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• 20/20 GeneSystems Acquires Rights to Lung Cancer Screening Test from U. Kentucky; Company to Develop Blood Test to ID Tiny, Treatable Tumors

  - 2005-12-15

  ROCKVILLE, Md. -- 20/20 GeneSystems, Inc. ("20/20") today announced that it has acquired exclusive rights from the University of Kentucky to a new blood test that has shown exceptional accuracy for the early detection and screening of non-small cell lung cancer NSCLC. Working with the team from Kentucky and other...

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• Southeast Regional Rally, "The Road to Raleigh," Deemed a Success

  - 2005-06-01

  PREPROFESSIONALS The North Carolina State student branch went all out to provide a good time, great food, and educational tours for 30 students and eight advisors from Auburn, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina A&T, Tennessee, and Virginia Tech, plus 16 students from the North Carolina State branch. The three-day...

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• University of Kentucky obtains United States patent.(glycohydrolase enzymes)(Brief Article)

  - 2002-01-01

  University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY) has patented a method for isolation and characterization of cDNAs encoding poly(ADP-ribose) glycohydrolase enzymes and the amino acid sequences of poly(ADP-ribose) glycohydrolase enzymes from several species. Poly(ADP-ribose) glycohydrolase is involved in the cellular response to DNA damage and its proper...

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• What's killing unborn foals in Kentucky? - Brief Article

  - 2001-12-01

  Some mares grazing the rolling, idyllic hills of Kentucky may produce foals destined to become prize racehorses. Or, in their last month of pregnancy, the mares may be stricken with a disease called nocardioform placentitis, causing weak or stillborn foals. The bacterium that causes the disease, Crossiella equi, was...

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