... U of T Mississauga scientists has developed a new way to split up a dangerous pair of cancer proteins, a finding that could ultimately lead to chemotherapy that is more effective and has fewer side ...
... linked directly with DNA crosslinking damage at the molecular level.
"The surprise is that the breast cancer proteins, although they are present at crosslinks, must have DNA replication at the ...
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists say they have created a synthetic form of a protein that is involved in certain types of cancer and immune system diseases.
... than existing commercial devices. In fact, the device, which uses magnetic nanotechnology to spot the cancer proteins, is tens to hundreds of times more sensitive, meaning the proteins can be found ...
... known that under normal conditions, the breast cancer protein BRCA1 orchestrates the repair of damaged ... DNA repair. MERIT40, a previously unknown protein, was revealed by purifying BRCA1-RAP80 complexes ...
SACRAMENTO, April 6 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists say they have identified a protein that might help breast cancer cells spread throughout the body, resisting anti-cancer drugs.
... can play multiple roles with respect to tumor progression, he says.
"More and more we see that, when it comes to cancer, proteins can have split personalities," Dr. Storz says. "Proteins once firmly ...
If a certain protein is missing in kidney cells, fatal cell division errors arise, which can finally lead to genetically unstable cells and to renal cancer. Researchers have tracked down the ...
... deciding where to take it next," says Bowley. One likely direction would be to work with a broad group of cancer proteins, which should identify antibodies with potential as new cancer treatments.
... blood vessels and stimulate changes in their behaviour. The microvesicles are armed with specific cancer proteins as they leave the tumour. When they are taken up by endothelial cells, the specific ...
... in these genes should be further investigated to better understand individuals' susceptibility to this type of cancer. Proteins that repair damage to DNA are important for maintaining cells' health, ...
... mature blood cells are engineered to overproduce a cancer protein such as Myc. The altered cells are then ... tumor types.
"Drugs that inhibit Mek1 protein are now in clinical trials, but our study now ...
