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Monash researchers uncover cancer survival secrets

EurekAlert! - Cancer  Sun, 08/10/2008 - 23:00

(Monash University) A team of Monash University researchers has uncovered the role of a family of enzymes in the mutation of benign or less aggressive tumours into more aggressive, potentially fatal, cancers in the human body.


 

Scientists discover how common vaccine booster works

EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases  Tue, 05/20/2008 - 23:00

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) In an online paper in the journal Nature, Yale University researchers funded by NIAID explain how a common ingredient in many vaccines stimulates and interacts with the immune system to help provide protection against infectious diseases.