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 Scripps
Research Associate Professor Peter
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A new way to spot the spread of cancer
Doctors may soon have a faster, safer, more
effective way of tracking a variety of cancers, thanks
to a new technique Scripps Research scientist Peter Kuhn
has developed for spotting and analyzing cells that
break away from solid tumors.
Dr.
Kuhn's new method, performed with a blood test, could in
some cases even replace surgical biopsies, which can be
expensive, painful, and difficult to conduct.
"We have a brand new way of doing a biopsy.
Instead of sticking a needle in your chest wall, we can
see disease-derived cells in the blood," he said.
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Milestones in Medical
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 Matthew
Disney,
Associate Professor at
Scripps Florida
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Research scientists create RNA repair
technology
Scientists from Scripps
Florida have identified a compound that can help repair
a specific type of defect in RNA, a type of genetic
material. The
methods in the new study could accelerate the
development of therapeutics to treat a variety of
currently incurable diseases such as Huntington's
disease, Spinocerebellar ataxia, and Kennedy disease.
"Since the development of drugs that target RNA
is extremely challenging, these studies can open up new
avenues to exploit RNA drug targets that cause a host of
other RNA-mediated diseases," said Scripps Research
Associate Professor Matthew Disney, who led the study.
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Tell President Obama: Don't Cut Research
Funding
President Obama's recently
announced FY2013 national budget calls for no increases
for the National Institutes of Health. After inflation,
this is a cut in funding. Not only will this cost jobs;
it will also hurt the advancement of biomedical research
that saves lives.
Please join the research community in
speaking out against these cuts by signing a petition to
the White House to increase NIH funding. 25,000
signatures are needed by this Sunday, March 18th, for
review by the White House. Let President Obama know that
we cannot afford to lose a critical funding component in
the biomedical research pipeline! Sign the petition
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About 20% of women diagnosed with early breast
cancer will have their cancer return within 10
years of diagnoses – either to the original site
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Help us move research from lab bench to
bedside
At Scripps Research, we've honed a system that
accelerates the most promising, cutting-edge
research so today's promising science can help
tomorrow's patients. |
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Women's Cancer Awareness Days raise
$160,000 for Scripps Florida
In its first year of fundraising to benefit cancer
research programs at Scripps Florida, PGA
National's Women's Cancer Awareness Days (WCAD)
held four days of events and activities with
assistance from PGA National's Women's Golf
Association. In its eighth year of fundraising for
cancer programs, the group decided to direct its
support solely to Scripps Florida and postdoctoral
fellowships there.
WCAD raised $160,000
this year, exceeding PGA National's best-ever
prior goal and making a multi-year commitment to
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