Word: farber
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Clearly, however, some people are at a much higher risk of developing cancer than others, and at an earlier age. For them, heredity plays a major role. Over the past five months, competing teams at Johns Hopkins and Boston's Dana- Farber Cancer Institute have identified four new genes associated with a form of early onset colon cancer known to afflict particular families. These genes are carried by as many as 1 in every 200 Americans, making them the most common cause of cancer susceptibility yet discovered. In their normal form, these biological versions of computerized spelling checkers produce proteins...
...Little was diagnosed with leukemia and spent the next several years helping to promote the blood and platelet donor programs at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where he was a patient, according to press reports...
...portion of the proceeds were donated to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, according to Associated Press reports...
Research conducted at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has corroborated earlier findings that breast cancer may be signaled by excess levels of the protein cyclin...
...After [the virus] establishes itself in a host cell, then it starts making its own proteins," said Debajit K. Biswas, the principal author of the paper, who is a researcher at the Dana Farber and lecturer at the Medical School. "We are trying to affect virus replication...