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Searchresult: Keeping an Eye on the Tumor
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 Date: 12.04.2005 Press release content type: Press release
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 ChromosomeScientists Decipher the Human X Chromosome Date: 16.03.2005 Press release content type: Press release
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
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?What Are Muscle Proteins Doing in the Nucleus? Date: 01.02.2005 Press release content type: Press release
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 Date: 24.01.2005 Press release content type: Press release
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 Date: 18.01.2005 Press release content type: Press release
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? Date: 11.01.2005 Press release content type: Press release
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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Searchresult: Modified Immune Therapy To Prolong Cancer Patients’ LivesModified Immune Therapy To Prolong Cancer Patients’ Lives Date: 08.12.2004 Press release content type: Press release
A type of virus called Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV) may be put to useful service in the fight against cancer. Professor Volker Schirrmacher, head of the Division of Cellular Immunology at DKFZ, has…
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Searchresult: How To Uncover the Secrets of Disease-Relevant ProteinsHow To Uncover the Secrets of Disease-Relevant Proteins Date: 07.12.2004 Press release content type: Press release
To elucidate cellular mechanisms that lead to diseases such as cancer is a big challenge of biomedicine. Scientists of the Division of Molecular Genome Analysis headed by Professor Annemarie Poustka,…
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