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Treating Cancer with Personalized Medicine

A Michigan oncologist recently devised a simple experiment to help treat seven patients with advanced, incurable cancer. The experiment used DNA microarray technology to analyze each patient’s...

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Tags: healthcare, cancer, dna microarray, gene chip, gene expression profiling
Bill in Senate to Expand Public Access to Taxpayer-funded Research

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the world’s largest source of funding for biomedical research. Taxpayers provide more than $28 billion annually for the NIH (1), yet only about a...

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Tags: health news, biomedical literature, biomedical research, national institutes of health, nih
10 Reasons to List Your Site in the Highlight HEALTH Web Directory

The Highlight HEALTH Web Directory is my endeavor to catalog and make available health-related websites I find to be informative and useful. The response thus far has been fantastic. Presently, there...

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Tags: highlight health site, directory submission, health, health related websites, honcode
Novel Gene Suppresses Tumor Growth in Multiple Cancers

A novel gene was discovered recently that suppresses the growth of human tumors in a number of different cancers. The study, published in the journal Nature Medicine, found that the gene HACE1, an...

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Tags: health news, cancer, ccnd1, cell cycle, cell cycle regulator
HEALTH Highlights - September 10th, 2007

The Business of Bottled Water » Think Bigg Because bottle water is considered a food, it’s regulated by the FDA. In contrast, tap water is regulated by the EPA. A Natural Resources...

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Tags: health highlights, chocolate, deja vu, dna, genetics
Green Chemistry Mimics the Cellular Process of Drug Synthesis

Two studies were published in the September 2007 issue of Nature Chemical Biology demonstrating for the first time that it’s possible to take a complex chain of enzymatic reactions and...

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Tags: eco-friendly, antibiotics, biosynthesis, biosynthetic pathway, cellular process
Irreversible Gene Expression Changes From Smoking

Recent research published in the online open journal BMC Genomics shows that smoking leads to changes in gene expression, some of which are reversible and some of which are permanent. Genes that are...

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Tags: diseases & conditions, cancer, cigarettes, cytochrome p450, lung cancer
Smoking Cessation Timeline: What Happens When You Quit

In the U.S., one-quarter of adults 18 years of age and older smoke cigarettes (1). Smoking is truly a deadly habit. With about 4000 known chemicals in tobacco smoke, more than 50 of them are known to...

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Tags: diseases & conditions, cancer, cigarettes, nicotine, quit smoking
Healthy Fast Food Not So Healthy

Have you ever wondered if those healthy fast food meals are really any better for you? McDonald’s has the Fruit ‘n Yogurt Parfait, Wendy’s offers Garden Sensations salads and at...

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Tags: food and nutrition, antioxidants, cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular system, endothelial cells
Healthy Fast Food May Harm Your Heart Too

Have you ever wondered if those healthy fast food meals are really any better for you? McDonald’s has the Fruit ‘n Yogurt Parfait, Wendy’s offers Garden Sensations salads and at...

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Tags: food and nutrition, antioxidants, cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular system, endothelial cells