Oncology & Cancer
How NORE1A acts as a barrier to tumor growth
Researchers reveal how cells protect themselves from a protein that is a key driver of cancer. The study appears in The Journal of Cell Biology.
Mar 16, 2015
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Medical research
Study uncovers details of early stages in muscle formation and regeneration
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have identified proteins that allow muscle cells in mice to form from the fusion of the early stage cells that give rise to the muscle cells.
Jan 9, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
Wip1 could be new target for cancer treatment
Researchers have uncovered mutations in the phosphatase Wip1 that enable cancer cells to foil the tumor suppressor p53, according to a study in The Journal of Cell Biology. The results could provide a new target for the treatment ...
May 6, 2013
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Medical research
Scientists discover gene controlling muscle fate
Scientists at the University of New Mexico have moved a step closer to improving medical science through research involving muscle manipulation of fruit flies. They discovered in the flight muscles of Drosophila a new regulator ...
Sep 30, 2014
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Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Mitochondrial lipids as potential targets in early onset Parkinson's disease
A team of researchers led by Patrik Verstreken (VIB–KU Leuven) have identified an underlying mechanism in early onset Parkinson's. Using flies, mice and patient cells, the team focused on cardiolipin, a fat unique to cells' ...
Feb 10, 2017
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Neuroscience
Fantastic journey: How newborn neurons to find their proper place in the adult brain
One of the most hopeful discoveries of modern neuroscience is firm proof that the human brain is not static following birth. Rather, it is continually renewing itself, via a process called postnatal neurogenesis - literally, ...
Nov 2, 2017
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Medical research
Scientists reveal how osteopontin ablation ameliorates muscular dystrophy
Removing an immunomodulatory protein called osteopontin improves the symptoms of mice with muscular dystrophy by changing the type of macrophages acting on damaged muscle tissue, according to a paper published in The Journal ...
Apr 18, 2016
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Medical research
Molecule key to sustaining brain communication
(Medical Xpress)—Scientists have discovered the powerful role the molecule Myosin VI plays in communication between nerve cells in the brain.
Feb 4, 2013
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Medical research
Silent RNAs express themselves in ALS disease
RNA molecules, used by cells to make proteins, are generally thought to be "silent" when stowed in cytoplasmic granules. But a protein mutated in some ALS patients forms granules that permit translation of stored RNAs, according ...
Dec 2, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
p53 cuts off invading cancer cells
The tumor suppressor p53 does all it can to prevent oncogenes from transforming normal cells into tumor cells by killing defective cells or causing them to become inactive. Sometimes oncogenes manage to initiate tumor development ...
Mar 24, 2014
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