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SUMMARY:From Fruit Flies to Human Cancer - Dr Jordan Raff\, Senior Researc
 h Fellow\, Wellcome Trust / Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute
DTSTART:20070129T183000Z
DTEND:20070129T193000Z
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CONTACT:Nicola Buckley
DESCRIPTION:Cancer is a disease of uncontrolled cell division. Normal cell
 s will only divide when new cells are required but if a cell becomes cance
 rous then this control is lost and the cell starts to divide as quickly as
  it can\, invading normal tissue\, sometimes killing the individual. To un
 derstand cancer\, we need to understand how cell division is controlled. W
 e use the fruit fly\, Drosophila\, to study this process. Techniques have 
 been developed that enable us to probe \nhow proteins function inside the 
 cells of the developing fly embryo. Work on flies is revealing new ways of
  diagnosing and treating cancer in humans.
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