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Cancer: The Wound That Never Heals Back in the 1860s, renowned pathologist Rudolf Virchow speculated that cancerous tumors arise at the site of chronic inflammation. A century later, oncologists paid more attention to the role that various genetic mutations play in promoting abnormal growths that eventually become malignant. Now researchers are exploring the possibility that mutation and inflammation are mutually reinforcing processes that, left unchecked, can transform normal cells into potentially deadly tumors...
...figure out just what a healthy devil should look like. Performing an autopsy on a diseased devil, veterinarian Robyn Sharpe painstakingly cuts out pieces of tissue. ?We have to take everything because we know so little about devils,? she says. The animals ?have been like seagulls,? says her pathologist colleague Richmond Loh, ?so common that no one?s really studied them.? Now Loh and others are racing to determine whether the disease is caused by a virus, how it?s transmitted and how it progresses. Until such questions are answered, radical options such as relocating devils onto offshore islands remain...
...fears were fanned when an Oxford University pathologist turned down an Israeli Ph.D. applicant in June, writing in an e-mail to the rejected student, “I am sure that you are perfectly nice on a personal level but no way would I take somebody who has served in the Israeli army...
...murder, accused of suffocating their children and blaming cot death. Patel was acquitted in June. The case against Clark, a lawyer who served three years in prison after her 1999 conviction for killing two of her three sons, was struck down on appeal in April when it emerged that pathologist Alan Williams, a key prosecution witness, had failed to disclose evidence of an infection that could have contributed to the death of one of the boys...
...that resembles an upside-down periscope, the virus particles--this particular batch came from a relative of the Chinese doctor who became Hong Kong's first fatality on March 4--look chillingly like aliens in a sci-fi film. "There are the little buggers," says Dr. John Nicholls, a pathologist at the University of Hong Kong, leaning aside so a TIME reporter can take a look...