Study finds high blood glucose levels sensitizes pancreatic cancer cells to chemotherapy
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most difficult cancers to treat, being highly resistant to chemotherapy.
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Pancreatic cancer is one of the most difficult cancers to treat, being highly resistant to chemotherapy.
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Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital created a hepatoblastoma (liver cancer) model that more accurately reflects the pathology and genomics of the disease. Research using the model pointed toward potential ...
Jul 7, 2023
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An antisense therapy developed by Joel D. Richter, Ph.D., Sneha Shah, Ph.D., and Jonathan K. Watts, Ph.D., at UMass Chan Medical School and Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, MD, Ph.D., at RUSH University Medical Center, restores production ...
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Glutaminase 2 (GLS2) is a master regulator of glutaminolysis. GLS2 converts glutamine to glutamate, thereby playing a role in cellular energy production. GLS2 is abundant in the liver, and is also found in pancreatic β-cells. ...
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For the first two weeks of life, mice with a hereditary form of deafness have nearly normal neural activity in the auditory system, according to a new study by Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists. Their previous studies indicate ...
Jun 27, 2023
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New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London has found that in a mouse model mimicking Alzheimer's Disease (AD) pain signals are not processed in the same way as ...
Jun 22, 2023
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A new study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and Disease Research shows that a very small molecule called microRNA-132 can have a significant impact on different brain ...
Jun 15, 2023
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Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan have discovered a set of related mutations that lead to intracranial aneurysms—weakened blood vessels in the brain that can burst at any time. The mutations ...
Jun 14, 2023
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People with Down syndrome, or trisomy 21, a genetic condition caused by an extra copy of human chromosome 21, experienced a remarkable increase in life expectancy during the 20th century. In the early 1900s, less than 20% ...
Jun 6, 2023
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Researchers have uncovered the mechanism through which a single DNA base change dramatically raises the risk of a subform of type 2 diabetes (T2D) called metabolically obese normal weight (MONW). This genetic variant, which ...
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