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Breast Cancer
Grant will enable study of estrogen's role
December 26th, 2002
A 4-year, $650,000 Research Scholar Grant from the American Cancer Society (ACS) will help Cornell University biologist W. Lee Kraus, assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics, and his laboratory group learn more about how the hormone estrogen regulates the growth of cells in the human body - including cells that develop into breast cancers. Kraus credits a graduate student in his Cornell laboratory, Mi Young Kim, with the discovery of two enzymes that apparently act on the hormone-binding proteins that bind estrogens inside cells. The Cornell researchers now hope to learn how these estrogen receptor-modifying enzymes, called an acetylase and a deacetylase,...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2002-12-26)
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