Lipid involved with gene regulation uncovered

Saturday, September 5, 2009 - 16:21 in Health & Medicine

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers have discovered a new role for the bioactive lipid messenger, sphingosine-1-phosphate, or S1P, that is abundant in our blood – a finding that could lead to a new generation of drugs to fight cancer and inflammatory disease.

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