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Cancer vaccines

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The search for an effective cancer vaccine is exemplified by the efforts of Pramod Srivastava whose treatments have cured animals but whose application in human beings is still to be sanctioned by authorities. Srivastava uses a method that takes part of cancerous tissues to fight the disease.

Author: Wickelgren, Ingrid
Publisher: Time, Inc.
Publication Name: Popular Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0161-7370
Year: 1998
Cancer, Cancer treatment

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Genetic vaccines

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Vaccines are regarded as the most significant medical innovation developed by man due to its power in preventing diseases, including smallpox and polio. Experts are considering the use of genetic materials in developing vaccines for potent diseases such as AIDS and hepatitis C.

Author: Weiner, David B., Kennedy, Ronald C.
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1999
Innovations, Diseases, AIDS (Disease), Preventive medicine, Medicine, Preventive, Medical innovations

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Marijuana: harder than thought?

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Rrecent studies may refute marijuana's classification as a 'soft' drug. One documents the massive release of corticotropin, a stress producer, into the amygdala during marijuana withdrawal. The other shows major dopamine releases resulting from THC.

Author: Wickelgren, Ingrid
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1997
Research, Marijuana, Dopamine, Tetrahydrocannabinol

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