Yet Another Use For Cell Phone Cameras
Researchers say there might be another use for cell phones that come complete with cameras: diagnosing chronic leg ulcerations.// Swiss researchers who used the phone cameras to send pictures of wounds to specialists in remote locations say doctors felt fairly comfortable diagnosing the wounds from...New Gene May Signal Aggressive Breast Cancer
... metastasis. According to the study, RCP overexpression also impacts the ras protein, which previous research has implicated in tumor growth. Researchers said RCP may promote breast cancer by activating the ras signaling pathway. Developing treatments that target RCP may represent a ne...New drug candidate prolongs the lives of pancreatic cancer patients
...ast cancers as well as diabetes. Blocking the ras protein Salirasib works by inhibiting a protei...ancers. In cancer of the pancreas, mutant forms of ras are found in up to 90% of all tumors. Salirasib's ..., works to block the formation of cancer-promoting ras nanoclusters, thus blocking a cascade of biochemic...Cell Protein Could Help Spur Malignancy
... be highly specific for cancer cells." Levy and his team made the discovery about the mitochondrial role of STAT3 by analyzing tumors caused by the ras oncogene, which has been determined to be involved in many human cancers. A report on the findings appears in the June 26 issue of Science . "F...Are angiotensins involved in the hemodynamic changes of cirrhosis patients?
...terized by marked changes in the precursors of the ras cascade (renin and Ang 1 with repercussions on the 2 main ras components, Ang 2 and Ang-(1-7), in the splanchnic...circulation. Therefore, the circulating profile of ras components at different stages of liver cirrhosis ...Cancer cells need normal, nonmutated genes to survive
...ery way except for onethe presence or absence of a ras oncogene. ras mutations are prevalent in many deadly cancers, an...evels of a particular protein while cells with the ras mutation perished. Luo validated 50 of these hits ...American Cancer Society awards 143 research grants to investigators at 83 institutions nationwide
...s interest is in how growth factors initiate the process of cell movement. This work could supply a critical new understanding of why mutations called ras mutations are so common in so many different cancers. Preclinical and Translational Cancer Research Kimberly Stegmaier, M.D., Dana-Far...Prolexys Pharmaceuticals Initiates Phase 1 Study
...erived from tumors with dissimilar causative mutations, indicating potent and selective activity against a wide variety of tumors, many with activated ras pathway. The compound showed robust tumor regression in a range of human tumor xenografts grown in immuno-compromised mice, including models of pancre...Thallion Announces Publication of ECO-4601 Phase I/II Clinical Data at ASCO
...l, McGill University in Montreal in conjunction with Thallion Pharmaceuticals Inc. The abstract is titled: “Phase I study of ECO-4601, a novel ras pathway inhibitor.” Abstract No. 14128 by P. Kavan, D. Melnychuk, A. Langleben, S. D. Baker, A. Bangash, C. Gauthier, M. Ranger, H. Gourdeau, M....Pharmexa A/S (DK) - Long lasting immune response and survival to RAS vaccine
... Summary: Follow-up ras data presented at ASCO HORSOLM, Denmark, June 4,... with two different peptide vaccines targeting the ras mutation found in most instances of pancreatic can...em in three of these patients still remembered the ras vaccination. The...Yale Scientists Find MicroRNA Regulates Ras Cancer Gene
Research in the laboratory of Assistant Professor Frank J. Slack at Yale University has identified a new way that a familiar gene is regulated in lung cancer, presenting new possibilities for diagnosis and treatment. The work is reported in March issues of the journals Cell and Developmental Cell. ...Cancer-causing protein can also help fight the tumors it causes
...rsity's Department of Neurobiology have found that ras has the ability to transfer from cancer cells into...th the immune and original cells alike." "When ras transfers from one cell to another, it strengthens...e system. The immune cell that adopts the mutated ras gets activated and reacts against the cancerous ce...Zebrafish provide a model for cancerous melanoma in humans
...nown to lead to cancer. In some cases, the type of ras mutation is a predictor of a patient's response to...erland generated several zebrafish with changes in ras or other RAS-regulated proteins to create a useful... to identify a pathway that reduced the effects of ras mutations on melanoma progression in zebrafish. ...New drug agent knocks out multiple enzymes in cancer pathway
...hways in tumor cells, focusing on a protein called ras since nearly a third of all human cancers involve a mutation in the ras gene that causes cell signaling to go awry. These ...ymes, called FPPS and GGPPS, which are upstream of ras in the cell survival pathway. Inhibiting these enz...Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards prestigious fellowships to 13 top young investigators
...fenburger, PhD, at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, is working to identify new protein networks that interact with the oncogenic ras signaling pathway, which is rewired in over half of colorectal cancer cases. Targeting these new interactions in combinatorial therapy may become an ...JCI online early table of contents: Jan. 19, 2009
...are associated with excessive activation of either ras or PI3K signaling pathways, and many therapies aim...of breast cancer caused by excessive activation of ras and PI3K. Further, silencing the FAK gene arrested...t cancer cells with excessive activation of either ras or PI3K signaling pathways. The authors therefore ...Mayo researchers identify dangerous 'two-faced' protein crucial to breast cancer spread and growth
... aggressive, able to grow in conditions that other cancer cells can't. They specifically found that p120 activates a family of molecules that includes ras and Rho, which promote cell growth and movement. "What is really interesting here is that p120 is acting like a tumor suppressor when it is bound t...Gene's newly explained effect on height may change tumor disorder treatment
...uch research focused on neurofibromin's effects on ras protein activity, which is linked to cell growth, ...roliferation and cancer. Normally, NF1 deactivates ras proteins. In its absence, scientists believe unchecked ras can promote cancer development. To learn more,...Emissions irrelevant to future climate change?
...Mokhov and Alexey Eliseev from the A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics RAS, in Moscow, Russia. The authors used a climate model known as IAP ras CM to study how feedback between our climate and the carbon cycle changes over time. In their simulations, the authors assumed that fossil fuel emissi...Fox Chase researchers discover a method for clamping down on a cancer-promoting enzyme
...enzyme becomes active. Previous studies have linked PAK1 activity with breast cancer and have shown the enzyme is important in pathways involving the ras oncogene, which is thought to cause up to 30 percent of all cancers. In the April 24 issue of the journal Chemistry & Biology, the researchers deta...SGX - Lilly Merger Offer Receives Positive Opinions From Proxy Advisory Firms
...covery activities are focused on a portfolio of other protein and enzyme targets that have been implicated in human cancers, including JAK2, RON, ALK, ras and IKKe. More information on the pipeline and drug discovery platform can be found at http://www.sgxpharma.com and in the Company's various filings...SGX Pharmaceuticals Announces Financial Results for the Three and Six Months Ended June 30, 2008
...covery activities are focused on a portfolio of other protein and enzyme targets that have been implicated in human cancers, including JAK2, RON, ALK, ras and IKKe. More information on the pipeline and drug discovery platform can be found at http://www.sgxpharma.com and in the Company's various filings...Lilly to Acquire SGX Pharmaceuticals
...covery activities are focused on a portfolio of other protein and enzyme targets that have been implicated in human cancers, including JAK2, RON, ALK, ras and IKKe. More information on the pipeline and drug discovery platform can be found at http://www.sgxpharma.com and in SGX's various filings with th...SGX Pharmaceuticals Submits Investigational New Drug Application for SGX393
...covery activities are focused on a portfolio of other protein and enzyme targets that have been implicated in human cancers, including JAK2, RON, ALK, ras and IKKe. More information on the pipeline and drug discovery platform can be found at http://www.sgxpharma.com and in the Company's various filings...SGX Pharmaceuticals Announces First Quarter Financial Results and Gives Pipeline Update
... other than SGX393. Oncology Drug Discovery In addition to the JAK2 and ras programs described previously, the Company's drug discovery portfolio inclu...rgets that have been implicated in human cancers, including JAK2, RON, ALK, ras and IKKe. More information on the pipeline and drug discovery platform can ...Pharsight Achieves $7.6 Million In Quarterly Revenue
...ments during the quarter," said Mr. O'Connor. "Our ras offering, now staffed with 12 people, generated 86...ution for regulatory studies. -- Expanded the ras team in response to global demand for the group's ...als. -- Achieved continued strong revenue growth; ras revenue up 86% quarter over quarter. Additio...Oncolytics Biotech Inc. Announces 2008 First Quarter Results
...at have not been successfully treated with conventional therapeutics. The product being developed by the Company may represent a novel treatment for ras mediated cancers which can be used as an alternative to existing cytotoxic or cytostatic therapies, as an adjuvant therapy to conventional chemother...