Word: tumor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...researchers began by comparing patterns in the expression of cyclin molecules in both normal and tumor cells. By examining the protein of 10 different cell lines, the researchers determined that cyclin E was present at abnormally high levels and also that its protein formed a different pattern in the cancerous cells...
Vitamin A and its altered form carotene have been shown to inhibit tumor formation in some animals...
Friends said he had planned to come home onOctober 15 of this year, when his health suddenlycollapsed. He died of a brain tumor...
...technique detects changes in the protein produced by p53, believed by many experts to be a tumor suppressor gene. Mutations in p53 have been linked to an increased predisposition in many patients for a number of tumors, including breast cancer...
Calling the technique "a major conceptualbreakthrough," Friend said yesterday it "shouldeventually be applicable to other tumor suppressorgenes." In particular, two other tumor suppressorgenes, one for childhood kidney cancer and one forchildhood eye cancer, may be subjects of futuretests