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2016-02-01 new articles we read this week

Monday, February 1, 2016

Molecular Biology Weingarten-Gabbay S, Elias-Kirma S, Nir R, Gritsenko AA, Stern-Ginossar N, Yakhini Z, Weinberger A, Segal E. Comparative genetics. Systematic discovery of cap-independent translation sequences in human and viral genomes. Science. 2016 Jan 15;351(6270). pii: aad4939. doi: 10.1126/science.aad4939. Epub 2016 Jan 14. PubMed PMID: 26816383. Bernecky C, Herzog F, Baumeister W, Plitzko JM, Cramer […]

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2015-01-31 Articles we read this week

Saturday, January 31, 2015

Cancer Tomasetti C, Vogelstein B. Cancer etiology. Variation in cancer risk among tissues can be explained by the number of stem cell divisions. Science. 2015 Jan 2;347(6217):78-81. doi: 10.1126/science.1260825. PubMed PMID: 25554788. Commentary: Wodarz D, Zauber AG. Cancer: Risk factors and random chances. Nature. 2015 Jan 29;517(7536):563-4. doi: 10.1038/517563a. PubMed PMID: 25631443. Commentary: Couzin-Frankel J. […]

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Down’s syndrome = no cancer?

Monday, May 25, 2009

People with Down’s syndrome rarely get most kinds of cancer and U.S. researchers have nailed down one reason why — they have extra copies of a gene that helps keep tumors from feeding themselves. …. “One such gene is Down’s syndrome candidate region-1 (DSCR1, also known as RCAN1),” Harvard’s Sandra Ryeom and colleagues wrote. This […]

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