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Papers on AIDS written by researchers at Harvard and at affiliates Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute together were cited a combined total of 18,508 times...
...genetic mutation described last week triggers cancer in an indirect way. "Every cell has a genetic blueprint -- its dictionary of genetic instructions," explains Richard Kolodner, a biochemist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and one of the discoverers of the defective gene. This blueprint must be recopied each time the cell divides. "Some mistakes get made," Kolodner continues. "The ((protein made by the normal gene)) is like the spell-checker on a computer. It helps to scan for errors, detect them and fix them." When the spell-checking gene is damaged in some way, mistakes start piling...
According to Medical School Assistant Professor of Medicine Dr. Judy E. Garber, director of the cancer risk and prevention program at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, screening will begin with tests for the gene in the healthy relatives of colon cancer patients...
Berkowitz, who works at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, says that about 20 percent of patients in which chemotherapy has failed show improvement after taxol treatment...
...George R. Siber, an associate professor of medicine, is a busy man on both sides of the vaccine development arena. As a researcher at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Siber works at finding keys to new vaccines. But as director of the Biological Laboratory division of the Mass. Department of Public Health, Siber oversees the manufacture and distribution of several of the most widely used vaccines to doctors and clinics at no cost...