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... thousands of new cases ofthe disease, both in the UK and across the world Cancer Research UK has been at the heart of this progress thanks tothe sustained support and generosity ofthe UK public The ... goals that, together with our partners, we aim to accomplish by the year 2020: • People will know how to reduce their risk of cancer Three-quarters ofthe UK public will be aware ofthe main lifestyle ... in the 1970s Our work has been at the heart of this progress and has saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the UK and many millions more around the world • We were the first to...
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... support to attend the symposium and present their work The winning paper is selected by a panel of judges, based on the technical merit ofthe fulllength conference paper and the quality ofthe student’s ... for such a high-profile, hightechnology product The talk included a number of photos as well as interesting and often humorous anecdotes about the development team, the other technology innovations ... Prof Dan Schaubert, Matthew J Radway fromthe University of Colorado, supervised by Prof Dejan Filipovic, and Jacob Adams fromthe University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, supervised by Prof...
... all cases of MM arise from MGUS [55] On the other hand, the majority of MGUS cases will not develop into MM Although the status of M-protein may offer insight into the development of MM, it is ... peptides leading to ejection of charged peptides into the gas phase (B) Mass analyzers The quadrupole uses both AC and DC current to affect the trajectory of incoming charged particles The first quadrupole ... refractory MM [78] In order to determine the mechanisms of ATO activity, Ge et al used 2D gel electrophoresis coupled with MALDI TOF/TOF analysis to evaluate proteins altered following ATO activity...
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... may be to American capitalism what the fall ofthe Berlin Wall was tothe Soviet system In hindsight, it may mark the end ofthe era of unbound neoliberalism that is behind the tragedy ofthe Great ... as happened in the 1930s and is happening again Core Thesis The core thesis ofthe book is that the roots ofthe financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession can be traced to a faulty U.S ... central parts ofthe story, but they are not the ultimate cause ofthe crisis Financial developments contributed significantly tothe housing bubble and the subsequent crash However, they served...