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Stanford scientists' discovery of virus in lemur could shed ligh...

EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases  Sun, 11/30/2008 - 23:00

(Stanford University Medical Center) The genome of a squirrel-sized, saucer-eyed lemur from Madagascar may help scientists understand how HIV-like viruses co-evolved with primates, according to new research from the Stanford University School of Medicine.


 

Risk of breast cancer mutations underestimated for Asian women, ...

EurekAlert! - Cancer  Wed, 09/10/2008 - 23:00

(Stanford University Medical Center) Oncologist Allison Kurian, MD, and her colleagues at the Stanford University School of Medicine were perplexed.

Computer models designed to identify women who might have dangerous genetic mutations that increase their risk of breast and ovarian cancer worked well for white women.

But they seemed to be less reliable for another ethnic group.


 

Infections linked to premature births more common than thought, ...

EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases  Sun, 08/24/2008 - 23:00

(Stanford University Medical Center) Previously unrecognized and unidentified infections of amniotic fluid may be a significant cause of premature birth, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.


 

Mathematical model allows estimation of minimal detectable tumor...

EurekAlert! - Cancer  Sun, 08/17/2008 - 23:00

(Public Library of Science) Sanjiv Gambhir (Stanford University Medical Center) and colleagues describe a linear one-compartment mathematical model that allows estimation of minimal detectable tumor sizes based on blood tumor biomarker assays.


 

Stanford researchers find molecule that kills kidney cancer cell...

EurekAlert! - Cancer  Sun, 07/06/2008 - 23:00

(Stanford University Medical Center) Kidney cancer patients generally have one option for beating their disease: surgery to remove the organ.

But that could change, thanks to a new molecule found by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers that kills kidney cancer cells.


 

Cancer cells revert to normal at specific signal threshold, Stan...

EurekAlert! - Cancer  Mon, 06/30/2008 - 23:00

(Stanford University Medical Center) Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine report that lowering levels of one cancer signal under a specific threshold reverses this process in mice, returning tumor cells to their normal, healthy state.