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  • NEWS May 1 1996

    New Strategy Takes Shot at Immortality of Cancer Cells

    Hughes scientists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have devised a new strategy to prevent cancer cells from dividing.In the May 1996 issue of Nature Biotechnology , they show...
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    Tracking a New Virus

    By December, 1994, Don Ganem knew his team would not be the first to identify a new virus behind a puzzling cancer in gay men.Scientists at Columbia University had recently pulled pieces of viral...
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    A Signal Approach to Biology and Life

    At first, it sounds catastrophic. Some cells receive mysterious signals and begin dividing rapidly. They form one tumor, and then another. But these are not cells of the breast, or colon, or even of...
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    New Technique Aids Search for Tumor Suppressor Genes

    HHMI researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have developed a genetic engineering technique to create mice missing large segments of individual chromosomes. Such animals could provide an excellent...
  • NEWS May 1 1996

    Young Physicians Worry About the Impact of Managed Care

    Thirty years ago, hard work, a mentor and a little funding were enough to make a young physician researcher feel confident about the future. But in the emerging era of managed care, physicians hoping...
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