Abstract: This invention provides novel antitumor demethylcantharidin platinum complexes. This invention also provides a composition comprising at least one of said demethylcantharidin platinum complexes and a suitable carrier. This invention provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising effective amount of at least one of the said demethylcantharidin platinum complexes and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. This invention provides a method of inhibiting the growth of tumorous cells comprising contacting the cells with an amount of said demethylcantharidin platinum complex effective to inhibit the growth of said tumorous cells. This invention provides a method of inhibiting the growth of tumorous cells in a subject comprising administering to the subject with an amount of the said demethylcantharidin platinum complexes effective to inhibit the growth of said tumorous cells in the subject. Finally, this invention provides methods for producing said demethylcantharidin platinum complexes.

Abstract: This invention provides different methods for determining whether a target nucleic acid sequence is present in a sample and different methods for determining the amount of a target nucleic acid sequence present in a sample. This invention also provides various uses of these methods. Finally, this invention also provides devices where these methods are carried out.

Abstract: An architecture for facilitating Web-based client-side calendar event scheduling includes a Web Calendar scheduling tool which takes input via either a mouse and/or a keyboard to achieve a) an Internet personal organizer, b) multimedia effects associated with scheduled events, c) an Internet groupware that shares group members' individual schedules, d) an Internet transaction associated with scheduled events, and e) an open platform that supports any Java applet. Users of the Web Calendar can schedule events, associate a special purpose Capplet.TM. with scheduled events, and store them for future reference or public use. It features concurrent Capplet.TM. views running under one of four calendar grids: yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily. The architecture also supports multimedia animation in pop-up windows whose dimensions are defined dynamically by an invocation method. It is an open platform on which any user can create a special purpose applet and run it on the Web Calendar.