Life Science

Times cancer articles

The New York Times has been running a series of very informative articles about cancer. Today’s is about environment and cancer. It’s the fourth in a five-part series. Seems to me it’s a handy reference set, so here’s permanent back-door links to the articles that avoid the pricey archives. I’ll update the list when the final article, genetics and cancer, ...

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Personal Genome Project recruiting

I found the web site of the Personal Genome Project (PGP) while I was looking for genome research that could be applied to cancer prevention and treatment someday. I tried to look deeper into who sponsors the site and why, and discovered that the Harvard Molecular Technology Group & Lipper Center for Computational Genetics is promoting this effort. The Harvard ...

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Oops! How To Correct A Mistake On Your Corporate Blog

Shel Holtz writes in his blog, A shel of my former self, about how two companies used corporate blogs to react to mistakes they made. The example of how Barbara Krause responded should be required reading for anyone interested in corporate blogging.

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Nanotechnology and cancer

Wired Magazine covers nanotechnology and cancer. It states that "the National Cancer Institute, which recently announced two waves of funding for nanotech training and research, sees nanotechnology as vital to its stated goal of ‘eliminating suffering and death from cancer by 2015.’" Wired continues with, "The first cancer nanotech applications will likely involve detection. Nanoparticles could recognize cancer’s molecular signatures, ...

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