must hate losing so much that you just try and avoid it at all costs. >> it's a good point. i think i hate losing more than i enjoy winning. but i think competitors in every sport, you would ask them, think they would all agree that the loss, the feeling of a loss, that depth, i don't know if you can ever reach it in height with a win. so you try to avoid that feeling as much as possible. >> do you believe you can learn more from a loss? >> i think you learn from every experience. a loss puts you in a position where you're more reflective. you can -- you go to deeper places than you do with a win. and you can get your group to do that. as an individual competitor, you're only concerned about you. when you're with a group, what will they listen to? what's the environment are they listening to? sometimes they'll listen a lot

turkish and syrian search teams are looking for the two missing on its international ations expert mark almond from duke university turkey says the incident may well be part of the day to build. retreat invention in syria. if the nato countries were really thinking about some kind of intervention to assist the rebels. were a person who would want to do is to knock out there is a difference so some kind of probing the flight testing of radar syrian responses may be possible one way of getting around the un and bob russia and china on intervention in syria is to make it into an international crisis so long as the price of finally inside story of them classical him or her international ranches and the global crisis situation is probably how side the borders of the country concerned can be made if you however have an international crisis and perhaps you can find a way of pressuring russia and china to agree to action or you may say nato countries have to go to our course we don't know yet exactly the circumstances of maybe an incident that could be resolved diplomatically without any problem but of course it comes of

the former duke university all-american is entering her sixth seize win the mystics and amp a devastating knee injury and poor showing by the team in 2011, she's the cornerstone with a franchise overhauled and looking to bounce back. where are we at here? >> we're in northwest. i kind of grew up close to here. maybe like five minutes away, at the highlands, a restaurant. >> reporter: how's it feel to be back in d.c. playing at the professional level? is it something you dreamed about as a kid? >> i did. it's crazy because i grew up a mystics' fan. so i was going to all their games. waiting outside the garage for players to drive through, trying to get autograph, touch them and say hi. to be here and playing for the mystics now is kind of like, everything has come full circle. >> reporter: the mystics went just 6-28 last season, but with the addition of michelle snowe and ashley robinson, curry is expecting some big things. >> we have some great new players here. some veterans. people with championship experience. great leaders. so i'm very confident in what they've put together and the team we have. >> reporter: ar torn acl, sec

duke men's basketball team. >> it's a difficult situation to encounter but you had somebody who's given six decades of service to the university and done such an incredible job. somehow you have to let -- something has to play out and respect the fact you've gone through all these experiences for six decades. doesn't just go out the window. you know, right at the end. i thought it was a real mistake by penn state's leadership. >> more from a quite revealing interview with coach k not just on that but also about his forthcoming olympics where he's hoping to take the american all-stars to gold medal victory. you can hear that tomorrow night. coming up, a man who has strong feelings about the sandusky trial. michael reagan. he was the victim of sexual abuse. ♪ [ acoustic guitar: slow ] [ barks ] ♪ [ upbeat ] [ barks ] beneful playful life is made with energy-packed wholesome grains... and real beef and egg. to help you put more play in your day. but when i was diagnosed with prostate cancer... i needed a coach. our doctor was great, but with so many tough decisions i felt lost. unitedhealthcare offered us a specially trained rn w

duke men's basketball team. listen to what he says about joe paterno. >> it's a difficult situation to encounter but you had somebody who has given six decades of service to the university and done such an incredible job. somehow you have to let -- something has to play out and respect the fact that you've gone through all of these experiences for six decades. it doesn't just go out the window, you know, right at the end. i thought it was a real mistake by penn state's leadership. >> quite a revealing interview with coach k not just on that but also his forthcoming olympics where he is hoping to take the american all stars to gold medal victory. hear more of that tomorrow night. coming up, a man who has strong feelings about sandusky's trial, michael reagan a victim of sexual abuse when he was a child at day camp. >>> i'm just continuously going through my mind, like, was there something i could have done, like, is there something that i missed? like, i knew the kid was upset but he's a part of second mile. second mile is troubled kids. so i'm just thinking the kid is troubled and that's why he's here. >> that was lavar arrington who played at penn state with joe patern

team, etc. and found sports provided a bond and education that other activities did not. i do not know if it is identity with the school. what more interesting study from duke university looked at men who attend schools with successful football and basketball programs, they actually do worse and school and do not make it up later on in their athletic career. -- academic career. there is a-bump that only affects males. it does not affect females and their grip. average. there are -- at the high-school level, i had not heard that research before. i am interested to dig more into it and see how these other researchers make sense with that. it seems like a very successful football and basketball program for men -- it may provide identity with the school but has a negative impact on their education. >> wow. we have gone well over my time. i blame ms. king. >> i apologize, center. >> you are a hero of mine saw you are forgiven i guess. clocks to be continued. -- >> to be continued. the crux of what to make clear if you want to ask questions with each other, fine with me. you can even ask questions of me. i am not at all threatened. i am impressed. let me thank you, mr. chai