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Apr 24, 2006 5:55 pm US/Eastern

CMU, Pitt Team Up To Battle Diseases

by Harold Hayes
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ― Early detection and treatment of diseases like cancer is the goal of a new team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.

A team of researchers from CMU and Pitt will use fluorescent probe and imaging technologies with a $13 million grant.

They will establish a national technology center for networks and pathways.

The networks and pathways of human cells can be traced through color imaging.

And the potential results can impact diseases of all kinds - most notably cancer.

"By better understanding these networks and pathways we're almost certainly going to understand how cancer evolves from the initial tumor cell to the expanded tumor and also to the therapy for curing that cancer," said Prof. Alan Waggoner of Carnegie Mellon University.

What they hope to do is generate powerful biosensors to map just how cells develop into disease.

And they hope to find a new way of looking at complex biological processes.

The National Institutes of Health thinks the $13 million, five-year commitment is worth the investment.

Researchers say they think it could take anywhere from one year to twelve years to see the fruits of their work.

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