Word: farber
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Research by Harvard Medical School faculty at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute may shed light on a new strategy to fight HIV, a virus which causes AIDS. Experiments performed in the test tube show a new combination yields positive results...
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...
...study, published in Science Watch, ranked Harvard University itself third in overall citations and 13th in citation impact. The Dana Farber Cancer Institute and the MGH ranked 10th and 20th in overall citations, respectively, and second and seventh in citation impact...
...Harvard is a very exciting place to work--to be at the cutting edge of research. I am delighted to hear that we were ranked in such a fashion," said Dr. Bruce J. Dezube, instructor in medicine at the Medical School and a researcher at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute...
...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...