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...attention-grabbing April Dana-Farber Cancer Institute study that explained why the lung cancer drug Iressa was so successful relied on Broad’s resources. Lander said it relied on Broad’s facilities to run a large-scale analysis that revealed a mutation in some lung cancer patients that dramatically increases their responsiveness to Iressa...
...More broadly, what it has implications for is that the rest of cancer is going to look like this,” Lander said. “I think cancer is going to be divided up over the next decade or so into a number of subtypes…to be able to identify what are the Achilles heels of various types of cancer...
Lander said Broad needs to continue work on cataloging projects like the Human Genome Project, finding cancer mutations and finding human genetic variation...
DIED. VIOLA FREY, 70, artist whose colorful, larger-than-life clay sculptures of men and women pushed the boundaries of the refined ceramic medium of the 1950s and '60s; of colon cancer; in Oakland, Calif. Her 9-ft.-high, robust, cartoonish figures--a fusion of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art and what was later known as California Funk--were comical but politically pointed: a 2002 work, Man Kicking World, shows a seated man pushing a massive globe with his foot...
Davis has been throwing his considerable energy into nonprofit work. He recently paid to have a six-speaker sound system installed in a Minneapolis children's cancer-research center to see whether music provided the patients with comfort and relaxation. It did. Davis is planning meetings at several other major medical institutions to explore the possibility of a line of holistic musical balm. "You just try to connect the dots," says the Christmas elf. "One good thing might lead to another." In Davis' case, it already...