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• Timing of cancer radiation therapy may minimize hair loss May 20, 2013
  Discovering that mouse hair has a circadian clock – a 24-hour cycle of growth followed by restorative repair – researchers suspect that hair loss in humans from toxic cancer radiotherapy... […]
• Practice makes perfect? Not so much May 20, 2013
  Turns out, that old “practice makes perfect” adage may be overblown. New research led by Michigan State University’s Zach Hambrick finds that a copious amount of practice is not... […]
• Apigenin: The compound in the Mediterranean diet that makes cancer cells ‘mortal’ May 20, 2013
  New research suggests that a compound abundant in the Mediterranean diet takes away cancer cells’ “superpower” to escape death. By altering a very specific step in gene regulation,... […]