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Discovery Brings Hope of New Tailor-Made Anti-Cancer Agents
April 21, 2013 Scientists have tailor-made a new chemical compound that blocks a protein that has been linked to poor responses to treatment in cancer patients. The development of the compound, called WEHI-539, is ... > full story -
A Noninvasive Avenue for Parkinson's Disease Gene Therapy
April 21, 2013 Researchers have developed a gene therapy approach that may one day stop Parkinson's disease in it tracks, preventing disease progression and reversing its symptoms. The novelty of the approach lies ... > full story -
Biggest Family Tree of Human Cells Created
April 21, 2013 Biologists have created the biggest family tree of human cell ... > full story -
Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, Scientists Can Better Study Human Disease
April 21, 2013 New work has led to major advances in our understanding of embryonic stem cells and "induced pluripotent stem" cells, which appear identical to embryonic stem cells but can be created from adult ... > full story -
Study Upends Model of How Dividing Cells Monitor Distribution of Chromosomes
April 21, 2013 A recent study upends the model for how dividing cells monitor the equal distribution of their chromosomes —- a process that often runs awry in cancer. By targeting Aurora B kinase, their ... > full story -
Stem Cell Transplant Restores Memory, Learning in Mice
April 21, 2013 For the first time, human embryonic stem cells have been transformed into nerve cells that helped mice regain the ability to learn and ... > full story -
Low-Dose Aspirin Stymies Proliferation of Two Breast Cancer Lines
April 21, 2013 Regular use of low-dose aspirin may prevent the progression of breast cancer, according to a new ... > full story -
Muscle Repair After Injury Helped by Fat-Forming Cells
April 19, 2013 Scientists have discovered that muscle repair requires the action of two types of cells better known for causing inflammation and forming ... > full story -
Genome Study Suggests New Strategies for Understanding and Treating Pulmonary Fibrosis
April 19, 2013 A new genome-wide association study of more than 6,000 people has identified seven new genetic regions associated with pulmonary fibrosis. Researchers have found a number of genes associated with ... > full story -
New Potential Target for Cancer Therapy Identified
April 19, 2013 Researchers have found that alternative splicing -- a process that allows a single gene to code for multiple proteins -- appears to be a new potential target for anti-telomerase cancer ... > full story
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