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Marijuana Compounds Could Beat Back Brain Cancer

By on January 12, 2010

Marijuana Compounds Could Beat Back Brain Cancer Preliminary research suggests that a combination of compounds in marijuana could help fight off a particularly deadly form of brain cancer. But the findings shouldn’t send patients rushing to buy pot: the levels used in the research appear to be too high to obtain through smoking. And there’s [...]

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Two Genes Work in Tandem to Spur Deadliest Brain Cancer

Two Genes Work in Tandem to Spur Deadliest Brain Cancer

By on December 24, 2009

Two Genes Work in Tandem to Spur Deadliest Brain Cancer Two genes working in concert seem to spur the deadliest form of brain tumor, glioblastoma, the disease that took Sen. Ted Kennedy’s life last August.Scientists reporting in the Dec. 23 online edition of Nature said that the dynamic duo of genes are turned on in [...]

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