Curaxins: Small Molecules Pack Big Punch for Cancer Therapy (1 of 6)
A curaxin treated tumor cell is unable to divide. Two nuclei incompletely separated during mitosis due to the problem with chromatin in this cell. We can see extreme chromatin condensation around ...

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Designer T Cells Attack Leukemia
University of Pennsylvania cancer investigators Carl June, David Porter, Bruce Levine and Michael Kalos discuss their work using genetically modified T cells for the treatment of patients with chronic...

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The Genomic Landscape of Head and Neck Cancer
This is a saggital MRI image demonstrating the anatomic regions that comprise head and neck cancer. This image relates to an article that appeared in the July 28, 2011, issue of Science Express...

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Tumor-Associated Mutations Affect Telomeres (2 of 2)
This image shows ATRX protein staining in brown. ATRX protein is clearly is missing from the nuclei of the cancer cells (here stained blue) which are here surrounding a normal blood vessel whose cells...

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Tumor-Associated Mutations Affect Telomeres (1 of 2)
This image, from the same case, shows highly abnormal fluorescent signals from cancer cell telomeres (red) that are indicative of the ALT telomere maintenance phenotype. All cell nuclei here are ...

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Children Held Captive in Smoky Vehicles
Children in a car may be involuntarily and intensely exposed to more than 400 toxic chemicals. A study presented May 1, 2011, at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting surveyed parents on ...

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Cancer Patients' Genomes
Two new studies in the Journal of the American Medical Association highlight the power of sequencing cancer patients' genomes as a diagnostic tool, helping doctors decide the best course of ...

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Washington University School of Medicine

'Organic' Approach to Breast Cancer Therapy (4 of 4)
Dr. Mina J. Bissell and Dr. Saori Furuta discuss their research in this podcast. This audio file relates to an article that appeared in the April 13, 2011, issue of Science Translational Medicine...

'Organic' Approach to Breast Cancer Therapy (3 of 4)
This is a structural unit of the human breast, an acinus. This image relates to an article that appeared in the April 13, 2011, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The ...

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'Organic' Approach to Breast Cancer Therapy (2 of 4)
This is a structural unit of the human breast, an acinus. This image relates to an article that appeared in the April 13, 2011, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The ...

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