Sentences with phrase «human cancers millions»

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According to environmental advocacy group Hudson Riverkeeper, between 1947 to 1977 General Electric, GE, dumped more than 1.3 million pounds of cancer - causing PCBs into the Hudson River which has contaminated the waterway, wildlife, and has since been found in humans.

According to global models, the Protocol will have prevented 2 million cases of skin cancer annually by 2030, averted damage to human eyes and immune systems, and protected wildlife and agriculture, according to UNEP.

Why do some tissues give rise to cancer in humans a million times more frequently than others?

Until recently, researchers assumed that after human ancestors shed most body hair, sometime before 2 million years ago, they quickly evolved dark skin for protection from skin cancer and other harmful effects of UV radiation.

The team selected possible leads from the intersection of more than 20,000 p53 binding sites in the human genome, 10 million inherited genetic variations genotyped in the 1000 Genomes Project, and 62,000 genetic variations associated with human cancers identified in genome - wide association studies (GWAS).

The MGH Research Institute conducts the largest hospital - based research program in the nation, with an annual research budget of more than $ 800 million and major research centers in HIV / AIDS, cardiovascular research, cancer, computational and integrative biology, cutaneous biology, human genetics, medical imaging, neurodegenerative disorders, regenerative medicine, reproductive biology, systems biology, photomedicine and transplantation biology.

About 100 million people in the U.S. had taken the vaccine during the time when part of it was contaminated, so there was a suspicion that SV 40 in the contaminated vaccine may cause human cancer.

The report credited the Montreal Protocol, which it called «one of the world's most successful environmental treaties,» for the recovery of the ozone layer, which it projects will help prevent two million cases of skin cancer by 2030, besides preventing damage to humans» immune systems as well as wildlife and agriculture.

SEATTLE — An imaging agent discovered by a Washington State University researcher that homes in on prostate cancer will be developed for human clinical trials thanks to a two - year $ 2 million federal Small Business Innovation Research grant.

The San Diego Epigenome Center, headed by Bing Ren, Ph.D., Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and head of the Laboratory of Gene Regulation at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, is an integral part of the five - year, $ 190 million push to accelerate research into modifications that alter genetic behavior across the human genome.

Dogs, boasting about 300 million scent receptors per nose, can detect tiny chemical changes in the human body that signal cancer or diabetes faster than laboratory results, NaturalNews.com and TrueActivist.com reported recently.

The dogs, though they do not know it, are participating in an ambitious, $ 32 million research project that researchers hope will yield insights into the causes of cancers and other diseases common to goldens, other breeds and maybe even humans.

Ostrander, now chief of the cancer genetics branch of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health, said Wisdom Panel is a «very powerful tool for the millions of dog owners who buy their mixed - breed pets from a pound.

The explosion - studded bundle has raised nearly $ 8.5 million already, with EA's entire share going to charities the Human Rights Campaign, watsi, the American Cancer Society, the American Red Cross, and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.

More than 2.1 million bundles were sold, with almost all of the proceeds (tips to the Humble Bundle organizers are the only exclusion) going toward charities such as the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Watsi, the Human Rights Campaign, the American Red Cross, and the American Cancer Society.

IBM's Watson ingestion of millions of journal pages, medical evidence and patient records, means that it is allegedly better at diagnosing cancer than human doctors.

BOSTON - Yesterday, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies issued a 2016 fiscal year funding proposal that would eliminate the Title X Family Planning program, cutting health care - including family planning services, well - woman exams, lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and testing and treatments for sexually transmitted infections - that nearly 4.6 million people, including approximately 1.5 million Planned Parenthood patients, currently rely on.