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Friday Science Review: February 26, 2010

A few medical research applications this week… Personalized Medicine – for Lung Cancer: To develop a personalized medicine approach to treating non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), researchers generated a xenograft model where they implant human tumour tissue into the renal capsule of a host mouse.  As the tumour establishes itself, the mouse then becomes the [...]

Friday (the 13th) Science Review: November 13, 2009

No bad luck here in unraveling new genetic and proteomic links in disease… Gene Variants Linked to Hearing Loss:  A genetic link to hearing loss in children who are being treated with the chemotherapy drug, cisplatin, has been identified.  Cisplatin is a widely used anti-cancer drug but one of the harmful side effects is hearing [...]

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