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United Press International - October 22, 2008
The team of physicists and oncologists say their discovery could provide more efficient ways of targeting diseases such as leukemia, and help in the potential development of vaccines for viruses that cause AIDS.
Dr. Thomas Loughhran, the study's lead author and director of Pennsylvania State University's Hershey Cancer Institute, and his Penn State colleagues are trying to determine the conditions that cause an abnormal expansion of T-cells and trigger a disease known as large granular lymphocyte leukemia.
The complex research that included graduate students Ranran Zhang and Mithun Shah, Assistant Professors Dr. Jun Yang, Susan Nyland and Xin Liu, along with Associate Professor Jong Yun, is reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
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