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Discovery Helps Show How Breast Cancer Spreads
May 5, 2013 Researchers have discovered why breast cancer patients with dense breasts are more likely than others to develop aggressive tumors that spread. The finding opens the door to drug treatments that ... > full story -
Computer Simulations Reveal the Energy Landscape of Ion Channels
May 3, 2013 Ion channels are important drug targets. A young team of researchers investigated the opening and closing mechanisms of these channels. The time consuming calculations were performed using the high ... > full story -
New Mechanism Discovered in Meiosis: How Modification of an Enzyme Governs Critical Processes in Sexual Reproduction
May 3, 2013 Scientists have made an important discovery in meiosis research. They have identified a new mechanism that plays an important role in ... > full story -
Link Between Heart, Blood, and Skeletal Muscle
May 2, 2013 New research has shown that by turning on just a single gene, Mesp1, different cell types including the heart, blood and muscle can be created from stem ... > full story -
New Target for Personalized Cancer Therapy
May 2, 2013 A common cancer pathway causing tumor growth is now being targeted by a number of new cancer drugs and shows promising results. A team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of ... > full story -
Cell Biology: Active Transporters Are Universally Leaky
May 2, 2013 Biochemists found that as active transporters in cell membranes undergo conformational changes to allow their main substrates to pass through through, small molecules like water slip through as ... > full story -
Heart Cells Change Stem Cell Behavior
May 2, 2013 Stem cells drawn from the amniotic fluid of pregnant women change their behavior when near heart cells, but do not become heart ... > full story -
'Dark Genome' Is Involved in Rett Syndrome
May 2, 2013 Researchers have described alterations in noncoding long chain RNA sequences in Rett ... > full story -
Botox Used to Find New Wrinkle in Brain Communication
May 2, 2013 Researchers have used the popular anti-wrinkle agent Botox to discover a new and important role for a group of molecules that nerve cells use to quickly send messages. This novel role for the ... > full story -
Stem Cell Discovery Could Aid Research Into New Treatments
May 2, 2013 Scientists have made a fundamental discovery about how the properties of embryonic stem cells are controlled. Researchers have found that a protein, which switches on genes to allow embryonic stem ... > full story
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