Zinc deficiency - long associated with numerous diseases, e.g. autism, lung cancer, prostate cancer, and ovarian cancers - can lead to activation of the Hedgehog signaling pathway, a biomolecular pathway that plays essential ...
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McGill researchers have discovered, for the first time, the importance of a key epigenetic regulator in the development of the hippocampus, a part of the brain associated with learning, memory and neural stem cells. Epigenetic ...
Mar 10, 2015
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A protein that scientists at the School of Medicine discovered in pancreatic tumors may lead to a new chemotherapy that is effective against many different kinds of cancers. But an effort to turn the discovery into a new ...
Mar 6, 2015
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Glioblastomas are a highly aggressive type of brain tumor, with few effective treatment options. Moffitt Cancer Center researchers are one step closer to understanding glioblastoma development following the identification ...
Feb 26, 2015
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Researchers have designed a molecule that, if developed into a drug, could slow the progression of Parkinson's Disease.
Feb 26, 2015
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Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) have linked a specific protein to the development of post-viral infection asthma, which is the first step in generating a novel type of asthma therapy designed to prevent ...
Feb 20, 2015
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A protein found in pancreatic tumors may lead to a new chemotherapy that is effective against many different kinds of cancers, but turning the discovery into a new drug has required a bit of chemistry know-how.
Feb 20, 2015
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Low doses of metformin, a widely used diabetes medication, and a gene inhibitor known as BI2536 can successfully halt the growth of late-stage prostate cancer tumors, a Purdue University study finds.
Jan 27, 2015
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In a new study published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, a research group led by James A. Hamilton, PhD, professor of Physiology, Biophysics and Radiology at Boston University School of Medicine, applied novel methods ...
Jan 22, 2015
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New biosciences research at the University of Kent could point the way to greater understanding of the heart mutations that cause sudden cardiac arrest.
Jan 20, 2015
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