News tagged with cellular proliferation


Clusters of cooperating tumor-suppressor genes are found in large regions deleted in common cancers

Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center have amassed strong experimental evidence implying that commonly occurring large chromosomal deletions that are seen in many cancer ...

Cancer created May 07, 2012 | 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

Bioelectric signals can be used to detect early cancer

Biologists at Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences have discovered a bioelectric signal that can identify cells that are likely to develop into tumors. The researchers also found that they could lower ...

Medical research created Feb 01, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Protein controlling glucose metabolism also a tumor suppressor

A protein known to regulate how cells process glucose also appears to be a tumor suppressor, adding to the potential that therapies directed at cellular metabolism may help suppress tumor growth. In their report in the Dec. ...

Cancer created Dec 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research could lead to new ways to ID women who have higher risk of breast cancer from low-dose radiation

(Medical Xpress)—Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have identified tissue mechanisms that may influence a woman's susceptibility or resistance ...

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Scientists identify mammal model of bladder regeneration

While it is well known that starfish, zebrafish and salamanders can re-grow damaged limbs, scientists understand very little about the regenerative capabilities of mammals. Now, researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical ...

Medical research created Oct 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | 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

Collaboration rapidly connects fly gene discovery to human disease

A collaborative study by scientists at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and the Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University, and published March 20 in the online, open access journal PLoS Biology, has discovered that m ...

Genetics created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How cells sense nutrients and fuel cancer cell growth

In cancer, genes turn on and off at the wrong times, proteins aren't folded properly, and cellular growth and proliferation get out of control. Even a cancer cell's metabolism goes haywire, as it loses the ability to appropriately ...

Medical research created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover possible drug targets for common non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have discovered a novel interaction between two proteins involved in regulating cell growth that could provide possible new drug targets for treating diffuse large ...

Cancer created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers demonstrate why DNA breaks down in cancer cells

Damage to normal DNA is a hallmark of cancer cells. Although it had previously been known that damage to normal cells is caused by stress to their DNA replication when cancerous cells invade, the molecular basis for this ...

Cancer created May 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Cervical cancer: First 3-D image of an HPV oncoprotein

(Medical Xpress)—For the first time, researchers from the Laboratoire biotechnologie et signalisation cellulaire at the Strasbourg-based Ecole supérieure de biotechnologie (CNRS/Université de Strasbourg) and Institut ...

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From protein signaling to cancer drug development

(Medical Xpress)—Living organ­isms depend on pro­teins for their sur­vival. These large, com­plex mol­e­cules mediate nearly every life func­tion, but when the genes that code for them start to mutate, ...

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Improving the development of new cancer models using an advanced biomedical imaging method

Scientists at the University of Arizona Cancer Center and the Moffitt Cancer Center, led by Dr. Robert Gillies, have demonstrated that an advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) method can non-invasively evaluate the cellular ...

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MicroRNAs link the pathways that control growth during animal development and in disease

Cellular mechanisms that enable healthy growth can spiral out of control and give rise to cancer. For this reason, signal transduction pathways that underlie cell growth are tightly regulated, with multiple ...

Medical research created Jun 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0