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Non-BRCA hereditary breast cancer linked to new cancers

The risk for a new cancer in the unaffected breast substantially increases in women diagnosed with unilateral, hereditary (non-BRCA) breast cancer, according to a new study. Published in the March 15, 2006 issue of CANCER ( ), a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study reveals women under 50 diagnosed with hereditary (non-BRCA) breast cancer are at significantly greater ris...

BRCA1 gene found to inhibit two sex hormones, not just one

It's been known that the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1 regulates use of estrogen in breast and other cells, but now researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have discovered that it also controls activity of a second sex steroid hormone, progesterone.... ...The findings, conducted in cell culture and in mice and reported by the researchers in the January issue of Molecular End...
(Date:6/18/2013)... Kingdom, the Energy Department,s National Renewable Energy Laboratory ... published a paper describing a novel cellulose-degrading enzyme ... , commonly known as the gribble. , ... relatively unique ability to produce their own enzymes ... the biomass they eat. New biomass-degrading enzymes from ...
(Date:6/18/2013)... Scientists are expecting a very large "dead zone" in ... hypoxic level in the Chesapeake Bay this year, based ... the University of Michigan, Louisiana State University, and the ... year,s Gulf of Mexico hypoxic "dead" zone will be ... it among the ten largest recorded. That would range ...
(Date:6/18/2013)... June 18, 2013 Joshua Obar, Ph.D., Department of ... honored with a 2013 ICAAC Young Investigator Award for ... immunological memory responses to infection. , Obar earned ... 2001 and went on to complete his Ph.D. in ... He performed his Ph.D. thesis research in Edward Usherwood,s ...
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