Mapping Maine’s Cancer Situation
Brewer-based Maine Institute for Human Genetics and Health and James W. Sewall Co. in Old Town are tackling the question of why the state’s cancer rates are higher than the U.S. average and if the causes are more environmental or genetic. The “BioGeoBank of Maine” project includes a tissue bank (sample’s of human tissue from around the state) and mapping of many toxins. Once built the project will offer a “limited-access computer gateway, researchers will be able to explore correlation between disease and the environment at a given moment in time and over a span of years, adding and subtracting layers of information to refine and expand the associations.”
by Adena Schutzberg on 08/03 at 06:56 AM |
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