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The National Cancer Institute (NCI), part
of the National Institutes of Health, is holding a symposium
to celebrate and showcase several important historic achievements
in HIV/AIDS research made by former and current NCI scientists,
introduce a new Center of Excellence for HIV/AIDS and cancer
virology, and discuss new directions in the continuing effort
to combat HIV infection, the devastating consequences of
AIDS, and AIDS-related cancers.
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A genetic variant present in nearly half of Americans of European
ancestry is linked to greater effectiveness of the smoking cessation
medication bupropion (Zyban), according to research by scientists
supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the
National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes
of Health (NIH). People with this variant were less likely than
those without it to have resumed smoking six months after treatment
with bupropion.
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Cancer Communication: Health Information National Trends Survey 2003 and 2005, is based on data from the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS), a survey done every other year and sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health.
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The National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is funding a new $15.5 million, five-year initiative to discover, develop, and clinically validate cancer biomarkers by targeting the carbohydrate (glycan) part of a molecule. Biomarkers are substances sometimes found in the blood, other body fluids, or tissues that measure biological processes, and in addition to genes and proteins, can be complex carbohydrate (sugar) structures that are attached to protein and lipid (fat) molecules.
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Researchers have identified a protein that plays an important, early role in the increase of protective skin pigmentation after exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation. The protein, called SOX9, is a transcription factor known to participate in embryo development and to be expressed in many adult tissues including the heart, kidney, and brain. Transcription factors control when and where genes (and hence the proteins encoded by those genes) are expressed. This study, led by investigators in the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, confirms the importance of SOX9 to adult skin cells and is the first to show that a protein in the SOX family can be regulated by UV radiation
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Grant Information
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This Web site was made possible in part by NIH Grant Number R43 DK70418
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