http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Maintaining the right level of sugar in the blood is the responsibility not only of insulin, which removes glucose, but also of a hormone called glucagon, which adds glucose. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-glucagon-pathway-approach-diabetes.html Diabetes Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:00:17 EST news253443358 Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have identified a candidate drug target for treating acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a white blood cell cancer that proliferates out of control in the bone marrow. The team, led by Assistant Professor Chris Vakoc, M.D., Ph.D., shows that blocking a protein called PRC2 halts this uncontrolled proliferation in the bone marrow of mice with AML. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-druggable-protein-complex-therapeutic-acute.html Cancer Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:30:32 EST news252574197 Although it's widely accepted that inflammation is a critical underlying factor in a range of diseases, including the progression of cancer, little is known about its role when normal cells become tumor cells. Now, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have shed new light on exactly how the activation of a pair of inflammatory signaling pathways leads to the transformation of normal breast cells to cancer cells. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-scientists-uncover-inflammatory-circuit-triggers.html Cancer Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:09:33 EST news249224958 Cells that repress their "bad time" pumps when a nutrient is abundant were much more efficient at preparing for starvation and at recovering afterward than the cells that had been genetically engineered to avoid this repression. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-cells-brace-starvation.html Genetics Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:50:12 EST news249194994 Scientists at the University of Leicester have opened up a whole new approach to the therapeutic intervention for a family of anti-cancer drug targets, thanks to a completely new and unexpected finding. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-unexpected-discovery-opportunities-cancer.html Cancer Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:20:50 EST news245420430