News tagged with biochemical pathways
Scientists find regulator linking exercise to bigger, stronger muscles
Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have isolated a previously unknown protein in muscles that spurs their growth and increased power following resistance exercise. They suggest that artificially raising the protein's ...
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Dec 06, 2012 |
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Scientists discover switch that turns white fat brown
Scientists have discovered a biological switch that gives energy-storing white fat the characteristics of energy-burning brown fat. The findings could lead to new strategies for treating obesity.
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Sep 06, 2011 |
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Modified bone drug kills malaria parasite in mice
A chemically altered osteoporosis drug may be useful in fighting malaria, researchers report in a new study. Unlike similar compounds tested against other parasitic protozoa, the drug readily crosses into ...
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Feb 27, 2012 |
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Hundreds of alterations and potential drug targets to starve cancer tumors identified
A massive study analyzing gene expression data from 22 tumor types has identified multiple metabolic expression changes associated with cancer. The analysis, conducted by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center, ...
Cancer
Apr 21, 2013 |
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Intestinal protein may have role in ADHD, other neurological disorders
A biochemical pathway long associated with diarrhea and intestinal function may provide a new therapeutic target for treating ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) other neuropsychiatric disorders, according to ...
Attention deficit disorders
Aug 11, 2011 |
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Fusion and cell death in the development of skeletal muscle
(Medical Xpress)—Membrane fusion is a highly regulated event, both inside cells, and between them. From the moment a sperm first fuses with an egg, subsequent developmental events depend upon its proper ...
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Apr 26, 2013 |
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Researchers use genomics to identify a molecular-based treatment for a viral skin cancer
Four years after they discovered the viral roots of a rare skin cancer, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) and the School of Medicine have now identified a molecule activated by this virus ...
Cancer
May 09, 2012 |
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Scientists identify natural compounds that enhance humans' perception of sweetness
(Medical Xpress)—University of Florida taste scientist Linda Bartoshuk and her colleagues want to play a trick on you—but it's for your own good.
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Jan 16, 2013 |
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How the immune system fights back against anthrax infections
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences have uncovered how the body's immune system launches its survival response ...
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Jun 16, 2011 |
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Research identifies how cancer cells cheat death
Research led by David Litchfield of The University of Western Ontario has identified how biochemical pathways can be "rewired" in cancer cells to allow these cells to ignore signals that should normally trigger their death. ...
Cancer
Jun 08, 2011 |
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Researchers find success with new immune approach to fighting some cancers
A national research collaboration of senior researchers, including a researcher from Moffitt Cancer Center, has found that 20 to 25 percent of "heavily pre-treated" patients with a variety of cancers who enrolled in a clinical ...
Cancer
Jun 13, 2012 |
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Ability to chart the molecular progress of diabetes brings personalized medicine closer to realization
Researchers in Singapore have succeeded in tracking, for the first time, the molecular changes caused by type 2 diabetes that affect how the body handles glucose production in the liver. In a series of experiments ...
Diabetes
Dec 19, 2012 |
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Researchers identify possible drug target in breast cancer metastasis
The spread of breast cancer to distant organs within the body, an event that often leads to death, appears in many cases to involve the loss of a key protein, according to UC San Francisco researchers, whose new discoveries ...
Cancer
Jan 27, 2013 |
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Researchers define how a gene mutated in Parkinson's disease may normally function to ensure neuronal health
(Medical Xpress)—Cell biologists studying Parkinson's disease are training their sights on mitochondria, the energy source of the cell, whose activity in neurons appears to go awry in this devastating neurodegenerative ...
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Mar 22, 2013 |
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