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Using inflammation to inhibit tumor growth

News: Major Disease Cures    January 7, 2011
Part of the body’s repair kit for cancer is to induce inflammation. Unfortunately, inflammation of tumors very often makes the cancer worse by encouraging the growth of new cells. A new study by a large Swedish and Belgian research team, published online in the journal Cancer Cell [January 7, 2011; HRG Inhibits Tumor Growth and [...]
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Inflammation: An unsuspected killer

Impact: Major Disease Cures    January 6, 2011
Inflammation: An unsuspected killer. One in a series of posts discussing the impact of ten topics framed by ‘Insights of the Decade’ from the December 17, 2010 special issue of Science Magazine: Inflammation, climatology, tricks of light, alien planets, the microbiome, cell development, Martian water, the DNA time machine, cosmology and epigenetics. Lists of a [...]
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