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The ACS and JFCC-D team up to build a Cancer resource center. The Center's mission is to ease the burden of cancer for patients, caregivers and families through education and resources.

VARI researchers are one step closer to finding new ways to treat Myelodysplastic Syndrome, a bone marrow disease that strikes up to 15,000 people each year in the United States, and that sometimes results in acute myeloid leukemia.

Alzheimer’s disease is a mind crippling illness affecting many in our community. Get the information you need to change how you react and interact with folks who have the disease.This program will be life changing.

An indigenous family living in a mountainous area of Malaysian Borneo helped researchers to discover information about genetic mutations associated with acromegaly, a form of gigantism that often results in enlarged hands, feet, and facial features.

Significant advances in Brain research and imagery are beginning to show that our brains learn differently when using technology. What does this mean for you as a game or simulation designer, an online instructor, or just a life-long learner?

The number of cancer deaths has declined steadily in the last three decades. Although younger people have experienced the steepest declines, all age groups have shown some improvement, according to a recent report in Cancer Research.

A new diagnostic tool developed by Van Andel Research Institute scientists has shown promising results when used with patients of pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest forms of cancer due to the difficulty of diagnosing it in its early stages.

Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) investigators have identified a gene that could be an important therapeutic target in the treatment of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer. Currently, patients with these cancers have few treatment options.

Southfield-based Assets International LLC has announced the hiring of Naomi Finberg as a Genealogical Researcher.

An estimated 3 to 8 million people have symptoms of “interstitial cystitis” (IC or Painful Bladder). IC causes frequent urination, pelvic pain, and urinary urgency. Treatments are evolving including proof that food plays a key role in symptoms.

Molecular information proves that two types of kidney tumors previously thought to be different diseases are variations of the same disease

Timothy M. Mitchell has been named president of CeeTox Inc. in Kalamazoo, MIchigan. CeeTox's founder, James M. McKim, is now Chief Science Officer, leading an expanded research team to develop cutting edge in vitro toxicology testing technologies.

A comprehensive study of over 260 businesses conducted by the Aberdeen Group reveals that companies engaged in procurement outsourcing lower their expenses through actual reduced product/service costs and lower requisition and time costs.

In February 2008, Assay Designs™ launched the Hsp70 High Sensitivity EIA Kit, the first commercially available EIA kit for the accurate and specific quantification of inducible Hsp70 in serum and plasma samples from human, mouse, and rat origin.