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...promise may lie in a sort of mimicry, studying the body?s own approach to fighting cells that go bad ? and Thursday saw some success on that front too. Publishing in Science magazine, a team from the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston have identified a protein, called Fas ligand, that they think is the body?s own treatment for skin cancer from within. You may know it as peeling. "The body?s traditional respose to mutation is ?You change, you die,?" says Gorman. "When a skin cell sustains enough sun damage to its DNA that it may turn cancerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Lab, Two Ways to Take on Cancer | 8/5/1999 | See Source »

Winners included Selena D. Fowler '96 for "Multiple Heritage Individuals: Patterns of Intergroup Relations and Their Mediating Factors"; Michael A. Gelman '96 for "Directed Combinatorial Organic Chemistry in Ligand Design"; Diana A. Gibson '96 for "On the History of Misunderstanding: The Hymenaios and the Etymology of the [YMEN] refrain"; Jay R. Girotto '96 for "How School Policies Can Affect Cognitive Skills: An Econometric Analysis of the Effects of Student Choices"; Aaron P. Goldberg '96 for "Naturalism and the Problem of Phenomenal Consciousness"; and Elissa L. Gootman '96 for "Dialogue and its Discontents: Israeli and Palestinian Ethnonationalism and the 'Therapeutic Paradox...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Hoopes Prizes Awarded for Theses | 5/22/1996 | See Source »

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