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Leder says that studies done may years ago on concer known as Burkitt's lymphoma paved the way for his transgenic research...
...reason we arrived at Burkitt's lymphoma was that the research was directed at the genetic basis for formation of antibodies," says Leder...
When the DNA locus of the encoding of these antibody producers was identified, he says, it was found that this locus was always involved in the same region as Burkitt's lymphoma. The insertion of the lymphoma abnormality, a gene known as c-myc, was responsible for the rise of the tumor...
Albert M. Sacks, a former dean of Harvard Law School, died of lymphoma at the end of last month...
...scientific review, released in draft form late last week, the EPA has put forward what amounts to the most serious government warning to date. The agency tentatively concludes that scientific evidence "suggests a causal link" between extremely low- frequency electromagnetic fields -- those having very long wavelengths -- and leukemia, lymphoma and brain cancer. While the report falls short of classifying ELF fields as probable carcinogens, it does identify the common 60-hertz magnetic field as "a possible, but not proven, cause of cancer in humans...