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...healthy Tasmanian devils, seemingly identical to the rest of their kind. Yet they're being kept at a secret location in Tasmania, and scientists are calling them the Special Six. What makes these devils different, and has their keepers so hopeful, is their genetic makeup. A virulently infectious cancer has wiped out more than half of their marsupial species, and so far only one devil has shown signs of resisting the disease. Starting this week, the Special Six will be injected with tumor cells to see if they can do the same. If their immune systems attack the cells, they...
...early and BU hung with us for most of the race.”The Radcliffe program showed leadership on the waves and in the community, as the crew proudly wore pink shirts to raise funds and awareness pitching in to promote the search for a cure for breast cancer.“We had 176 athletes racing in pink shirts, and we sold shirts and gave out information,” Burmaster said of the weekend. “We raised over 1000 dollars for the Susan G. Komen foundation, the same group that does the Race...
...time of 8:10 and MIT A finished in 8:14. MIT B followed 10 seconds behind. Showing dedication to causes beyond rowing and solidarity with the Radcliffe heavyweight crew, the team donned pink shirts during races and helped raise over 1000 dollars for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. “It was nice, because there was a lot of racing on the water,” Woodman-Maynard said. “The men’s lightweight and heavyweight teams had races, and the heavyweight women had their races, too. There were...
Some IVF clinics are already using AMH as an indicator of a woman's child-bearing potential, and cancer doctors look to AMH levels in ovarian cancer patients to determine whether chemotherapy has affected their fertility. So far, van Disseldorp thinks the test will be especially effective in women over 30, when AMH levels begin to decline naturally. After all, when it comes to a clock, even a biological one, wouldn't you want it to be as accurate as possible...
...professor in HMS’s department of neurology and neurobiology since 1986, Greenberg focuses his research on neurotransmitter mechanisms that are essential to central nervous system function. Anjana Rao: Rao, who earned her Ph.D. from HMS and has done her postdoctoral research there and at Dana Farber Cancer institute, conducts immunology research at the CBR Institute for Biomedical Research. Lars E. Hernquist: A professor of astronomy at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Hernquist studies dynamical processes in cosmology as well as galaxy formation and galaxy evolution...