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Once nominated for the Kyoto Prize, a candidate must undergo a rigorous two-and-a-half year selection process with four tiers of committees...
...associate deanship will undergo something of a metamorphosis under Herschbach, Under Herschbach's soon-to-be predecessor, Martha G. Gefter, the job was primarily a financial one. Herschbach, on the other hand, will be a more all-around adviser...
...with cancer viruses from chickens and mice, supported largely by grants from the NIH. Eventually, over many years, patterns emerged. We had learned that cancer genes in viruses are derived from normal cellular genes--some of the genes that guide our growth and development. These genes, now called oncogenes, undergo the mutations that are the defining events in cancer. Obscure viruses from experimental animals had in this way allowed us to touch directly the heart of human cancer. A path to understanding has been opened...
...widgets. Being able to keep the cells on ice is thus a lot more useful than the already common practice of freezing sperm itself; sperm lasts only so long, but a sperm factory can, in theory, go on forever. That could be enormously comforting to men about to undergo, say, radiation treatment or chemotherapy, which can destroy stem cells and render patients permanently infertile. These men could sidestep the problem by having their stem cells removed, frozen and reimplanted after treatment...
...Women who undergo surgery for BREAST CANCER during the latter phase of the menstrual cycle--days 14 to 30--rather than during the first part of the cycle appear twice as likely to suffer a recurrence of the cancer, researchers have discovered...