Word: lunges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time, the assumption was that cancer cells shared common characteristics and that therefore a drug effective against leukemia would kill, say, cancerous lung cells as well. With mouse screening, that technique brought solid advances in leukemia chemotherapy but yielded mixed results in other forms of cancer...
...other brain cancers but differ dramatically from colon cancers or leukemias. To look for common weaknesses among different types of cancer, the automation process tests chemical compounds directly against a range of 60 lines of living tumor cells grown in Petri dishes and representing seven leading cancer killers: colon, lung, melanoma, kidney, ovarian, brain and blood...
Thousands of inherited diseases may be linked to the malfunctioning of specific genes. In addition, researchers are discovering that nearly every disorder has a genetic component. Last week the National Cancer Institute published two studies suggesting that susceptibility to lung cancer may be associated with a single gene...
Calvin Klein The world-famous fashion designer apparently isn't cut out for the sporting life: he suffered a concussion, two broken ribs, a bruised lung and a head laceration after being thrown from a horse on Long Island last month...
...University of Michigan's Dr. Stevo Julius reported that even people with "borderline" hypertension may sustain damage to their heart and blood vessels. Such patients, argued Julius, should seek more aggressive blood-pressure treatment to lower their risk. Dr. Michael Horan, associate director of cardiology at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, agreed: "The message is that borderline patients should no longer be neglected. These people could already be in trouble...