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...knows why. One clue may be that the chemical squalamine, found in the stomach, liver and gallbladder of the dogfish, can inhibit the growth of human brain tumors. Sharks also have a primitive but highly active immune system, which may play a role. Their resistance to cancer, however, has nothing to do with their cartilage, despite extravagant claims by people who peddle shark-cartilage pills. While the cartilage has proved promising as an ingredient in temporary artificial skin for burn patients, no proof whatever exists that it can prevent tumors in humans...
DIED. KAREN WETTERHAHN, 48, chemistry professor at Dartmouth College who studied how toxic metals inhibit DNA repair; of poisoning, months after two drops of the rare compound dimethylmercury spilled onto her latex gloves; in Lebanon...
...GREEN TEA Researchers have found the component in the tea that may help prevent cancer. The compound ECGC seems to inhibit the activity of an enzyme that breaks down healthy tissue...
...find that practices actually inhibit our game," Sacerdote said. "You start thinking too much...
...When anything in the body grows, there are factors that promote and factors that inhibit the growth," said Strominger. "The balance between the two determines the rate of growth...