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Briefs Virtual Trail Trek accepting registrations Great Works Regional Land Trust  is accepting registrations for its Virtual Trail Trek fundraiser in June, held in conjunction with the celebration of National Trails Day. The Virtual Trail Trek 5k/10k/13-mile outing will be held at GWRLT preserves from June 4-13, featuring more than 18 public preserves and nearly 30 miles of trails, to provide an opportunity to explore the space while raising money to maintain the land. The entry fee is $35 pe...

Read Article The owners of the Portland Sea Dogs – Sally McNamara, left, and her brother, Bill Burke, center – are shown at Hadlock Field last summer with Geoff Iacuessa, the team’s president and general manager. Yoon S. Byun/Boston Globe Sea Dogs founder Dan Burke told his children not to blur the lines between business and family. Business is business. Family is family. The daughter and youngest son of the man who brought professional baseball to Portland in 1994 may not have crossed...

-- Central Maine Power (CMP) has donated $10,000 to the Maine Children’s Cancer Program (MCCP) in Scarborough on behalf of the Maine Elks Associations efforts. President of the Maine Elks Association and employee of CMP, Anthony Gause, played a central role in making the donation a reality, according to a press release by CMP.  “Every state president of the Maine Elks Association has a goal to raise money for the Maine Children’s Cancer Program,” Gause said. “I asked Central Maine Po...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Dr. Marassi is director and professor in the Cell and Molecular Biology of Cancer Program at Sanford Burnham Prebys. view more  Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys LA JOLLA, CALIF. - April 20, 2021 Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys have identified, at an atomic level, how a part of a protein called PLEKHA7 interacts with a cells membrane to regulate important intercellular communications. The research, published in the journal Structure, points to hotspots within PLEKHA...

Fundraiser to send 5-year-old Bath cancer patient to Disney World Nelson-Walling, who was diagnosed with Stage 4 high risk neuroblastoma. Share Spencer, 5, of Bath was diagnosed with stage 4 high risk neuroblastoma when he was 3 years old. Photo courtesy of Graham Nelson-Walling A nonprofit is looking to raise $10,000 this month to send a child from Bath with life-threatening cancer to Disney World. Spencer Nelson Walling, 5, of Bath was diagnosed with stage 4 high risk neuroblastoma when he...

Department of Outreach and Evangelism Resurrection Church of Castro Valley, California   It Takes a Parish The oft-quoted African proverb “It takes a village to raise a child” means that an entire community of people must interact with children in order for those children to grow in a safe and healthy environment. Together with the clergy, youth director and parents, the youth of Resurrection Greek Orthodox Church in Castro Valley, CA are growing in their faith and in stewardship of th...

Italian Embassy launches social media campaign to promote Italian researchers  15 Apr 2021 - 10:55 Ambassador of Italy to Qatar, H E Alessandro Prunas The Peninsula Doha: On the occasion of the Italian Research Day in the World, which will be celebrated today, the Embassy of Italy in Doha has created a social media campaign to promote Italian researchers working in Qatar, as well as the network of contacts between research centres and universities in the two countries.  This network is curr...

Posted April 9th, 2021 for Broad Institute Welcome to the April 9, 2021 installment of Research Roundup , a recurring snapshot of recent studies published by scientists at the Broad Institute and their collaborators. Enhancing V2F maps GWASs have yielded thousands of genetic variants linked to disease. To help figure out the function of many of these variants, Joseph Nasser (now at Caltech), Drew Bergman, Charles Fulco (now at Bristol Myers Squibb), Philine Guckelberger (now at...

Blue Faery Gives Annual Liver Cancer Research Award Dr. Xin W. Wang, Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute, wins Blue Faery Award twice News provided by Share this article Share this article LOS ANGELES, April 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Faery: The Adrienne Wilson Liver Cancer Association is proud to announce the annual Blue Faery Award (BFA) for Excellence in Liver Cancer Research. Primary liver cancer, also known as Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC), is the third leading cause o...

Date Time Excellent outcomes reported for first targeted frontline therapy for high-risk pediatric Hodgkin lymphoma (From left) First and corresponding author Monika Metzger, M.D., Departments of Oncology and Global Pediatric Medicine; co- senior author Matthew Krasin, M.D., Department of Radiation Oncology; and co-senior author Melissa Hudson, M.D., Cancer Survivorship Division director. Scientists are reporting results of the first frontline clinical trial to use targeted therapy to treat hig...