Charity News from Friday, Aug. 30, 2002Drug Protects Fertility, Offspring in Mice after Radiation ExposureMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Scientists have discovered a drug that prevents sterility in female mice after exposure to ionizing radiation. Additional findings suggest that this is accomplished without yielding genetic damage in the offspring of the irradiated mothers. Threats of Protest Do Not Deter Pasadena "Love Won Out" Conference Focus on the Family | Homosexuality is a hot topic in California and in the nation these days, and Focus on the Family will separate fact from fiction during a unique one-day symposium on Saturday, Sept. 7 at Pasadena's First Church of the Nazarene. St. Jude study shows motor protein prestin is critical for mammals' hearing St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (ALSAC) | Scientists have discovered that prestin, a cell membrane protein, is the motor protein that allows sound amplification crucial to mammalian hearing. The study was a collaboration among St. Jude, Harvard and Boys Town National Research Hospital.
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