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July 30, 2005

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-	Combination Therapy Leads to Partial Recovery from Spinal Cord Injury in Rats Combining partially differentiated stem cells with gene therapy can promote the growth of new "insulation" around nerve fibers in the damaged spinal cords of rats.
-	Combination Hormone/Vaccine Therapy for Prostate Cancer May Benefit Patients Whose Disease Returns Cancer vaccine combined with hormone-deprivation therapy can help patients with recurrence of prostate cancer.
-	Multi-Species Genome Comparison Sheds New Light on Evolutionary Processes, Cancer Mutations Mammalian chromosomes have evolved by breaking at specific sites rather than randomly as long thought - and that many of the breakage hotspots are also involved in human cancer.
-	New Discovery May Help Doctors Treat Infertility Estrogen Receptor beta is necesary for ovulation. In women lacking this gene, alternative treatments may be more effective.