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Sunday 17 August 2008
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Helping Tumor Cells Not To Stick To The Wound During Surgical Removal
Sometimes during surgery to remove a tumor, cells become detached from the bulk of the tumor. In a small number of cases, these tumor cells stick to cells at the site of the surgical wound and go on to form a secondary...
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Beating Of The Heart: Differentially Regulated In The Upper And Lower Chambers
Rodolphe Fischmeister and colleagues, at INSERM UMR-S 769, France, have provided evidence that the contraction of the two regions of the heart, the atria and the ventricles, is differentially regulated...
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IT / Internet / E-mail photo
Northwestern Chemists Take Gold, Mass-produce Beijing Olympic Logo
Northwestern University nanoscientist Chad A. Mirkin has mass-produced the 2008 Summer Olympics logo -- 15,000 times. All the logos take up only one square centimeter of space...
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