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Genetic variations in miRNA processing pathway and binding sites help predict ovarian cancer risk
Apr 19, 2009 |
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Genetic variations in the micro-RNA (miRNA) processing pathway genes and miRNA binding sites predict a woman's risk for developing ovarian cancer and her prospects for survival, researchers from The University ...
Researchers identify another potential biomarker
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Jan 13, 2009 |
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Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have demonstrated that a recently discovered class of molecule called microRNA (miRNAs), regulate the gene expression changes in airway cells that occur with smoking ...
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Researcher Discovers Molecules That Inhibit Important Gene Regulators
Sep 24, 2008 |
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A North Carolina State University chemist has discovered a molecule that can potentially stop the production of cancer cells at the very beginning of the process by switching off the gene regulators responsible for turning ...
Need microRNA processing? Get Smad
Jun 11, 2008 |
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Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine and Tufts Medical Center have found that Smad proteins regulate microRNA (miRNA) processing. Understanding the role of Smad proteins enables researchers to investigate abnormal ...
Researchers find micro RNA plays a key role in melanoma metastasis
Feb 09, 2009 |
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Scientists have long wondered how melanoma cells travel from primary tumors on the surface of the skin to the brain, liver and lungs, where they become more aggressive, resistant to therapy, and deadly. Now, scientists ...
Research uncovers clues to virus-cancer link
Jun 17, 2009 |
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In a series of recently-published articles, a research team from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center has uncovered clues to the development of cancers in AIDS patients.
MicroRNA controls expression of oncogenes
Jun 09, 2008 |
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A new study demonstrates that microRNAs can modulate the expression of well known tumor-specific oncogenic translocation proteins and may play a significant role in some human cancers. The research, published by Cell Press ...
Scientists show that a microRNA can reduce lung cancer growth
Mar 20, 2008 |
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A small RNA molecule, known as let-7 microRNA (miRNA), substantially reduced cancer growth in multiple mouse models of lung cancer, according to work by researchers at Yale University and Asuragen, Inc., published ...
Researchers discover how microRNAs control protein synthesis
Jul 09, 2007 |
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While most RNAs work to create, package, and transfer proteins as determined by the cell’s immediate needs, miniature pieces of RNA, called microRNAs (miRNAs) regulate gene expression. Recently, researchers from the University ...
Study shows promise for new cancer-stopping therapy
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital and Johns Hopkins University have discovered that delivering a small molecule that is highly expressed in normal tissues but lost in diseased cells can result in tumor suppression.
A new discovered mutation can hold the key to treat a large number of different cancers
Feb 17, 2009 |
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Scientists have discovered a mutation responsible for cancer progression, a finding with potential implications for the development of treatment against not one, but a series of cancer types since this mutation can be linked ...
Scientists find clue to mystery of biological clock
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 30, 2009 |
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How does our biological system know that it is supposed to operate on a 24-hour cycle? Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered that a tiny molecule holds the clue to the mystery.
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