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Senescent cells — also known as “zombie cells” because they’re damaged and unable to die — are tied to many age-related diseases.
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Newswise — ROCHESTER, Minn. — A statewide bipartisan initiative is transforming health care from a focus on treating disease to one of tapping the body's ability to heal itself. Regenerative Medicine Minnesota is a legislative initiative aimed at improving health by advancing regenerative medicine in research, technology, education and patient care across the state.
MOCA celebrated 20 years of progress – and new milestones in ovarian cancer research funding – at the MOCA Annual Meeting this week.
This year, MOCA awarded $680,000 in funding to Minnesota and national researchers, putting our total amount of funding at nearly $9 million.
The 2019 MOCA-funded researchers at the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota include:
Mighty MRI
The U’s Center for Magnetic Resonance Research keeps inventing better ways to diagnose, treat, and monitor disease
Open-water swimmer traverses the globe, raising money for breast cancer research at the Masonic Cancer Center
Six weeks before she was set to swim across the English Channel for the first time, Michelle Macy learned that her mother, Kathleen, had been diagnosed with breast cancer.
