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Nobel laureate, bone-marrow transplant innovator Dr. E. Donnall Thomas dies
Q13 FOX News OnlineNobel Prize winner and medical pioneer E. Donnall Thomas, M.D., died Saturday at the age of 92. Thomas won the Nobel Prize in 1990 for his work in bone-marrow transplantation to cure leukemias and other blood cancers. In 1974, Thomas became the first...Tags: Medical Research, Oncology, Cancer, Immune System, Health Treatments
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Andrew Brimmer dies at 86; first black member of Federal Reserve
Andrew Brimmer, the son of a Louisiana sharecropper who in 1966 became the first black member of the Federal Reserve Board, has died. He was 86. Brimmer died Oct. 7 at a Washington hospital after a lengthy illness, said his daughter, Esther Brimmer....Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, World War II (1939-1945), Economy, Money and Monetary Policy, Finance
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Voter registration rates have fallen since last presidential race
Q13 FOX News anchorVoter registration rates have declined since 2008, especially among young people, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Pew Research Center report. The organization said that in interviews conducted over the course of 2012 so far, 72% of adults 18...Tags: Politics, Elections, Washington, DC
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Green Wheels: The Student Competition That Comes With a Job
Sometimes it pays to be a geeky student engineer. General Motors, for instance, has hired no less than 100 young mechanical and electrical graduates who've been through the federal college eco-car competitions. It's a three-year immersion for the slide-...
Tags: Biofuels, Vehicles, Teaching and Learning, Science and Technology, Environmental Issues
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Armed robbers strike again, assault 2 more in U District
Q13 FOX News ReporterAssailants robbed and hit two victims in the face with a handgun Saturday morning in the University District, just days after police arrested a suspect allegedly involved in similar robberies occurring the week before. According to Seattle police, two...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Criminals, Firearms, Colleges and Universities, Students
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Suspect arrested in connection with string of U District robberies
Q13 FOX News ReporterSeattle police have arrested a suspect allegedly involved in three Saturday morning armed robberies in Seattle's University District neighborhood, police said Thursday. Police said they found the 29-year-old suspect boarding a Metro bus in West Seattle...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Theft
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Algorithm: New Statistical Model to Predict future Health
CW33 News29 year old Sandy Cabrerra is a picture of health--and she wants to keep it that way. Looking down the family tree keeps her in motion. "Crime example, I do try to stay healthy, I do try to stay in the gym and exercise as much as possible because I am...Tags: Strep Throat, Diabetes, Netflix Inc., Health, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Some women actually have men on the brain
For the Booster Shots BlogFor decades after a woman has carried a male child in her womb or shared her mother's womb with a brother, she carries a faint but unmistakable echo of that intimate bond: male fetal DNA that lodges itself in the far recesses of her brain. That...Tags: Brain, DNA, Alzheimer's Disease, Medical Research, Chemical Industry
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Gene patent case could impact patients, research
Every time a woman is tested for gene mutations linked to significantly higher rates of breast and ovarian cancer, her blood is sent to a lab in Utah. That's because Salt Lake City-based Myriad Genetics Inc. owns the patents to the BRCA 1 and BRCA 2...
Tags: Science, Huntington's Disease, Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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Posting of calories not lowering count for most diners
On a recent balmy afternoon Kristina Stefanopoulos was craving an Oreo McFlurry. But before she could order it she had to stare down its calorie count. "I noticed that the snack size had only about 340 calories and the bigger one had more than 500,"...
Tags: University of Chicago, Lifestyle and Leisure, Weight, McDonald's, Obesity
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In possible breakthrough, UW researchers believe they've found way to regrow heart tissue
Q13 FOX News anchorMedical researchers at the University of Washington say they believe they’ve found a way to regrow damaged heart muscle with stem cells. They say people experiencing heart disease could someday use stem cells to regenerate damaged heart tissue...Tags: Heart Attack, Pacific-12 Conference, Heart Disease, Heart Failure
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Fighting diseases with genetic therapy
Genes make us who we are — in sickness and in health. We get our genetic makeup from our parents, of course, but in the future, we might be getting genes from our doctors too. Imagine your doctor promising to cure your cancer or heart disease by...
Tags: Immune System, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Health and Medical Professionals, Health Treatments, Heart Disease
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