News tagged with fusion proteins

Jak of all trades? Not of leukaemia therapy

About one in five or six cases of adult leukaemia in Western populations relates to so-called chronic myeloid leukaemia, or CML. Treatment of CML usually relies on inhibitors of the abnormal protein that causes the condition ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Membrane fusion a mystery no more

The many factors that contribute to how cells communicate and function at the most basic level are still not fully understood, but researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have uncovered a mechanism that helps explain how ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Jamb and Jamc are essential proteins for the fusion of muscle cells: study

Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have discovered two proteins that are essential for the fusion of muscle cells to build muscle fibres. Their discovery might help us better understand and treat illnesses ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study finds increased cancer risk with bone growth product

Spine surgery patients who got a bone growth stimulating agent as part of a clinical trial were three to five times more likely to develop cancer two to three years after being implanted with the product, according to a new ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Potential leukaemia drug could be a good BET

(Medical Xpress) -- A team led by Cancer Research UK scientists in Cambridge have made a significant discovery in the lab that could lead to a new treatment for leukaemia.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research team achieves first 2-color STED microscopy of living cells

Researchers are able to achieve extremely high-resolution microscopy through a process known as stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy. This cutting-edge imaging system has pushed the performance of microscopes significantly ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study offers new clues about hereditary spastic paraplegia

(Medical Xpress) -- New research from Rice University and Italy's Eugenio Medea Scientific Institute is yielding clues about hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), a group of inherited neurological disorders ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 08, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study reveals how fusion protein triggers cancer

What happens when two proteins join together? In this case, they become like a power couple, where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 27, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Growth-factor-containing nanoparticles accelerate healing of chronic wounds

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have developed a novel system for delivery of growth factors to chronic wounds such as pressure sores and diabetic foot ulcers. In their work published in the Jan. 18 Proceedings of ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cell death pathway linked to mitochondrial fusion

New research led by UC Davis scientists provides insight into why some body organs are more susceptible to cell death than others and could eventually lead to advances in treating or preventing heart attack or stroke.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Engineered coral pigment helps scientists to observe protein movement

Scientists in Southampton, UK, and Ulm and Karlsruhe in Germany have shown that a variant form of a fluorescent protein (FP) originally isolated from a reef coral has excellent properties as a marker protein ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 27, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brain's master switch verified

The protein that has long been suspected by scientists of being the master switch allowing brains to function has now been verified by an Iowa State University researcher.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 07, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (36) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Arsenic used to treat leukemia

(PhysOrg.com) -- Arsenic, known in the West mainly as a poison, has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for around two thousand years for the treatment of conditions such as syphilis and psoriasis. It ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 12, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Cells of Aggressive Leukemia Hijack Normal Protein to Grow

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have found that one particularly aggressive type of blood cancer, mixed lineage leukemia (MLL), has an unusual way to keep the molecular motors running. The cancer cells rely on ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Study points way to development of drugs for deadly childhood leukemia

A new study could point the way to the development of better drugs to fight a deadly form of childhood leukemia called mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL).

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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