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New Research Reveals How Air Pollution May Trigger Lung Cancer

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In fact, one in every 600,000 cells in the lungs of a 50-year-old already contains potentially cancerous mutations. And although EGFR and KRAS mutations are commonly found in lung cancer not caused by smoking, they alone are not enough to trigger the cancer. The Double Hit. Results of the investigations showed that PM 2.5

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Biorepositories as a Guiding Resource for Research & Drug Discovery

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Biobanks are used for the coordination of high-yield patient sample collection. Moreover, biobanks are no longer passive biorepositories for accrual of samples and serve a more utilitarian function in identifying and coordinating specific research cohorts for longitudinal and prospective studies. Biobanking Models.

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HFpEF vs. HFrEF: How To Improve Heart Failure Drug Development

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For example, the sequence environment around the ADRA2B gene contains many other nearby genes, so a simple approach to SNP selection would generate spurious results. Instead, the team decided to target their search to the gene, promoter and enhancer regions, based on sequences from the GeneHancer database.