Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chisholm '72 and Harvey Halpurn, a cancer researcher at Tufts Medical School, spoke at a section meeting of Biology 106, "Biology and Social Issues," on the medical effects of radiation, alternatives to atomic power, and public subsidies to the nuclear industry...
...million grant for cancer-related research from the Monsanto Corporation to the Medical School still seems very important to both parties, two years after the contract was announced-so important that they have appointed an independent committee consisting of a former U.S. attorney general, three prominent scientists from the National Academy of Sciences and a former presidetn of CBS to ensure that any research results are applied in the public interest...
...some controversy when the grant was announced. Harvard's policy was not to give patent rights for new discoveries to any granting institutions. But Barry Wander, director of science communication for Monsanto, said yesterday his corporation has the rights to any commercial applications of discoveries made under its huge cancer grant...
...Cancer research is an emotional topic for many who have cancerafflicted friends and relatives, Folkman said, so he is wary of either saying the work is progressing well--in which case demands for an immediate cure would besiege him--or saying it progresses slowly--in which case he gets calls urging haste...
...Cancer tumors manufacture TAF, causing an animal to create blood vessels supplying the tumor with necessary nourishment. Folkman and his research team are investigating substances that interfere with...