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Molecular discovery suggests new strategy to fight cancer drug resistance

Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have found a way to disable a common protein that often thwarts chemotherapy treatment of several major forms of cancer.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 20, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cancer: Trapping the escape artist

Cancer uses devious means to evade treatment and survive. One prime example is the way tumors express anti-cell death (anti-apoptotic) proteins to resist chemotherapy and radiation. However, the Pellecchia laboratory at Sanford-Burnham ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 11, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

New therapeutic target for melanoma identified

A protein called Mcl-1 plays a critical role in melanoma cell resistance to a form of apoptosis called anoikis, according to research published this week in Molecular Cancer Research.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New clues about mitochondrial 'growth spurts'

Mitochondria are restless, continually merging and splitting. But contrary to conventional wisdom, the size of these organelles depends on more than fusion and fission, as Berman et al. show. Mitochondrial ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0