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Turning off cancer's growth signals

One hallmark of cancer cells is uncontrollable growth, provoked by inappropriate signals that instruct the cells to keep dividing. Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have now identified ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Using the structure of the epidermal growth factor receptor to fight cancer

(PhysOrg.com) -- The protein EGFR, which is the target of several cancer drugs, has a split personality at the cell surface, with two different classes (high-affinity and low-affinity), whose origins have ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists show how brain tumors outsmart drugs

Researchers at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Moores UCSD Cancer Center have shown one way in which gliomas, a deadly type of brain tumor, ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nano-technology uses virus' coats to fool cancer cells

While there have been major advances in the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of tumors within the brain, brain cancer continues to have a very low survival rate in part to high levels of resistance to treatment. New research ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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EGFR

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