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October 6, 2003

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-	White blood cell plays key role in body's excessive repair response to asthma Airway scarring can be disrupted by targeting eosinophils.
-	Healthy Neighbors Rescue Degenerating Motor Neurons In amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the life or death of motor neurons may rest with an overlooked group of neighboring cells.
-	Nobel Prize in Medicine for 2003 to Lauterbur and Mansfield for their discoveries concerning "magnetic resonance imaging" The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2003 jointly to Paul C Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield