Charity News from Friday, Mar. 10, 2000The United Negro College Fund Announces Technology Enhancement Capital CampaignThe College Fund (UNCF) | NEW YORK - The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) today announced a Technology Enhancement Capital Campaign (TECC) and partnerships valued at more than $130 million with Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp. and AT&T to bolster the technology infrastructures ... Scientists Report New Online Cancer Research Databases National Cancer Institute | In the first article, the scientists recorded the expression patterns of approximately 8,000 biologically interesting genes in 60 distinct tumor cell lines. In the second paper, the same scientists correlated the gene-expression data in the 60 ... Molecular Handbrake Could be Released to Send Cancer Cells to Their Death Duke University Medical Center | Pharmacologists from Duke University Medical Center have discovered the first evidence that an enzyme called Pin1 acts as a sort of molecular emergency handbrake on cell division, protectively arresting cells from dividing until damaged DNA is fixed. The Hair's the Thing Duke University Medical Center | Male pattern baldness, coronary heart disease and prostate cancer are all linked to high levels of testosterone. Which exact pathways might connect baldness to either of these diseases, though, is not known.
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