Word: cancers
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...Anybody who says we've got this problem licked is a fool or a knave or both." Microbiologist J. Michael Bishop was referring to the slow, almost imperceptible progress in the search for a cancer cure. So when Bishop, 53, and colleague Harold E. Varmus, 49, were awakened early last Monday with word that the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm had awarded them the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, both were startled. Bishop called the news "surreal" and Varmus insisted on verifying the information. Others were less surprised. Said Dr. David Baltimore of M.I.T.'s Whitehead Institute...
...series of experiments begun in the mid-'70s at the University of California at San Francisco, Bishop and Varmus resolved a spirited debate over oncogenes -- the genes, or units of heredity, that cause cancer. Researchers had previously theorized that cancer genes were separate entities, unrelated to the healthy functioning of a cell. But in studies of a cancer-causing virus in chickens, Bishop and Varmus found that oncogenes were normal genes, vital to cell growth and development, that had somehow gone awry -- probably as a result of mutations induced by carcinogens such as cigarette smoke and radiation. The team thus...
Dana Farber Cancer Institute...
...Forum offers some very useful opportunities. True, the Forum is comprised mainly of forprofit companies - unable to spend either the personnel or the money to attend such an event. Nonetheless, there will be agencies working on a variety of issues: housing (Committee for Boston Public Housing), health (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), international development (Peace Corps), human services (New York City Dept. of Personnel), and teaching abroad (World Teach...
Crimson Key members have responded to these charges by stressing that their remarks were not just directed at women, but also at cancer patients, the dead and administrators, among others. They say that their intent was not to be sexist, but just to make people laugh...