Tag: Myles Brown

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences

    Five Harvard faculty members were elected to the National Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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  • Health

    When estrogen isn’t the culprit

    Although it sounds like a case of gender confusion on a molecular scale, the male hormone androgen spurs the growth of some breast tumors in women. In a new study, Harvard scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute provide the first details of the cancer cell machinery that carries out the hormone’s relentless growth orders.

    3–5 minutes
  • Health

    Studies chip away at sex hormone roles in prostate and breast cancers

    In recent work, Myles Brown and colleagues combined chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChiP) assays with measures of DNA structure and large-scale gene chip analyses to study where, when, and how androgen and estrogen receptors attach to DNA and control gene transcription. Their results should lead to new ways of manipulating receptor activity and shutting down cancer genes…

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