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Last login: 14 hours agoKevin143: kevin143 is a 21 year old guy from Pennsylvania, USA.; Likes 137 pages, 1 video, 1 photo • 2 fans; Member since Jul 02, 2007

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Scientists at Yale provide explanation for how cancer spreads | Think Gene: Apr 30, 12:04am 1 review cancer, yale, tumor, metastasis, white-blood-cell
http://www.thinkgene.com/scientists-at-yale-provide-explanation-for-how-cance...; From the page: "Metastasis, the spread of cancer throughout the body, can be explained by the fusion of a cancer cell with a white blood cell in the original tumor, according to Yale School of Medicine researchers, who say that this single event can set the stage for cancer's migration to other parts of the body."

Viruses may play a role in lung cancer development | Think Gene: Apr 25, 11:00pm 1 review cancer, virus, hpv
http://www.thinkgene.com/viruses-may-play-a-role-in-lung-cancer-development/; Story about how HPV plays a role in lung cancer.

Personal Genome Project: Apr 12, 2:12am 1 review genetics, science, genomics
http://www.personalgenomes.org/participate.html; This is where you register to be one of 100,000 volunteers that gets a free whole genome scan to be published online

Natural trans fats have health benefits | Think Gene: Apr 3, 3:26am 1 review health, science, trans-fat
http://www.thinkgene.com/natural-trans-fats-have-health-benefits/; Contrary to popular opinion, not all trans fats are bad for you. The natural kind, from animal fat, appears to be better for you than the industrially produced kind. Big surprise, right?

Vaccine for Ebola virus | Think Gene: Mar 31, 2:04am 2 reviews biology, primates, vaccine, ebola
http://www.thinkgene.com/vaccine-for-ebola-virus/; Ebola has now been cured in primates. Onto humans...

Study validates Pittsburgh Compound-B in identifying Alzheimer's disease br…: Mar 28, 12:47am 1 review science, pittsburgh, alzheimer-s
http://www.thinkgene.com/study-validates-pittsburgh-compound-b-in-identifying...; This is a pretty big breakthrough in Alzheimer's diagnosis.

Apple pectin, apple juice extracts shown to have anticarcinogenic effects on col…: Mar 27, 3:08pm 2 reviews cancer, colon-cancer
http://www.thinkgene.com/apple-pectin-apple-juice-extracts-shown-to-have-anti...; From the page: "The apples and apple juice you consume may have positive effects in one of the most unlikely places in the body" in the colon. New research has demonstrated that both apple pectin and polyphenol-rich apple juice components actually enhance biological mechanisms that produce anticarcinogenic compounds during the fermentation process."

Spit tests may soon replace many blood tests | Think Gene: Mar 26, 2:17pm 1 review cancer, blood, testing, saliva
http://www.thinkgene.com/spit-tests-may-soon-replace-many-blood-tests/; One day soon patients may spit in a cup, instead of bracing for a needle prick, when being tested for cancer, heart disease or diabetes. A major step in that direction is the cataloguing of the "complete" salivary proteome, a set of proteins in human ductal saliva, identified by a consortium of three research teams, according to an article published today in the Journal of Proteome Research.