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Rather than use plastic silverware to combat a common side effect of chemo, patients now can use these silverware-like utensils that don't ruin food. It's a common problem for cancer patients: Chemotherapy changes the taste buds so that using metal silverware suddenly causes a bitter metallic aftertaste. Plastic cutlery is one alternative, but it's not exactly the most environmentally friendly, elegant, or cost-effective option

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--A high-school student from Fort Worth, Texas, won top honors July 11 at the first annual Google Science Fair for her project on drug resistance in ovarian cancer. Shree Bose, 17, investigated the connection between an enzyme called AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) and resistance to the chemotherapy drug cisplatin.