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(Georgetown University Medical Center) In a major step that could revolutionize biomedical research, scientists have discovered a way to keep normal cells as well as tumor cells taken from an individual cancer patient alive in the laboratory -- which previously had not been possible.

Normal cells usually die in the lab after dividing only a few times, and many common cancers will not grow, unaltered, outside of the body.

(Georgetown University Medical Center) Areas of the brain responsible for pain processing and cognitive performance changed in fibromyalgia patients who exercised following a medication holiday, say researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center.

They say the changes indicate brain functioning is more streamlined after an exercise intervention because less of the brain’s resources is devoted to processing bothersome fibromyalgia perceptions such as pain.

(Georgetown University Medical Center) Researchers exploring why some women who take a common breast cancer drug develop serious joint pain have eliminated two possible causes: Inflammatory arthritis and autoimmune disease.

Because of these findings, researchers say women should be encouraged to continue taking the medication to gain its full benefit.

(Georgetown University Medical Center) Examining the blood "metabolomics" profile of smokers immediately after they had a cigarette revealed activation of pathways involved in cell death, inflammation, and other forms of systemic damage, say researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of Georgetown University Medical Center.

(Georgetown University Medical Center) To explore the rationale, value and concerns of treatments based on race and ethnicity, Georgetown University is hosting a national conference to explore the state of race-based therapeutics on October 6-8, 2010.

(Georgetown University Medical Center) Researchers at Georgetown Lombard Comprehensive Cancer Center have been able to show, in mice, how just a little adjustment in the expression of two common genes can promote the kind of cellular changes that led to breast cancer.

They say these tweaks likely mimic natural variation women have in expression of the two genes.

When Aaron Laviana started medical school at Georgetown University in 2007, he dissected a cadaver in his first week, in anatomy class.

Today, classes such as "Physician-Patient Communication" and "Social and Cultural Issues in Health Care" come first.

Dissection doesn't begin until month four at...

(Georgetown University Medical Center) Researchers in the Memory Disorders Program at Georgetown University Medical Center are now recruiting volunteers for a national gene therapy trial -- the first study of its kind for the treatment of patients with dementia due to Alzheimer's disease.