Show Malignant Disease Research In Utah Scientists in Utah colleges and backed by from the American Cancer are carrying out the research that may help produce a cure for malignant disease some BUT THEIR work is aimed less at looking for a for the disease land more with simply trying to learn about the complex cells which make up the human we learn more about how cells function we're not going to be able to come up with a general cure for one scientist j KARL G. Lark of the University of Utah Department of said this approach was learned from disappointments in the there was a sudden apparent it turned out to be It was not as simple as we he MOST OF the drugs developed so far deal with the symptoms of cancer rather than the although they often are quite Lark is backed by a Cancer Society grant in his studies of chromosome the role of proteins in replication and other problems in the growth and regulation of HIS Cynthia of the U. of U. College of also has an ACS grant to support her research into DNA Other researchers at the U of Brigham Young Utah State University and Hospital are also engaged in studies on the mechanisms which control and help the body cells are just normal cells that have stopped being properly regulated and run The replication process goes Lark The first step 10 cure this is to find out what regulates normal cells so that they keep in step with others all serving special he WE can find out what regulates the cell we can then figure out how to control it when goes he This won't be easy and is a long term project made up of details almost incomprehensible to the average Utah CANCER Society sponsored research such as role of in DNA or and segregation in bacteria is difficult to but it is vital in adding to the basic knowledge who recently returned from a Cancer Society research conference in the eastern said he was at how much had been learned in just one year in basic MORE AND more scientists are turning to this approach as offering the best hope for an answer to the problem of he Lark paid tribute to the Cancer Society for its support of this but necessary type of at a time when the federal government had withdrawn much of its ON A national the American Cancer Society is expected to award million this fiscal but some other worthy research projects requiring million were unable to be These projects range across the board of medical research work at the clinical level as well as basic investigations of the kind done by GRANTS are made after a detailed review of all applications by board of including some of the top scientists in the |