Lipid involved with gene regulation uncovered

Friday, September 4, 2009 - 13:42 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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