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Genetic mutation linked with typical form of migraine

A research team led by a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of California, San Francisco has identified a genetic mutation that is strongly associated with a typical form of migraine.

Genetics created May 01, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Leading leukemia experts: High leukemia treatment costs may be harming patients

The increasing cost of treatments for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in the United States has reached unsustainably high levels and may be leaving many patients under- or untreated because they cannot afford care, according ...

Cancer created Apr 25, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Transcription factors regulating blood oxygen linked to melanoma metastases

Researchers at the University of North Carolina have discovered that transcription factors regulating the levels of oxygen in the blood also play a role in the spread of the skin cancer melanoma.

Cancer created Apr 16, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | 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

Biomarkers discovered that may help predict response to drugs targeting KRAS-mutated NSCLC

Scientists have identified biomarkers that may help predict whether patients with KRAS-mutated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) will respond to concurrent treatment with an MEK inhibitor and a PI3 kinase inhibitor, a drug ...

Cancer created Apr 08, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Advances in molecular testing offer new hope for lung cancer patients

The emergence of molecular diagnostic testing in lung cancer offers new hope for patients battling the number one cancer killer in the United States and abroad. Now, for the first time after a decade of biomarker testing ...

Cancer created Apr 03, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists identify brain's 'molecular memory switch'

Scientists have identified a key molecule responsible for triggering the chemical processes in our brain linked to our formation of memories. The findings, published in the journal Frontiers in Neural Circuits, reveal ...

Neuroscience created Mar 28, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers help test cancer drug in clinical trial leading to FDA approval

The FDA has approved a thyroid cancer drug successfully tested at Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center Clinical Trials, a partnership of Scottsdale Healthcare and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).

Cancer created Mar 27, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers study use of dasatinib for patients with high-risk MDS

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have completed a phase II clinical trial to determine the safety and efficacy of dasatinib for patients with higher-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, ...

Cancer created Mar 21, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists investigate potential markers for a response to sunitinib in patients with metastatic RCC

Markers such as CA9, CD31, CD34 and VEGFR1/2 in the primary tumours might serve as predictors of a good response to a sunitinib treatment in patients with metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), according to a ...

Cancer created Mar 18, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Better 'mousetrap' discovered in fruit flies might stop human cancer-driving kinase in its tracks

A seemingly obscure gene in the female fruit fly that is only active in cells that will become eggs has led researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research to the discovery of a atypical protein ...

Cancer created Mar 13, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Multi-tasking imatinib boosts radiotherapy for bladder tumours

Cancer drug imatinib (Glivec) could boost radiotherapy treatment to destroy bladder cancer that has spread to the bladder wall, reveals research published in Cancer Research.

Cancer created Mar 04, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

p38beta MAPK not critical to brain inflammation, study finds

(Medical Xpress)—A study by a leading Alzheimer's researcher at the University of Kentucky provides new evidence that will help researchers home in on the molecular mechanisms involved in inflammation of the central nervous ...

Medical research created Feb 19, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study finds possible link between diabetes and increased risk of heart attack death

Having diabetes doubles a person's risk of dying after a heart attack, but the reason for the increased risk is not clear. A new University of Iowa study suggests the link may lie in the over-activation of an important heart ...

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

The good side of the prion: A molecule that is not only dangerous, but can help the brain grow

A few years ago it was found that certain proteins, the prions, when defective are dangerous, as they are involved in neurodegenerative syndromes such as the Creutzfeldt-Jakob and the Alzheimer diseases. ...

Medical research created Feb 14, 2013 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Kinase

In chemistry and biochemistry, a kinase is a type of enzyme that transfers phosphate groups from high-energy donor molecules, such as ATP, to specific substrates, a process referred to as phosphorylation. Kinases are part of the larger family of phosphotransferases. Kinases are not to be confused with phosphorylases, which carry out phosphorolysis, the breaking of a bond using an inorganic phosphate group; or with phosphatases, which remove phosphate groups.

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