The agency's total spending
on cancer research rose from just over $ 2 billion in fiscal year 1995 to almost $ 5 billion in FY 2005.
Not exact matches
Focusing
on basic
research for the functional regulation of innate and adaptive immunity and
on translational
research for
cancer immunotherapies, the National Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology has been conducting innovative
research and exploration, and is becoming a
rising star in the international immunology community.
Following five years of scrutiny, more than ten retractions, multiple settled lawsuits, and medical board reprimands, we may finally have some resolution
on the case of Anil Potti, the once -
rising cancer research star who resigned from Duke in 2010.
On the heels of identifying the specific type of cell that gives
rise to retinoblastoma, RPB - funded researchers at St. Jude Children's
Research Hospital are solving a long - standing mystery about how the eyes of vertebrates develop and how a rare pediatric eye
cancer progresses.
This thinking has resulted in an entire catalogue of hundreds of
research studies that has shed light
on the genetic origins of diseases such as type 2 diabetes, Parkinson's disease, Crohn's disease, and prostate
cancer, while helping fuel the
rise of personalized medicine.
Claims that butter causes chronic high cholesterol values have not been substantiated by
research — although some studies show that butter consumption causes a small, temporary
rise — while other studies have shown that stearic acid, the main component of beef fat, actually lowers cholesterol.59 Margarine,
on the other hand, provokes chronic high levels of cholesterol and has been linked to both heart disease and
cancer.60 The new soft margarines or tub spreads, while lower in hydrogenated fats, are still produced from rancid vegetable oils and contain many additives.