Science news articles about 'prostate cancer gene'

... School of Medicine and colleagues who are studying a prostate cancer gene called HNF1B have found a second independent ... called CAPS, from Sweden, that had 2,899 prostate cancer cases and 1,722 control ...

... , discomfort, complications, and heavy expenses. The prostate-cancer-gene-3 (PCA3) test is a new ... likely to be the 'complexed' type while non-cancerous or benign PSA is more the 'free' type. In 463 ...

... researchers have identified a specific gene expression profile of prostate cancer stem cells, with important ... κB inhibitor triggered programmed cell death in cancer stem cells, but spared normal stem ...

... switch, or translocation, causes two unrelated genes to be placed next to each other and fuse together. ... Disclosure: U-M has filed for a patent on prostate cancer gene fusions and SPINK1 as biomarkers ...

... genes to genes whose human counterparts are known to be involved in prostate cancers, the researchers found that many of these developmental genes appear to be turned on or off in prostate cancers, ...

... potential target for drug therapies. "The prostate cancer gene fusions, and proteins they produce, are important ... Dr. Rubin's team used state-of-the-art gene sequencing tools to discover the new class ...

... School. Chinnaiyan's team was the first to identify rearrangements in chromosomes and fused genes in prostate cancer. Gene fusions had previously been known to play a role in blood cell cancers such ...

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