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Hope for Stopping the spread of Melanoma

  Researchers at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City have identified a key protein with a role in the metastasis of melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer.  Today on the program, Dr. Allie Grossman, the lead author of the study published in the online journal, Science Signaling, joins us to talk about the finding that offers hope in stopping melanoma from spreading in the body.  

 
 Science Questions profiles the hydraulic fracturing boom in two areas of the country, the Unitah Basin of Utah and Southeastern Ohio, from the perspective of two farmers who are directly impacted by the extraction of natural gas near their farms.