News tagged with cell proliferation

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Metabolic protein launches sugar feast that nurtures brain tumors

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have tracked down a cancer-promoting protein's pathway into the cell nucleus and discovered how, once there, it fires up a glucose metabolism pathway on which ...

Cancer created Nov 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Genome packaging: Key to breast cancer development

Cancer is a complex disease and only thanks to advances in genomic techniques have researchers begun to understand, at a cellular and molecular level, the mechanisms which are disrupted in cancer cells. This ...

Cancer created Nov 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Pathway identified in human lymphoma points way to new blood cancer treatments

A pathway called the "Unfolded Protein Response," or UPR, a cell's way of responding to unfolded and misfolded proteins, helps tumor cells escape programmed cell death during the development of lymphoma.

Cancer created Nov 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How defects in a signaling protein sabotage the immune system in multiple, seemingly contradictory ways

The antibody response to immune threats is managed by cells known as B lymphocytes. The differentiation and function of B cells are tightly regulated to ensure a prompt response to confirmed dangers, such ...

Immunology created Nov 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Common food preservative may slow, even stop tumor growth

Nisin, a common food preservative, may slow or stop squamous cell head and neck cancers, a University of Michigan study found.

Cancer created Oct 31, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify mutation that causes skin hyperproliferation

Scientists have identified a mutation in a gene that causes patches of very thick skin to appear on the palms and soles of affected people. This skin disorder is related, albeit in a much milder form, to ...

Genetics created Oct 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study supports link between obesity and higher incidence of cancer, poorer prognosis

Researchers may have discovered a new explanation as to why obese patients with cancer often have a poorer prognosis compared with those who are lean. The potential explanation is based on data reported in Cancer Research, a jour ...

Cancer created Oct 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The role of beta cell regeneration in type 2 diabetes

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared type 2 diabetes as the epidemic of the 21st century. A study is focusing on understanding the mechanisms underlying insulin resistance and the role of beta-cell ...

Diabetes created Oct 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gene variant linked with reduced lung cancer risk

A variant in a gene involved with inflammation and the immune response is linked with a decreased risk of lung cancer. That is the finding of an analysis published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the Am ...

Cancer created Oct 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

PET predicts early response to treatment for head and neck cancer patients

Determining the optimal treatment course and predicting outcomes may get easier in the future for patients with head and neck sqaumous cell carcinomas (HNSCCs) with the use of an investigational imaging agent. Research published ...

Cancer created Oct 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cryopreservation of induced pluripotent stem cells improved the most by one product

In a study to determine the best cryopreservation (freezing) solution to maintain induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, a team of researchers from Japan compared 12 kinds of commercially prepared and readily available cryopreservation ...

Medical research created Sep 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Like prostate cancer, bladder cancer patients may benefit from anti-androgen therapy

Bladder cancer patients whose tumors express high levels of the protein CD24 have worse prognoses than patients with lower CD24. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published today in the Proceedings of the National Ac ...

Cancer created Sep 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Solving puzzle of B-cell lymphoma development

Germinal centers are sites in the organs of the lymphatic system, formed during the course of an immune response to infection, where B cells intensely proliferate and modify their DNA in order to produce ...

Immunology created Sep 23, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Stemming the spread of cancer

Okayama University's Masaharu Seno and colleagues have demonstrated in vitro the development of cancer stem cells (CSCs) from a type of normal stem cell exposed to their hypothetical microenvironment of a ...

Cancer created Sep 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Do you want to know another role of ribonucleotide reductase M2?

Ribonucleotide reductase (RR) is a target metabolic enzymes for cancer therapy. Few studies have described the correlation between RRM2 and the development of colorectal cancer. And the possible mechanism by which RRM2 mediates ...

Cancer created Sep 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0