Sentences with phrase «direct role in cancer»

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It thus seems possible that genetic fingerprints of infection may soon be able to provide more direct indications for the predicted role of certain bacterial pathogens in the cause of human cancers.

The Rockefellers also played a direct role in the birth of the Cancer Research Institute.

UT MD Anderson Scientists Discover Secret Life of Chromatin (08/30/2011) A team of researchers directed by Dr. Sharon Dent, director of the Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis and Center for Cancer Epigenetics, investigate a signaling activity of chromatin that is independent of its central role in gene transcription.

They suggest a possible therapeutic role for mu opioid receptor antagonists on cancer growth and metastasis, but caution that «there are no clinical trials in humans demonstrating a direct effect.»

Greider, a Nobel laureate, directs a group of scientists studying both the role of short telomeres in age - related disease and cancer as well as the regulatory mechanism that maintain telomere length.

Though the direct action of aluminum and its role in breast cancer is not yet definitive or completely understood, it is used as a way to keep the body from perspiring, which may have other negative health consequences, as sweating is a natural process of elimination for the body.

Studies have found less of a direct association between obesity and other cancers, including gallbladder, cervical, ovarian, and prostate cancer, as well as Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and multiple myeloma — but research does suggest it may play a role in these diseases, too.

Fractions of coconut oil are now even being used by medicine in the treatment of many kinds of cancers, which in itself goes to show you that coconut oil does play a direct role in improving cellular energy production and therefore improving thyroid function.

ENL and END have direct affects on our hormonal balance and in this way may play an especially important role in hormone - related cancer.

Besides the upcoming Malick films and the final chapter of «The Hobbit» later this year, she will star in a live - action version of «Cinderella» directed by Kenneth Branagh as the wicked stepmother Lady Tremaine next year; she gets tangled up in a lesbian affair with Rooney Mara («The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo») in Carol, a thriller directed by «I'm Not There»» s Todd Haynes; and she will do a rare TV role as a real - life New Yorker cartoonist who battled cancer in HBO's «Cancer Vixen,» directed by Julie cancer in HBO's «Cancer Vixen,» directed by Julie Cancer Vixen,» directed by Julie Delpy.