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Van Andel Research Institute researchers Nicholas S. Duesbery, Dan Huang and Bin Tean Teh have conducted a successful kidney cancer study.
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| VARI Researchers Slow Tumor Growth |
| By Anne Bond Emrich
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| Published: April 1, 2008 |
Researchers at the Van Andel Research Institute have discovered a way to slow the growth of a common form of kidney cancer in an experimental model of human tumors in a mouse. They found that using the lethal bacterium that causes anthrax blocked a specific signaling pathway in tumor cells that stimulates tumor growth. |
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