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Study of the mechanisms of cell migration and growth

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16
Aug

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences, a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded Yubing Sun, associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a $1.9 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award to support her exploration of the fundamental principles behind the process of closing injury- or […]

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Tufts researchers find immune cell link to doxorubicin-induced heart damage

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18
Jul

There is still much to learn about how doxorubicin, a 50-year-old chemotherapy drug, causes its most worrisome side effects. Although it has saved many lives, the treatment sometimes causes heart damage that stiffens the heart and puts a subset of patients at risk for future heart failure. To better understand and potentially control such complications, […]

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