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...Harvard Medical School professor who discovered an enzyme key to aging and cancer won the “American Nobel” this weekend...
Telomerase production is shut off in healthy cells, preventing division. Cancer cells often find a way to turn telomerase back on, allowing an uncontrolled division of cells. In order to treat a variety of cancers, researchers are currently investigating drugs that target telomerase...
...still lives in Washington," Weldon told me. "He drives around the district in a car with Virginia plates. He gets the names of towns wrong when he visits them." Last April, Weldon seemed to go off the deep end when he attacked Sestak for having his daughter's cancer treated in Washington and not in Philadelphia or Delaware. "He's like an out-of-shape boxer," says one of Weldon's friends. "His timing is off. I know he deeply regrets that comment about Sestak's daughter." But Weldon is not the sort to make public concessions...
...known every First Lady going back to Eleanor Roosevelt. But forget them and Mother Teresa too. I think Ann Richards, who died of cancer last week at age 73, was the greatest woman I have ever known. The former Governor of Texas was electrifying, brilliant, loyal, tolerant. She was also exhausting. I am surprised Ann stopped long enough to leave this world. She loved telling stories. One of her favorites was about taking her darling grandchild Lily to see the Queen of England. Later Ann asked Lily what she remembered. "The Queen had lipstick on her teeth!" said Lily...
...holding down two jobs and enrolling her son in Catholic school. She took pride when he made the honor roll but was disappointed when, at 17, he left school to sell drugs. Much like Tupac, Biggie looked to his mother for inspiration for his music. "My Momma got cancer in her breast," he mourned on his debut album, Ready to Die. "Don't ask me why I'm motherf___in' stressed...