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Wistar Honors the Memory of Sen. Arlen Specter
October 15, 2012
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The Wistar Institute would like to express condolences to the family and friends of Senator Arlen Specter. The cancer research community lost a tremendous advocate yesterday, and Wistar honors his long standing efforts on behalf of both cancer scientists and cancer survivors to increase and sustain federal funding for the National Institutes of Health and related agencies.
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Focusing on Cancer for 40 Years
October 8, 2012
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The Wistar Institute was named a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center in 1972, one of the first research institutes to achieve this distinction. In honor of this 40th anniversary, we're celebrating!
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Breast Cancer Study Opens New Doors for Personalized Medicine
September 24, 2012
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Congratulations are in order for The Cancer Genome Atlas Network, for their publication in Nature over the weekend that announced the most comprehensive analysis of breast cancer genetics yet published. Their findings have shown how the disease can be categorized by four distinct genetic profiles, and have identified genetic markers within each category that might advance cancer care by providing new, druggable targets.
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Atlas of the Epstein-Barr Virus Can Help Chart the Viral Paths Toward Cancer
August 23, 2012
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The laboratory of Wistar's Paul Lieberman, Ph.D., has just published the first annotated atlas of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) genome, providing the best look yet at how EBV interacts with human genes and proteins. EBV, which is thought to be responsible for one percent of all human cancers establishes a latent infection in nearly 100 percent of infected adult humans.
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