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July 27, 2004
…as microscopy is becoming more advanced. Training eliminates unreliable results. For example, fluorescent tags can show the difference between normal and cancerous cells. A cancer emits light of different colors…
June 29, 2004
…elected as a U.S. councilor to the Serotonin Club, an international organization that promotes research into serotonin. The biology of serotonin, a neurotransmitter that enables communication among brain cells, is…
June 15, 2004
…first six weeks of the year.” Her master’s degree thesis was a study of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB), which has been called a “date rape drug” because it may be used…
June 4, 2004
…in our cells in X-shaped strands called chromosomes. We are endowed with 23 pairs of chromosomes. When cells divide, the chromosomes first come together, physically pair and then separate. This…
May 28, 2004
…the cancer will never cause him problems in his lifetime), but to identify those men whose prostate cancers are destined to cause problems and to detect them sufficiently early to…
May 27, 2004
…– it finds only those cancers that will cause problems in an individual man. Certainly, a man who is at risk of prostate cancer should think about the use of…