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...Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) announced they will jointly award the Harvard School of Public Health $7.8 million over the next five years to examine the effects of toxic mixed metals on children last week...
Harvard’s center will be one of the first projects ever to examine the effects of toxic mixed metals, Hu said...
Fields said that the EPA was attracted by the project that looked at the effects of toxic mixed metals...
...addition, Hu said he suspects the iron at the site may be toxic in combination with the other metals...
...that the drugs will work. That's because no two patients are alike. Subtle differences in their genetic code often determine how well a cancer drug will be tolerated and how quickly it will be broken down in the body. Some people produce enzymes that can neutralize the more toxic side effects of anticancer drugs, while others either lack such agents or have genes that produce the opposite effect, making them more sensitive to the drug's adverse effects. Researchers at MGH, for example, found that changes in the gene coding for an enzyme involved in DNA repair can mean...