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The Colon Cancer Conundrum

news outletScientific American
Publish DateNovember 21, 2021

“That’s not because there is something biologically different between 49- and 50-year-olds,” says Swati G. Patel, a gastroenterologist at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, who was not involved in the study. Rather it is because when people start getting screened, cancers they may have had for years are detected.

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What COVID-19 Antibody Tests Can and Cannot Tell Us

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Publish DateMay 06, 2020

"We don’t know the natural [course] of the disease. All we can do is [say] that if you have a good [antibody] test, and you trust the result, and you’re positive, you did have exposure,” says May Chu, a clinical professor of epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health.

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Darwin’s ideas on evolution drive a radical new approach to cancer drug use

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Publish DateAugust 09, 2019

This year at least 31,000 men in the U.S. will be diagnosed with prostate cancer that has spread to other parts of their body, such as bones and lymph nodes. Most of them will be treated by highly skilled and experienced oncologists, who have access to 52 drugs approved to treat this condition. Yet eventually more than three quarters of these men will succumb to their illness. By Dr. James DeGregori, professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

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How to Find a Woman Scientist

news outletScientific American
Publish DateFebruary 12, 2018

Following the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a grassroots organization called 500 Women Scientists was established to help propel and maintain the momentum of such efforts. The idea was powered by a small group of Colorado-based women: neuroscientist Liz McCullagh (University of Colorado, Anschutz), ecologist Jane Zelikova (based in Boulder and co-founder of 500 Women Scientists) and me (a freelance conservation scientist and recent transplant to Fort Collins).

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Why Autism Seems to Cluster in Some Immigrant Groups

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Publish DateDecember 07, 2017

Developing better tools takes a lot of time and effort, says Bruno Anthony, a child clinical psychologist at the University of Colorado in Denver. Anthony led the meta-analysis of autism screening tools. When he started working with a health center that serves a primarily Latino population in Washington, D.C., his team did an exhaustive search of the literature on Spanish-language screening tools.

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