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Cellular ‘neighbors’ spur cancer's spread
Genetic flaws in separate cells interact with one another to form tumors, Yale researchers find
One reason cancer is so difficult to understand and to treat is that tumors are a genetic muddle. A cell can become cancerous via a number of pathways, so the cancer-causing mutations found in one tumor cell may be quite different from those found in neighboring cells....
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Lifelong friends, also joined in giving
Two members of the Class of 1956 who fondly recall their Yale years make gifts to the medical school
Rear Admiral William M. Narva, MC, USN, and Captain Mitchell Edson, MC, USN, met as members of the School of Medicine’s Class of 1956, and have remained friends throughout their adult lives. More than 50 years later, with their medical school years firmly etched in...
Advances
Immune system fights stem cells’ dark side
If proteins were celebrities, OCT4 would be on the A-list. In 2007, in a dramatic advance, several...
Read more...Zeroing in on genes to head off aneurysms
In a massive new genomic study, an international team led by School of Medicine researchers has...
Read more...An engineered tissue’s surprising development
Christopher K. Breuer, M.D., and Toshiharu Shinoka, M.D., Ph.D., have been studying the use of...
Read more...New pathways toward growing new arteries
Stimulating arteriogenesis, the growth of new arteries, in adults with cardiovascular disease is a...
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