Word: coxing
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...oncologist at Johns Hopkins University, are searching for diagnostics that will pick up other cancers in their preliminary stages. Others are focusing on an even earlier stage, trying to lower the risk of developing cancer to begin with. Here the most exciting work centers on the cycooxygenase inhibitor called COX-2. This pain reliever was originally developed to clamp down on inflammation as aspirin does but without aspirin's tendency to eat through the lining of the stomach...
...turns out that COX-2 inhibitor drugs also have anticancer effects, reducing the number of precancerous polyps in patients with a hereditary form of colon cancer, perhaps through antiangiogenesis. Scientists are currently studying its effect on noninherited colon cancers. And because the receptor for COX-2 is overexpressed on a range of human cancer types, the hope is that COX-2 inhibitors may be useful in preventing a wider range of cancers, including head and neck, bladder, non-small cell lung and breast cancers...
...meter mark], we lost our cox-box and we couldn’t hear the calls from then on,” said freshman Daria Hinz. “But we were getting moved on before we lost...
Harvard's third winner, Cox, has concentrated in computer science and plans to continue working in the same field in graduate school, though he hasn't decided where he will enroll...
...graduate fellowship that Cohen, Nivon and Cox won is provided by the Hertz Foundation, a private foundation that provides fellowships for graduate work in the applied physical science leading to a Ph.D...