CCNY professor gets grant to develop ‘Artificial Blood’ Ron Koder’s biological design work could someday reduce combat deaths As a post-doc at The University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Ron Koder, assistant professor of physics at The City College of New York, was part of a team that devised a novel method for producing an artificial protein […]

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Helical CT scans reduce lung cancer mortality by 20% compared to chest X-rays A national study of more than 53,000 current and former heavy smokers has demonstrated that helical CT scanning reduced lung cancer deaths by 20 percent compared to using chest X-rays. Constantine Gatsonis and colleagues at Brown’s Center for Statistical Sciences contributed methodologic […]

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