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Prototype Shows Promise As Approach to Countering Pancreatic Cancer News provided by Share this article Share this article NEW YORK, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- A research team has designed a molecule with potential to interfere in a new way with altered proteins that cause abnormal growth in 35 percent of pancreatic cancers. Published online in Nature Communications on May 11, a new study found that a molecule called a monobody clings to cancer-causing versions of the KRAS protein and keeps them from transmitting their signals. Changes in the DNA of the KRAS gene – which encodes a molec...

cbleck@miningjournal.net Anderton’s Earth Week 2021 is coming up, with many environmental activities planned. They include Zoom presentations, clean-up events and others. (Photo courtesy of Northern Michigan University) MARQUETTE — People can celebrate the environment through the upcoming Anderton’s Earth Week 2021. The event is named after the late John Anderton, a former head of the Northern Michigan University Department of Earth, Environmental and Geological Sciences. He passed away in March 2014. One of the many organizers of the multitude of events to be held in-person, outdoors a...

MARQUETTE, MI--   Environmentalists and others are asking Northern Michigan University President Fritz Erickson to commit to making campus carbon neutral by 2050. Professor Ryan Stock wrote an open letter outlining the threats climate change poses and asked Erickson to also sign the Global Universities and Colleges Climate Letter to make the commitment public. Stock’s letter was signed by more than 1,000 people from the campus community. NMU climate advocate John O’Bryan says Northern could achieve carbon neutrality by substituting the burning of fossil fuels with reliance on its biomas...