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Elizabeth Cooney is a health reporter for the Worcester Telegram &
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« On the blogs: high deductibles and hospitals | Main | Hallmark Health expands in northern suburbs » Friday, April 27, 2007This week in ScienceTwo papers in Science, including one by Harvard researchers, were among four published yesterday in Science and Nature Genetics on genetic risk factors for developing diabetes. Alice Dembner describes them in today's Globe. Reseachers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Brigham and Women's Hospital are part of an international team reporting on a new mechanism involved in resistance to "smart" cancer drugs Iressa and Tarceva that target lung cancer cell growth. Scientists have identified a new gene that helps regulate the body's clock and Giulio F. Draetta of Merck A team that includes researchers from the CBR Institute for Biomedical Research and Harvard Medical School in Boston reveal how the influence of micro-RNAs, small RNA molecules that regulate gene expression, extends to the immune system. Posted by Elizabeth Cooney at 02:24 PM
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