Frank Sietzen: August 2009 Archives

Understanding MicroRNA

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High Hopes for a New Kind of Gene

In a beautifully written article in the July 2009 issue of Smithsonian magazine writer Sylvia Pagan Westphal describes the research of Dr. Carlo Croce, head of Ohio State University's Human Cancer Genetics Program.

A Hospital without Walls

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At Virginia Hospital Center, treating disease doesn't require a patient-or a room.

When Cathy Turner looked at the blood sugar readings she had just taken, she was shocked. It read over 400, four times the average fasting level. She told the woman, an employee of an Arlington Virginia business she was visiting, that the test results called for a trip to her doctor.