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• Mayo Clinic IDs Genes That Predict Whether Trastuzumab Will Work for Breast Cancer Patients

  Adding the drug trastuzumab to chemotherapy prevents cancer recurrence and improves survival in a large number of women with early stage HER2-positive breast cancer. But trastuzumab does not stop tumors from returning in about 25 percent of patients — and oncologists haven’t been able to identify these women before treatment. This [...]

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• Breast tumors may be biologically different in younger women

  Women with breast cancer aged 35 or younger were more likely than older women to achieve a pathological complete response after neoadjuvant chemotherapy, according to data presented at the 2012 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

  “Young women with breast cancer are rare, and some data indicate that their prognosis is [...]

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• Predatory Open Acecess Publishers are on The Hunt

  by Mike Poller – Last night I came across an interesting list of “predatory publishers.” Each year, Jeffrey Beall, an academic librarian at the University of Colorado Denver, publishes a list of allegedly scientific journal publishers who really just want your submission fees.

  Interesting thing is, today my email [...]

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• Kenan Charitable Trust Extends Support of Scripps Florida Education Outreach Programs with $1 Million Grant

  The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust has awarded Scripps Florida $1 million to support the institute’s education outreach programs in Palm Beach County. The grant represents the largest single gift to date in support of Scripps Florida’s education outreach efforts.

  Building upon seven years of Kenan Trust support, the [...]

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• Miller School Researchers Had Starring Roles at World Stem Cell Summit

  Joshua M. Hare, M.D. at the World Stem Cell Summit.

  The University of Miami Miller School’s Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute (ISCI) and the Diabetes Research Institute are on the world stage of stem cell research this week, uniting with the Genetics Policy Institute to co-sponsor the world’s largest and most [...]

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