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My Dad and JFK: Assassination Conspiracy Theorists Keep My Late Father in Their Sights

Peter Mandel | Posted 05.20.2013 | Politics
Read More: Public Domain, U.S. Navy, President John F. Kennedy, Secret Plots, Conspiracy Theories, Mercury Space Program, Melanoma, JFK Assasination Conspiracies, CIA Plots, Life Magazine Editors, Cancer Cells, Paul Mandel, JFK Assassination, Zapruder Film, John Glenn, November 1963, Life Magazine, Middle Age, Nasa, Jfk Assassination 50th Anniversary, Dallas Motorcade, Fact-Checkers, Orbiting the Earth, Online Chat, Gemini Space Program, Google, Politics News
Peter Mandel

When will Americans, we of middle age, especially, move on? In the absence of new witnesses or of other fresh and vital information, might it make sense to stop our chattering and to open files on the other parts of our lives?

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'OMG Microscope' Captures Cells In Stunning Color

The Huffington Post | Macrina Cooper-White | Posted 03.28.2013 | Science
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Photos, Video, Microbes, Microscope, Parasites, Biology, Stem Cells, Microbiology, Cancer Cells, Cancer, Cell Biology, Science Photos, Science News

Around 12.7 million people are diagnosed with cancer each year--but how many of us have actually seen a cancer cell up close? New technology develo...

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Fighting Cancer: Better Models Make Better Drugs

Beth Hollister | Posted 03.25.2013 | Science
Read More: Cancer Research, Drug Research, Cancer Tumors, Cancer, Cancer Cells, Cancer Drugs, Cancer Drug Research, Science News
Beth Hollister

The realities of pharmaceutical research are brutal, consisting of decade-and-a-half long timescales, mind-numbing costs and exceedingly long, soul-crushing odds of success. In the fight against cancer, this rings especially true.

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This Is The Face Of A Killer

The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 09.20.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Cancer Cell Up Close, Breast Cancer Cell Electron Microscope, Breast Cancer Electron Microscope, Breast Cancer Cell, Cancer Cells, Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Microscope, Cancer, Healthy Living News

This is the face of something that kills close to 40,000 women each year. In most cases breast cancer isn't visible until it's a real problem. But ...

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Cancer Cells Slurp Up Fructose, Study Finds

Reuters | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Corn Syrup, Refined Sugar, Research, Cancer Cells, Nutrition, Health, Soda, Soda Tax, Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer, Glucose, Fructose, Study, Sugar, Healthy Living News

Pancreatic tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all s...

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Scientists Prove Cancer Can Be Passed From Mother To Fetus

The Guardian | Sarah Boseley | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Institue of Cancer Research, Leukemia Cells, University of London, Cancer Passed in Womb, Scientist Prove Cancer Case, Cancer in Fetus, Cancer, Mother, Child, Pregnancy, Health, Cancer Cells, In Utero, Healthy Living News

Scientists have established beyond doubt that in rare cases cancer can be transmitted in the womb, following the birth of a baby to a woman with leuke...

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