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SearchCategory : Mesothelioma Articles09th January 2006 : The Median is not the Message - Wisdom from a ...Steven Jay Gould was a Evolutionary Biologist at Harvard. He was a giant among Evolutionary theorists and a prolific writer. He also survived 20 years past his diagnosis of abdominal mesothelioma. He died in 2002 at aged 60 of a second apparently unrel… more » Categories: Mesothelioma Articles 09th January 2006 : Immunotherapy - What is it and can it be used ...Immunotherapy is a collection of technologies that use the patients own immune system to battle cancer. Several approaches have been used and there is a tremendous amount of research going on in this area.
For many years the immune system was understoo… more » Categories: Mesothelioma Articles 26th December 2005 : Growth Factors - Another target for Meso treatment ...A growth factor is a substance that triggers the growth of some type of cells. There are nerve growth factors, bone growth factors and blood vessel growth factors. These small molecules help maintain a healthy balance between normal growth and developm… more » Categories: Mesothelioma Articles 26th November 2005 : New Lab Model of Meso may lead to better understanding ...Since it is unethical to experiment on people with completely random drugs just to see what happens, scientists rely on laboratory models of disease, sometimes this is an animal model like a mouse and sometimes it is a bunch of cells in a petri dish. Th… more » Categories: Mesothelioma Articles 04th November 2005 : Apoptosis and Necrosis - Two Paths to Eliminating Cancer Cells ...Most normal cells in the body have a defined lifespan. If you put them in a petri dish and manage to grow them, a cell line will divide a certain number of times and eventually die off. Another instance when cells die off is when something goes wrong w… more » Categories: Mesothelioma Articles |
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