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Searchresult: Learning from Viruses
Last update: : 31.05.2005
When infected by a virus, a cell uses specific defense mechanisms developed in the course of a long evolution. Thus, it can activate enzymes that disrupt or prevent replication of the viruses within…
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Searchresult: Triple Approach Is Promising Against Cancer Cells
Last update: : 20.05.2005
A trimodal treatment strategy combining chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and a protein kinase inhibitor is much more effective against cancer cells than any combination of only two treatment methods.…
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Searchresult: Keeping an Eye on the Tumor
Last update: : 02.05.2005
Directing radiation with ever increasing precision on a tumor while reliably sparing surrounding normal tissue from radiation damage – this is the prime goal of radiotherapists. A novel method…
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Searchresult: Protection Against Pulmonary Fibrosis Promises More Efficient RadiotherapyProtection Against Pulmonary Fibrosis Promises More Efficient Radiotherapy Press release content type: Press release
Last update: : 12.04.2005
Pulmonary fibrosis is a progressive terminal disease which involves scarring of the lung as a result of proliferation of fibrous connective tissue. Thickening of the tissue increasingly restricts…
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Searchresult: Scientists Decipher the Human X Chromosome
Last update: : 16.03.2005
The nearly full sequencing of the X chromosome in humans is a milestone in biology and medicine. The results published today in the renowned specialist journal Nature in a joint article by genome…
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Searchresult: Heidelberg Virologists Make HIV Luminate
Last update: : 24.02.2005
A working group of virologists headed by Professor Hans-Georg Kräusslich at Heidelberg University Hospitals, jointly with Professor Hanswalter Zentgraf, Division of Applied Tumor Virology of the…
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Searchresult: What Are Muscle Proteins Doing in the Nucleus?
Last update: : 01.02.2005
The proteins actin and myosin have a firm place in the muscles where they are responsible for contraction. While recent investigations have shown that they are also found in the nucleus, it has been…
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Searchresult: Planning software for particle therapy with protons: Cancer Research Center and Siemens Medical Solutions increase cooperationPlanning software for particle therapy with protons: Cancer Research Center and Siemens Medical Solutions increase cooperation Press release content type: Press release
Last update: : 24.01.2005
Radiation therapy research is one of the most important focal points at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). The work of the medical physicists is coming to fruition: the Center and Siemens…
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Searchresult: Insulin Resistance Related to Wide-Spread Diseases: Heart Attack, Diabetes, CancerInsulin Resistance Related to Wide-Spread Diseases: Heart Attack, Diabetes, Cancer Press release content type: Press release
Last update: : 18.01.2005
Dr. Stephan Herzig and his working group “Molecular Metabolic Control" at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) is one of four research teams that have been awarded research grants from the…
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Searchresult: Increasing Incidence of Prostate Cancer: A Matter of Early Detection?Increasing Incidence of Prostate Cancer: A Matter of Early Detection? Press release content type: Press release
Last update: : 11.01.2005
Over the past five decades, the number of men diagnosed with prostate cancer in Western industrialized nations has been rising – and the cancer is diagnosed at ever younger ages of the patients.This…
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