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Breast cancer: How tumor cells break free and form metastases

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 04, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

When tumor cells acquire the capacity to move around and invade other tissues, there is a risk of metastases and cancer treatment becomes more difficult. At the Institut Curie, CNRS Director of Research Philippe Chavrier ...


Cancer's break-in tools possibly identified (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A single cell in a 1-millimeter nematode worm is providing valuable new clues into cancer's deadliest behavior -- its ability to put down roots in new tissues after spreading throughout the body.





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Molecular scissors help cancer cells break out and spread

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 29, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

A University of Michigan research team has identified how cancer cells employ a sort of molecular scissors to cut their way out of tumors and begin spreading throughout the body.


Computer model predicts brain tumor growth and evolution

Computer model predicts brain tumor growth and evolution

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from Brown University and other institutions have developed a computational computer model of how brain tumors grow and evolve.


Scientists obtain rocks moving into seismogenic zone

Scientists obtain rocks moving into seismogenic zone

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

An international group of scientists aboard the Deep-Sea Drilling Vessel CHIKYU, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), ...


New Nanoparticles Could Revolutionize Therapeutic Drug Discovery

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Understanding the structure of proteins is a vital first step in developing new drugs, but to date, researchers have had difficulty studying the large number of proteins that are normally embedded in the cell membrane, a ...


Penn researchers find reproductive germ cells survive and thrive in transplants, even among species

Researchers find reproductive germ cells survive and thrive in transplants, even among species

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Reproductive researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have succeeded in isolating and transplanting pure populations of the immature cells that enable male ...


Fibroblasts with Snail1 Invade Extracellular Matrix

Fibroblasts invade at a snail's pace

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created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A transcription factor known to drive the formation of fibroblasts during development also promotes their ability to invade and remodel surrounding tissues, report Rowe et al. in the February 9, 2009 issue ...


Study shows how disruption of spectrin-actin network causes lens cells in the eye to lose shape

Study shows how disruption of spectrin-actin network causes lens cells in the eye to lose shape

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A network of proteins underlying the plasma membrane keeps epithelial cells in shape and maintains their orderly hexagonal packing in the mouse lens, say Nowak et al. The study will appear in the September ...


Scientists obtain clearer view of how eye lens proteins are sorted

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research reveals how proteins that are critical for the transparency of the eye lens are properly sorted and localized in membrane bilayers. The study, published by Cell Press in the November 3rd issue of Biophysical Jo ...


Nanoresearchers challenge dogma in protein transportation in cells

Nanoresearchers challenge dogma in protein transportation in cells

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New data on signaling proteins, called G proteins, may prove important in fighting diseases such as cardiovascular, neurodegenerative disorders, and cancer. For many decades scientists have puzzled on "How ...


Carnegie donates landmark clones to biology

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

With the information explosion, it's remarkable that so little is known about the interactions that proteins have with each other and the protective membrane that surrounds a cell. These interactive, so-called membrane proteins ...



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