News tagged with oncogenes
A yeast cancer model for mapping cancer genes
Jul 28, 2009 |
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Researchers have devised a scheme for identifying genes in yeast that could lead to the identification of new cancer genes in humans. The study is published online this week in the open-access journal PLoS Bi ...
Hitting cancer where it hurts
May 28, 2009 |
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Two studies in the May 29th issue of Cell, a Cell Press publication, have taken advantage of new technological advances to search for and find previously unknown weaknesses in a hard to treat form of cancer. The discoveries lend n ...
New alternative to biopsy detects subtle changes in cancer cells
Apr 12, 2009 |
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A drop of blood or a chunk of tissue smaller than the period at the end of this sentence may one day be all that is necessary to diagnose cancers and assess their response to treatment, say researchers at the Stanford University ...
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Outing the outliers: Strategy matches oncogene with subtype of prostate cancer
Jun 09, 2008 |
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A new study reveals a previously unidentified candidate oncogene that appears to play a significant role in a subset of prostate cancers. The research, published by Cell Press in the June issue of the journal Cancer Cell, descri ...
Study: How some cancers become leukemia
Jul 17, 2006 |
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U.S. researchers say they've found how cancer-triggering oncogenes allow blood cells to self-renew and become leukemia stem cells.
One gene that contributes to breast cancer's aggressive behavior identified
Jul 20, 2009 |
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Aggressive forms of cancer are often driven by the abnormal over-expression of cancer-promoting genes, also known as oncogenes.
New location found for regulation of RNA fate
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Thousands of scientists and hundreds of software programmers studying the process by which RNA inside cells normally degrades may soon broaden their focus significantly.
New class of RNA molecules may be important in human cancer
Sep 11, 2007 |
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Research here shows that an obscure form of RNA, part of the protein-making machinery in all cells, might play an important role in human cancer.
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 ...
Researchers develop novel glioblastoma mouse model
Jan 04, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a versatile mouse model of glioblastoma—the most common and deadly brain cancer in humans—that closely resembles the development and progression of human ...
New melanoma tumor suppressor gene uncovered
Mar 29, 2009 |
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National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers have identified a gene that suppresses tumor growth in melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. The finding is reported today in the journal Nature Genetics as part of a s ...
Major step forward in understanding cell reprogramming
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Feb 14, 2008 |
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Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Researchers have taken a major step toward eventually being able to reprogram adult cells to an embryonic stem cell-like state without the use of ...
Not the protein, but its location in the cell, determines the onset of leukemia
Jul 10, 2008 |
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Scientists are still searching for the cause of many forms of Leukemia, including T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. VIB researchers connected to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven have discovered that the carcinogenic ...
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