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New Lawsuit Challenges the Right to Patent Human Genes for Profit
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First Preventative Cancer Vaccine Demonstrated to Work in Mice
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Cancer-Sniffing E-Nose Can Differentiate Between Various Forms of the Disease
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Portable Breast Scanner Makes Real-Time Cancer-Hunting Quick, Painless, and...
Just in time for the end of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a University of Manchester professor has developed a portable, radio frequency-based scanner that is able to show the presence of...
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New ‘Breast on a Chip' Will Allow Experimentation Into Nano-Treatment of...
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Cancers Are Newly Evolved Parasitic Species, Biologist Argues
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Appeals Court Upholds Companies' Right to Patent Genes, But the Future of...
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Image-Recognition Algorithm Diagnoses Breast Cancer Better Than a Human...
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A Guide To Not Saying Dumb Things About Angelina Jolie's Double Mastectomy
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New Lawsuit Challenges the Right to Patent Human Genes for Profit
Gene Justice Companies can patent gene sequences for diseases such as breast cancer in order to sell diagnostic tests for the genes. The ACLU charges that this has created a monopoly and hopes to set...
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First Preventative Cancer Vaccine Demonstrated to Work in Mice
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Cancer-Sniffing E-Nose Can Differentiate Between Various Forms of the Disease
Breast Cancer Cells This image shows infiltrating ductal carcinoma of the breast. A new e-nose sensor can differentiate between breast, prostate, lung and bowel cancer by testing patients' breath....
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Portable Breast Scanner Makes Real-Time Cancer-Hunting Quick, Painless, and...
Portable Breast Cancer Scans University of Manchester School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Just in time for the end of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a University of Manchester...
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New ‘Breast on a Chip’ Will Allow Experimentation Into Nano-Treatment of...
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Cancers Are Newly Evolved Parasitic Species, Biologist Argues
Breast Cancer Cells Dividing This confocal micrograph shows two human breast cancer cells dividing. The cell at the top is at prophase, showing the condensing chromosomes prior to their separation....
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Appeals Court Upholds Companies' Right to Patent Genes, But the Future of...
BRCA1 Active During Meiosis This confocal micrograph shows five mouse nuclei with chromosomes at the pachytene stage of meiosis. The red stain shows the protein BRCA1 binding to the sex chromosomes...
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Image-Recognition Algorithm Diagnoses Breast Cancer Better Than a Human...
Breast Cancer Imaging This image shows 18 breast cancer images adjacent to matching images that have been automatically labeled by image processing software. © Science/AAAS Add one more item to the...
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A Guide To Not Saying Dumb Things About Angelina Jolie's Double Mastectomy
Angelina Jolie Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia CommonsAngelina Jolie's announcement in Tuesday's New York Times that she has undergone a preventative double mastectomy to reduce her risk of breast cancer...
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Major U.S. Company Makes A Breast Cancer Risk Test Using Once-Patented Genes
DNA Oak Ridge National Laboratory Remember when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled genes can't be patented? Well, now we're seeing the consequences. A major U.S. medical testing company—it's America's...
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Just in time for the end of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a University of Manchester professor has developed a portable, radio frequency-based scanner that is able…
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