News tagged with growth signals

A thought-provoking new therapeutic target for brain cancer?

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common of all malignant brain tumors that originate in the brain. Patients with GBM have a poor prognosis because it is a highly aggressive form of cancer that is commonly resistant ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Plant flavonoid luteolin blocks cell signaling pathways in colon cancer cells

Plant flavonoid luteolin blocks cell signaling pathways in colon cancer cells

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Unlocking the genetic and molecular mystery of soft-tissue sarcoma

Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston have uncovered important molecular and genetic keys to the development of soft-tissue sarcomas in skeletal muscle, giving researchers and clinicians additional targets to stop ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New study identifies novel role for PEA-15 protein in cancer growth

A new study from the University of Hawaii Cancer Center reveals that PEA-15, a protein previously shown to slow ovarian tumor growth and metastasis, can alternatively enhance tumor formation in kidney cells carrying a mutation ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Uncovering a key player in metastasis

About 90 percent of cancer deaths are caused by secondary tumors, known as metastases, which spread from the original tumor site.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Glioblastoma multiforme in the Dock

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common malignant brain cancer in humans. Patients with GBM have a poor prognosis because it is a highly aggressive form of cancer that is commonly resistant to current therapies. ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Protein love triangle key to crowning bees queens?

A honey bee becomes a royal queen or a common worker as a result of the food she receives as a larva. While it has been well established that royal jelly is the diet that makes bees queens, the molecular path ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chemists reveal the force within you

A new method for visualizing mechanical forces on the surface of a cell, reported in Nature Methods, provides the first detailed view of those forces, as they occur in real-time.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Research involving thyroid hormone lays foundation for more targeted drug development

Research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists advances a strategy for taming the side effects and enhancing the therapeutic benefits of steroids and other medications that work by disrupting the activity ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Antineoplastic agents associated with thyroid dysfunction

Antineoplastic agents such as immunotherapies and targeted therapies that specifically target signaling pathways in cancer cells are associated with thyroid dysfunction in 20%-50% of cancer patients taking them, which can ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers show molecule inhibits metastasis of colon, melanoma cancers

Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin have shown that a protein can inhibit metastasis of colon and melanoma cancers. The findings are published in the October 10, 2011 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Primary component in turmeric kicks off cancer-killing mechanisms in human saliva

Curcumin, the main component in the spice turmeric, suppresses a cell signaling pathway that drives the growth of head and neck cancer, according to a pilot study using human saliva by researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

A new role for cytokinin plant hormones

When plants, including crops, are exposed to environmental stresses such as drought or high salinity, abscisic acid (ABA), a stress-responsive hormone is synthesized to induce a protective response. At the same time, the ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Yale scientists find stem cells that tell hair it's time to grow

Yale researchers have discovered the source of signals that trigger hair growth, an insight that may lead to new treatments for baldness.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

New component of a plant steroid-activated pathway discovered

Plant biologists have been working for years to nail down the series of chemical signals that one class of plant hormones, called brassinosteroids, send from a protein on the surface of a plant cell to the cell's nucleus. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0