News tagged with growth signals
Researchers identify promising cancer drug target in prostate tumors
Jun 26, 2008 |
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Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute report they have blocked the development of prostate tumors in cancer-prone mice by knocking out a molecular unit they describe as a "powerhouse" that drives runaway cell growth.
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Tiny tool to control growing blood vessels opens new potential in tumor research
Feb 19, 2009 |
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Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a new tool that makes it possible to study the signals in the body that control the generation of blood vessels. The researchers’ findings, published in the ...
New discovery about growth factor can be breakthrough for cancer research
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Sep 02, 2008 |
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A research team at the Ludwig Institute and Uppsala University has discovered an entirely new signal path for a growth factor that is of crucial importance for the survival and growth of cancer cells. This discovery, published ...
Researcher identifies genetic pathway responsible for much of plant growth
May 20, 2009 |
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Researchers at Iowa State University have discovered a previously unknown pathway in plant cells that regulates plant growth.
Capillary formation’s mechanical determinants: One growth factor can have many effects
Mar 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard researchers have established a link between the growth of blood vessels and the mechanical stresses caused by the environment within which the vessels grow, a new understanding that ...
Investigating the development of mechanosensitivity
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 22, 2009 |
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Researchers of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, have gained crucial insight into how mechanosensitivity arises. By measuring electrical impulses in the sensory neurons of mice, the ...
Researchers explore how cells reconcile mixed messages in decisions about growth
Jun 19, 2009 |
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The cells in our body are constantly receiving mixed messages. For instance, an epithelial cell might be exposed to one signal telling it to divide and, simultaneously, another telling it to stop dividing. ...
New properties of skin stem cells
Oct 14, 2008 |
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Recent research from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet reveals completely new properties of the skin's stem cells – discoveries that contradict previous findings. The studies, which are published in Nature Ge ...
Protein that promotes cancer cell growth identified
Jul 24, 2009 |
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Scientists at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have found that the Caspase-8 protein, long known to play a major role in promoting programmed cell death (apoptosis), helps relay signals that can cause cancer ...
Master regulator found for regenerating nerve fibers in live animals
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 25, 2009 |
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Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston report that an enzyme known as Mst3b, previously identified in their lab, is essential for regenerating damaged axons (nerve fibers) in a live animal model, in both the peripheral ...
Protein shown to play a key role in normal development of nervous system
Oct 07, 2008 |
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A protein that enables nerve cells to communicate with each other plays a key role in controlling the developing nervous system. Research into how that protein helps precise connections to form among nerve ...
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