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Scientist Identifies Signalling Underlying Regeneration

June 4, 2021
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Bar Harbor, ME — Many salamanders can readily regenerate a lost limb, but adult mammals, including humans, cannot. Why this is the case is a scientific mystery that has fascinated observers of the...

Oxygen Deficiency Rewires Mitochondria

November 12, 2019
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Halle (Saale), Germany — Mitochondria burn oxygen and provide energy for the body. Cells lacking oxygen or nutrients have to change their energy supply quickly in order to keep growing. Scientists...

Researchers Discover How Cells Know Their Future and Forget Their Past

November 7, 2019
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Copenhagen, Denmark — Stem cells all share the potential of developing into any specific cell in the body. Many researchers are therefore trying to answer the fundamental questions of what determines...

Scientists uncover key new molecules that could help to tackle tooth loss and regeneration

September 2, 2019
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Plymouth, UK — Our teeth take thousands of bites per day, and understanding exactly what holds them in place and how is key to helping people live with their own teeth for longer. Now new research...

New Signalling Pathway for mTor-Dependent Cell Growth

August 27, 2019
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Berlin, Germany — The activation of mTor complex 1 in the cell is central to many vital processes in the body such as cell growth and metabolism. Overactivity of this signalling pathway can result...

Surface Protein Editing in Bacteria

May 8, 2019
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Minneapolis, MN — University of Minnesota researchers have discovered this previously unknown signalling pathway that regulates surface proteins on bacteria that can lead to new targets for antibiotics. Researchers...

Genomic Analysis Offers Roadmap for Diagnosis and Treatment of High-Risk Leukaemia

April 16, 2019
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Memphis, TN — Acute erythroid leukaemia (AEL) is a high-risk cancer with a dismal prognosis, uncertain genetic basis and controversy surrounding the diagnosis. That is changing, thanks to research...

Researchers Determine How a Major Tumour Suppressor Pathway Becomes Deactivated

April 5, 2019
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Boston, MA — The Hippo pathway is an important biological tumour suppressor program that controls cell growth and organ size in humans. Cancer cells have been found to frequently deactivate Hippo signalling...

Unpaired 1 — New Candidate Gene to Contribute to Lifespan Regulation

April 4, 2019
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Komi Republic, Russia — Dr. Alexey Moskalev, Head of the Laboratory of Geroprotective and Radioprotective technologies, and co-authors from the Institute of biology of Komi Science Center of RAS announce...

Mutations, Drugs Drive Cancer by Blurring Growth Signals

September 3, 2018
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San Francisco, CA ― Genetic mutations in a form of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) may drive tumour formation by blurring cells’ perception of key growth signals, according to a new laboratory...

Molecular Switch a Potential New Target Point for Cancer and Diabetes Therapies

August 15, 2018
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Berlin, Germany – A mechanism recently discovered by scientists at the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) in Berlin and at the University of Geneva has a crucial influence...

Polarized Cells Give the Heart its Fully Developed Form

June 4, 2018
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Berlin, Germany — When it first starts to develop, the heart is a simple tube. Researchers at MDC have now described how it forms itself into a its characteristic S-shape and how the ventricles and...

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