News tagged with cell proliferation

Researchers use microRNAs to induce regeneration of heart tissue

(Medical Xpress)—A research team working at Italy's International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology has succeeded in causing heart tissue to regenerate by introducing two microRNAs into damaged mice hearts. ...

Medical research created Dec 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Cancer may require simpler genetic mutations than previously thought

Chromosomal deletions in DNA often involve just one of two gene copies inherited from either parent. But scientists haven't known how a deletion in one gene from one parent, called a "hemizygous" deletion, can contribute ...

Cancer created May 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Amino acid consumption associated with how fast cancer cells divide

For almost a century, researchers have known that cancer cells have peculiar appetites, devouring glucose in ways that normal cells do not. But glucose uptake may tell only part of cancer's metabolic story. Researchers from ...

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

Protein prevents DNA damage in the developing brain and might serve as a tumor suppressor

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have rewritten the job description of the protein TopBP1 after demonstrating that it guards early brain cells from DNA damage. Such damage might foreshadow later problems, ...

Neuroscience created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists boost potency, reduce side effects of IL-2 protein used to treat cancer

The utility of a naturally occurring protein given, sometimes to great effect, as a drug to treat advanced cancers is limited by the severe side effects it sometimes causes. But a Stanford University School of Medicine scientist ...

Medical research created Mar 18, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Non-coding RNA relocates genes when it's time to go to work

Cells develop and thrive by turning genes on and off as needed in a precise pattern, a process known as regulated gene transcription. In a paper published in the Nov. 9 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers at the ...

Neuroscience created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Protein preps cells to survive stress of cancer growth and chemotherapy

Scientists have uncovered a survival mechanism that occurs in breast cells that have just turned premalignant-cells on the cusp between normalcy and cancers-which may lead to new methods of stopping tumors.

Cancer created May 23, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Team finds mechanism linking key inflammatory marker to cancer

In a new study described in the journal Oncogene, researchers reveal how a key player in cell growth, immunity and the inflammatory response can be transformed into a primary contributor to tumor growth.

Cancer created May 20, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists find potential therapeutic target for Cushing's disease

Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified a protein that drives the formation of pituitary tumors in Cushing's disease, a development that may give clinicians a therapeutic target to treat this ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 07, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover link between inherited endocrine tumor syndrome and well-studied cell pathway

(Medical Xpress)—A mutation in a protein called menin causes a hereditary cancer syndrome called MEN1 (multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1). Individuals with MEN1 are at a substantially increased risk of ...

Cancer created Apr 24, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cancer cell metabolism kills

Adenosine-5'-triphosphate (ATP) is the main energy source for all forms of work inside our cells. Scientists from the University of Helsinki, Finland, have found that even a short-term shortage of ATP supply ...

Cancer created Apr 15, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research suggests popular diabetes drugs can cause abnormal pancreatic growth in humans

(Medical Xpress)—Individuals who had taken a type of drug commonly used to treat Type 2 diabetes showed abnormalities in the pancreas, including cell proliferation, that may be associated with an increased risk of neuroendocrine ...

Diabetes created Mar 27, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers say silencing of retinoblastoma gene regulates differentiation of myeloid cells

Researchers at the Moffitt Cancer Center have found a potential mechanism by which immune suppressive myeloid-derived suppressor cells can prevent immune response from developing in cancer. This mechanism includes silencing ...

Immunology created Feb 19, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers find potential new therapeutic target for treating non-small cell lung cancer

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have found a potential targeted therapy for patients with tobacco-associated non-small cell lung cancer. It is based on the newly identified oncogene IKBKE, which helps regulate immune ...

Cancer created Feb 15, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify new strategy for interfering with potent cancer-causing gene

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive blood cancer that is currently incurable in 70% of patients. In a bold effort, CSHL scientists are among those identifying and characterizing the molecular mechanisms responsible ...

Cancer created Feb 11, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cell growth

The term cell growth is used in the contexts of cell development and cell division (reproduction). When used in the context of cell division, it refers to growth of cell populations, where one cell (the "mother cell") grows and divides to produce two "daughter cells".

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