News tagged with protein tyrosine kinase

New functional understanding outlines therapy for untreatable breast cancer

Cancer biologists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research have been part of a collaborative effort that identified a novel rationale for the treatment of currently not curable triple-negative ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chemists Patent Method for Assembling Receptor-Signaling Complexes for Engineering New Compounds and Drugs

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Massachusetts chemistry professor Bob Weis, with former doctoral students Anthony Shrout and David Montefusco, recently received a U.S. patent for their invention, template-directed assembly ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Vicious circle' offers new acute leukemia treatment target

Researchers have identified a self-feeding "vicious circle" of molecules that keeps acute leukemia cells alive and growing and that drives the disease forward.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

Study reveals new genetic culprit in deadly skin cancer

Drawing on the power of DNA sequencing, National Institutes of Health researchers have identified a new group of genetic mutations involved in the deadliest form of skin cancer, melanoma. This discovery is particularly encouraging ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0