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What are the Secrets of a Long and Healthy Life?

National Institutes of Health - Posted: July 7th, 2008, 1:50pm EDT

A new study, supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), aims to learn more about the secrets to long healthy life, and investigators are seeking long-lived families to help study this important question.

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Researchers Develop a Method to Evaluate Variations Identified in Breast Cancer Susceptibility Genes

National Institutes of Health - Posted: July 7th, 2008, 9:00am EDT

Using mouse embryonic stem cells, researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, have developed a new method to evaluate which mutations, or changes, in a gene known to increase breast cancer susceptibility, may lead to cancer.

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