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UTSA receives NIH grant to develop bioinformatics tools to find cause of breast cancer
2014-12-17 06:24:09| Biotech - Topix.net
According to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer is the most common cancer among American women, except for skin cancers, and about one in eight women in the United States will develop invasive breast cancer during their lifetime. The National Institutes of Health recently awarded a $1.08 million grant to The University of Texas at San Antonio to combine computational modeling with biological information to advance our understanding of what may cause breast cells to become cancerous.
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