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Cancer researchers at the University of Florida will now be able to take a closer look at pediatric cancer, thanks to a fifty thousand dollar grant they received from Stop! Children's Cancer, a local nonprofit organization. Doctor Diaqing Liao, was of three researchers along with Doctors Xingming Deng and Jianrong Lu, to receive the grant, which will fund studies in neuroblastoma and childhood leukemia.
Neuroblastoma, a extracranial cancer prevalent in young children.
Irregular oncogenes, or genes encoded with proteins, produce the onset of cancer. Liao says the grant money will help him use adenovirus proteins to counteract the effects of oncogens amdium 2 and amdium 4.