How cancer adds up
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It is now becoming increasingly recognised that mathematics has the potential to play a key role in understanding cancer. Indeed, applying mathematical techniques to clinical oncology could eventually lead to innovative new approaches to dealing with cancer. Projects in this area include work by mathematicians at the University of Dundee to develop mathematical models of the growth of solid tumours. This may form a basis for being able to predict what impact a change in a particular variable may have on the development of the tumour.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1997
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Feel it in your bone cells
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Research undertaken at the University of York and Harvard Medical School indicates that bone cells contain signalling apparatus which scientists had until now believed only existed in the brain. This discovery could prompt radical new approaches to the control of bone cells, and it is possible that new therapies could emerge for diseases such as osteoporosis, in which the patient's bones become weaker.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1996
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