News tagged with growth pathway

Researchers use light to measure cancer cells' response to treatment

Many cancer therapies target specific proteins that proliferate on the outside of some cancer cells, but the therapies are imperfect and the cancer does not always respond. Since it is beneficial for doctors to know as soon ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Protein love triangle key to crowning bees queens?

A honey bee becomes a royal queen or a common worker as a result of the food she receives as a larva. While it has been well established that royal jelly is the diet that makes bees queens, the molecular path ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chemists reveal the force within you

A new method for visualizing mechanical forces on the surface of a cell, reported in Nature Methods, provides the first detailed view of those forces, as they occur in real-time.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Biologists learn how plants synthesize their growth hormone auxin

Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have succeeded in unraveling, for the first time, the complete chain of biochemical reactions that controls the synthesis of auxin, the hormone that regulates nearly all ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research involving thyroid hormone lays foundation for more targeted drug development

Research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists advances a strategy for taming the side effects and enhancing the therapeutic benefits of steroids and other medications that work by disrupting the activity ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A new role for cytokinin plant hormones

When plants, including crops, are exposed to environmental stresses such as drought or high salinity, abscisic acid (ABA), a stress-responsive hormone is synthesized to induce a protective response. At the same time, the ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers uncover hormone pathway to fatty liver disease

Scientists at the UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute have discovered how a change in growth hormone activity in mice leads to fatty liver disease, a condition whose human counterpart is of rising concern worldwide.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Apoptotic mechanisms of octreotide on HepG2

A research team from Greece examined the effect of octreotide on cellular proliferation, apoptosis and caspase activation in HepG2 hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells. The results supported the induction of caspase-mediated ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Study raises safety concerns about experimental cancer approach

A study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has raised safety concerns about an investigational approach to treating cancer.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pazopanib shows promise in Phase II trial for relapsed/refractory urothelial cancer

An ongoing Phase-II trial investigating a new, targeted therapy for metastatic urothelial cancer has generated promising early results, Italian researchers reported at the 35th Congress of the European Society for Medical ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 12, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A 'giant' step toward explaining differences in height: Scientists map height 'hotspots' in the genome

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international collaboration of more than 200 institutions, led by researchers at Children's Hospital Boston, the Broad Institute, and a half-dozen other institutions in Europe and North ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 29, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Discovery of key pathway interaction may lead to therapies that aid brain growth and repair

Researchers at Children's National Medical Center have discovered that the two major types of signaling pathways activated during brain cell development -- the epidermal growth factor receptor pathway and the Notch pathway ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Selective inhibition of BMK1 suppresses tumor growth

A study describing a newly developed pharmacological inhibitor is providing detailed insight into how an enzyme that has been implicated in multiple human malignancies regulates a known tumor suppressor. The research, published ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Estrogen receptor status of HER2+ breast cancer correlates with response to anti-HER therapies

An international team of researchers has discovered molecular evidence that may explain why some women with HER2 over-expressing breast cancer do not respond to drugs designed to target this important molecule.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Zebrafish swim into drug development

By combining the tools of medicinal chemistry and zebrafish biology, a team of Vanderbilt investigators has identified compounds that may offer therapeutic leads for bone-related diseases and cancer.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast