Other Recent Research
Increase in Oral Cancers Linked to HPV (2011)
The human papillomavirus (HPV) is contributing to the growing number of head and neck cancers in the United States, according to a new study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. (oct 11)
http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/03/increase-in-oral-cancers-linked-to-hpv/?hpt=hp_t2
The Role of Fanconi Anemia/BRCA Genes in Zebrafish Sex Determination (2011)(Republished with the kind permission of the Fanconi Anaemia Research Fund)
The pilot study for this research was funded by FARF. As authors Rodriguez-Mari and Postlethwait assert in their paper, one of the exciting take-aways from this research is that “The features of the zebrafish FA system discussed here suggest potential screens for therapeutic substances for FA disease.” Full article
