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September 5, 2013

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A new chemical compound against anthrax

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Beyond symptoms / Ferris Jaber

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The table gathers the "disruption scores" of hundreds of patients with a brain tumor: each row refers to a pathway or biochemical process, and each column - to a sample from a specific patient. Each color symbolizes a number - the value of the "disruption score" of the biochemical pathway, as calculated for the patient. Dark blue indicates normal activity of the biochemical pathway in healthy brain tissue, while dark red indicates a strong deviation from normal behavior. The group of samples of brain cells from healthy people appears as a dark blue vertical bar, labeled TgS7, which appears in the middle of the table. The bar marked TgS15 describes the subgroup of patients with a longer survival prognosis

The mathematics of cancer

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