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Today's news headlines from the sources selected by our team:
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Gene Test May ID Lung Cancer Spread
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A test that characterizes early lung tumors by their genetic fingerprint may help identify patients whose cancer is most likely to spread, researchers report.
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New Artificial Cornea Shows Promise
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Researchers from Stanford University have developed an artificial cornea, which they say could make cornea transplants involving donors a thing of the past and help millions of blind people see again.
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Mastectomies Up for Early Breast Cancer
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More women with early-stage breast cancer are opting to have a mastectomy, a new study suggests.
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Australian Metabolic Syndrome Research Project Receives Grant From International Diabetes Federation
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The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) BRIDGES translational research grant program will fund STOP Diabetes, a project to be implemented and studied in Australia. The STOP project is designed to reduce the risk for type 2 diabetes in women by encouraging healthy behaviours.
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'Dirt-Powered' Microbial Fuel Cells Developed By Undergraduates To Light Africa
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A team composed of Harvard students and alumni was among the winners of the World Bank's Lighting Africa 2008 Development Marketplace competition, held in Accra, Ghana. The innovation, microbial fuel cell-based lighting systems suitable for Sub-Saharan Africa, netted the group a $200,000 prize.
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Ning Wong Of Fox Chase Cancer Center Receives ASCO Cancer Foundation Career Development Award
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The American Society of Clinical Oncology Cancer Foundation has selected Yu-Ning Wong, M.D., M.S.C.E., of Fox Chase Cancer Center, as one of 13 clinicians to receive a 2008 Career Development Award. Career Development Awards are presented to physicians in their second, third or fourth year as full-time faculty members in an academic setting.
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Drug fends off kidney cancer progression
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(Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) New data from an international, multicenter Phase III clinical trial has found that the experimental targeted therapy everolimus (RAD001) significantly delays cancer progression in patients with metastatic kidney cancer whose disease had worsened on other treatments.
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New method proposed for determining which patients should get treatment for colorectal cancer
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(Mayo Clinic) A new study being presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago (Abstract #4020), may change treatment practice in about 25 percent of patients with colon cancer, and is the basis for proposed changes to the way colorectal cancers will be staged.
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Bitter orange SRMs: Tools for product analysis/quality
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(National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) NIST has developed Standard Reference Materials for bitter orange, long used in folk medicine and now increasingly used in herbal weight-loss products. Researchers can use the new materials to develop and test analytical methods for compounds in bitter orange or as control materials for quality assurance.
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